What is "aeronaut"

Usage examples of "aeronaut".

Do you want to go to town, while the rest of us are searching the swamps for the aeronaut, Eben?

Was the unfortunate aeronaut slowly bleeding to death, lying there amidst the bushes on that tongue of land?

Paul had hurried to the side of the aeronaut, who raised his hand in greeting, while a smile broke over his anxious face.

Some ignorant peasants, terrified by the balloon, ran for their guns, and the poor aeronaut was treated to a shower of bullets.

The pilot, a clever aeronaut, named Godard, was a little surprised that very soon after leaving the ground he had to begin throwing out ballast, to stop them from sinking.

But the balloon continued rapidly on its downward course, and, answering the barks with consoling words, the aeronaut hurried to the earth.

The aeronaut, his brow adorned with sticking-plaster, was sitting in a chair by the table, while the doctor was bandaging his splinted forearm.

Sometimes they smashed the engine, sometimes they smashed the aeronaut, usually they smashed both.

The breeze upset them, the eddies near the ground upset them, a passing thought in the mind of the aeronaut upset them.

The thing was going so fast he had but an instant apprehension of the dark figure of the aeronaut crouched together clutching at his wheel.

The aeronaut carried a gun firing explosive bullets loaded with oxygen, and in addition, and true to the best tradition of Japan, a sword.

Mostly they were Japanese, and it is characteristic that from the first it was contemplated that the aeronaut should be a swordsman.

They were declared to be aerial torpedo-boats, and the aeronaut was supposed to swoop close to his antagonist and cast his bombs as he whirled past.

The aeronaut dangled weirdly head downward among the leaves and branches some yards away, and Bert only discovered him as he turned from the aeroplane.

He told himself that it was the other aeronaut that had been shot in the fight and fallen out of the saddle as he strove to land.