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1501 XV | asteroids in their turn, some flaming like a sword, some surrounded
1502 XIII | pelicans and teal, while tall flamingos stared stupidly at the party.~
1503 XVII | interior and exterior sloping flanks rose in stories like gigantic
1504 XVI | glory of the moon. In that flash, continents, seas, and forests
1505 XVIII | being exist? This telegram flashed across the depths of the
1506 III | Diana, come here.”~Diana, flattered or not, advanced by degrees,
1507 IX | inopportunely. To face it without flinching, one must be a resolute
1508 XIII | extend beyond reach of sight, flinging their riches broadcast with
1509 XIII | in which the projectile floated no fluid interposed itself
1510 IX | orb of night on the other, flooded the projectile with light.~
1511 XXII | animated by either fauna or flora. By the light of their lamps,
1512 XIII | the northern and tropical floras, terminating in prairies
1513 II | signed it with the usual flourish, [1] and gave it to the
1514 XVI | richest wines of France flowed in profusion during this
1515 VI | in consequence of certain fluctuations of north and south, and
1516 IX | repress his emotion; he flung himself into the arms of
1517 IX | Inside, these guns were flush with the bottom; outside,
1518 XVII | To him this Tycho was a focus of light, a center of irradiation,
1519 XIX | out, and his great arms folded under his head, Michel slept
1520 XXII | which he was particularly fond. They were desirous, however,
1521 XVIII | mountains.”~“That Nasmyth was no fool!” replied Michel.~Long did
1522 XV | Barbicane and Nicholl could not forbear smiling. They had just been
1523 XIII | therefore, and were compelled to ford several rivers, not without
1524 XXI | was oppressed by sinister forebodings. He looked fiercely at Nicholl,
1525 XX | half-dressed, and rushing on to the forecastle-deck, whither all the officers
1526 I | gunnery for the benefit of foreigners?”~“That would be better
1527 XXVIII| be realized, that which foresaw the case of the travelers (
1528 XXIII | American temperament to foresee everything in business,
1529 XVII | all shadows disappear, the foreshortening of perspective disappears,
1530 XX | moment one of the men at the forewheel, who was superintending
1531 XII | condition under penalty of a forfeit of one hundred dollars a
1532 IV | Barbicane, “can you use a forge without a hammer, or a plow
1533 X | at Baltimore, the other forged day and night at Philadelphia.
1534 X | shot, Nicholl was a great forger of plates; the one cast
1535 XXI | cause for alarm. When one forgets one’s anger in mechanics
1536 II | without speaking. So much formality under such circumstances
1537 V | at Melville Island and Fort Reliance, that is 76@ Fahrenheit
1538 X | the Gun Club will not be forthcoming.~No. 2 ($2,000).— That the
1539 XXV | said the captain, who forthwith paid President Barbicane
1540 XI | it is simply studded with forts raised against the roving
1541 X | attempt had miscarried by a fortuitous circumstance; and unless
1542 XVI | condensation of vapor.~About forty-five minutes past five in the
1543 I | projectile for a hundred and forty-four hours, or six days and six
1544 XVII | temple, here the ground of a forum, on this spot the plan of
1545 XXIII | Cuvier did the skeleton of a fossil, and say, “The moon was
1546 XXVII | of Herschel, Rosse, and Foucault, were constantly directed
1547 XXVII | CHAPTER XXVII~ FOUL WEATHER~At the moment when
1548 XXIII | Will they ever lay the foundation of a traveling service through
1549 XXVI | enclosure, and laid the foundations for a town which was afterward
1550 X | if Barbicane was a great founder of shot, Nicholl was a great
1551 XX | the Susquehanna would have foundered with all on board!~At this
1552 VI | terrestrial atmosphere absorbs four-tenths of the solar heat; besides,
1553 XXI | door.~Some minutes later a fourfold telegram was sent out—the
1554 IX | gunpowder was invented in the fourteenth century by the monk Schwartz,
1555 XXV | also three rifles and three fowling-pieces, and a large quantity of
1556 XXII | pressure, they were exposed to fracture, the consequences of which
1557 X | the horizon, would have framed the moon in the mouth of
1558 XXIII | judge commissioner, and Francis Drayton, magistrate, were
1559 XXII | transplanting a race of Franco-Americans upon the surface of the
1560 XXI | over between you, accept frankly the proposal I am going
1561 VII | Then they struck up a frantic dance, with maniacal gestures,
1562 XXVI | free-and-easy way. Louisiana Creoles fraternized with farmers from Indiana;
1563 X | regarded the experiment as fraught with extreme danger, both
1564 XVIII | sometimes invents in the freak of a moment, and of which
1565 XXVI | elbowed each other in the most free-and-easy way. Louisiana Creoles fraternized
1566 XIX | elapse before its crescent, freed from the solar rays, would
1567 XXI | been amusing himself with freeing oppressed birds, he must
1568 XIV | Ardan, “it is cold enough to freeze a white bear.”~Barbicane
1569 XV | It appeared preferable to freight vessels at New York, and
1570 XXVII | in general, woke up with frenzied cries. “Hurrah for Ardan!
1571 XX | rapid in nature, and of frequent recurrence, they attributed
1572 II | distinctly perceived caverns frequented by hippopotami, green mountains
1573 VII | among which n^2 and x^2 frequently appeared, he presently said:~“
1574 III | Preserved vegetables (“fresher than nature,” said the amiable
1575 XIII | reflection of a sheet of steel freshly polished. These colors belonged
1576 XXVI | victualing powers of Florida, fricasseed frogs, stuffed monkey, fish
1577 I | encouragement from Sherman or a friendly shake of the hand from McClellan.
1578 XVIII | parted on terms of intimate friendship.~
1579 VIII | doors. Timid people took fright at the idea of a shot weighing
1580 XIII | but he only succeeded in frightening some pelicans and teal,
1581 XXV | of the disc, to the Mare frigoris of the North Pole.~They
1582 XXVI | light-colored stockings, cambric frills, were all here displayed;
1583 XX | why I should continue so frivolous a discussion! Please yourself
1584 XVIII | crowd, he bustled to and fro, never still for a moment, “
1585 XXVI | powers of Florida, fricasseed frogs, stuffed monkey, fish chowder,
1586 XVIII | during this discussion, fruitful in somewhat hazardous theories,
1587 XI | breezes of love; “The Sea of Fruitfulness;” “The Sea of Crises;” then
1588 XIII | vines, whose blossoms and fruits rivaled each other in color
1589 II | was nothing more than a fugitive crescent!~Long did the three
1590 XXV | before leaving the earth to fulfill all his engagements.~“Now,”
1591 V | would have been successively fulfilled before his eyes. In fact,
1592 XXI | imagine the impatience of the fuming J. T. Maston and his not
1593 XV | little for Michel Ardan’s fun. They were deep in a scientific
1594 III | chief cook, an important function, which raised no rival.
1595 XXII | savants had forgotten this fundamental law, namely, that on account
1596 X | experiment.~Nicholl, now furious, offered to expose his plate
1597 X | Gun Club. He attacked it furiously on every opportunity, and
1598 XIII | that they were a kind of furrow found on every part of the
1599 VII | the tenacity of iron, the fusibility of copper, the lightness
1600 I | cordially,~IMPEY BARBICANE, P.G.C.~
1601 XXVI | traveler’s costume, leathern gaiters on his legs, pouch by his
1602 V | determined with exactitude. Galileo explained the phenomena
1603 XXII | sometimes during the full moon. Gall observed that insane persons
1604 IV | in my country. It is very Gallic; they play the cock so in
1605 III | which consisted of fifty gallons, there was only enough for
1606 XIV | hands of the excavators. The gangs relieved each other every
1607 II | occasion. Then a circular gap appeared, nineteen inches
1608 VII | gazed into the crater’s gaping abysses, and followed the
1609 II | wreaths of projectiles, garlands of howitzers— in short,
1610 I | well-manured fields, all mourning garments were laid aside, together
1611 VIII | unbearable to the eye. From the gas-burner which he lit rose a flame
1612 XV | What! will you not open the gates of the enclosure to all
1613 XIX | embarrassment; he was just as gay, familiar, and pleasant
1614 XII | like enormous dazzling gems. Toward the north the escarpments
1615 XII | enterprise.~Turkey behaved generously; but she had a personal
1616 XII | Berlin, Mendelssohn.~At Geneva, Lombard, Odier and Co.~
1617 II | add that some practical geniuses have attempted to establish
1618 III | disputed, applauded, from the gentleman lounging upon the barroom
1619 III | Science and Art of Albany, the Geographical and Statistical Society
1620 XI | considering things more geographically. They were learning this
1621 XIII | set to work to study the geography of Florida. Never before
1622 VI | reconnoiter her topographically or geologically.~Thus the time passed in
1623 II | mathematical science, astronomy, geology, and optics can learn about
1624 II | were to describe enormous geometric figures, drawn in characters
1625 XXI | pencil in hand, was tracing geometrical figures in a memorandum
1626 XXIII | and Florida, going up by Georgia and the Carolinas, visiting
1627 XII | scientific experiments.~The Germanic Confederation pledged itself
1628 XVI | himself. Whether he shouted or gesticulated, ate or drank most, would
1629 XVIII | anchors,” as the sailors say, gesticulating, making free with everybody,
1630 XXII | of all others subject to giddiness, would endure this experimental
1631 III | a crowd drunk with joy, gin, and whisky. Every one chattered,
1632 XIII | miles from the mountain of Gioja, a distance reduced by the
1633 XX | mysterious interlocutor, who glared fiercely round upon the
1634 XX | front row with crossed arms, glaring at President Barbicane.~
1635 XIV | sun; by night, under the gleam of the electric light. The
1636 XX | evident pleasure. His face gleamed with delight. Several times
1637 XVIII | saturated with luminous gleams in the double irradiation
1638 XV | when they are heated by gliding over the atmospheric layers.
1639 VI | tempered only by that “pale glimmer which falls upon it from
1640 IX | This powder was hard and glittering, left no trace upon the
1641 VI | that produced by 16,000 globes of coal, each equal in bulk
1642 XV | saturated with oxygen the glowing plates. The operation, to
1643 XXII | forgot themselves, and, glued to the windows of the scuttles,
1644 VIII | hours before, he felt a gnawing hunger, as if he had not
1645 VII | when it shall reach its goal.”~“What?” shouted the general
1646 XX | figure, with an American “goatee” beard. Profiting by the
1647 XII | 216,000 florins— a perfect godsend.~Fifty-two thousand rix-dollars
1648 II | green mountains bordered by golden lace-work, sheep with horns
1649 II | Earth to the Moon by Domingo Gonzalez,’ a Spanish adventurer.
1650 I | exclaimed Michel Ardan, in a good-humored tone, “much may be done
1651 V | Satellite.”~Immediately a good-sized pie was given to the dog,
1652 III | were no one knew, and the good-tempered fellow did not explain.
1653 II | not started at all.”~“My goodness, captain,” exclaimed Michel
1654 XIX | of the great laws which govern the universe, I confine
1655 XI | Astronomers, we must allow, have graced these pretended seas with
1656 XXVI | as her pale beams shone gracefully in the clear heavens. At
1657 III | encouraging her with most gracious words.~“Come, Diana,” said
1658 V | its own axis during its gradual condensation; then, following
1659 III | sacks of different kinds of grain and shrubs which Michel
1660 III | projectile. There was a sort of granary there, loaded with things
1661 XI | Ignacio on the Web, Rio Grande City on the Starr, Edinburgh
1662 XII | second-rate states by a grant of 513,000 francs— about
1663 XX | is very easy to set up a graphic communication with the earth.”~“
1664 XIV | Italiens.”~Barbicane gravely grasped the hand of his amiable
1665 XXI | silence through the tall grass, cutting themselves a path
1666 XIV | instead of giving us his rays gratuitously.”~“Do not let us accuse
1667 II | his speech in a somewhat graver voice.~“You know,” said
1668 XII | enclosure. Around spread a grayish plain, of a wild aspect,
1669 II | on the shoulder, a mere graze, which he bound up carefully.~
1670 VI | becomes hot. Why do they grease the axles of the wheels?
1671 XXIII | respond worthily to the greatness of the enterprise. Human
1672 XI | s eyes. To him it was a Grecian archipelago that he saw
1673 IV | Nicholl looked over and greedily read the work as it proceeded.~“
1674 III | time, and this substance, greedy of carbonic acid, soon completely
1675 III | chair-men, as well as “greenhorns,” were stirred in their
1676 XIII | hemisphere, and at the bottom of Grimaldi’s circle, on the equator,
1677 XIV | the bursting of mines, the grinding of the machines, the wreaths
1678 VII | replied the general.~“Ah!” groaned J. T. Maston, “if my mortar
1679 XIV | wanting to transmit the groanings of that moon which the Arabic
1680 XXIII | by plates let into solid grooves, which could easily be opened
1681 III | that produced in the famous Grotto del Cane, had collected
1682 II | glare myriads of revolvers grouped in the form of lustres,
1683 I | will receive you.”~“Bah!” growled Bilsby between the four
1684 VII | could no longer contain the growling of his voice.~“I shall speak
1685 XXI | Nicholl to pay off an old grudge.~Nothing is more dreadful
1686 XVI | that operation. Then ensued grumbling, discontent, murmurs; they
1687 Not | space between sentences. >@ degree sign >L for British
1688 XVI | successively before the guests, and the richest wines of
1689 XIII | rigidly submit. They could not guide a balloon, still less a
1690 XI | indented coasts are rich in gulfs and peninsulas. They remind
1691 XXI | was an explosion. All the gunners were assembled. Vice-President
1692 XV | Twelve o’clock struck! A gunshot suddenly pealed forth and
1693 XXI | Maston.~“Have you heard any gunshots?” asked Ardan.~“No!”~“Not
1694 XII | little ringed one called Guy Lussac, the breadth of which
1695 II | This is a purely French habit.~This affair settled, Barbicane
1696 XVIII | so wonderfully formed for habitation must necessarily be inhabited.”~“
1697 XXVI | personage came and went with his habitual business-like air, while
1698 XXII | how many people he was “hail-fellow-well-met” with, it is impossible
1699 XXVI | horizon. Millions of hurrahs hailed her appearance. She was
1700 XX | stream, near a projectile half-buried by its fall amid volcanic
1701 XX | Captain Blomsberry appeared, half-dressed, and rushing on to the forecastle-deck,
1702 XXVIII| December, and the moon, with half-illuminated disc, was plainly to be
1703 XV | three looked through their half-open eyelids upon that asteroid
1704 XXVI | conversed with trappers and the half-savages of the lakes and butchers
1705 XXII | the corvette was under half-steam, as it was regretting to
1706 XXI | twenty feet off appeared, half-veiled by the foliage.~“It is he!”
1707 XXII | native country.~“Singular hallucination!” said he to Barbicane,
1708 III | dazzling disc without a halo, standing out on the dark
1709 XIII | construction of their Columbiad.~“Halt!” said Barbicane, reining
1710 XII | Petersburg, Berlin, Stockholm, Hamburg, Malta, Lisbon, Benares,
1711 IX | disc; every piece, easy to handle, as their weight was now
1712 XXII | and attached ropes to the handles of the shell, which was
1713 XXV | without reason, that the handling of such formidable quantities
1714 XIX | to look upon as our own handmaid. So that is the fate in
1715 VII | Michel; “these meteors are handy postmen, and cost nothing.
1716 XVII | of Tycho, the mountains hanging on to the interior and exterior
1717 II | only add that a certain Hans Pfaal, of Rotterdam, launching
1718 VIII | launched into space, what happens to it? It is acted upon
1719 II | head, calmly continued his harangue:~“There is no one among
1720 XXII | all corners of the Union harassed him without cessation or
1721 XIII | anchored in a small natural harbor, formed by the embouchure
1722 V | of the earth was not yet hardened.”~“Old Barbicane,” said
1723 II | Rub, Nicholl; let us rub harder.” And the two improvised
1724 XVIII | but not an adventurer; a hare-brained fellow, a kind of Icarus,
1725 XIII | what giant oxen they must harness to their plow to cut such
1726 III | Philadelphia and Washington, Harrisburg and Wheeling, which converge
1727 XXIII | even failure, the Honorable Harry Trolloppe, judge commissioner,
1728 XIII | exist on the moon. Hence the harshness of contrasts, which only
1729 Not | SMALL CAPS# are enclosed in hash-marks >$ae $‘e dollar-sign preceeds
1730 XXII | emotion. While they were hastening to help them, what were
1731 XVII | those misanthropes, those haters of humanity might live there,
1732 XXVI | Tennessee gentlemen and haughty Virginians conversed with
1733 I | belonging to the crane being hauled from outside, the mouth
1734 XX | end. Hence it follows, by Hausen’s calculations, that its
1735 XX | submarine cable to connect the Hawaiian Islands with the coast of
1736 XV | the addition of a little hay and straw. The space left
1737 XIX | Michel Ardan’s antagonist hazarded any further arguments or
1738 IV | Michel Ardan nursed a growing headache with both hands.~“Very well?”
1739 VIII | tasted a little of this heady gas. Do you know, my friends,
1740 VII | certainly not in such a healthy condition.~But that it might
1741 XXVI | sung by five million of hearty throats, rose like a roaring
1742 VI | wheels? To prevent their heating, because this heat would
1743 XXII | Engineer Murchison, without heeding these dangers, took their
1744 II | the firmament in reality heightened the moon’s brilliancy, which
1745 Not | literary” history, I note that Heinlein’s >“The Man Who Sold the
1746 I | there, it will go to his heirs.”~“Ah, you practical men!”
1747 XIII | under their feet, rose Mount Helicon, 1,520 feet high, and round
1748 XVII | have made it the mouth of hell.~“Newton,” said Barbicane, “
1749 II | all over, gave a sonorous “Hem!” and then said:~“Michel
1750 XI | division of the moon’s two hemispheres, joined to one another like
1751 II | reassured by finding that the hemorrhage came from a slight wound
1752 XXVIII| out of sight. His home was henceforth the post at Long’s Peak;
1753 VII | cock-crows, while five or six hens fluttered like bats against
1754 III | squeezed almost to a mummy. Hercules could not have resisted
1755 VIII | But we shall be regular Herculeses in the moon!” exclaimed
1756 XIII | which is situated near the Hercynian mountains, on the borders
1757 II | they ran against the vulgar herd who pressed up to the doors,
1758 IV | theoretical astronomy; and herewith add their congratulations
1759 VIII | was saturated with this heroic fluid, theaters where it
1760 XX | weatherbeaten ship. But the two heros of the meeting had good
1761 | hers
1762 XVIII | Barbicane would not have hesitated a moment. He would have
1763 XI | Starr, Edinburgh in the Hidalgo, Santa Rita, Elpanda, Brownsville
1764 VIII | Jove!”~“Then why did you hide them?”~“A joke, my worthy
1765 XXI | hours in vain. Where is he hiding?”~“Nicholl!” said Michel
1766 IV | that by means of these hieroglyphics, more incomprehensible than
1767 II | reflection, sheltered under his high-crowned hat— a kind of black cylinder
1768 XII | generations. Do you prefer that high-flown comparison?”~“One is as
1769 VII | in Asia on the top of the Himalayas, would not be quite in the
1770 XV | of spectators would have hindered him from averting. It was
1771 X | at this reply; threw out hints of cowardice; that a man
1772 II | perceived caverns frequented by hippopotami, green mountains bordered
1773 XIX | signal for Michel Ardan’s hips and hurrahs. And none of
1774 XIII | Neither Hevelius, Cassin, La Hire, nor Herschel seemed to
1775 XXVII | Americans. It was received with hisses; and wounded, no doubt,
1776 XVIII | organization, it was not so at the historical period of time. The atmosphere
1777 XV | projectile follow? was their hobby. One maintained the hyperbola,
1778 XIII | luminous matter which the air holds in suspension, which creates
1779 XII | head of her population.~Holland and her colonies interested
1780 XIII | shoulders and pistols in his holsters.~On expressing his surprise
1781 XXII | one or two arguments ad hominem.~“You see, old fellow,”
1782 XXIV | proposed by the astronomer Hooke only a few years ago!~Regarding
1783 VIII | earth alone, binding it with hoops of wrought iron, and finally
1784 VI | Bah!” said Michel, always hopeful. “If there are inhabitants,
1785 I | kind of artillery.~“This is horrible!” said Tom Hunter one evening,
1786 XX | Susquehanna, a corvette of 500 horse-power, of the United States navy,
1787 XIII | He remarked that every horseman carried a carbine slung
1788 XIII | with a dull report. These hostile demonstrations, however,
1789 XXI | him the real causes of the hostility between Barbicane and Nicholl;
1790 VIII | practiced by Caston and Robert Houdin. Indeed the dog did not
1791 XXVI | the midst of their immense households.~At meal-times all fell
1792 I | domesticated man and strong in housekeeping. We are bound to make the
1793 III | sleep in? On the earth, houses, towns, cottages, and country
1794 XI | victory gained by Samuel Houston, on the banks of the San
1795 XV | floating amid a hail of howitzer shells, the smallest of
1796 XXI | cry, this time a perfect howl, answered him. He turned
1797 XXVI | bewildering and deafening hubbub.~But on this day, 1st of
1798 XIV | difficulties, his prodigious and humane sagacity, the average of
1799 XIX | but let us do all that is humanly possible to do the fall
1800 XVIII | or, in plainer language a humbug.~One question, however,
1801 XXVIII| Nicholl, and the audacious humor of Michel Ardan. Besides
1802 I | how?” asked Barbicane.~“Humph!” said Michel Ardan, “it
1803 XXVIII| this great enterprise a hundredfold.~A Frenchman, an enthusiastic
1804 V | the dog, which devoured it hungrily.~“Do you see, Barbicane,”
1805 XXV | his mouth, while he was hunting out the rash spectators
1806 XI | despatched, they found time to hurl one last and bitter sarcasm
1807 XXVII | violence, and this artificial hurricane rushed like a water-spout
1808 XV | reverberations rivaling those of hurricanes and storms; and it was his
1809 XV | oxygen. We must not be in a hurry to proclaim the existence
1810 XXIII | Those legions of strangers, hurrying from all parts of the globe
1811 XXVI | dress, surrounded their husbands, fathers, or masters, who
1812 XXI | at once Maston stopped.~“Hush!” said he, “there is some
1813 XI | the Selenite sailors and hydrographers; the former, when they came
1814 Not | been painstakingly removed. Hypenated words at the end of lines
1815 XV | hyperbola (I was going to say hyperblague) is that it is still more
1816 XV | truth remained that, whether hyperbolically or parabolically borne away,
1817 Not | numbers, undoing all the >hyphenation, and repackaging the lines
1818 II | regarding the ‘square of the hypothenuse,’ commonly called the ‘Ass’
1819 III | its magnetic influence.~A hypsometer to measure the height of
1820 VIII | 4760ths of the whole journey, i.e., at 78,514 leagues from
1821 IV | incomprehensible than the Egyptian Ibis, you can find what initiatory
1822 XVIII | hare-brained fellow, a kind of Icarus, only possessing relays
1823 XIX | machines or engines! It will be identified with eternal wisdom!”~“In
1824 XXV | hoped would enable them to identify those physical features
1825 XVIII | really existed, he must be an idiot, whom one would shut up
1826 XXII | trebly brutes! quadruply idiots! quintuply boobies that
1827 XI | Laredo, Comalites, San Ignacio on the Web, Rio Grande City
1828 IX | to charge the cannon. It ignites at 170 degrees in place
1829 X | the gas developed by the ignition of 1,600,000 pounds of powder;
1830 VI | be seen.~As soon as the ignoramuses came to understand as much
1831 Not | and either corrected or ignored.~>italics are marked with
1832 XV | are hideous. What is that ill-conditioned moon?”~“A meteor,” replied
1833 XXIII | returning to the south by Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas,
1834 VI | disseminated many errors and illusory fears proved less easy to
1835 XVII | In any case it was the image of death, without its being
1836 III | eating-house. Michel, who was imaginative, maintained that they were
1837 XVII | replied Michel Ardan, “imbibing as it were the brilliant
1838 XVI | which no Ruggieri could imitate, had lit up for some seconds
1839 XXII | projectile was but an atom in the immensity of the ocean. They must
1840 XIV | the moon. The projectile, immerged in the conical shadow of
1841 X | that grand principle of immortality upon which rests the whole
1842 XXVIII| Ardan were certain to be immortalized in the annals of astronomy!~
1843 II | projectile. Its apparent immovability, and the want of communication
1844 III | immense ring formed by an impalpable dust of stars, the “Milky
1845 VII | suitable for landing.~Without imparting his uneasiness to his companions,
1846 IX | T. Maston.~“Finally, it imparts to projectiles a velocity
1847 XVII | 21,300 feet, seemed to be impassable.~Barbicane made his companions
1848 VIII | moon was beginning, almost imperceptibly as yet, but by degrees the
1849 XIII | astronomers say, either from the imperfection in the objective of the
1850 XVIII | remained nothing but the imperishable remembrance.~
1851 XXII | prepared, which through this impervious covering allowed the divers
1852 VIII | enough,” cried J. T. Maston impetuously.~“I agree with you, my good
1853 II | anti-Stuart Roundheads, and the implacable enemy of the gentlemen of
1854 XXV | saws, and other useful implements, not to mention clothing
1855 II | and twenty minutes, which implies a wonderful rate of speed.”~“
1856 V | is an agglomeration of imponderable atoms, which, relatively
1857 XXIII | It was now their turn to impose some limit on that selenographic
1858 XI | in the Cameron, formed an imposing league against the pretensions
1859 XX | dangers, if not the actual impossibilities, of the proposed expedition.~“
1860 X | mingled a feeling of absolute impotence. How was he to invent anything
1861 XV | fictitious light of alcohol impregnated with salt.~“By Jove!” cried
1862 X | absolutely impossible to impress upon any body whatever a
1863 XIII | darkest night. Judge of the impression produced on Barbicane and
1864 XVIII | cooling, might suffice to imprint this gigantic star.”~“A
1865 VII | unrecognizable if their imprisonment had been prolonged to some
1866 II | rub harder.” And the two improvised practitioners worked so
1867 XXI | Maston. The unfortunate man, imprudently leaning over the metal tube,
1868 II | carried a lighted match with impunity through the space filled
1869 XIV | prince of tools was never inactive for one moment in the hands
1870 II | great hall, it was quite inadequate to accommodate the crowd
1871 XIII | replied Barbicane, “but inadmissible.”~“Why?”~“Because, so to
1872 X | those immense depressions inappropriately called “seas,” but they
1873 XV | describing in the shadow that incalculable course which no sight-mark
1874 XV | a star. It was a reddish incandescence which increased by degrees,
1875 XVI | this spot! There was an incessant flow of people to and from
1876 XXII | encounter all the annoyances incidental to a man of celebrity. Managers
1877 XII | powder, the projectile, and incipient expenses, would, according
1878 XXV | packets of seeds were also included among the necessaries. Michel
1879 XXVII | 4th to the 6th of December inclusive, the weather remaining much
1880 VII | upon each other, and the incoherent discussion threatened to
1881 Not | there seems to be an inconsistency in the title for book 2>~
1882 IV | to give the projectile?”~“Incontestably,” replied Nicholl; “and
1883 IX | to the zenith of the spot incontestible; and the moon passing to
1884 XI | not Texas and Florida both incorporated into the Union in 1845?”~“
1885 Not | perihelion.~><There’s an incorrect reference to Nov. 30 in
1886 XVII | the most extraordinary and incredible, occurred to rouse afresh
1887 XXVI | uneasiness pervaded all minds, an indefinable sensation which oppressed
1888 XI | herself, asserted her own independence, drove out the Mexicans
1889 VII | whiteness of silver, the indestructibility of gold, the tenacity of
1890 II | the buffers covered with India-rubber stopped up the holes which
1891 XI | America, Africa, and the Indian peninsula. Their angular,
1892 XX | nor offer the slightest indication of refraction. It follows,
1893 II | exhibited the most certain indications of energy, audacity, and
1894 I | shock. Position cannot be an indifferent matter; and we must, as
1895 XXVI | liquors which accompanied this indigestible repast! The shouts, the
1896 XXVIII| which excited universal indignation, for the moon was hidden
1897 XIX | Barbicane, fearing that indiscreet questions might be put to
1898 VIII | hardness, be infusible by heat, indissoluble, and inoxidable by the corrosive
1899 XVIII | organization. If ever two individuals offered a striking contrast
1900 II | wonderful arrangement and induced a kind of belief that their
1901 XX | too good an opinion of the industrial genius of the Americans
1902 XVI | feet thick would have been ineffectual, that dealt him a terrible
1903 II | lying one on the other, an inert mass, Nicholl above, Barbicane
1904 IV | motion or repose is called inertia.~Barbicane and his companions
1905 II | upon earth, reaction was inevitable.~“Well,” said Nicholl, “
1906 III | bravos” were intermingled in inexpressible enthusiasm.~Just at this
1907 XXI | interwoven their branches into an inextricable maze, through which the
1908 II | are simple, easy, certain, infallible— and that is the purpose
1909 XX | complete army, consisting of infantry, artillery, and cavalry,
1910 XVIII | of the spectators, more infatuated than the rest, would not
1911 VI | this theory allows us to infer that the heat of the solar
1912 XIX | situations, and thinking what inference he could draw from them,
1913 XX | Herschel himself never inferred from them the necessity
1914 XIII | without danger, for they were infested with huge alligators from
1915 XI | out by deceit, treasons, infidelity, and the whole body of terrestrial
1916 VII | will be the moment when, infinitely exceeding all hitherto attained
1917 VI | the firmament, with its infinitude of stars, may be considered
1918 VII | above that of intoxication, inflamed by the air which had set
1919 XXV | immense mass of eminently inflammable matter would inevitably
1920 XVI | but Barbicane remained inflexible. When, however, the Columbiad
1921 XXIII | clock A.M., after strictly informing them not to open his prison
1922 VIII | tenacity, great hardness, be infusible by heat, indissoluble, and
1923 III | exquisite, and was due to the infusion of the choicest leaves,
1924 XVIII | Has the moon ever been inhabitable?”~“Good!” replied Nicholl. “
1925 XVI | from expansion, since this inimitable firework, which no Ruggieri
1926 XIX | audience to a few of the initiated, his own colleagues for
1927 IX | destructive, did not sensibly injure the mouth-piece.”~Up to
1928 IX | Granted; but that which is injurious to a gun destined to perform
1929 VIII | of twenty minutes without injury.”~“Cast iron is very brittle,
1930 XIII | painter; it would be spots of ink on a white page— nothing
1931 II | six carronades) stood an inkstand of exquisite elegance, made
1932 III | were stirred in their innermost fibres. A national enterprise
1933 VIII | heat, indissoluble, and inoxidable by the corrosive action
1934 X | therefore, in the Richmond Inquirer a series of wagers, conceived
1935 XVIII | matter. Scattered groups of inquirers at length condensed themselves
1936 XXI | Ardan; and both were casting inquiring glances on Nicholl, when
1937 XXV | Stones Hill; every day the inquisitive neighbors scaled the palisades,
1938 XIX | crushed; that several aquatic insects, insensible to temperature,
1939 XIX | several aquatic insects, insensible to temperature, are met
1940 X | individual courage.~To these insinuations Barbicane returned no answer;
1941 VII | Michel, “do not repreat that insolence, or I will knock your teeth
1942 Not | much >of the credit for inspiring the early rocket pioneers,
1943 XXII | its prisoners.~On the 23rd inst., at eight in the morning,
1944 XIX | nature has furnished us with instances upon the earth of animals
1945 I | let us prepare. A few instants alone separate us from an
1946 XIV | which the lunar nights are insteeped, which last three hundred
1947 XX | undertaking, due to the instigation of a powerful company. Its
1948 II | shall run into one another!”~Instinctively the travelers drew back.
1949 XXVIII| bring out the scientific instincts of Barbicane, the industrious
1950 XVIII | president of the Gun Club had instituted regarding this new rival
1951 IV | Sirius. This celebrated institution fully justified on all points
1952 I | ever passed the School of Instruction at West Point; nevertheless;
1953 XXI | fell into the Pacific. Send instructions.— BLOMSBERRY, Commander
1954 XVIII | them. Let us only admit the insufficiency of the primordial attraction;
1955 XX | will answer to me for this insult?”~“At this very moment.”~“
1956 VII | feet?”~“Not so.”~“Do you intend, then, to increase the luminous
1957 II | thick padding was enough to intercept all sounds coming from the
1958 VI | besides, the quantity of heat intercepted by the earth is but a billionth
1959 VI | points of the earth and interchange their thoughts. Another
1960 XI | establishment of stores in the interests of lunar commerce and industry.~
1961 XII | duty of the whole earth to interfere in the affairs of its satellite.
1962 XX | Barbicane, ever since the interference of the unknown, had been
1963 X | therefore, and without interfering with the rights of free
1964 XVII | silent, scarcely uttering an interjection of admiration, they gazed,
1965 II | modern, were picturesquely interlaced against the walls. The gas
1966 XX | the ears of the mysterious interlocutor, who glared fiercely round
1967 VII | get back again?”~His two interlocutors looked surprised. One would
1968 XIV | But they talked over the interminable night of three hundred and
1969 XXIII | plate of aluminum, fastened internally by powerful screw-pressure.
1970 XIII | projectile floated no fluid interposed itself between the eye of
1971 XI | fantastic Michel right in thus interpreting the fancies of the ancient
1972 IV | terms, containing special interrogatories, was then drawn up and addressed
1973 II | round the earth, which would intersect the passage of the projectile.
1974 XV | of the section of a cone intersected by a plane parallel to one
1975 XV | second order, produced by the intersection of a conic surface and a
1976 XXIII | the “National Company of Interstellary Communication.” President,
1977 XXVII | tempests peculiar to those intertropical regions was let loose in
1978 VII | a fight, when Barbicane intervened with one bound.~“Stop, miserable
1979 XXI | These different trees had interwoven their branches into an inextricable
1980 XVIII | heartily and parted on terms of intimate friendship.~
1981 XII | single farthing.~At this intimation the Gun Club merely shrugged
1982 VII | whom the verb took a higher intonation each time.~“There is but
1983 XXII | triumphal result would have intoxicated any other man; but he managed
1984 XXV | of the Columbiad, and the introduction into it of 400,000 pounds
1985 XXV | giving vigorous chase to the intruders, and carefully picking up
1986 III | above, the sun beneath, were inundating it with their fire.~“It
1987 XII | the Atlantic and Pacific, invading simultaneously Asia and
1988 XXII | Incomplete?” shrieked the valiant invalid.~“Yes, my dear fellow! imagine
1989 I | unanimously all the bellicose invalids.~“Meanwhile,” replied J.
1990 XIX | Around the projectile, at an invariable distance, were the objects
1991 I | conceive the result of the inventive genius of the Americans.
1992 I | managed in Baltimore. The inventor of a new cannon associated
1993 III | thus purifying the air.~An inventory of instruments was then
1994 XVIII | originals which nature sometimes invents in the freak of a moment,
1995 VIII | densities of the bodies, and inversely as the squares of the distances.
1996 XII | that, on account of that inversion, the east should be to the
1997 IX | another Frenchman, Pelouze, investigated its different properties,
1998 III | of light.~They began by investigating the state of their store
1999 XXVIII| future reserving for the investigation of science? At all events,
2000 I | of the more advanced and inveterate theorists set themselves
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