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...ame swiftly nearer, rising in pitch and swelling in volume. Then it broke through the clouds, tall and black and beautifully deadly — the Gern battle cruiser, come to seek them out and destroy them. Humbolt dropped inside the stockade, exulting. For two hundred years his people had been waiting for the chance to fight the mighty Gern Empire ... with bows and arrows against...

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...Young Bart Steele’s father is dead. A mysterious stranger tells him his life is in danger, and hands him a ticket aboard a Lhari star cruiser to an unknown destination. He gets on, not knowing where he is going, or why... A fantastic kid’s adventure from sci-fi master Marion Zimmer Bradley. ( Summary by Mark Nelson )...

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...morning’s events.” Julia watched the camera zoom in on the back of a police cruiser. A woman covered the window I’ll Do Anything ...

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...c and theatre in Toronto and Barrie; their chil- dren. Jake bought a cabin cruiser and they spent many wonder- ful days on the water. For their first ... ..., maybe even back down the St. Lawrence.” Jake had bought a forty-six foot Cruisers Express yacht two summers earlier. They had vaguely discussed boat... ...t and Jana spent many happy days at Lacey’s house and on her boat, the big cruiser that Lacey now handled like a pro. The three of them went locking i... ..., was in med school. Julian had bought a lakefront house where he kept the cruiser and devoted his time to drinking and parties. Arguments between him...

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... itself blindfolded. Icy sweat beads down his damp forehead. He so wishes he were back asleep. He looks up, and in a blur, feels the scraps of his cruiser’s shredded hull drifting around him. A few taps on his wrist, and a light blinks amber. SYSTEMS OFFLINE blinks at the top corner of his visor. He reaches for his comm system, but nothing responds to his signal. He ...

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...Englishmen not being supported in their claims to land, took to sea and became cruisers; the French, on the other hand, remained cattle hunters; the f... ...eak up the establishments of freebooters in the English islands. The Buccaneer cruisers were ordered away from Jamaica and forbidden to return; pirate... ...ARCTIC. About this time the Dutch vessels were so much troubled by the Spanish cruisers that the Holland government determined to put forth every effo...

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...tuation became acute. It was made up of four battleships and five armoured cruisers ranking almost with battleships, not one of which was of a later d... ...ed 162 The War in the Air his coaling stations, and hunted down any stray cruisers that threatened your ports of commerce. But to blockade and watch ... ...hing, to blockade and watch the whole surface of a country is another, and cruisers and priva- teers are things that take long to make, that cannot be... ...ome hours by an Asiatic ironclad, which was presently engaged by a British cruiser. The two ships fought for three hours, circling and driving southwa...

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...ty into the faces of the other hunters. A Russian could mean but one thing — a cruiser. The hunters, never more than roughly aware of the position of ... ... steamer’s smoke on the horizon to leeward, and I knew it either for a Russian cruiser, or, more likely, the Macedonia still seeking the Ghost. The su... ...went up. “A rookery!” I cried. “Now are we indeed saved. There must be men and cruisers to protect them from the seal hunters. Possibly there is a sta...

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... a youth then. Those were the times. I ranged the coast—and laughed at the cruisers; I saw every battle fought in the Battak country—and I saw the Dut... ...you. Sir John, as it happens, is a personal friend of mine. He will send a cruiser—” and Lingard interrupted recklessly loud: “As long as she does not... ...ud: “As long as she does not get here for the next ten days, I don’t care. Cruisers are scarce just now in the Straits; and to turn my back on you is ...

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...n battle to him, was small indeed. For, owing to the large number of whale cruisers; the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the en tire watery c... ...palmy beach of Ombay? Was it not so, O New Zealand Tom! thou terror of all cruisers that crossed their wakes in the vicinity of the Tattoo Land? Was i... ...nnebago villages; they float alike the full rigged merchant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the birch canoe; they are swept by B... ... repeated bloody chastisements they have received at the hands of European cruisers, the audacity of these corsairs has of late been somewhat represse...

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...almy beach of Ombay? Was it not so, O New Zealand Jack! thou terror of all cruisers that crossed their wakes in the vicinity of the Tattoo Land? Was i... ...bago villages; they float alike the full-rigged mer- chant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the beech canoe; they are swept by B... ...y chastisements they have received at the hands 366 Moby Dick of European cruisers, the audacity of these corsairs has of late been somewhat represse...

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... raise the country and stir up the city, and lead to the despatch of swift cruisers in pursuit, and our being taken, by sea or land, without any possi... ...nfident that, if we were to meet a merchant galliot, so that it were not a cruiser, not only should we not be lost, but that we should take a vessel i...

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...has assumed that merchantmen would defend themselves against privateers or cruisers, vis- ible craft giving chase upon the open sea. 25 Woodrow Wilso...

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...red him the lie; but he ran at the same time to the bulwarks, and so did they all. I have never seen so many drunken men struck suddenly sober. The cr... ...but early on the tenth, before dawn, and in a light lifting haze, we passed the head. A little after, the haze lifted, and fell again, showing us a cr... ...one hand, and then again, and further off, a creak of oars upon the other. It was clear we had been sighted yesterday in the morning; here were the cr... ...what call was there to carry you along? You are a perpetual danger to me with your cursed Irish tongue. By rights you should now be in irons in the cr... ...e were gliding down the bay with a good breeze, and blessing the name of God for our deliverance. Almost in the mouth of the estuary, we passed the cr...

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...enough in those Caribbean Seas), and as they got the better of our English cruisers by running into out-of-the-way creeks and shallows, and taking the...

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... raise the country and stir up the city, and lead to the despatch of swift cruisers in pursuit, and our being taken, by sea or land, without any possi... ...nfident that, if we were to meet a merchant galliot, so that it were not a cruiser, not only should we not be lost, but that we should take a vessel i...

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...uest,” Dr. Stuebel appeared him- self with ten men and an officer from the cruiser Albatross; a 27 Robert Louis Stevenson sailor climbed into the tre... ...us fault of which was that it came too late – and armed and fitted out the cruiser Kaimiloa, nest-egg of the future navy of Hawaii. Samoa, the most im...

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...ed, to have been used as a running target for the secondary batteries of a cruiser. A hail of minor shells could not have given her upper works a more...

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... French- man had hit us—and the Channel crawling with short-handed British cruisers. Put that in your pipe and smoke it next time you grumble at the p... ...are well aware, We sail with tobacco for England— but then Our own British cruisers, They watch us come through, sirs, And they press half a score of ...

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... ship and she may lay us aboard, sir, with no blame of mine: they keep the cruisers thick upon this coast, ye ken who for. Now, sir, if that was to be... ...going ship at anchor; and this I supposed at first to be one of the King’s cruisers which were kept along that coast, both summer and winter, to preve...