What is "airships"

Usage examples of "airships".

Ned, you know what Andy is--always trying to make trouble for me, even sneaking in my shop sometimes, trying to get the secret of some of my airships and machinery.

Just as you told me, it relates how the government agents, having tried in vain to get a clew to the smugglers, came to the conclusion that they must be using airships to slip contraband goods over the border at night.

Maybe you have seen something in the papers about our department thinking airships were used at night to slip the goods over the border.

We imagined, or at least I did, for I was sent to work up this end, that perhaps the airships for the smugglers were made here.

I made inquiries, and found that you, Tom Swift, and one other, Andy Foger, had made, or owned, airships in Shopton.

A lot of cases of valuable silks imported from England to Canada, where the duty is light, were slipped over the border somehow, in airships, it is thought.

They have a suspicion that airships are used to get the goods over the Canadian border at night.

I suppose the smugglers take the goods from the river steamers, land them, pack them in airships, and fly across with them.

In the first place the smuggling may be done over such a wide area that it would need a whole fleet of airships to capture even one of the others, for they might choose a most unfrequented place to cross the border.

Then Tom set the burglar alarm, and, before going to bed he focused a searchlight, from one of his airships, on the shed and chicken coop, fastening it outside his room window.

Several days passed, and during the night time Tom, in his airship, and with the great searchlight aglow, flew back and forth across the border, seeking the elusive airships, but did not see them.

As Big Foot says, there have been airships passing overhead at frequent intervals.

The two airships of the smugglers were hanging close together, and it was evident that the larger one had to make her pace slow, so as not to get ahead of the small craft.

It seems that the smugglers put up the money to buy the airships, and just happened to stumble on Andy to run the machinery for them.

Later it was learned that the smugglers had been in the habit of bringing goods across the border in airships, landing them in a lonely stretch of woods outside of Shopton, and later bringing them by wagon to the mansion.