And through the charred and desolated area—perhaps twenty square miles altogether—that encircled the Martian encampment on Horsell Common, through charred and ruined villages among the green trees, through the blackened and smoking arcades that had been but a day ago pine spinneys, crawled the devoted scouts with the heliographs that were presently to warn the gunners of the Martian approach. ❋ H. G. Wells (2009)
Signallers with heliographs were pushing forward upon them from all sides. ❋ H. G. Wells (2009)
Horsell Common, through charred and ruined villages among the green trees, through the blackened and smoking arcades that had been but a day ago pine spinneys, crawled the devoted scouts with the heliographs that were presently to warn the gunners of the Martian approach. ❋ Unknown (2005)
And through the charred and desolated area — perhaps twenty square miles altogether — that encircled the Martian encampment on Horsell Common, through charred and ruined villages among the green trees, through the blackened and smoking arcades that had been but a day ago pine spinneys, crawled the devoted scouts with the heliographs that were presently to warn the gunners of the Martian approach. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Winking heliographs were everywhere, not just on the rim wall. ❋ Niven, Larry (1996)
Their whole empire must be linked by heliographs in the spill mountains. ❋ Niven, Larry (1996)
Up top, heliographs chatted tower to tower and presumably with the city as well. ❋ Cook, Glen (1989)
General Primrose heliographs that a letter from Ayub's camp brings information that the mother of the late Heir-Apparent, Abdulla ❋ Frederick Sleigh Roberts (N/A)
General Primrose heliographs that Ayub Khan has entrenched his camp at Baba Wali. ❋ Frederick Sleigh Roberts (N/A)
That the Boers were watching the retreat was proved by one of their heliographs trying to 'pick up' the column. ❋ Cecil Francis Romer (N/A)
In the present day telephones, heliographs, gramophones, bicycles, motor-cars, guns, fireworks, and the latest inventions of all kinds find their way into ❋ Isabel Savory (N/A)
Was it just that very morning that he and his good chum Dick Mercer had been detailed on this mission which had led to the discovery of the secret heliographs so busily sending messages to the enemy across the North Sea? ❋ George Durston (N/A)
Taking the sunbeam for its pencil, it heliographs man's own image, and the scenery of the earth and the heavens. ❋ Various (N/A)
The flashes came like the flicking of heliographs signalling messages by a Morse code of death. ❋ Philip Gibbs (1919)
Mr. Hennage's three gold teeth flashed like heliographs. ❋ Unknown (1918)
But to-day Rumania is thrilling to the great news, and when Allied bayonets begin flashing south of the Danube these heliographs of liberty will light a flame of revolt which second-rate German divisions will be unable to stamp out. ❋ Unknown (1902)
The day was cool and cloudy; fair shelling weather, but bad for heliographs. ❋ Henry W. Nevinson (1900)
