flying-machine

Across the pit on its farther lip, flat and vast and strange, lay the great flying-machine with which they had been experimenting upon our denser atmosphere when decay and death arrested them.

The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

Later, it is true, the Brazilians launched a flying-machine of a type and scale that was capable of dealing with an airship, but they built only three or four, they operated only in South America, and they vanished from history untraceably in the time when world-bankruptcy put a stop to all further engineering production on any considerable scale.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

In the evening quite a crowd of men gathered in the store and talked of the flying-machine and of the war that was tearing the world to pieces.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

With her in his pocket, he seated himself in the saddle of the flying-machine.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

They wanted him to take them to the flying-machine at once.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

Bert spent two more days upon Goat Island, and finished all his provisions except the cigarettes and mineral water, before he brought himself to try the Asiatic flying-machine.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

And then he fell speculating what would happen when the flying-machine, was repaired — if it could be repaired.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

“Last I remember was seeing a sort of flying-machine in a lightning flash,” said Bert.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

Bert had a momentary glimpse of a little black creature jumping from the crumpling frame of the flying-machine, hitting the funnel, and falling limply, to be instantly caught and driven to nothingness by the blaze and rush of the explosion.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

He turned his steps towards the flying-machine ....

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006