Chapter
1 II | motive.~Impey Barbicane was a man of forty years of age, calm,
2 II | that, in order to judge a man’s character one must look
3 III | playbill. Being a sensible man, he bowed to the public
4 VII | the stars and the planets, man has called the cannon-ball
5 X | the opposition of that one man than he did the applause
6 X | consequences. This rival was a man of science, like Barbicane
7 X | hints of cowardice; that a man who refused to fire a cannon-shot
8 XV | of producing. No, it was man alone who had produced these
9 XVIII | of the Atlanta.~He was a man of about forty-two years
10 XVIII | Barbicane looked hard at this man who spoke so lightly of
11 XIX | neither an orator nor a man of science, and I had no
12 XIX | simply the law of progress. Man began by walking on all-fours;
13 XIX | sadly embarrass a poor man like myself; still I will
14 XX | He was a little dried-up man, of an active figure, with
15 XX | and a really scientific man might be puzzled to answer
16 XX | squirrel?”~“But, unhappy man, the dreadful recoil will
17 XXI | prevent his duel; and one man alone has enough influence
18 XXI | Barbicane to stop him, and that man is Michel Ardan.”~While
19 XXI | saying, “Have you seen a man go into the wood, armed
20 XXI | Maston, discouraged. “A man like Barbicane would not
21 XXI | repeated Michel Ardan.~“Yes; a man! He seems motionless. His
22 XXI | expected to find a bloodthirsty man, happy in his revenge.~On
23 XXI | You are indeed a brave man.”~He turned. Michel Ardan
24 XXI | The motionless figure of a man leaning against a gigantic
25 XXII | have intoxicated any other man; but he managed to keep
26 XXII | mysterious influence upon man.”~“But the how and the wherefore?”
27 XXII | annoyances incidental to a man of celebrity. Managers of
28 XXVII | was a fatality! But since man had chosen so to disturb
29 XXVIII| that? There was only one man who would not admit that
30 XXVIII| disc, and really the worthy man remained in perpetual communication
31 I | home; I am a domesticated man and strong in housekeeping.
32 I | That Nicholl is not a man,” exclaimed Michel; “he
33 I | Nicholl. I see that you are a man of method, which I could
34 II | blind; he was a drunken man.~“Bur-r!” said he. “It produces
35 II | the chest of the wounded man.~“Yes,” replied Ardan, “
36 II | Ardan, “he breathes like a man who has some notion of that
37 II | Nicholl, as an economical man, put out the gas, now useless,
38 III | earth on which the eye of man has never yet rested.~“I
39 IV | captain, as a practical man equal to all difficulties,
40 V | Thousands of years before man appeared on earth.”~“And
41 VI | Do speak plainly, you man of algebra!”~“Very well,
42 IX | interplanetary space. The man of science thought he had
43 XI | for woman, the left for man.”~In speaking thus, Michel
44 XI | the “Sea of Storms,” where man is ever fighting against
45 XI | humors— does the life of man contain aught but these?
46 XI | joined to one another like man and woman, and forming that
47 XII | been dug by the hand of man.~“For what purpose?” asked
48 XIII | work betrayed the hand of man; not a ruin marked his course;
49 XIII | up to this time, not a man, not an animal, not a tree!
50 XIII | the most piercing eye a man cannot be distinguished
51 XIV | the Arabic legends call “a man already half granite, and
52 XIV | star created by the hand of man. From a natural cause, these
53 XV | mysterious disc which the eye of man now saw for the first time.
54 XVIII | nature, never the work of man. If, then, there exist representatives
55 XX | Susquehanna, as brave a man as need be, and the humble
56 XX | letters!” continued the young man quickly. “The postal administration
57 XXI | Maston. The unfortunate man, imprudently leaning over
58 XXII | T. Maston. And the poor man called loudly upon Nicholl,
59 XXII | what stress the worthy man had laid on the verb “float!”
60 Not | note that Heinlein’s >“The Man Who Sold the Moon” borrows
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