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1 I | colonels, and generals, without having ever passed the School of
2 I | that was the condition of having designed, or (more or less)
3 I | become a general without having served first as an ensign;
4 I | can’t point a gun without having first cast it oneself!”~“
5 II | personage of the middle height, having, by a rare exception in
6 II | the meeting.~Barbicane, having by a rapid movement firmly
7 II | David Fabricius boasted of having seen with his own eyes the
8 II | related how Sir John Herschel, having been despatched to the Cape
9 VII | J. T. Maston. Permission having been granted, “Gentlemen,”
10 VIII | committee separated, after having fixed their third meeting
11 IX | powder, without the latter having time to ignite.”~“Perfect!”
12 X | projectiles themselves, after having been armor-clad against
13 X | break it. Barbicane, peace having been declared, declined
14 XI | contended for the honor of having given birth to a Homer,
15 XI | returned the Tribune; “after having been Spaniards or English
16 XII | so now they paid after having had their laugh, and they
17 XIII | after starting, the Tampico, having made four hundred and eighty
18 XIV | The nature of the soil having been carefully examined,
19 XVIII | October, bound for Tampa Town, having on board a Frenchman borne
20 XVIII | that Michel Ardan, after having shaken hands some thousands
21 XVIII | to the president, after having suggested to the visitors
22 XIX | perfection, is the mere trifle of having an axis of rotation less
23 XX | hero of the meeting. After having put his question he remained
24 XX | replied Nicholl.~These words having been coldly spoken, the
25 XXI | off at once; the captain having discharged his rifle threw
26 XXII | said he to Barbicane, after having dismissed the deputation
27 XXII | travelers. Barbicane, pained at having to refuse him, gave him
28 XXII | exhibiting no signs whatever of having made an aerial expedition.
29 XXIII | provisions for eight days. And having shaken hands with his friends,
30 XXV | Columbiad; but the president, having surprised him with an enormous
31 XXVII | succeeded, the travelers having started on the 1st of December,
32 XXVIII| at 8:47 P.M., the moon having entered her last quarter.~
33 XXVIII| promoter of the enterprise, having consulted the astronomers
34 II | floating in space, and after having nearly stifled, we shall
35 II | it passes generally for having only one; but this second
36 III | lunar attraction (after having passed the point of neutral
37 VI | in a burning state after having struck the metal plate;
38 VIII | earth. At this point, a body having no principle of speed or
39 VIII | this point without speed, having lost all trace of weight,
40 VIII | in the morning, Nicholl having accidentally let a glass
41 VIII | They were like drunken men having no stability in themselves.~
42 IX | fall.~The three friends, having nothing better to do, continued
43 X | two leagues, and objects having a diameter of thirty feet
44 XIII | inferior to them.~The moon having no atmosphere, the consequences
45 XIV | preoccupied Barbicane. Why, having passed within such a short
46 XIV | economizing, Barbicane, after having begged light from the gas,
47 XVI | the south pole.”~“After having passed the north pole,”
48 XVIII | projectile of the Gun Club, after having founded their argument on
49 XVIII | replied Barbicane, “after having doubtless remained persistently
50 XIX | earth was but a day old, having been new the night before
51 XIX | of mechanical reasoning. Having admitted that the projectile
52 XIX | chance on our side, and after having so much despaired, I may
53 XX | and turned in, not without having complimented his servant
54 XXI | arrived at San Francisco, having killed five horses on the
55 XXII | cannot be described, and having an electrical communication
56 XXII | lightness, the projectile, after having been drawn by its fall to
57 XXIII | leave the Union without having seen Barbicane, Nicholl,
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