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1 III | There are some cannoneers nearly as noisy as their own guns.~
2 V | astronomers have reckoned up nearly 5,000.~Among these 5,000
3 VI | apogee, and approaches most nearly to it at its perigee.~Such
4 XI | Florida, dividing it into two nearly equal portions. Then, plunging
5 XII | to the estimates, absorb nearly the whole. Certain cannon-shots
6 XV | these furnaces contained nearly 140,000 pounds weight of
7 XVI | un-American.” There was very nearly a riot round Stones Hill;
8 XVI | enabled the Gun Club to pocket nearly five hundred thousand dollars!~
9 XVIII | the poop, and it pretty nearly required the capstan to
10 XIX | than the midday sun, and nearly as ruddy. Ardan mounted
11 XIX | energy of his movements, he nearly fell from the platform to
12 XXII | which actually does contain nearly two hundred millions? Why,
13 XXIII | nitrogen. The air expired loses nearly five per cent. of the former
14 XXIII | the former and contains nearly an equal volume of carbonic
15 XXIV | an object-glass weighing nearly 30,000 pounds, above the
16 XXVII | change! J. T. Maston went nearly mad, and great fears were
17 XXVIII| subscription, which realized nearly L1,200,000, they began the
18 II | space, and after having nearly stifled, we shall have to
19 II | this portentous globe which nearly struck us?”~“I know,” replied
20 VI | had already accomplished nearly seven-tenths of the way.
21 XI | the surface of the moon. Nearly all oblong or circular,
22 XIV | fifty-four hours and a half, nearly fifteen days, which the
23 XV | satisfied tone.~“It is very nearly,” continued Nicholl, “the
24 XX | Susquehanna was kept up until nearly one in the morning. We cannot
25 XXI | which had more than once nearly cost him his life, had not
26 XXII | must have failed! Immersed nearly four miles under the ocean,
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