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Usage examples of gasbag.

When the gasbag was full and leaning northward in the buffeting breeze, and the whole apparatus straining against the stout ropes anchoring it down, Lee paid the warehouseman with the last of his gold and helped Grumman into the basket.

He looked up to check the gasbag and saw it sway a degree or two, leaning toward the hills.

The wind was blowing them hard now, and the great gasbag swelled and billowed in the gusts.

As the gas streamed out of the top, invisible far above, the lower curve of the gasbag withdrew into itself, and a fold, and then another, appeared where there had been a bulging sphere only a minute before.

There was still a strong sideways pull from the gasbag, which was now nearly empty, but which as a result was catching the wind like a sail.

He left the basket, the rigging, and the gasbag where they lay, tangled and twisted among the branches.

We can set wheels on one of the baskets, and take a gasbag along like a mining cart.

Josh suggested that if they were going to put wheels on a gasbag basket, it should be the smallest one, so that maneuvering it through the narrower tunnels would be possible.

It therefore fell to them to push the gasbag, from which Lina removed the wheels.

No, he could see the bigger bulk of the gasbag, not even halfway inflated.

David moved up so they could see the cable, then he crawled with it up the side of the gasbag to the crest.

Once they had reached altitude, it would fire only a few times a minute, making up for the heat lost through the great gasbag overhead.

Falcon had no time to see the gasbag actually hit the medusa, because at that moment the ramjet ignited and he had other matters to think about.

A gout of flame erupted noisily beyond the trees as the hydrogen that filled the gasbag of a Bioblimp merry-go-round exploded.

Its hydrogen-filled gasbag was nearly half again as large as those of the merry-go-rounds at the zoo.