What is "vaterland"

Usage examples of "vaterland".

One black gap in the long line of grey, round-backed airships marked the position from which the Vaterland had come.

They flew in a wedge-shaped formation, the Vaterland highest and leading, the tail receding into the corners of the sky.

Graf von Winterfeld had talked to him and this alarming conference with the Prince, Bert had explored the Vaterland from end to end.

He perceived some difference on the Vaterland for which he could not account, and then he realised that the engines had slowed to an almost inaudible beat.

For a long time they hung, for an interminable time it seemed to him, and then began the sound of air being pumped into the balloonette, and slowly, slowly the Vaterland sank down towards the clouds.

Then suddenly the glow beneath assumed distinct outlines, became flames, and the Vaterland ceased to descend and hung observant, and it would seem unobserved, just beneath a drifting stratum of cloud, a thousand feet, perhaps, over the battle below.

This was the position of affairs when the Vaterland appeared in the sky.

The Vaterland rose slowly in the air in preparation for the concluding act of the drama.

The Vaterland was rising in the air, steadily and silently, until the impact of the guns no longer smote upon the heart but came to the ear dulled by distance, until the four silenced ships to the eastward were little distant things: but were there four?

Bert had brought from the actual fight in the Atlantic mixed itself up inextricably with that of the lordly figure of Prince Karl Albert gesturing aside the dead body of the Vaterland sailor.

The Vaterland, having dropped the secretary by a rope ladder, remained hovering, circling very slowly above the great buildings, old and new, that clustered round City Hall Park, while the Helmholz, which had done the fighting there, rose overhead to a height of perhaps two thousand feet.

It obliged the Vaterland to come about in that direction, and made her roll a great deal as she went to and fro over Manhattan Island.

The Vaterland bounded like a football some one has kicked and when they looked out again, Union Square was small and remote and shattered, as though some cosmically vast giant had rolled over it.

The streets seemed to broaden out, they became clearer, and the little dots that were people larger as the Vaterland came down again.

He directed the air-fleet to move in column over the route of this thoroughfare, dropping bombs, the Vaterland leading.