What is "balloonist"

Usage examples of "balloonist".

John Sharp, the balloonist, whom you rescued from Lake Carlopa, and who helped you build the Red Cloud?

Tom, as he sank upon a bench, and gazed from the balloonist to the Humming-Bird, and hack to Mr.

He wondered more and more at his own neglect in not before having asked the balloonist, when the latter was in Shopton, where Andy was building his aeroplane.

The balloonist, it may be explained, had been invited to live with the Swifts pending the completion of the airship.

This the lad accomplished by a simple but effective device which, when the balloonist saw it, caused him to compliment Tom.

Sharp relieved Tom at the wheel, while the young inventor ate, and then, with the airship heading southwest, the speed was increased a trifle, the balloonist desiring to see what the motor could accomplish under a heavy load.

The skill of Tom and the balloonist was never shown to better advantage.

Shagmon, and, with the skill of the veteran balloonist to aid them, this was accomplished.

Batinite balloonist has shown sufficient enterprise that he deserves the fruit of it.

He turned to walk to the cliffside, where the balloonist was attempting his ascent.

Groping behind into the basket, the balloonist pulled out a musket and, before Hassan could even react to the sight, fired a load of shot that ripped Iman across the throat and chest.

The crowd had started to break up at the fringes as people ran pell-mell down side streets, trying to keep the intrepid balloonist in sight.

He requested two helicopters to track the balloonist until he came down, so they could see that he got into the proper institution.

Even Mayor Scragg had left to join the search parties that were hoping to track the balloonist to a landing somewhere in the wooded hills west of Strawberry Lake.

Hester shouldered her way through them and grabbed the balloonist by his goggles, heaving him out of his basket.