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  1    1,    1|         breathing; it measured ten feet in length, and weighed more
  2    1,    4|        throw myself at the Queen’s feet, and we shall see if she
  3    1,    6|         topgallant mast, a hundred feet above in the air. Mary involuntarily
  4    1,    6|         fullest extent, about four feet, and began gazing at the
  5    1,    8|           a height.”~“It is 11,000 feet, though, above the level
  6    1,    8|       volcanic rocks three hundred feet high. The appearance of
  7    1,    9|      Patagonia, which means ‘great feet’ in Spanish, would not have
  8    1,    9|       declare that they are eleven feet high.”~“These are all credible
  9    1,    9|            the Patagonians are six feet six inches tall.”~“But what
 10    1,    9|         that these natives are six feet high when they are sitting,
 11    1,    9|           eternal snows, and their feet hid in immense forests.
 12    1,    9|   southwest, Mount Tarn rose 6,500 feet high. Night came~V. IV Verne
 13    1,    9|      towering to a height of 6,000 feet, an enormous accumulation
 14    1,   10|          streets, beneath the lazy feet of the citizens, and all
 15    1,   10|  involuntarily, they rose to their feet and grasped his hands, while
 16    1,   11|           well enough, keeping his feet fast in the stirrups, and
 17    1,   11|        spurs of his master’s naked feet. It was absolutely impossible
 18    1,   12|        CHAPTER XII ELEVEN THOUSAND FEET ALOFT~NOTHING of importance
 19    1,   12|        twelve thousand six hundred feet. Fortunately the weather
 20    1,   12|          tried the ground with his feet. His companions followed
 21    1,   12|         air seven or eight hundred feet above their heads.~They
 22    1,   12|       grasses and cacti. At 11,000 feet all trace of vegetation
 23    1,   13|        form was that of a cube, 12 feet on each side, and it stood
 24    1,   13|          to an elevation of 11,000 feet, only 910 meters lower than
 25    1,   13|        crash made him start to his feet. A deafening noise fell
 26    1,   13|       himself up, and stood on his feet, stunned by the shock, but
 27    1,   14|         garments torn to rags, and feet and hands bleeding. For
 28    1,   14|         measured more than fifteen feet, and his powerful wings
 29    1,   14|        least one hundred and fifty feet in the air. He had caught
 30    1,   14|            bird, now three hundred feet above him in the air.~But
 31    1,   14|       moment, as he started to his feet and exclaimed:~“He is alive!
 32    1,   15|          long gun was lying at his feet.~He had broad shoulders,
 33    1,   15|            thongs. He was over six feet in height. His bronzed face
 34    1,   15|          Van der Brock, both eight feet high; but he caught up Spanish
 35    1,   16|          the distance of a hundred feet from the animal or enemy
 36    1,   16|           is simply a rope, thirty feet long, made of tightly twisted
 37    1,   17|        wells, and find water a few feet below the surface. But the
 38    1,   17|          and carried lances twenty feet long, knives, slings, bolas,
 39    1,   18|        stunted trees not above ten feet high, and small mimosas,
 40    1,   19|           and made him rise to his feet at once.~“Thaouka scents
 41    1,   19|        alarm, and started to their feet instantly.~“What is it?”
 42    1,   19|           the light—an owl on four feet.”~“Very well, let us defend
 43    1,   19|            throwing himself at the feet of the Patagonian, “friend
 44    1,   21|            Tandil rises a thousand feet above the level of the sea.
 45    1,   21|             brought his two little feet together, and presented
 46    1,   22|           in great sheets at their feet. Before two hours the cataracts
 47    1,   22|            of their depth, and six feet of water would be enough
 48    1,   22|            His master, freeing his feet from the stirrups, began
 49    1,   22|             a monstrous wave forty feet high, broke over the fugitives
 50    1,   23|       measured in height a hundred feet, and covered with its shadow
 51    1,   26|         the sand hills two hundred feet high, which skirt the coast,
 52    1,   26|        slumberers started to their feet and rushed to the shore,
 53    2,    2|            Tristan, seven thousand feet high, is visible at that
 54    2,    2|            conical peak rose 7,000 feet high.~Lord Glenarvan was
 55    2,    5|            Enormous breakers fifty feet high were dashing over it,
 56    2,    6|         coast line sixty to eighty feet high, which it would have
 57    2,    7|            Glenarvan sprang to his feet, and pushing back his seat,
 58    2,    7|           shuttlecock. She had six feet of water in her hold, and
 59    2,    8|          vehicle was a cart twenty feet long, covered over by a
 60    2,    8|          pole in front thirty-five feet long, to which the bullocks
 61    2,   10|           winged creature was five feet high, and his wide, conical,
 62    2,   10|            long, and the lash nine feet, and they move about among
 63    2,   10|    metroside-ros speciosa, fifteen feet high, with long drooping
 64    2,   10|            showed a depth of three feet only, so that the wagon
 65    2,   10|          the two sailors were some feet in advance. Glenarvan and
 66    2,   10|            now rose to the ladies’ feet; the whole concern began
 67    2,   11|         remained on the rails, six feet from the abyss. Below nothing
 68    2,   13|      eucalyptus trees, two hundred feet high, with tough bark five
 69    2,   13|           trunks, measuring twenty feet round, and furrowed with
 70    2,   13|         rose one hundred and fifty feet above the soil. Not a branch,
 71    2,   14|         the hobbles on the horses’ feet.~Paganel was engrossed in
 72    2,   14|       imposing peak towering 7,500 feet high. Long avenues of green
 73    2,   14|            trees,” tall bushes ten feet high, like the dwarf palm,
 74    2,   14|       flying troop was a male five feet high, a magnificent specimen
 75    2,   15|      clouds at the height of 4,000 feet.~The cloudy sky only allowed
 76    2,   15|          soil gave way under their feet. The route was indefinitely
 77    2,   15|            with little shrubs four feet high, with bright red leaves
 78    2,   15|           of the pass, about 2,000 feet high. They found themselves
 79    2,   15|        full flower measured thirty feet in height. Horses and riders
 80    2,   15|           replied, disengaging his feet from the stirrups.~“What!
 81    2,   16|         was seen above two hundred feet high in the air. Not a bird
 82    2,   18|       Mulrady was brought out. His feet, by way of extra precaution,
 83    3,    3|            are submerged but a few feet below the water.”~“In that
 84    3,    6|        rose a mountain about 2,300 feet high, whose sharply defined
 85    3,    8|            known to have risen six feet in twenty years. Fire still
 86    3,    9|             It was a canoe seventy feet long, five broad, and three
 87    3,    9|     powerfully developed hands and feet. His prominent and deeply-furrowed
 88    3,    9|   savage-looking dogs lay at their feet. The eight rowers in the
 89    3,    9|        this long canoe, with their feet tied together, sat ten European
 90    3,   10|         lake of Taupo, lying 1,250 feet above the level of the sea,
 91    3,   10|    amphitheater of mountains 2,400 feet high. On the west are rocky
 92    3,   10|     fortress. The prisoners, whose feet and hands were liberated,
 93    3,   10|          strong palisades, fifteen feet high; a second line of stakes;
 94    3,   10|           mound elevated a hundred feet above it, which formed the
 95    3,   10|          and Kara-Tete fell at his feet.~The sound brought a crowd
 96    3,   11|          his stand on a mound some feet above the level, in the
 97    3,   11|          an elevation of about 800 feet, on the summit of Maunganamu,
 98    3,   12|     Kara-Tete when he fell at your feet. My Lord, whichever of us
 99    3,   12|            over an abyss a hundred feet deep. On that side descent
100    3,   12|           what was going on twenty feet off.~The soil was light
101    3,   12|           hour they had gone three feet deep; they perceived by
102    3,   12|            I had only to bore some feet in soft earth, and here
103    3,   12|       difficult, except the twenty feet of perpendicular fall outside
104    3,   12|            reached a height of 500 feet above Lake Taupo, and the
105    3,   12|          fog, which, spread at his feet, prevented any distinct
106    3,   12|         mist, and at three hundred feet below they perceived the
107    3,   13|       mountain was still a hundred feet above them. The fugitives
108    3,   13|            Robert was right. Fifty feet above, at the extreme peak
109    3,   13|   horse-power should lie under our feet unavailable for our needs.
110    3,   13|           whistling sound rose six feet above the ground.~The steward
111    3,   13|       thick darkness. Five hundred feet below they could hear the
112    3,   13|            the native lines, fifty feet above the camp.~All went
113    3,   14|      avenging flames are under our feet. Let us open a way for them!”~“
114    3,   14|           mountain. At two hundred feet below the summit, John Mangles
115    3,   14|           was scarcely twenty-five feet from the plateau, where
116    3,   14|           to be within two hundred feet. Suddenly he stopped; almost
117    3,   15|         mountain, which rose 3,000 feet high, and then was lost
118    3,   15|          kauris measured a hundred feet high, before the ramification
119    3,   15|    canopies in the air two hundred feet from the ground.~Some of
120    3,   15|            must have been eighteen feet high. They were huge ostriches,
121    3,   15|         five thousand five hundred feet into the air. At this point
122    3,   15|          left to a height of 3,700 feet, the journey was very trying;
123    3,   15| stifling-creeper,” that caught the feet at every step. For two days,
124    3,   16|          the forecastle. There his feet got entangled in a coil
125    3,   18|            Glenarvan spring to his feet, crying out: “You, Paganel!
126    3,   21|         had been tattooed from the feet to the shoulders, and he