Later rooms contain exquisite miniatures obscured by dusty glass, silk gowns, fans, scrolls "in letters like bees or dragon-flies launched across yellowed sheets", and finally the son's last present – a live elephant, hungrily eating its way through the last of the family's wealth.
They also fly, launching themselves into freewheeling, exhilarating excursions through the clouds, high above Seattle.
The fly launches himself jubilantly, spoiling this only with a rueful postscript: "People don't like me being in the house".
(6) Takeoff: these typically involved the decapitated fly launching into the air within one to two frames of the normal video (span of ∼30 60 ms).
Her long purple dress billowing, her braids flying, she launched into a spirited African dance.
Ramjets (which predate turbojets) were used in weapons such as the V1 flying bombs launched at Britain by Germany during the second world war.
It formed the motor of the V1 flying bombs launched by Germany against Britain.Now, a father-and-son team of inventors from Suffolk, in Britain, hopes to revolutionise engine technology with a new design for an ultra-efficient engine.
The Flying Cloud, launched in 1851, made the voyage from New York City to San Francisco in a record 89 days, and the James Baines set the transatlantic sailing record of 12 days 6 h from Boston to Liverpool, Eng.
A 0.6 cm flyer was launched at 2.4 km/s and maintained flight stability.
The fly-half launched a break from deep, sidestepping the Welsh defence and only Nick Scott's deliberate batting down of the scoring pass prevented a try.
Then, as the investigations began and the recriminations flew, he launched the archdiocese on a major school modernization effort.
