The rocket bursts, aimed at the front lines at Samarkhel eight miles to the southeast, were the most threatening sounds of the day.

There was a great 'Ooohh' and 'Aaahh', as the rocket burst, and I picked out Hallam in his bowler hat standing near the old Victorian perambulator.

"But what's going on now is a rocket burst compared to what existed before," said Ed Paschke, a Chicago painter internationally known for his media-influenced imagery drawn from pop culture.

Ahead, Foster stumbled crossing the ground that had been ripped up by the rocket bursts, made it to the ladder, and went up it fast.

A gun stands right in its way, between the wheels of which the shell in the head of the rocket bursts, the gunners fall right and left.

Ganton shouted again as yet another rocket burst.

Thus if a rocket burst is in the direction of the velocity, in the reversed case it is opposite to the velocity.

Incoming mortar rounds exploded in a random pattern around the base camp between the heavier rocket bursts.

The aircraft which we carry, dismantled, are intended to leave their orbiting mother ship with a short rocket burst, slip into the atmosphere of a new planet, and descend.

Moving over to the window, Aleatha saw the human slave, lounging at his post near the carriage house, enjoying the rocket bursts.