And it was at this period that the expedient of the ballon sonde, or unmanned balloon, was happily thought of.
In November, 1896, five manned balloons and three unmanned ascended simultaneously from France, Germany, and Russia.
Simultaneously with this, Mr. Alexander dismissed an unmanned balloon from Bath, which ascended 8,000 feet, and landed at Cricklade.
These experiments, which were largely taken up on the Continent, led to others of yet higher importance, in which the unmanned balloon took a part.
The forces in the field of battle were utterly unmanned on hearing his war-cry.
Describe to me in detail, O Vaisampayana, the entry into the capital, of that prince overwhelmed with shame and unmanned by grief!
The temptation to take her in his arms temporarily unmanned him.
The sight of her dainty fluffy things made him suffer keenly, and a tiny jewelled slipper he found on the floor almost unmanned him.
The find nearly unmanned him; he fancied the scrap of linen was still damp with her tears; and the old madness of desperation surged over him again.
He made one attempt to proceed, kneading the flesh of the arm very gently to explore the broken ends of the bone--but Natalie's piteous cry of pain completely unmanned him.
Blake doubted that no more, and the conviction of it unmanned him.
Our prober rockets, carrying unmanned instruments, rather definitely indicate that the planet has a day about twenty Earth-days long.
It was, like its two predecessors, a minimum-sized, unmanned instrument device designed to penetrate the clouds and radio back data on the nature of the Venusian atmosphere and the surface.
Something in that patient's strange case had come home to him and unmanned him.
For all the pluck that he had shown in the past, the silence and the darkness of this grew-some passage had unmanned him.
The spectacle that had unmanned Christopher was in a profound recess reaching indeterminately out of the cavern and behind the waterfall.
It was not only horrible, but sickening; and for a moment, completelyunmanned me.
In the eyes of christians, and heathens, and all mankind that have not unmanned themselves, there appeareth a singular beauty and excellency in truth.
For just as men are deluded by the show of material pleasure, so are they unmanned by visionary fears.
Others were unmanned by the voluptuous excesses of an age which had carried the ingenuity of sensual allurement to its utmost limits.
Wicked education hath unmanned the world, and subdued it to Satan, and make it almost like to hell.
The young fellow, who had borne himself with such reckless courage and dash throughout the affair, was quite unmanned now, and the tears were rolling down his face.
I think I must have been weak and unmanned from the blow I had received, for my composure broke down here.
My own feelings may be understood by those who have calmly passed through danger, while they beheld their companions unmanned by fear or lack of coolness.
The description brought the scene back to my mind with a force that unmanned me for a time, and leads me to pray most earnestly and humbly that I may be found worthy to join them through the beloved, when my summons comes.
The following beautiful little note, accompanied by a silver cup, almost unmanned me.
At any rate, whatever he had heard in that call for his blood, his blood--it had unmanned him.
It is easy to say that we might have played our parts; but the pity and the horror of it, falling on hearts already tortured by the scenes of the day, fairly unmanned us.
Indeed, it was his wonderful mildness chiefly, which not only disarmed me, but unmanned me, as it were.
For I consider that one, for the time, is a sort of unmanned when he tranquilly permits his hired clerk to dictate to him, and order him away from his own premises.
The easiest way would be to send down manned or unmanned units with special apparatus to scoop in atmosphere samples.
On the seventh day an object which could have been the second or thirdunmanned Russian probe showed briefly at the very edge of the radar screens.
There were now six unmanned Russian probes in emptiness, of which four were lined up reasonably well along the route which a manned probe, if one were sent up, should ultimately travel.
But that was the day the Russians launched an unmanned space-probe headed toward M-387.
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Unmanned Take this day, lonely as a man in an empty house, at his window, the wintry yard below.
As it was, he was so unmanned that he could only plead a suddenly remembered professional engagement and get out of the house with the utmost possible speed.
