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Quotes About Airship

Is he blaming her? Does he think she led on El Captain or was having a relationship with him at the same time as Bradwell? She turns and wals, unsteadily, along the walls of the airship, to the door in the cabin, now almost overhead, that leads outside.
~ Julianna Baggott
Well," Amelia said, "basically my polar bears have taken over my airship.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Churchill created the Royal Naval Air Service, which had fifty planes by 1914, and pioneered the concept of aerial bombing of Zeppelin airship aerodromes and German lines of communication. The first successful launch of a plane off the deck of a battleship took place in January 1912, and some military historians see Churchill as the father of the modern aircraft carrier.
~ Andrew Roberts
Dr. Barlow, it is, of course, customary to check with the caption before, uh, giving away his ship. -Deryn Sharp
~ Scott Westerfeld
But it won't be much of a battle, will it? Alek asked. What can an airship do to a pair of ironclads? My guess is, we'll stay absolutely still for an hour.  Just so we don't fall into any bad habits.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Hindenburg take off.)
~ Bill Simmons
Wayne was awakened quite rough-like, in a manner unbefitting his grand dreams, in which he was king of the dogs. Had a crown shaped like a bowl and everything. He blinked his eyes, feeling nice and warm, and got hit with a blast of air. Drowsy, he remembered he was flying in some kind of rusting airship with a fellow what had no face. And that was almost as good as that dog thing.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Irene felt a desperate surge of nostalgia for her Library. Her life was more than just airship chases, cyborg alligator attacks, and hanging out with this alternate universe's nearest analogue to Sherlock Holmes. She was a Librarian, and the deepest, most fundamental part of her life involved a love of books. Right now, she wanted nothing more than to shut the rest of the world out and have nothing to worry about except the next page of whatever she was reading.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Well, Lockwood was an absolute sort of person, wasn't he? He wouldn't fall in love like tripping over a brick. He was the sort to rear back, run, catapult over the side of an airship's railing, and fall, fall, fall into love before smacking into the Ocean of Delirious Wanderings.* *Which would sever his limbs from his body on impact, causing Death by Unmitigated Joy.
~ Heather Dixon
the zeppelin. It sounded
~ Philip Pullman
Few sounds were to be heard at that early hour, only the drone of the airship's engines and the mournful mournful moans of the foghorns, which seemed almost to be searching for one another, somewhere along the silvered and twisted ribbon of river.
~ Unknown