All 50 Uses
invincible
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The Hunt for Red October
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- On the other hand, HMS Invincible was just over here for the NATO exercise, sailed from Norfolk Monday night.†
Chpt 6. *
- We could use Invincible, the four escorts, and the three attack boats.†
Chpt 6.
- Admiral, you want the Invincible?†
Chpt 6.
- So, you fly out to Kennedy tonight, then on to Invincible.†
Chpt 6.
- Ryan, you said you're flying out to Invincible.†
Chpt 7.
- Well, Invincible just turned around.†
Chpt 7.
- We'll also call Invincible and have them send a bird back to ferry you out, Ryan.†
Chpt 7.
- Then I get orders to ferry a VIP from Kennedy to Invincible.†
Chpt 7.
- How far to Invincible?†
Chpt 7.
- The landing on HMS Invincible was different from the COD's arrival on the Kennedy.†
Chpt 7.
- The Invincible was scarcely a half the Kennedy's size.†
Chpt 7.
- The Invincible seemed to be corkscrewing in a following sea.†
Chpt 7.
- Captain Carstairs, Captain Hunter, and Commander Barclay—they are, respectively, Invincible's commanding officer, my fleet operations officer, and my fleet intelligence officer.†
Chpt 7.
- He had been the Invincible's executive officer during the war around the Falklands and had ridden in the violent South Atlantic for endless weeks.†
Chpt 7.
- The Invincible did not rate as such.†
Chpt 7.
- He wants Invincible out on their seaward flank.†
Chpt 7.
- We move Invincible inshore to handle the ASW work.†
Chpt 7.
- "Leaves Invincible kind of naked, though," the CNO, Admiral Foster, noted.†
Chpt 7.
- We'll have a Sentry operating over Invincible at dawn tomorrow, and if you move her inshore we can maintain that round the clock.†
Chpt 7.
- The only thing that bothers me is that Invincible doesn't have all that much ASW capacity.†
Chpt 7.
- THE EIGHTH DAY FRIDAY, 10 DECEMBER HMS Invincible Ryan awoke in the dark.†
Chpt 8.
- The Invincible was moving on the seas, but not as much as before.†
Chpt 8.
- Flag quarters on HMS Invincible were not quite to the standard of those on the Kennedy—but close.†
Chpt 8.
- Ryan wanted to see Invincible's combat information center.†
Chpt 8.
- HMS Invincible was two hundred miles to his east, conducting aggressive ASW patrols, and eight hundred miles east of that force was the Kennedy, hiding under a weather front off the Azores.†
Chpt 9.
- His expected responsibility was the Moskva group, with the Invincible handling the Kirov's.†
Chpt 9.
- The Saratoga's Vikings were not working his area, despite his request, and most of the Orions were working farther out, closer to the Invincible.†
Chpt 9.
- HMS Invincible Ryan was now wearing a Royal Naval uniform.†
Chpt 11.
- The Invincible was off Massachusetts, waiting for the Russian surface force and hunting vigorously after the red subs in the area.†
Chpt 11.
- Invincible's not too far away, though, and I have Pogy out there, too.†
Chpt 12.
- Let's get Pogy and Invincible there for starters, then we figure out how to warn him.†
Chpt 12.
- Next we can get Pogy and Invincible staked out on their path.†
Chpt 12.
- What we can do is pretend to release Invincible.†
Chpt 12.
- We put Invincible to seaward of their surface groups as though she's heading home and interpose her on October's course.†
Chpt 12.
- For the moment, are we agreed to position Invincible and Pogy for the intercept?†
Chpt 12.
- The Invincible "How far is she from us?"†
Chpt 12.
- The Invincible would have to make the rendezvous in daylight, and there was not time for that.†
Chpt 12.
- The Pogy joined formation with the Invincible, standing as sonar sentry twenty miles to her east.†
Chpt 12.
- The Invincible "We timed that rather nicely," Admiral White said.†
Chpt 13.
- I want Invincible between them and the contact.†
Chpt 13.
- The data they developed was transmitted by digital link to the Invincible's command center.†
Chpt 13.
- HMS Invincible.†
Chpt 13.
- The Invincible "Positive sonar contact," said the metal speaker.†
Chpt 13.
- Two submarines, range two miles from Invincible, bearing zero-two-zero.†
Chpt 13.
- Ryan and the four Royal Navy officers who were privy to the mission were on the flag bridge, with the fleet ASW officer in the command center below, as the Invincible steamed slowly north, slightly to the left of the direct course to the contacts.†
Chpt 13.
- The Invincible "Come up, Marko," Barclay urged.†
Chpt 13.
- The starpom was careful to bring her up slowly, and Ramius had her heading directly towards the Invincible.†
Chpt 13.
- The Invincible "Hunter, are you up on your Morse?"†
Chpt 13.
- In the past few hours, while the Invincible had been lying still on the rolling sea, his stomach had really gone bad.†
Chpt 13.
- The Invincible The sky was half-filled with white, fleecy clouds, their undersides gray with the threat of rain.†
Chpt 13.
Definitions:
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(1)
(invincible) impossible to defeat or overcome
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)