Bright orioles

Usage examples of firebirds.

Out in the ocean, a score of PT boats darted about, launching Firebirds and torps at the fifty enemy windjammers.

Gwena loved every moment of it, although Elspeth would have liked to have seen the firebirds come closer.

Several raised their blasters, but none fired, some of the navvies taking refuge behind the pod of Firebirds, the smokestack of the engine or the big .

But then three Firebirds rose from the cliff, with two more close behind.

Then the first of the Firebirds launched from PT 181 with a muffled roar and a cloud of gray exhaust fanes.

Cannons roared as Firebirds streaked across the sky, flintlocks discharging continuously.

But those accursed Firebirds made the difference, even when they missed.

Hummer, the colonel lit the main fuse for the Firebirds and swung the pod at the companions.

One by one, the Firebirds launched and punched into the cloud to simply disappear.

Still launching, the Firebirds left the pod and their exhaust winked out, the impotent rockets falling to the ground and breaking apart, spilling their precious cargo of black powder.

The last couple of Firebirds slammed into the roof of the tunnel to violently explode, broken tiles and concrete debris raining upon the companions.