"Kilometre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... peco : piece. velo : sail. sumo : sum. drapo : cloth. inko : ink. ovo : egg. najbaro : neighbour. kilometro : kilometre. mezuro : measure, bordo : shore. sufer- : suffer. amaso : crowd. signif- : mean, signify. auxtuno : autumn. nigra : black. turo : tower. plena : full. cxevalo ...
— The Esperanto Teacher - A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians • Helen Fryer
... his early flights, and, on 13th January, 1908, at the flying ground at Issy, in France, he won the prize of L2000, offered by MM. Deutsch and Archdeacon to the first aviator who flew a circular kilometre. In July of the same year he won another substantial prize given by a French engineer, M. Armengaud, to the first pilot who remained aloft for a quarter of ...
— The Mastery of the Air • William J. Claxton
... announce a series of German depredations across the border into the ten kilometer strip of country between it and the French armies. It is reported that German foragers are infesting this strip, carrying off everything of value. Yesterday morning the papers printed the first "war story," which recounts how a patrol of Uhlans penetrating some ten kilometers into French ...
— The Note-Book of an Attache - Seven Months in the War Zone • Eric Fisher Wood
... of occupation. The occupation of these territories will be carried out by allied and United States garrisons holding the principal crossings of the Rhine (Mayence, Coblenz, Cologne), together with the bridgeheads at these points of a thirty-kilometer radius on the right bank and by garrisons similarly holding the strategic points of the regions. A neutral zone shall be reserved on the right bank of the Rhine between the stream and a line drawn parallel to the bridgeheads and to ...
— World's War Events, Volume III • Various |
