The prisoners—the President, the First Lady, and their son, nine-year-old Billy—their hands tied securely behind their backs, were marched from the ship and across the floor of the canyon to the base of an enormous megacannon.

Consider yourself lucky, but consider your opponent skillful.

In this equipment, Dr. Giesl has tried to produce a true ejector effect in the smokebox and had replaced the conventional blastpipe by seven steam nozzles, directing their exhaust into seven ejector pipes arranged fanwise in the longitudinal axis of the smokebox.

The study of comparative embryology, nevertheless, would lead us to expect to find this germ layer arising by a process of gastrulation.