Chapter
1 II | My brave, colleagues, too long already a paralyzing peace
2 II | This project, the result of long elaboration, is the object
3 IV | simultaneously, except at long intervals of time. It will
4 V | of these lines. They were long and narrow furrows sunk
5 VI | as to the moon, they had long known all about her. One
6 IX | gun destined to perform long service is not so to our
7 IX | of a cannon half a mile long; for you see 1,600,000 pounds
8 IX | bore will not be more than long enough for the gas to communicate
9 XIII | sight.~The passage was not long. Two days after starting,
10 XIII | water-springs, which will save us long expensive tubings; and we
11 XIII | mistake not, we shall ere long find a suitable spot for
12 XIII | fifteen to eighteen feet long. Maston courageously menaced
13 XIII | 7’ N. lat. and 5@ 7’ W. long. of the meridian of Washington.
14 XV | last earthly deposits. So long before being forwarded to
15 XVI | was at the bottom of that long tube of metal! They were
16 XVII | these two months appeared as long as years! Hitherto the smallest
17 XVIII | developed and firmly fixed upon long legs. Muscular arms, and
18 XIX | matter out. Do you know how long it would take for an express
19 XIX | reckoning that the moon is a long way off from the earth,
20 XXI | replied the bushman.~“Long ago?”~“About an hour.”~“
21 XXIV | diameter and fifteen feet long, it became necessary to
22 XXIV | sent on to the summit of Long’s Peak, in the territory
23 XXVII | wait for telegrams from Long’s Peak. The director of
24 XXVII | clouds which had been so long gathering, and at night
25 XXVIII| the gigantic reflector of Long’s Peak! Here is the note
26 XXVIII| experiment of the Gun Club.~ LONG’S PEAK, December 12.~To
27 XXVIII| When the dispatch from Long’s Peak had once become known,
28 XXVIII| was henceforth the post at Long’s Peak; his horizon, the
29 XXVIII| Columbiad cast in iron, 900 feet long, and run perpendicularly
30 XXVIII| and reached the station of Long’s Peak, where the telescope
31 XXVIII| sent from the station of Long’s Peak by Joseph T. Maston
32 XXVIII| hypothesis of the observers of Long’s Peak could ever be realized,
33 I | bottom of a gun 900 feet long! And under this projectile
34 II | Still, Barbicane was a long time coming to himself,
35 II | than a fugitive crescent!~Long did the three friends look
36 III | lost. They had to hunt a long time before finding him
37 III | shall have time during the long lunar nights to consider
38 IV | repose it will remain so as long as no strange force displaces
39 VI | example, when I have run a long time, when I am swimming,
40 VII | have made a feigned monster long, for in spite of your diver’
41 VII | and do not forget this— as long as we float in space, all
42 VII | already entertained it too long. As to communicating with
43 VII | of a thread 250,000 miles long nothing?”~“As nothing. They
44 VII | Mountains, at the station of Long’s Peak, he was trying to
45 X | the powerful one set up at Long’s Peak, the orb of night,
46 XII | without an equal, those long luminous trains, so dazzling
47 XIII | president, when he noticed long white lines, vividly lighted
48 XIII | radiation of Copernicus not long before; they ran parallel
49 XIII | steep declivities; they were long parallel ramparts, and with
50 XIII | admitted the existence of long lines of fortifications,
51 XIII | circuit is forty-seven miles long and thirty-two broad.~Barbicane
52 XIII | impossible that, before long, the projectile would not
53 XIV | each point of the disc, a long night resulting from the
54 XIV | not even enjoy during its long night any view of the earth
55 XIV | silence of absolute space.~Long did the travelers stand
56 XV | scientific dispute lasted so long that it made Michel very
57 XVII | fortress, overlooking a long rift, which in former days
58 XVIII | no fool!” replied Michel.~Long did the travelers, whom
59 XVIII | actual state of the moon its long nights and long days created
60 XVIII | moon its long nights and long days created differences
61 XIX | AGAINST THE IMPOSSIBLE~For a long time Barbicane and his companions
62 XIX | It was describing a very long ellipse, which would most
63 XIX | opportune ideas.”~And with his long legs stretched out, and
64 XIX | arrived.~The day seemed long. However bold the travelers
65 XX | American coast, following that long peninsula which stretches
66 XX | means of the telescope at Long’s Peak. You know it brings
67 XX | write words three fathoms long, and sentences three miles
68 XX | and sentences three miles long, and then they can send
69 XXI | to the Hon. J. T. Maston, Long’s Peak, Rocky Mountains;
70 XXI | the gigantic reflector of Long’s Peak, and also that it
71 XXI | believed in the observations of Long’s Peak, concluded that the
72 XXI | quickly) for the station on Long’s Peak, in the Rocky Mountains,
73 XXII | they have enough for a long while. But air, air, that
74 XXII | Government of the Union, five long days (five centuries!) elapsed
75 Not | moderate dash and—— long dash I have added surrounding
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