dreadnought

• When you go up against that dreadnought, you need to focus on the task at hand and not worry about whether Mahallan's done her job, or whether Lyle Carrier really is loyal. —  AnalogSFF,March2006
• But the trouble is that when the White House approves an idea, nobody knows what it will turn out to be, a dreadnought or an icebreaker. —  RIA Novosti
• Aerial battle-planes of colossal size and power are as certain to come in time, and in not a very long time, as the dreadnought of to-day was certain to follow the first armored ship of only a half-century ago. —  Opportunities in Aviation
• They inspected it cautiously from overhead before going too close, for the dreadnought, obviously, had landed without the terrific concussion that the others had experienced, and there was a possibility that some of the crew had survived the crash. —  The Black Star Passes
• If the Fates ordain that I should go to the play in the dog-days apparelled in a dreadnought, let not me vainly think of resisting their decrees But,' said the waiter, shrugging his shoulders, 'the people The what?' —  The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

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