Chapter

 1 II    |      could not. It was fully ten minutes before he could make himself
 2 VIII  |          such a mighty mass. The minutes of the second meeting were
 3 VIII  |         here adjourned for a few minutes to tea and sandwiches.~On
 4 VIII  |    rounds at intervals of twenty minutes without injury.”~“Cast iron
 5 IX    |      plunging cotton for fifteen minutes in nitric acid, then washing
 6 XV    |          from the engineer. Some minutes before midday the first
 7 XV    |       kept in abeyance for a few minutes in order to facilitate the
 8 XVIII |          telegraph office. A few minutes later a telegram was dispatched
 9 XXI   |   clothes; and, in less than two minutes, the two friends were making
10 XXII  |   quickly dragged on board. Five minutes did not elapse between the
11 XXVIII|     ninety-seven hours, thirteen minutes, and twenty seconds. Consequently,
12 I     |                CHAPTER I~ TWENTY MINUTES PAST TEN TO FORTY-SEVEN
13 I     |          PAST TEN TO FORTY-SEVEN MINUTES PAST TEN P. M.~As ten o’
14 I     |        chronometer marked twenty minutes past ten P.M. when the three
15 I     |           said he, “it is twenty minutes past ten. At forty-seven
16 I     |         past ten. At forty-seven minutes past ten Murchison will
17 I     |          still have twenty-seven minutes to remain on the earth.”~“
18 I     |          the earth.”~“Twenty-six minutes thirteen seconds,” replied
19 I     |        may be done in twenty-six minutes. The gravest questions of
20 I     |          even solved. Twenty-six minutes well employed are worth
21 I     |          that we have twenty-six minutes left,” replied Ardan.~“Twenty-four
22 I     |         said Ardan; “twenty-four minutes in which to investigate——”~“
23 I     |         sound before twenty-four minutes are over.”~“Twenty,” said
24 I     |   captain. “We’ve still thirteen minutes and a half.”~“That Nicholl
25 I     |   replied Nicholl. “Thirty-seven minutes six seconds past ten.”~“
26 I     |      understand you.”~“Forty-two minutes past ten!” said Nicholl.~“
27 I     |         said Nicholl.~“Only five minutes more!” answered Barbicane.~“
28 I     |     Barbicane.~“Yes, five little minutes!” replied Michel Ardan; “
29 I     |        of the disc.~“Forty-seven minutes past ten!” murmured the
30 II    |         corpses into space?~Some minutes after the departure of the
31 II    |          to me. It is fifty-five minutes past ten; we have been gone
32 II    |       have been gone about eight minutes; and if our initiatory speed
33 II    |        in three hours and twenty minutes, which implies a wonderful
34 II    |          and it is only thirteen minutes since we left the American
35 II    |       continent.”~“Only thirteen minutes?” said Barbicane.~“Yes,”
36 III   |      calculator, looked over the minutes of their passage, and worked
37 IV    |      asked Barbicane, after some minutes’ silence.~“Well!” replied
38 V     |   understand how, after thirteen minutes only, we met the second
39 VI    |        over five hours and forty minutes, half of that assigned to
40 VIII  |         swoon, which lasted some minutes, the captain, recovering
41 VIII  |        upon the earth after some minutes.”~“That is a strong remark.”~“
42 IX    |      ninety-seven hours thirteen minutes and twenty seconds; which
43 IX    |         of December, at thirteen minutes and twenty-five seconds
44 XIV   |     prepared the repast in a few minutes. But they ate for eating’
45 XV    |        and must reach it in some minutes. As it approached it grew
46 XV    |      themselves up for lost.~Two minutes after the sudden appearance
47 XVI   |          vapor.~About forty-five minutes past five in the evening,
48 XVII  |       replied Michel Ardan.~Some minutes after passing Newton, the
49 XIX   |        determine its fall.~“Five minutes to one,” said Nicholl.~“
50 XX    |         moment (it was seventeen minutes past one in the morning)
51 XXI   |        December, at twenty-seven minutes past one at night, she entered
52 XXI   |          other at the door.~Some minutes later a fourfold telegram
53 XXI   |        of December, at seventeen minutes past one in the morning,
54 XXI   |      Commander Susquehanna.~Five minutes afterward the whole town
55 XXII  | Susquehanna was found to be some minutes westward of the spot where
56 XXII  |      exact point.~At forty-seven minutes past twelve they reached
57 XXII  |     descent began at twenty-five minutes past one at night, and the
58 XXII  |          was rapid. At seventeen minutes past two, J. T. Maston and
59 XXII  |       The corvette advanced some minutes to westward, and the apparatus,