How To Use Spitfire In A Sentence
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It's not often I meet a spitfire like you, peach.
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Nearly 6,000 enthusiasts flocked to the Aviation Viewing Park to see the show and a fly-past by the RAF's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, featuring a Lancaster bomber and Hurricane and Spitfire fighters.
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Many types of aircraft were replicated in mock-up form including Spitfires, Hurricanes, Wellingtons, Whitleys, and Havocs.
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In a dogfight near Venlo in The Netherlands, his Spitfire was hit but he still shot down a Messerschmitt.
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Her long, striking extensions and shapely arms undoubtedly would catch more eyes in a company with fewer spitfires and soubrettes.
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Its glory days came when Spitfire and Hurricane pilots scrambled to defeat Hitler's Luftwaffe despite overwhelming odds.
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He was well known for his part in Gone with the Wind and had just starred with David Niven in The First of the Few, the story of the Spitfire.
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Less strong than Shephard Neame's flagship Bishop's Finger at 4.7 per cent, Spitfire is a full-bodied, rounded, clean beer with a hoppy flavour which is served at its best just below room temperature.
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He never took into consideration that we had two small children that I was still constantly getting up to during the night… or that our two little spitfires had drained me of most of my energy during the day.
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The Triumph Spitfire is a classic car.
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The featured warbirds were a P - 40 Kittyhawk, a P - 51 Mustang, a Spitfire, a Hudson, a Tiger Moth, a Catalina and a venerable DC - 3 Dakota, of Bully Beef resupply fame.
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In constrast, the Lords Juss, Spitfire, Gouldry Blazsco and Brandoch Daha are great and noble in a way never seen these days, and rarely seen erenow.
INTERVIEW: John C. Wright
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Troublemakers: scapegrace ` wild and unprincipled, 'rakehell ` lewd and dissolute,' scarebabe (- bairn in Scotland), drawblood, flingbrand, blowcoal, makebate (as in ` debate '), stirpassion and stirstrife (why the wildflower loosestrife is accused of this propensity I know not), spitfire and shitefire
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
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And a newspaper clip turned up a Tonelli who plays for the Toronto Spitfires, a wheelchair basketball team.
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‘You chose quite a spitfire of a girl, buddy,’ Gunning observed, facing Samuel with a friendly smile.
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Elphie, the spitfire and inherently self-reliant girl, proves to be one of the most timeless and charming characters to ever be given life.
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In 1936, the Supermarine Spitfire made its maiden flight.
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Tana had a canary yellow 1971 Triumph Spitfire, gleaming with chrome and carnauba wax.
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SEAFURY Aircraft were not on line till much much later, SEAFIRES, which were the navalised version of the Spitfire were but not Till 1942, which means the poxy arsed Fulmar Aircraft were on deck of the British carriers at the time.
Cheeseburger Gothic » A Sweet Jane alt-hist challenge!
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Caelum grabbed the little spitfire out of the air, ‘Look at the wall.’
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The cars smoked round the circuit with a howl that wafted from the far side of the former wartime airfield like a squadron of Spitfires taking off.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were two largely irreconcilable views on whether the Spitfire women should do so.
Spitfire Women of World War II
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You work extremely hard with those 3 spitfires.
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Spitfire was built for the New South Wales Government in Sydney in April 1855 and was armed with a single smooth bore 32 - pounder gun.
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Another was intercepted by a Spitfire near Newhaven and the pilot died when his plane was downed from the blast.
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Twenty Spitfires will take off from the historic airfield, flying in mass formation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our little spitfire has the flaming hair to match.
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After ballasting his ship with silver from the rich Potosi mines, and rifling even the churches, he hastened onward in pursuit of a richly laden galleon nicknamed _Cacafuego_ -- a name discreetly translated _Spitfire_, but which, to repeat a joke that greatly amused Drake's men at the time, it was proposed to change to _Spitsilver_, for when overtaken and captured the vessel yielded 26 tons of silver, 13 chests of pieces of eight, and gold and jewels sufficient to swell the booty to half a million pounds sterling.
A History of Sea Power
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She gives off a powdery aroma of someone pampered and indulged since diaper days; in short, she seems vacuous, and you can't have vacuous spitfires.
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From inside it sounds like a Spitfire with the whine of the gearbox, a resonance through the uncarpeted cockpit and stones rattling like bullets off the underside.
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I can wait for a docile, biddable, beautiful chit who will worship the ground I walk upon, unlike that spitfire of a hoyden.
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The ceremonials were completed with a fly-past by a WWII Bristol Blenheim bomber, a Spitfire and a Mustang, the latter two representing the RAF and Royal Canadian Air Force fighters which flew over the island on the day of its liberation.
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Just before coming abeam the runway threshold I began a continuous finals turn, Spitfire style.
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Although total wastage in Hurricanes and Spitfires approached 3,000, deliveries to the squadrons were in excess of 3,500.
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I for one would certainly not begrudge a few pence more on the price of an abbot (over the costing for a spitfire).
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In the following year he was given the go-ahead to build an all-metal monoplane that would become the Supermarine Spitfire.
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One spring afternoon he invited him to join him flying two of the squadron Spitfires.
FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
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Old double-winged aircraft and Spitfires practice their showstoppers over our valley before annual air shows.
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I had this great view and I was mesmerized by all the boys moshing around, and the one girl who joined them, a little spitfire with bleach blond hair who pounded her chest at one point and howled.
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Brass saw her as a spitfire who wouldn't be intimidated by the big brains of Thacker, Lampson, and Keely, or be cowed by pen computing's checkered history.
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During March, Carolyn Grace taxied her two-seat Spitfire into a Jet Ranger helicopter at Duxford, England.
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After landing, the Spitfire was taxied into a hangar, where it was kept overnight until yesterday when it performed another fly-past.
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And a newspaper clip turned up a Tonelli who plays for the Toronto Spitfires, a wheelchair basketball team.
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Spitfire restorations to airworthy status have notoriously exceeded initial estimates of timing and cost, irrespective of start point condition.
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Someone described her as "the sauciest, daintiest and most determined little spitfire ever to preside at Government House"Reply to this
Gillpolack: I have all sorts of exciting things to r
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Over the years 24 versions were made and the Spitfire doubled in weight, engine power and firepower.
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One that appears around here every year says something like 'Civil Service Motoring Association Promenade Concert and Spitfire flypast', which is almost a portmanteau sign in its own right.
Village of Mystery
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We waved furiously at the passing Spitfire and were rewarded by a marvellous barrel roll, just for us.
Times, Sunday Times
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While Karisma is quiet, patient, and low-keyed, Kareena has fast attained the reputation of being a spitfire who doesn't mince words and does not suffer fools gladly.
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One of my newspaper database searches turned up Jerry Tonelli, star player of the Toronto Spitfires, a wheelchair basketball team.
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It will be remembered by old Spitfire pilots for its boggy runway and dense fog.
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While my sister is getting coffee, I people watch in Jackson Square: A beautiful dark-eyed child in a bright red stroller stares into my eyes, while his parents shout at each other in spitfire Italian between bites of muffuletta sandwiches.
The Memory Palace
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Striking yesterday was the flypast by the Battle of Britain memorial flight: the Lancaster bomber and Spitfires overhead recalling Britain's "finest hour", our solitary defiance of the Nazis in 1940.
The wedding speaks volumes about our fascination with royalty
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I had this great view and I was mesmerized by all the boys moshing around, and the one girl who joined them, a little spitfire with bleach blond hair who pounded her chest at one point and howled.
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As the Spitfire flypast disappeared into the horizon, engines fired into life and the TGP aces flew out of the pit lane to form up the grid.
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More than 20,000 Spitfires were built but the aircraft that carried The Few are now sadly few themselves.
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It shows a steely-eyed fighter pilot climbing into his Spitfire to do battle against the Luftwaffe.
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The crowds at this year's Eldwick and Gilstead Gala were temporarily silenced by the thundering noise of a Spitfire and Hurricane roaring past overhead.
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Spitfire restorations to airworthy status have notoriously exceeded initial estimates of timing and cost, irrespective of start point condition.
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Over the course of the film, she evolves from slightly shy, awkward schoolmarm to a spitfire who can dish it right back to Howard even when he is at his loudest and most obnoxious, and Zellweger hits every note.
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‘Alex is usually a boy's name,’ Erica, a spitfire of a brunette said.
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Spitfire about to alight on Wasp's deck.
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As the war went on and Spitfires appeared in more substantial numbers, the Hurricane took on the fighter-bomber role.
Matthew Yglesias » Government for Sale
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Poor Helen's Dublin glories ended (the second year, I think) in total wreck - drink, quarrel with her fool of a brother, dismissal home or into outer darkness, and adieu of the/spitfire/kind!
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Daniel Irving, however, was the spitfire on the team, constantly hooting and yelling in the intense games just to keep the girls' morale up and stir some sort of reaction from their deadened features.
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‘What a spitfire,’ Dylan laughed and Pat just shook his head.
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The other car deserving of respect was a nice, little, low-slung Triumph Spitfire - I secretly envied the acceleration.
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And a newspaper clip turned up a Tonelli who plays for the Toronto Spitfires, a wheelchair basketball team.
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The Triumph Spitfire is a classic car.
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The girl who grew up around British Naval bases, who once dated a Spitfire pilot and somehow held him enthralled despite being wheelchair bound in a time that was unforgiving to "cripples" (how we wince at the term now), grew up into a writer who understood soldiers and soldiering, empires and subject peoples.
Zornhau: My Eagle of the Ninth
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Its glory days came when Spitfire and Hurricane pilots scrambled to defeat Hitler's Luftwaffe despite overwhelming odds.
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The main requirements for the design of the Spitfire was that it had to have have eight guns and an excellent rate of climb.
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Just before coming abeam the runway threshold I began a continuous finals turn, Spitfire style.
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It will be remembered by old Spitfire pilots for its boggy runway and dense fog.
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As if womanly curves out the wazoo, a spitfire attitude, and sexy as hell accent wasn't enough, she had to go and be queen to the bloodsuckers too.
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"Megan's a pistol, a real spitfire," says Cartwright, who, besides Bart, voices five other male dudes on the decade-old "Simpsons".
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Spitfire restorations to airworthy status have notoriously exceeded initial estimates of timing and cost, irrespective of start point condition.
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It is said the .50 calibre machine gun ammunition belts in Supermarine Spitfires measured exactly 27 feet.
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I'd love to build a model Spitfire with my son.
Times, Sunday Times
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Upon arrival at the docks, the Spitfires were immediately hoisted on to the carrier deck.
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Feranti (Edinburgh) began low-rate production in April 1941, and Spitfire and Hurricane fighters from operational squadrons tested the sights in interceptions of German raids during July and August.
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Its glory days came when Spitfire and Hurricane pilots scrambled to defeat Hitler's Luftwaffe despite overwhelming odds.
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Two of them were real spitfires and were still hissing and spitting madly.
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So if you imagine a Spitfire, the wings join on the bottom of the body and are confluent with the body as well, so it's a smooth surface.
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Becki's character is going to be a spitfire, someone who can give it back to Barney and leave him speechless.
How I Met Your Mother Boss: There Are More Twists and Turns for Robin
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It will reach a peak with a fly-past by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, which includes a Lancaster bomber, a Hurricane and a Spitfire, during the weekend of July 5 and 6.
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Funny that you refuse to get a tatt at your girlfriend's request but seem not to mind the excruciating pain and your fears when the little spitfire in your arms asks you to.
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Throughout the sale, pints of Spitfire bitter, bottles of Budweiser, glasses of red or white wine and glasses of Famous Grouse Whisky will cost just 99p each.
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Derek shut his eyes, adopted a plummier version of a Scouse accent and claimed to be a spitfire pilot.
The Guardian World News
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Its two 3,000 horsepower engines have the combined power of six Spitfires.
Times, Sunday Times
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Six squadrons of Spitfires and Hurricanes are scrambled.
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Two of them were real spitfires and were still hissing and spitting madly.
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So… who wants to ride with a scowling spitfire?
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People seem to love the little girl, Georgie Henley, but for me, she doesn't hold up to comparisons to former kid spitfires like Mara Wilson, Quinn Cummings, or God knows, Ms. Fanning.
