10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARACHUTIC»
Discover the use of
parachutic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
parachutic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
It appeared that about halfway down the thing tried to change its shape again, to
spread out one side of its fluid mass into a wing or perhaps a parachutic form. But
then the schizophrenic nature of the creature reasserted itself so that its second ...
... brow as that which prostrated him on the highest summit of Ben Cruachan, and
carried off his green umbrella into the Irish Sea. Mr Bobells ascribes his own non-
accompaniment of that parachutic instrument solely to the ingenious device of ...
William Chambers, Robert Chambers, 1861
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Chambers's Edinburgh journal, conducted by W. Chambers. ...
... Bobells ascribes his own non-accompaniment of that parachutic instrument
solely to the ingenious device of sticking his toes and hngers into the earth, after
the manner of tent-pegs, and suffering the tempest to do its worst with his coat-
tails.
Cp. the Acoma story of the parachutic escape of the Franciscan friars at the time
of the Great Rebellion. 4. The Tewa also took captives. The father of the narrator
had a Navaho boy captive. " He was a good boy. We treated him like a brother.
Elsie Clews Parsons, 1926
... the wholesome mushroom from the deadly toad-stool ? Docs the botanist
explain its class and order, its method of reproduction ? Does he point out to the
little mushroom gatherer the different rugre under its white, convex, parachutic
top ?
... PARACHUTED PARACHUTES PARACHUTIC PARACHUTING
PARACHUTIST PARACHUTISTS PARACLETE PARACLETES PARACRINE
PARABOLOIDS PARACARBINOXAMINE PARACARBINOXAMINES
PARACHLOROPHENOL ...
Maliha Mendoza Mahmood, 2013
PARACHUTISTS ALL KNOW THE MIRACULOUS EXPLOITS OF FRED QUICK
RELEASE DEVICES ARE MORE USUALLY USED. OVER WATER THE STATIC
LINE IS ALWAYS GOOD FOR A PARACHUTIC LAUGH CONTINUED ON NEXT ...
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Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts
... such a wind visited his perspiring brow as that which prostrated him on the
highest summit of Ben Cruachan, and carried off his green umbrella into the Irish
Sea. Mr Bobells ascribes his own non-accompaniment of that parachutic
instrument ...
9
Inquiry Into Operations of the United States Air Services: ...
Through the described reactions of the air on the plane surfaces, a parachutic
action will also be established, allowing excess pressure from gusts of large
volume to escape, while promoting buoyancy, with an increased degree of safety
in the ...
United States. Congress. House. Select Committee of Inquiry into Operations of the United States Air Services, 1925
7), does provide_ considerable parachutic surface in addition to its other
advantages. Some of the late Dr. Lilienthal's highly instructive sailing- flight
experiments were conducted with duplex-superposed surfaces, or " double-
deckers " (Fig.