Sentence Examples

1. He could not have been more than two feet in height but this altitude, little as it was, would have been sufficient to destroy his equilibrium, and tilt him over the edge of his tiny car, but for the intervention of a circular rim reaching as high as the breast, and rigged on to the cords of the balloon.
2. With the means thus accruing I proceeded to procure at intervals, cambric muslin, very fine, in pieces of twelve yards each twine a lot of the varnish of caoutchouc a large and deep basket of wicker-work, made to order and several other articles necessary in the construction and equipment of a balloon of extraordinary dimensions.
3. It was a dark night when I bade her good-bye, and taking with me, as aides-de-camp, the three creditors who had given me so much trouble, we carried the balloon, with the car and accoutrements, by a roundabout way, to the station where the other articles were deposited.
4. The balloon at first collapsed, then furiously expanded, then whirled round and round with horrible velocity, and finally, reeling and staggering like a drunken man, hurled me with great force over the rim of the car, and left me dangling, at a terrific height, with my head downward, and my face outwards, by a piece of slender cord about three feet in length, which hung accidentally through a crevice near the bottom of the wicker-work, and in which, as I fell, my left foot became most providentially entangled.
5. For who, let me ask, ever heard of a balloon manufactured entirely of dirty newspapers?
6. But my chief anxiety was concerning the balloon, which, in spite of the varnish with which it was defended, began to grow rather heavy with the moisture the powder also was liable to damage.
7. it was undoubtedly a species of balloon but surely no such balloon had ever been seen in Rotterdam before.
8. In the meantime the balloon arose like a lark, and, soaring far away above the city, at length drifted quietly behind a cloud similar to that from which it had so oddly emerged, and was thus lost forever to the wondering eyes of the good citizens of Rotterdam.
9. Maybe say hi to Peter at the balloon dart booth, of course.