With distaste I saw him assume a pompous air.

New York lay bleaching in the summer sun, and the morning fish hawk, flying in the heated air, saw below him the long triangular wedge of Manhattan Island.

But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.

A second tale shows still more clearly the kind of powers a truly spiritual monk could possess: `` On one occasion Yang Shan ( Kyo-zan ) saw a stranger monk flying through the air.

By the summer of 1944 the reversal of fortune was complete and Operation Bagration saw Soviet forces inflict crushing defeats on Germany through the aggressive use of armour, infantry and air power in combined strategic assault, known as deep operations.

* Brewster Buffalo, or Brewster F2A, a U. S. fighter plane which saw extensive service with both Allied and Axis air forces during World War II

Allied fighters, by gaining air superiority over the European battlefield, played a crucial role in the eventual defeat of the Axis, which Reichmarshal Hermann Göring, commander of the German Luftwaffe summed up when he said: " When I saw Mustangs over Berlin, I knew the jig was up.

Russian chronicles mention prince Oleg of Novgorod use kites during the siege of Constantinople in 906 A. D .: " and he crafted horses and men of paper, armed and gilded, and lifted them into the air over the city ; the Greeks saw them and feared ".

Ultrasonic transducers that transmit sound waves through air had existed for quite some time, but first saw major commercial use in early television remote controls.

Hadingus realizes that he is flying through the air: " and he saw that before the steps of the horse lay the sea ; but was told not to steal a glimpse of the forbidden thing, and therefore turned his amazed eyes from the dread spectacle of the roads that he journeyed.

One unusual idea, which never saw service, was the ability to connect several independent airship elements like train wagons ; indeed, the patent title called the design Lenkbarer Luftfahrzug ( steerable air train ).

A short-lived attempted truce in 1933 even saw the papers proposing that radio be forbidden from running news before 9: 30 am, and then only after 9: 00 pm — and that no news story could air until it was twelve hours old.

Once, when she was riding, some vanir saw her faring through the air.

The White City, however, so impressed everyone who saw it ( at least before air pollution began to darken the façades ) that plans were considered to refinish the exteriors in marble or some other material.

Jung claimed that one night he saw a faintly luminous and indefinite figure coming from her room, with a head detached from the neck and floating in the air in front of the body.

This period also saw the launch of a London — Paris coach-air-coach / rail service, with the cross-Channel air portion operating between Lydd and Le Touquet.

That year also saw Silver City become the UK's biggest air cargo carrier with an annual freight volume of 70, 190 tons.

Since many of CBS ' affiliates had pre-empted that slot for years to air other programming, and continued to do so for Press Your Luck, some markets saw the series disappear altogether.

From 1997 to 2007 Stansted saw rapid expansion of passenger numbers on the back of the boom in low cost air travel, peaking at 24 million passengers in the 12 months to October 2007, but since then passenger numbers have been in decline.

High continues that " once some Vanir saw her path as she rode through the air " and that an unnamed one of these Vanir says, in verse ( for which no source is provided ):

High continues that " once some Vanir saw her path as she rode through the air " and that an unnamed one of these Vanir says, in verse:

When she saw him flop on the grass to cool himself and call, as was his wont, to Zephyri to come relieve him, Procris realized that what she had taken to be the name of a lover was merely a name for the air and nothing more.

However, fan campaigns to put Speedy back on the air and lobbying by the League of United Latin American Citizens saw the shorts return to air from 2002.

Also during this decade, the very important air link between Jeddah and Riyadh saw improvement.

The treaty forbade the Navajo to raid or make war on the New Mexicans, but allowed the New Mexicans to make war on the Navajo if they saw fit.

In November 1177, he set out upon a raid into Palestine ; the Crusaders had recently forayed into the territory of Damascus and so Saladin saw the truce was no longer worth preserving.

In late May, worried that German successes in France and Norway might bring the war to an end before his battle cruisers saw action, Raeder committed the battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau to a raid off Norway's North Cape.

Here he was advised of another Seljuk raid into Asia Minor which saw them sack Amorium, but they had returned to their base so fast that Romanos was in no position to give chase, and he eventually reached Constantinople by January 1069.

No. 74 Squadron saw its first action only 15 hours after war was declared, sent to intercept a bomber raid that turned out to be returning RAF planes.

Polybius wrote that Hannibal calculated that he could draw out Flaminius into battle and that " no sooner had he left the neighbourhood of Faesulae, and, advancing a short way beyond the Roman camp, made a raid upon the neighbouring country, then Flaminius became excited, and enraged at the idea that he was despised by the enemy: and as the devastation of the country went on, and he saw from the smoke that rose in every direction that the work of destruction was proceeding, he could not patiently endure the sight.

He later saw action in the battle following the burning of Danbury, Connecticut and in a later raid on Sag Harbor, New York.

Believing that surprise and speed were to be the essential requirements of any raid against the installation to ensure the radar was captured, Mountbatten saw an airborne assault as the only viable method.

Three Israeli soldiers were killed in the raid which saw the paratroops remain on the island for 36 hours before departing with 62 Egyptian POWs and a captured Decca radar set.

Typical of such raid was one led by Lawrence in September 1917 that saw Lawrence destroy a Turkish rail convoy by blowing up the bridge it was crossing at Mudawwarah and then ambushing the Turkish repair party.

By way of comparison the Dresden air raid during February 1945 which saw 3, 431 tons of bombs dropped on the city caused fewer deaths per ton of bombs: 7. 2 – 10. 2 fatalities per ton of bombs dropped.

The raid on Harper's Ferry horrified Southerners who saw Brown as a criminal, and they became increasingly distrustful of Northern abolitionists who celebrated Brown as a hero and a martyr.

He saw active service on the Niagara frontier in 1864, and was involved in repelling a Fenian raid in 1866.

Another raid on September 2, 1998, saw Emery jailed overnight again and his seeds confiscated, but no charges were laid.

The fort saw brief action during the Second World War when, on August 26, 1940, it was hit by a German air raid in which eight Royal Marines were killed.

World War II saw the fort once again in active use, when it was used as an air raid shelter and army camp for American military personnel.

After the first raid of 349 aircraft, bad weather blunted the effect of bombing, which saw only a single raid by 50 B-25 Mitchell medium bombers on 18 October.

Despite the success of the raid, Tshombe's prestige was damaged by the joint Belgian-US operation which saw white mercenaries and western forces intervene once again in the Congo.

In July 1918 the Regiment took part in the Ghurabeh raid that saw intense fighting and over 100 Ottomans taken prisoner.

In addition to Meade's private beliefs, the papers ' authenticity is corroborated by statements from Bureau of Military Information officers John McEntee, who accompanied Dahlgren on the raid and thus saw the papers, and John Babcock.

A regular member of the battle units assembled to combat the assorted threats the Decepticons posed to Earth, Prowl's primary solo adventure saw him pursue Starscream, Thundercracker and Soundwave alongside Bluestreak after a botched raid, only for injuries sustained in the ensuing battle to knock his battle computer offline.

The same period, when a battered Byzantium defended itself against enemies on all fronts, also saw the emergence of a new, unexpected threat: the Rus ' made their first appearance in Byzantine history with a raid against Paphlagonia in the 830s, followed by a major expedition in 860.

The regiment saw action at the Battle of Oriskany in 1777, Carleton's Raid ( 1778 ) and the devastating raid on the Schoharie Valley in 1780.