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...ent and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world; they realized fully the element of industrial belligerency behind the shining armour of imperialism, and they denounced the ?Krupp-Kaiser? alliance. But against such writing and such thought we had to count, in those days, great and powerful realities. Even to those who expressed these ideas there lay ...

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...y realized fully the element of industrial belligerency behind the shining armour of imperialism, and they denounced the “Krupp-Kaiser” al- liance. Bu... ...ry) of the plaintiff nation in the defendant state, aggressive military or naval preparation, disorder spreading over the frontier, trespass (as, for ... ...s to be a working reality, have power to define and limit the military and naval and aerial equipment of every country in the world. This means some- ... ...ate forces. It must have power and freedom to investigate the military and naval and aerial establishments of all its constituent powers. It must also... ...e his atlas and consider the case of that impregnable fastness, that great naval station, that Key to the Mediterranean, Gibraltar. British boys are b... ...n, directly they are involved in the future in a war against any efficient naval power with an unim- peded sea access, will be isolated forthwith. I c...

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...nterior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter....

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...common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on t... ...olossal dimensions, armed not with a halberd, but with a real spur, as the armoured frigates, or the `rams’ of war, whose massiveness and motive power... ...d Ned Land, “they must be made of iron plates eight inches thick, like the armoured frig- ates.” “As you say, Ned. And think what destruction such a m... ...essly to resist considerable pressure. One would have thought it a suit of armour, both supple and resisting. This suit formed trousers and waistcoat.... ...le of papers, yellow but still readable. They were the instructions of the naval minister to Com- mander La Perouse, annotated in the margin in Louis ... ... submarine engine was. Soon the Canadian informed me that she was a large, armoured, two-decker ram. A thick black smoke was pour- ing from her two fu...

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...fortunes and poetical talent gained him the friendship of one T ychias, an armourer. “And up to my time,” continued the author, “the inhabit- ants sho... ...just as long on the like account. If he gives his hero a suit of celestial armour, Virgil and Tasso make the same present to theirs. Virgil has not on... ...ntercession of the am- bassadors or the gifts of the general. He lends his armour to his friend, but commands him not to engage with the chief of the ... ...he most lively despair, prepares to fight; he receives from a divinity new armour, is reconciled with his general and, thirsting for glory and revenge... ... High o’er them all a general tomb be raised; Next, to secure our camp and naval powers, Raise an embattled wall, with lofty towers; From space to spa... ...nd round the pile a general tomb they rear’d. Then, to secure the camp and naval powers, They raised embattled walls with lofty towers: 146 From space... ...orced, and bulwarks gain’d; There, on the margin of the hoary deep, (Their naval station where the Ajaces keep. And where low walls confine the beatin... ...ching dares attempt his fate: 302 The Iliad of Homer Even to the last his naval charge defends, Now shakes his spear, now lifts, and now protends; Ev... ...hands, Against the sable ships, with flaming brands, So well the chief his naval weapon sped, The luckless warrior at his stern lay dead: Full twelve,...

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...ter of Danaus, wedded to Poseidon, bare Nauplius, who surpassed all men in naval skill. The Argonautica 11 (ll. 139 145) Idmon came last of all them... ...n bear, and wielding in his right hand a huge two edged battleaxe. For his armour his grandsire had hidden in the house’s innermost recess, to see if ... ...rs among the clouds; and each man as he saw them speeding along with their armour would say: (ll. 242 246) “King Zeus, what is the purpose of Pelias?... ...ater nymph Oenoe bore to Thoas. Now for all the women to tend kine, to don armour of bronze, and to cleave with the plough share the wheat bearing fie... ... Pelasgian war men of the Macrians had landed. Therefore they donned their armour and raised their hands against them. And with clashing of ashen spea... ...hair, they and the Dollones. Then three times round his tomb they paced in armour of bronze and performed funeral rites and celebrated games, as was m...

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...cy. Take, for instance, Gustave Dore’s drawing of Don Quixote watching his armour in the inn-yard. Whether or not the Venta de Quesada on the Seville ... ...primitive draw-well in the corner that he meant Don Quixote to deposit his armour. Gustave Dore makes it an elaborate fountain such as no arriero ever... ... he should make a knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armour and on horseback in quest of adventures, and putting in practice him... ...put his scheme into execution. The first thing he did was to clean up some armour that had belonged to his great-grandfather, and had been for ages ly... ... country, and did honour to it in taking his surname from it. So then, his armour being furbished, his morion turned into a helmet, his hack christene... ...remained alive and victorious) I alone was miserable; for, instead of some naval crown that I might have expected had it been in Roman times, on the n...

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...cy. Take, for instance, Gustave Dore’s drawing of Don Quixote watching his armour in the inn-yard. Whether or not the Venta de Quesada on the Seville ... ...primitive draw-well in the corner that he meant Don Quixote to deposit his armour. Gustave Dore makes it an elaborate fountain such as no arriero ever... ... he should make a knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armour and on horseback in quest of adventures, and putting in practice him... ...put his scheme into execution. The first thing he did was to clean up some armour that had belonged to his great-grandfather, and had been for ages ly... ... country, and did honour to it in taking his surname from it. So then, his armour being furbished, his morion turned into a helmet, his hack christene... ...remained alive and victorious) I alone was miserable; for, instead of some naval crown that I might have expected had it been in Roman times, on the n...

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...ittered wonderfully, and that Grubb, through some confusion of ideas about armour plates, was inclined to consider a war machine. There followed actua... ...ise was planned. They decided at first that they would call themselves the Naval Mr. O’s, a plagiarism, and not perhaps a very good one, from the titl... ...serge, with a lot of gold lace and cord and ornamenta- tion, rather like a naval officer’s, but more so. But that had to be abandoned as impracticable... ... telegraphy was bringing to the airship in throbs and fragments of a great naval battle in progress in mid-Atlantic. He learnt it at last from Kurt. K... ...” He spread his maps, he had to talk, and so he delivered a lecture on the naval situation to Bert. “Here it is,” he said, latitude 30 degrees 50 minu... ...n’t see a bit of it, worse luck! Not a sniff we shan’t get!” 2 2 2 2 2 The naval situation in the North Atlantic at that time was a peculiar one. The ... ...tional situation became acute. It was made up of four battleships and five armoured cruisers ranking almost with battleships, not one of which was of ... ...hrough the dissolving clouds, and more, all disdain- fully free of guns or armour, all flying fast to keep pace with the running fight below. From fir... ...ce, but no airship at any time ever carried as much in the way of guns and armour as the smallest gunboat on the navy list had been accustomed to do. ...

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...iden know what it covered? It was an oubliette. There was once a Strasburg armourer who had refused ransom, and talked of appealing to the Kaiser. He ... ... the Kohler had brought immediate intelligence. The sun glistened on their armour, and a banner floated gaily on the wind; but they were a fear- ful s... ...ut of sight. The brothers had piece by piece surveyed the solitary suit of armour remaining in the castle; but, though it might serve for defence, it ... ...sing the step where Grethel sat with Thekla on her lap, the clank of their armour caused the uplifting of the little flaxen head, and two wide blue ey... ...m—the cauldron of the smiths, the hose of the clothiers, the helmet of the armourers, the bason of the barbers, the boot of the sutors; even the sausa... ... of his wound, had become so much more severe as to render him useless for naval purposes; and, as he escaped actually dying during a voyage, he was a...

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...great horse, wears a Wagnerian cloak, sits on thrones and talks of shining armour and “unser Gott.” All Germany gloats over his Jo- vian domesticities... ...and her allies, her government has permitted so much of it as military and naval needs have not requisitioned to continue to ply for gain, which the g... ...d politically and technically unsatisfactory. The knight was an egotist in armour. Machiavelli does small justice to the English bow- men. It is inter... ...e actual making of the Tanks arose as an irregular side development of the armoured-car branch of the Royal Naval Air Service work. The names most clo... ...e as an irregular side development of the armoured-car branch of the Royal Naval Air Service work. The names most closely associ- ated with the work a... ...f Dr. Macnamara’s in the House of Commons) Mr. d’Eyncourt, the Director of Naval Construction, Mr. W. O. Tritton, Lieut. Wilson, R.N.A.S., Mr. Bussell... ...War and the Future cendancy, properly utilised, is victory. But the mobile armoured big gun and the Tank as a machine-gun silencer must enormously fac... ...s been left open you see the little group of engineers, staff officers and naval men receding and falling away behind you. Y ou straighten up and go u... ...ns a steady processional movement. The group of engineers and officers and naval men appears at the other side of the door and farther off. Then comes...

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...fortunes and poetical talent gained him the friendship of one T ychias, an armourer. “And up to my time,” continues the author, “the inhabitants showe... ...eep circumfluent waves embrace; A duteous people, and industrious isle, To naval arts inured, and stormy toil. Freighted with iron from my native land... ...hou to the court ascend : and to the shores (When night advances) bear the naval stores; Bread, that decaying man with strength supplies, And generous... ... goddess shoved the vessel from the shores, And stow’d within its womb the naval stores, Full in the openings of the spacious main It rides; and now d... ...here wander’d Menelaus through foreign shores Amassing gold, and gathering naval stores; While cursed Aegysthus the detested deed By fraud fulfilled, ... ... due, Prescribe directions and confirm the crew. For I alone sustain their naval cares, Who boast experience from these silver hairs; All youths the r... ...hing lids grow black; The jelly bubbles, and the fibres crack. And as when armourers temper in the ford The keen edged pole axe, or the shining sword,... ... “Meantime, forgetful of the voice divine, All dreadful bright my limbs in armour shine; High on the deck I take my dangerous stand, T wo glittering j... ...e sign: that instant, from beneath, Aloft convey the instruments of death, Armour and arms; and, if mistrust arise, Thus veil the truth in plausible d...

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... and on great and perilous waters; and to take a cue from the dolorous old naval bal- lad, we have heard the mer-maidens singing, and know that we sha... ...alent entrusted to his care; a sort of indestructible virgin- ity; a magic armour, with which he can pass unhurt through great dangers and come unbeda... ...e past, stamps the 75 Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers man who is well armoured for this world. And not only well armoured for himself, but a good... ...of what is imposing to the imagination. And our 82 Robert Louis Stevenson naval annals owe some of their interest to the fantastic and beautiful appe... ...n, Foul- Weather, Jack Byron, are all good to catch the eye in a page of a naval history. Cloudesley Shovel is a mouthful of quaint and sounding sylla... ... who, playing with pieces of cork on his own dining-table, invented modern naval warfare. There was that portrait of Neil Gow, to sit for which the ol...

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... road.” “What the dickens are they like?” asked the lieutenant. “Giants in armour, sir. Hundred feet high. Three legs and a body like ‘luminium, with ... ... them? Yonder!” Quickly, one after the other, one, two, three, four of the armoured Martians appeared, far away over the little trees, across the flat... ...as flying birds. Then, advancing obliquely towards us, came a fifth. Their armoured bodies glittered in the sun as they swept swiftly forward upon the... ...enty-four hours brought them reinforcement. And meanwhile the military and naval authorities, now fully alive to the tremendous power of their antagon... ... night the Martians came out of the cylinder, and, moving about un- der an armour of metallic shields, have completely wrecked Woking station with the... ...t. No details are known. Maxims have been absolutely useless against their armour; the field guns have been disabled by them. Flying hussars have been...

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...erset House. My mother, whose maiden name was Mary Griffith, belonged to a naval family. Her father had been lost in a West Indian hurricane at sea, a... ...the offer was passed on to him, and he ap- peared in the full glory of his naval uniform. Not much choice had been offered to him. My mother would hav... ...ion of shining curls, were our notion of perfect beauty, select the little naval cadet for her partner at the dancing master’s ball? In the first voya... ... Clarence himself. Captain Brydone was one of the rough old description of naval men, good sailors and stern discipli- narians, but wanting in any sen... ...d the trophy of swords, dirks, daggers, and pistols, chiefly relics of our naval grandfather, but reinforced by the sword, helmet, and spurs of the co... ... of having one among us who is as real and true knight as ever watched his armour - ‘“For king, for church, for lady fight!” It has all come glo- riou...

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... of grief for him, thinking whether he will ever be able to wear his black armour again, and carry terror and dismay to the stoutest hearts of France.... ...er knight, the brave Sir Francis, Upon his noble steed advances, All his armour off he leaves, Preserves alone his polished greaves, His defence i... ... YONGE Sir Francis weeping for his charmer, And longing for his knightly armour. But his sword was cast in the self-same forge As that of the grea... ... use his bat. He won’t sweep up the autumn leaves, The tree’s deciduous armour, No scolding Dickey’s spirit grieves Like working like a farmer, ... ...inished by saying, ‘Ah ha! Helen, it is plain enough that your friends are naval. I can see where your pennant came from.’ ‘But is it not a flag, Uncl...

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...as two war vessels, which remain in atten- dance on him. His functions are naval. I tell you what I learn, and mix up together the more or less probab... ...d most marvellous manifest proof, alone, forsaken by all his soldiers, his armour hacked and hewed to pieces, cov- ered all over with blood and wounds... ...ght off, and the count, with the common curiosity com- ing to view it, the armour was no sooner taken off but he immediately knew him to be his own so... ...selves, put to death their brave captains newly returned triumphant from a naval victory they had obtained over the Lacedaemonians near the Arginusian... ...er, punished them in the same kind; for Chabrias, captain-general of their naval forces, having got the better of Pollis, Admiral of Sparta, at the Is... ...ide beneath iron or brass in his fear, death will pull his head out of his armour.”—Propertious iii. 18] —let us learn bravely to stand our ground, an... ... by the noise of the Cataracts.]—Smiths, millers, pewterers, forgemen, and armourers could never be able to live in the perpetual noise of their own t... ...ess the vulgar with the solid and real foundations of truth. ’T was a fine naval battle that was gained under the command of Don John of Austria a few... ...iven them a notable de- feat, the summer following he obtained over them a naval victory. The Romans fought at a very great disadvantage, in the engag...

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...despatched to sea. He went unwillingly; not so much from an objection to a naval life as from a wish, incomprehensible to grown men and boys, and espe... ...in- gers at them. Everard expected, he had prepared himself for, the young naval politician’s crow, and he meant to admit frankly that he had been wro... ...rmenian con- vent—a lord and a poet. This was to be infinitely more than a naval lieutenant. But Nevil claimed her as little personally as he allowed ... ...ts of such a kind, only tumultuous feeling. She was immoveable, in perfect armour. He said despairingly, ‘Can you have realized what you are consentin... ...ence to be used to get him appointed to the first vacancy in Robert Hall’s naval brigade, then forming a part of our handful in insurgent India. The f... ...letter of tears as to make Mr. Romfrey 100 Beauchamp’s Career believe the naval crown of glory his highest ambition. Who on earth could have guessed ... ... have five minutes alone with him. This occurred at midnight, in that half-armoury, half-li- brary, which was his private room. Rosamund heard their v...

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... administration; that officer having scarce begun to be effi- cient ere he was recalled. I thought I gathered, too, that he regarded with some fear th... ...ernor. I am sure at least that I regard it so myself; for the civil servants of France have never appeared to any foreigner as at all the flower of th... ... right colour he will choose the smallest shard, tuck himself in a mere corner of a broken whorl, and go about the world half naked; but I never found... ...of Butaritari. The court ladies were busy making mats; the guardsmen yawned and sprawled. Half a dozen rifles lay on a rock and a cut- lass was leaned... ...first steps to the empire of the archipelago. A British warship coming on the scene, the conqueror was driven to disgorge, his career checked in the o... ...e to set them, few to follow them if they were set, and none to criticise, he dresses—as Sir Charles Grandison lived—‘to his own heart.’ Now he wears ... ...rong, might easily pluck down the palisade; he need not be specially active to leap from the beach upon the terrace. There is no parade of guards, sol... ...se are of ‘my pamily,’—many are mere attendants; yet a sur- prising number shared the responsibility of the king’s trust. These were key-bearers, trea... ... he drove out his uncle, drove out the author of his days? Here is at least a tragedy four-square. The king took us on board in his own gig, dressed f...

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...annot foresee. I am a part, not a whole; I am a little instru- ment in the armoury of Change. If I were to burn all these papers, before a score of ye... ...fic upon the world’s roads was instantaneous. In three years the frightful armoured monsters that had hooted and smoked and thundered about the world ... ...nt of the lower Rhine, and a flanking raid through Holland upon the German naval establishments at the mouth of the Elbe, were integral parts of the o... ...ver and victory enthroned. Then 57 H G Wells perhaps this harshness, this armour would be put aside and the gods might unbend. Her eyelids drooped…. ... ...crease whatever in the ability to escape. Every sort of passive de- fence, armour, fortifications, and so forth, was being outmastered by this tremend... ...science. All the huge expenditure that had hitherto gone into unproductive naval and military preparations, must now, he declared, place research upon...

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...meet, eye to eye, the valorous giant Brandabarbaran, Lord of Arabia, whose armour is made of the skin of a dragon, and whose shield, strapped to his a... ... I dare say there would have been no difficulty in finding my way into the Naval School at Pola. It would have meant six months’ extra grinding at Ger... ... to offer explanations; but the truth is that what I had in view was not a naval career, but the sea. There seemed no way open to it but through Franc...

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...o meet eye to eye the valorous giant Brandabarbaran, Lord of Arabia, whose armour is made of the skin of a dragon, and whose shield, strapped to his a... ... dare say there would have been no dif- ficulty in finding my way into the Naval School at Pola. It would have meant six months’ extra grind- ing at G... ...on to offer expla- nations; the truth is that what I had in view was not a naval career, but the sea. There seemed no way open to it but through Franc...