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3001 VII | system? Their faces were as rosy as if they had been exposed
3002 II | a certain Hans Pfaal, of Rotterdam, launching himself in a
3003 XII | enormous sum of 368,733 roubles. No one need be surprised
3004 XVIII | large build, but slightly round-shouldered. His massive head momentarily
3005 II | descendant of the old anti-Stuart Roundheads, and the implacable enemy
3006 VIII | guns fired one thousand rounds at intervals of twenty minutes
3007 XVII | incredible, occurred to rouse afresh their panting spirits,
3008 II | Barbicane sat up suddenly, and rousing his companions with a loud
3009 XI | while his imagination thus roved over “the seas,” his grave
3010 XI | forts raised against the roving Indians. One solitary town,
3011 V | of us? We shall get right royally weary.”~Barbicane and Nicholl
3012 II | across his forehead and rubbing his temples, he called in
3013 XIX | midday sun, and nearly as ruddy. Ardan mounted a platform,
3014 XII | according to M. Warren de la Rue’s opinion, who gives the
3015 V | looked at his friends with a rueful countenance.~“One question
3016 XVI | inimitable firework, which no Ruggieri could imitate, had lit up
3017 XXV | in a vacuum by means of Ruhmkorff’s apparatus, which threw
3018 XIII | betrayed the hand of man; not a ruin marked his course; not a
3019 IV | the knowledge of the four rules.”~“That is something!” replied
3020 XVIII | impossible constituted his ruling passion.~Such was the passenger
3021 XV | circle of furnaces, the rumbling of which resembled the rolling
3022 XXIII | the lowest to the highest, running off into escape tubes toward
3023 IV | wished to awake you by this rural sound.” So saying, he gave
3024 XII | scientific taste of the Russians, and the impetus which they
3025 VI | saw a sort of flattened sack floating some yards from
3026 XVII | were too precious to be sacrificed in idle discussion. The
3027 X | ought not to endanger the safety of all for the pleasure
3028 XI | be seen, was profoundly sagacious.~“On carefully considering,”
3029 XIV | his prodigious and humane sagacity, the average of accidents
3030 XXII | obliged to give the order to sail.~On the 29th of December,
3031 II | crowd pressed toward the saloons of the Gun Club at No. 21
3032 XVII | which the earth possesses no sample. They prove that the moon’
3033 XI | after the victory gained by Samuel Houston, on the banks of
3034 X | the citizens, who might sanction by their presence so reprehensible
3035 XVI | They were to them so many sandbanks upon that sea of ether which,
3036 VII | each with his mouth full of sandwich.~“The problem before us,”
3037 XXVI | one of the barmen; “Claret sangaree!” shouts another; “Cocktail!” “
3038 XI | things became intolerable. A sanguinary encounter seemed daily imminent
3039 XI | hurl one last and bitter sarcasm at their adversaries.~Alluding
3040 VI | part of them!”~“That reason satisfies me,” replied Michel. “Besides
3041 XXII | and electric cables. The saving of Barbicane, Nicholl, and
3042 XXV | accompanied by pickaxes, crowbars, saws, and other useful implements,
3043 XXVI | removal of the cranes and scaffolding that inclined over the mouth
3044 XXV | the inquisitive neighbors scaled the palisades, some even
3045 XVI | numerous comers was but scantily gratified. Most had counted
3046 XXVI | his chronometer. It wanted scarce forty seconds to the moment
3047 XXI | ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy. A single mistake,
3048 IX | replied Barbicane.~“You are sceptical,” retorted Michel Ardan. “
3049 IX | properties, and finally, in 1846, Schonbein, professor of chemistry
3050 I | without having ever passed the School of Instruction at West Point;
3051 XIII | have known them. It was Schroeter who in 1789 first drew attention
3052 IX | fourteenth century by the monk Schwartz, who paid for his grand
3053 XIV | humidity, produces this scintillation. These stars were soft eyes,
3054 XX | some very extraordinary scintillations. These jets of light, rapid
3055 XIII | rocky plain, which the sun scorched with its parching rays.
3056 XIV | worked under the rays of the scorching sun; by night, under the
3057 XII | thousand stale puns and a score of ballads, in which bad
3058 V | moon, the disc appeared scored in certain parts with white
3059 III | Irish, Germans, French, Scotch, all the heterogeneous units
3060 XI | of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and where the Frenchman
3061 XIII | Seminoles?”~“Savages who scour the prairies. We thought
3062 XII | to Spain, she could not scrape together more than 110 reals.
3063 XVIII | the rest, he was ever in scrapes, ending invariably by falling
3064 I | famous James T. Maston, scratching with his steel hook his
3065 XXIII | fastened internally by powerful screw-pressure. The travelers could therefore
3066 XVIII | each in his own way.~The scrutiny which the president of the
3067 XI | Tendre card,” got up by a Scudary or a Cyrano de Bergerac. “
3068 XX | of the meeting had good sea-legs. They never stumbled; and
3069 I | erstwhile so noisy in their seances, were reduced to silence
3070 XII | distinguished herself among the second-rate states by a grant of 513,
3071 III | projectile. There, too, they were secure. Reiset and Regnaut’s apparatus,
3072 XIX | the whole of his life in security from all variations of temperature.
3073 I | has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share
3074 IX | regions, as an aeronaut sees the earth from his car.~
3075 XV | miles of the earth, but they seldom fall upon it. The same with
3076 XVI | the Moon, Diana, Phoebe, Selene, the “peaceful courier of
3077 V | fortifications thrown up by the Selenitic engineers.” These two points,
3078 XIII | this opinion of the German selenographer, an opinion shared by Boeer
3079 XIII | colors appeared on the disc. Selenographers are not agreed upon the
3080 XII | taking observations. In the selenographical maps where, on account of
3081 VI | America was seized with selenomania, or had become moon-mad.~
3082 XXI | his alter ego, his second self; if you really must kill
3083 XXVIII| and gas for some days. A self-acting apparatus supplied the three
3084 XII | eighty-six piastres; but self-constituted empires are always rather
3085 II | a singularly serious and self-contained demeanor, punctual as a
3086 II | when educated in ideas of “self-government.”~On that evening a stranger
3087 X | and in what rivalry of self-love it had its rise.~This persevering
3088 XVIII | little figures which they sell for children’s toys. In
3089 XVIII | October, at nine A.M., the semaphores of the Bahama Canal signaled
3090 III | would have allowed even the semblance of a difficulty to be possible.
3091 XXVII | gathering, and at night the semi-disc of the orb of night rode
3092 XXII | in a state of delightful semi-tipsiness.~Among the deputations of
3093 VI | parallel, and p the apparent semidiameter——”~“Oh!” said Michel. “Do
3094 VI | shadow, and that the sun sends her its rays, not only from
3095 XIII | Barbicane, however, less sensitive to these wonders, was in
3096 XIV | constructed of iron plates, separately pieced and numbered. At
3097 XV | order to facilitate the separation of foreign substances.~Twelve
3098 XXVIII| right.”~ROUND THE MOON~A SEQUEL TO~FROM THE EARTH TO THE
3099 III | the moon shone forth with serene splendor, eclipsing by her
3100 III | lounging upon the barroom settee with his tumbler of sherry-cobbler
3101 VI | already accomplished nearly seven-tenths of the way. This peculiarity
3102 VIII | CHAPTER VIII~ AT SEVENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND
3103 XXIII | twenty-one parts of oxygen and seventy-nine of nitrogen. The lungs absorb
3104 VII | cost——”~“One hundred and seventy-three thousand and fifty dollars ($
3105 XXI | for it,” replied Belfast severely.~“And that cursed projectile
3106 III | of the lunar mountains, a sextant to take the height of the
3107 XVIII | sublime ignoramus, “like Shakespeare,” and professed supreme
3108 XXIII | into a hundred thousand shares of a thousand dollars each,
3109 VIII | words from Barbicane soon shattered his enthusiasm.~“That is
3110 XIV | of two degrees, and which sheds a light thirteen times greater
3111 II | bordered by golden lace-work, sheep with horns of ivory, a white
3112 III | CHAPTER III~ THEIR PLACE OF SHELTER~This curious but certainly
3113 II | absorbed, lost in reflection, sheltered under his high-crowned hat—
3114 I | word of encouragement from Sherman or a friendly shake of the
3115 III | settee with his tumbler of sherry-cobbler before him down to the waterman
3116 XV | that the projectile was shifting toward it and not falling
3117 II | into space. See those stars shining in the night, and that impenetrable
3118 I | developed among that nation of ship-owners, shopkeepers, and mechanics.
3119 XXII | signal. The screw had been shipped, and the whole power of
3120 XIX | thanks to the help of the shipping in port, an immense roofing
3121 XI | human reason is so often shipwrecked. Not far off lies the “Sea
3122 XXVI | here displayed; while upon shirt-fronts, wristbands, and neckties,
3123 XXVI | an assortment of rings, shirt-pins, brooches, and trinkets,
3124 XVIII | loose neckerchief, open shirtcollar, disclosing a robust neck;
3125 X | his best metal plate to shivers.~Matters were at this stage,
3126 XXIII | globe toward the American shores, would they leave the Union
3127 XX | adversary.~“Come!” he said shortly.~The other followed him
3128 II | plates battered by the shots of the Gun Club, assortments
3129 XXIII | on hearing a jolly voice shouting a boisterous hurrah.~Presently
3130 XI | letters full of menaces showered down upon his house. Which
3131 VIII | nothing more than a pigmy, a shrimp!”~“Gulliver with the giants,”
3132 XIX | Frenchman and two Americans shrink from such a word?”~“But
3133 XI | made his prosaic companions shrug their shoulders. Barbicane
3134 XII | intimation the Gun Club merely shrugged its shoulders and returned
3135 XIII | fields!” replied Nicholl, shrugging his shoulders.~“Plowed,
3136 II | thoughtfully to let down the shutter of the second side. He succeeded;
3137 IV | top of the projectile, and shutting a box, the lid of which
3138 II | expedition to the steppes of Siberia. There, on those vast plains,
3139 II | a communication with the sidereal world. The means of arriving
3140 IX | projectile continued its course sideways to the moon, and with it
3141 XV | incalculable course which no sight-mark would allow them to ascertain.
3142 II | cannon, bronze castings, sights covered with dents, plates
3143 XXVI | brought fresh accessions of sightseers; and, according to the statement
3144 XV | And the observation of a sign-point, quite inexplicable in itself,
3145 XVIII | semaphores of the Bahama Canal signaled a thick smoke on the horizon.
3146 XIII | to the president who had signalized their country by his choice.~
3147 XXII | glasses saw that the object signalled had the appearance of one
3148 XVIII | large steamer exchanged signals with them. the name of the
3149 III | they gave her a pie, which silenced her complaints. As to Satellite,
3150 V | courageous beast which old Silenus loved to mount. I love those
3151 XV | into contact with coal and silicium heated to a high temperature,
3152 XVIII | and we are only like weak, silly women, compared with this
3153 VII | morning, through the scuttles silvered by its rays, they saluted
3154 V | is to say, into planets. Similarly he would have observed these
3155 XXV | Maston.~“Nothing would be simpler,” replied Ardan; “the Columbiad
3156 XX | almost sublime in its very simplicity, the assembly became silent.
3157 VI | earth which will greatly simplify things.”~“And if the earth
3158 VII | You have such a way of simplifying things. And what enlargement
3159 I | condition was imposed as a sine qua non upon every candidate
3160 VIII | Barbicane. “No, I think of sinking this engine in the earth
3161 XIV | its light for fifteen days sinks below the horizon, see a
3162 VII | am sorry for the amiable sister of Apollo. A very pitted
3163 XIX | consequences of these different situations, and thinking what inference
3164 V | fifteenth and Tycho Brahe in the sixteenth century A.D., observations
3165 XV | required not less than sixty-eight vessels of 1,000 tons, a
3166 X | the morning did not exceed sixty-five miles, and in a medium free
3167 XXIII | world as Cuvier did the skeleton of a fossil, and say, “The
3168 II | But, to bring this rapid sketch to a close, I will only
3169 XXVII | for Nicholl!” rose to the skies. Thousands of persons, noses
3170 V | Michel, “they make their skins into drums.”~Barbicane and
3171 XVII | annular mountains of Moret. It skirted at some distance the summits
3172 XX | Humboldt’s current, which skirts the coast of America as
3173 III | down with great care. Its skull had been broken against
3174 XXI | purpose to smash each other’s skulls with shot?”~There was in “
3175 I | dollars,” replied Nicholl, slapping the pocket of this coat. “
3176 XIV | Barbicane laid the first sleepers of a railway fifteen miles
3177 XXI | for hardness.~Ardan was sleeping, then, badly enough, tossing
3178 II | will only appear to us as a slender crescent which will soon
3179 V | escaping like a stone from a sling of which the cord had suddenly
3180 III | he had distilled on the slopes of Burgundy, the sun chose
3181 XVII | the interior and exterior sloping flanks rose in stories like
3182 XIX | hours as they passed too slow for their wish; Barbicane
3183 II | three soon in a profound slumber.~But they had not forgotten
3184 III | friends returned to their slumbers. Could they have found a
3185 XIII | horseman carried a carbine slung across his shoulders and
3186 IV | said Michel Ardan, in his sly tone, “mathematics have
3187 II | not escaped. Besides, the smell would have betrayed it;
3188 XV | moulding operations; and when smelted with pit coal, is of superior
3189 III | of Philadelphia, and the Smithsonian of Washington sent innumerable
3190 XXV | not trust this fearless smoker, and was therefore obliged
3191 I | in the fireplace of the smoking-room; “nothing to do! nothing
3192 XXII | the walls of which were so smooth as to offer no hold for
3193 VIII | less rapidly than it does a smooth-bore.”~“True,” rejoined the major.~
3194 XXII | them, and make one of a smug party of four. So one day
3195 V | which the cord had suddenly snapped, would have formed around
3196 XX | lodging; but instead of snatching a few hours of repose, he
3197 XIX | himself on the divan, he soon snored like a forty-eight pounder.~“
3198 I | on the tables, sounds of snoring came from dark corners,
3199 XIII | vigor and of fire, stood snorting under his windows; but instead
3200 VIII | obliged to sleep themselves sober over their oxygen as a drunkard
3201 VII | of the projectile? Their sobriety could not be doubted. This
3202 XVII | who have a distaste for social life!”~“All! It would be
3203 III | literary, and religious societies enlarged upon its advantages;
3204 XI | Sea of Humors,” barely softened by some drops of the waters
3205 XIII | lunar landscape without the softening of the phenomena of chiaro-oscuro
3206 XVI | intermission. The clayey and sandy soils had acquired extreme hardness
3207 VI | of that assigned to their sojourn in the projectile; but they
3208 XIV | overflowed into the little vial soldered to the lower part of the
3209 XVI | and the ground burned the soles of the feet within a radius
3210 XVIII | liquid, when the moon was solidified by cooling, and had become
3211 I | pulsation.~Three thick and solidly-made couches had been placed
3212 VII | orb forever mute in the solitude of space. That last day
3213 VII | idiotic stampings, and somersaults like those of the boneless
3214 XXII | observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies,
3215 XII | London, N. M. Rothschild and Son.~At Turin, Ardouin and Co.~
3216 VII | tremendous voice the popular song “Yankee Doodle,” while from
3217 II | chased Spanish piece, and a sonnette, which, when required, could
3218 XI | over Mexico, crosses the Sonora, Old California, and loses
3219 XXV | success, that none could be so sordidly attached to this earth as
3220 XVI | members of the Gun Club was sorely tried during this period
3221 XX | morning, the hauling in of the sounding-line was not yet completed; 1,
3222 XXIII | Louisiana; they went to the southeast by Alabama and Florida,
3223 XXV | some sacks full of earth to sow them in; as it was, he took
3224 XII | perhaps she was right.~As to Spain, she could not scrape together
3225 XXVII | reception, showed itself very sparing of its rays.~On the 10th,
3226 XVIII | was the origin of these sparkling rays, which shone on the
3227 XXI | strengthened by a couple of spars, was thrown into the ocean.
3228 XI | brevity of the days of ancient Sparta.~
3229 XIII | horses, brandishing their spears or discharging their guns
3230 VII | scuttle Barbicane saw the specter of the dog, and other divers
3231 XV | sheets, assumed that livid spectral appearance which physicians
3232 XVIII | to restrain them.~“Those speculations are too high,” said he; “
3233 XXVIII| observers. When a purely speculative discovery is announced to
3234 II | subsided, Barbicane resumed his speech in a somewhat graver voice.~“
3235 II | such circumstances left him speechless. He had never before seen
3236 Not | There are also inconsistent spellings, for example “aluminum”
3237 XIX | climate he likes, and there spend the whole of his life in
3238 XVII | States.~ Substitute for your spherical shell a cylindro-conical
3239 XXI | human being, but a venomous spider, peculiar to that country,
3240 XIII | region was bristling with spikes and circles. Toward the
3241 XV | clouds unrolled their thick spirals to a height of 1,000 yards
3242 XVIII | never weary, admire the splendors of Tycho. Their projectile,
3243 XIV | dangerously injured by the splinters of stone. But their ardor
3244 IV | cried Ardan; “my head is splitting with it.”~“And now,” said
3245 IV | tongue? That creature will spoil my design!”~But Nicholl
3246 II | assortments of rammers and sponges, chaplets of shells, wreaths
3247 X | pyroxyle will take fire spontaneously under the pressure of the
3248 XXV | restrict themselves to a sporting-dog belonging to Nicholl, and
3249 XXVI | terrific sound! An immense spout of fire shot up from the
3250 XVIII | the crater of Tycho. They sprang from him. Herschel attributed
3251 XII | not these rays be simply spurs of mountains which reflect
3252 II | Barbicane; all pushing, squeezing, crushing with that perfect
3253 XVII | carcase of fireworks, whose squibs, rockets, serpents, and
3254 VII | avalanche, and not being squirrels we should not come out safe
3255 V | neither have been made a stable nor a shed.”~“Well, we might
3256 X | shivers.~Matters were at this stage, and victory seemed to rest
3257 XIX | in a carriage; then in a stage-coach; and lastly by railway.
3258 XIX | French hero, were slightly staggered at this bold theory. Michel
3259 XXI | they reached by a circular staircase, a masterpiece of lightness,
3260 XII | a pretext for a thousand stale puns and a score of ballads,
3261 III | shouted, they clapped, they stamped on the floor of the hall.
3262 VII | maniacal gestures, idiotic stampings, and somersaults like those
3263 Not | work. Whether one should >standardize the spelling of “aluminium”
3264 Not | have been changed to PG standards.~>My typographic conventions: >
3265 XXI | the peninsula of Monterey, stands the important town from
3266 VI | its highest elevation the star-spangled banner of the United States
3267 XVI | escaped a frightful fall while staring down the tube. But for the
3268 XI | Rio Grande City on the Starr, Edinburgh in the Hidalgo,
3269 IX | fireworks, taking their starting-point from the base and bursting
3270 XIII | over which ranged herds of startled deer.~“At last,” cried Barbicane,
3271 XXVIII| STAR~That very night, the startling news so impatiently awaited,
3272 I | that, when the projectile starts, it matters little whether
3273 I | calculated by the great statistician Pitcairn that throughout
3274 XXVIII| worthy Joseph T. Maston, the staunchest friend of the three travelers,
3275 XXVI | underdone ‘possum, and raccoon steaks. And as for the liquors
3276 XIV | unknown hemisphere which was stealing from their sight. That face
3277 XXV | orifice of the cannon. No steam-engine was permitted to work, and
3278 XIV | with a whole flotilla of steamboats. Murchison had succeeded
3279 I | the French sink one of our steamers, or the English, in defiance
3280 XIII | T. Maston, mounting his steed.~“All right,” said the Floridan; “
3281 XIII | windows; but instead of four steeds, here were fifty, together
3282 VIII | object itself; but a spring steelyard for example, the tension
3283 XXI | and the corvette, wearing, steered at full steam direct for
3284 XX | it smashed close to the stem, and buried itself in the
3285 II | scientific expedition to the steppes of Siberia. There, on those
3286 XXI | companion had barely taken fifty steps, when they paused to examine
3287 XVII | Crystallized by cooling, they have stereotyped that aspect which the moon
3288 XX | There, with arms crossed and stern gaze, he watched the hero
3289 XX | whole question. He looked sternly at him in his turn and said:~“
3290 XX | brandy-grog, which earned for the steward no end of praise, and turned
3291 XIII | regularly placed?”~“You stick to your vegetation, then?”
3292 XII | Rothschild.~At Petersburg, Stieglitz and Co.~At Paris, The Credit
3293 XV | were mute, motionless with stiffened limbs, a prey to frightful
3294 IX | friend Maston, then, by stigmatizing his calculations as timid;
3295 II | resembling that profound stillness which precedes the bursting
3296 XII | cast-iron guns. It was stipulated between the contracting
3297 I | moon-dogs,’ which will make a stir!”~“If there are dogs in
3298 III | well as “greenhorns,” were stirred in their innermost fibres.
3299 XVIII | assured I shall wait without stirring. Will that suit you?”~“All
3300 XIII | Barbicane, rising in his stirrups, “here we are at the region
3301 XXV | to the moon. A veritable stock of useless trifles! But
3302 XXVI | trousers, light-colored stockings, cambric frills, were all
3303 XXIII | manned by a driver and a stoker, and bore, by special favor,
3304 XIV | enlisted a choice legion of stokers, iron-founders, lime-burners,
3305 VIII | days. Everything about him, stomach and brain, were overexcited
3306 XVIII | something like a lunar stomach-ache.” said Michel Ardan.~“Besides,”
3307 XIX | even with success from a stomachic point of view. Certainly
3308 III | without eating, and their stomachs were suffering from the
3309 VI | the consequences of the stoppage would have been.~“But,”
3310 XIX | would mark the projectile’s stopping-point on the neutral line. At
3311 XIV | whence it issued; just as one stops a leak on board ship. They
3312 XI | for the establishment of stores in the interests of lunar
3313 XI | took the soundings of its stormy banks.~We may also notice
3314 IX | Barbicane would have been stove in if he had not been boom-proof.~
3315 III | Selenite ground, they were stowed away in the upper part of
3316 XXIV | which, commencing at the Straights of Magellan, follows the
3317 XX | of America as far as the Straits of Magellan.”~“These great
3318 XII | that savants would ever be stranded for want of an explanation.”~“
3319 XVII | captivate them by its very strangeness. They were moving over this
3320 XXIII | adventurers? Those legions of strangers, hurrying from all parts
3321 XXIII | curious mountain of Tycho, the strangest system of lunar orography?
3322 VI | produced by the combustion of a stratum of coal surrounding the
3323 XXVI | pounding sugar, and bundles of straws! “Mint-julep” roars one
3324 II | townspeople in order to catch stray bits of news from the interior.~
3325 XXII | bridge, examining this object straying at random on the waves.~
3326 XX | the borders of a Selenite stream, near a projectile half-buried
3327 XXII | consequently it floats!”~Ah! what stress the worthy man had laid
3328 XII | disinterested operation in the strictest sense of the term, and offered
3329 XXI | of Tampa Town with rapid strides.~It was during this walk
3330 XI | selenographic map, one peculiarity strikes us. Contrary to the arrangement
3331 II | as if he had been at his strong-box, the president drew forth
3332 XV | might answer that men so strong-minded were above such anxieties—
3333 XXI | formidable enemy menaced its stronghold.~Here, then, was Nicholl,
3334 XXI | pitiful cries, while it vainly struggled to escape. The bird-catcher
3335 X | projectiles of Barbicane stuck like so many pins in the
3336 XV | Barbicane, who was carefully studying the phenomenon through his
3337 XIII | they are rifts.”~“Rifts? stuff!” replied Michel mildly; “
3338 XXVI | Florida, fricasseed frogs, stuffed monkey, fish chowder, underdone ‘
3339 XX | good sea-legs. They never stumbled; and their vessel arrived
3340 XIV | again will be nothing but a stump frozen and deformed by the
3341 XXVIII| was on this spot, after stupendous labor, that the Columbiad
3342 XXV | and we shall indeed be stupid if we hit upon no plan for
3343 XIII | while tall flamingos stared stupidly at the party.~At length
3344 IV | ignoramus in mathematical subjects; and it is impossible for
3345 XI | given by a large majority of sublunary beings. How many people
3346 II | the earth; no, nor are we submerged in the Gulf of Mexico. Yes!
3347 XII | non-intervention.” And they did not subscribe a single farthing.~At this
3348 XXVI | for the descent, and the subsequent removal of the cranes and
3349 X | when the other afterward substituted for conical shot simple
3350 X | at six miles distance are substituting mathematical formulae for
3351 XI | into the Gulf of Mexico, it subtends the arc formed by the coast
3352 XXI | friends were making for the suburbs of Tampa Town with rapid
3353 IX | nothing seemed impossible, had succeeding in solving the complex problems
3354 XII | stratification produced by successive eruptions, and the neighborhood
3355 IX | any one; it was the lineal successor of the Greek fire, which,
3356 III | hydraulic press, as tender and succulent as if brought straight from
3357 XIII | following night with the suddenness of a lamp which is extinguished
3358 III | and their stomachs were suffering from the imperious laws
3359 XVI | of metal! They were half suffocated. But what delight! What
3360 XXVI | shape, mortars for pounding sugar, and bundles of straws! “
3361 XIII | on the Cultivation of the Sugar-Cane in Florida.” It became necessary
3362 XIII | rice, cotton-plants, and sugar-canes, which extend beyond reach
3363 VII | voice.~“I shall speak if it suits me,” exclaimed Michel, seizing
3364 IX | itself, was composed of sulfur and saltpeter. Few persons
3365 VIII | his surprise to see the sulphur shine with so extraordinary
3366 XI | but these? and is it not summed up in these four words?~
3367 XIX | zones of perpetual springs, summers, autumns, and winters; every
3368 XIII | Florida, discovered on Palm Sunday, in 1512, by Juan Ponce
3369 XXIII | were stopped as they are on Sundays on the railways of the United
3370 V | have formed around the sun sundry concentric rings resembling
3371 XXVI | States, and “Yankee Doodle,” sung by five million of hearty
3372 XVII | aqueduct; in another part the sunken pillars of a gigantic bridge,
3373 X | containing the following superbly laconic reply:~ “BALTIMORE,
3374 XV | assent to an observation so superficially obtained? Dared they pronounce
3375 III | aerial car had a base with a superficies of fifty-four square feet.
3376 XXIII | to see the heroes of this superhuman enterprise.~The expedition
3377 XXV | Ardan had volunteered to superintend the transport of the cartridges
3378 XV | within the enclosure. Each superintendent took his post by the aperture
3379 XX | at the forewheel, who was superintending the operation.~The captain
3380 XIX | sure, readily admit this superiority of Jupiter over our own
3381 II | pillars formed of cannon, superposed upon huge mortars as a base,
3382 Not | All are removed.~>^2 means superscript 2. circumflex also occurs
3383 XXVII | Florida; and for a moment day superseded night over a considerable
3384 VI | but the third class, the superstitious. These worthies were not
3385 III | closed with a plentiful supper carefully prepared. No accident
3386 VIII | in its functions, what a supplement to life it would derive.
3387 VIII | and demanded from Michel a supplementary repast. Michel, utterly
3388 III | American language is capable of supplying. It was a scene of indescribable
3389 XIX | temperature of those worlds supportable by beings organized like
3390 XX | one of the most ardent supporters of the Gun Club, who had
3391 I | disencumbered of its last supports.~Nicholl, once introduced
3392 XVI | have been the case in a supposedly rigidly parabolical trajectory—
3393 VI | Michel.~“It is an impossible supposition,” said the practical Barbicane; “
3394 VIII | suppressing weight as they suppress pain by anaesthesia, that
3395 VIII | if we could succeed in suppressing weight as they suppress
3396 XVIII | Shakespeare,” and professed supreme contempt for all scientific
3397 IX | terrors of the Infinite, surged up inopportunely. To face
3398 XXVIII| destroy many illusions and surmises; but it will give a true
3399 II | equals, if it does not even surpass, that of our terrestrial
3400 VII | they obtained results more surprising, I will venture to say,
3401 XV | So the atmosphere does surround that part of the moon.”~“
3402 II | miles of atmosphere which surrounds the globe.”~“Just so,” replied
3403 I | peace was signed between the survivors of the war; the thunder
3404 I | not profit by it. American susceptibility is fast declining, and we
3405 V | determined them, they could not suspect its truth; it was evident
3406 XX | Captain Nicholl!”~“So I suspected. Hitherto chance has never
3407 XX | is always brave who never suspects danger.’ I know nothing,
3408 XVIII | Co., requesting them to suspend the casting of the projectile
3409 XVIII | keep a whole country in suspense,” replied the orator. “Have
3410 IV | said Nicholl, looking suspiciously at his companion.~“Yes,”
3411 XI | pretended that it could never sustain the shock of the discharge,
3412 XIX | extinguished.~The projectile sustained a certain shock, which was
3413 VI | Michel, with an amiable swagger, “I have a few ideas of
3414 II | perhaps less agreeable to swallow.” Then, passing his hand
3415 II | could not stand. His head swam, from the rush of blood;
3416 XIII | length these denizens of the swamps disappeared in their turn;
3417 III | of the celestial sphere swarmed with stars and constellations
3418 V | Pascal, Newton?”~“I could swear it.”~“Comic writers like
3419 XIX | intelligence, such as Plutarch, Swedenborg, Bernardin de St. Pierre,
3420 XX | great tempest, which by sweeping away the groups of clouds
3421 XVIII | his mouth particularly sweet in expression, high forehead,
3422 XXVII | atmosphere. A terrific east wind swept away the groups of clouds
3423 XXI | as St. Louis, where the swift mail-coaches awaited them.
3424 VII | superior to that of the swiftest horses or railway train.
3425 VI | run a long time, when I am swimming, when I am perspiring in
3426 Not | surrounding spaces. >I also switched to double space between
3427 VII | spite of your diver’s dress, swollen by the expansion of air
3428 VIII | in time.~After a perfect swoon, which lasted some minutes,
3429 XV | turn, some flaming like a sword, some surrounded by a whitish
3430 IV | above them, they might have sworn that they were floating
3431 XXI | which rose huge cypresses, sycamores, tulip-trees, olives, tamarinds,
3432 V | earth passed through the tail of a comet? Or let us suppose
3433 IV | not help laughing.~“Fine talent that,” said Nicholl, looking
3434 I | conclude, then, you everlasting talker?” asked Barbicane.~“I conclude
3435 XXI | sycamores, tulip-trees, olives, tamarinds, oaks, and magnolias. These
3436 IX | line which might become a tangent. But it was certain that
3437 XXVI | decorated with glasses, tankards, and bottles of marvelous
3438 VII | escape regulators, tried the taps, and regulated the heat
3439 XXV | about. A somewhat difficult task! seeing that more than 300,
3440 VIII | I am not sorry to have tasted a little of this heady gas.
3441 XXIV | resolved the Crab nebula in Taurus, which the reflector of
3442 XVI | they blamed the president, taxed him with dictatorial conduct.
3443 XIII | frightening some pelicans and teal, while tall flamingos stared
3444 XXVI | own dry eyes one ancient tear, which he had doubtless
3445 VII | of four members of great technical knowledge, Barbicane (with
3446 XXI | telegram the Naval Secretary telegraphed to the Susquehanna to wait
3447 XXI | found him, Michel Ardan tells you this, there will be
3448 XVII | marked out the place for a temple, here the ground of a forum,
3449 II | forehead and rubbing his temples, he called in a firm voice:~“
3450 X | this obstinacy, tried to tempt Barbicane by offering him
3451 I | the number of victims at ten-fold the quantity of projectiles
3452 XV | metal, in fact, is the most tenacious, the most ductile, and the
3453 V | causes the molecules all to tend toward the center.~Another
3454 IX | the base of the projectile tended toward the moon; but the
3455 III | by an hydraulic press, as tender and succulent as if brought
3456 XI | Nectar,” with its waves of tenderness and breezes of love; “The
3457 XV | one from the other, both tending indefinitely in the two
3458 XI | compared this map to a “Tendre card,” got up by a Scudary
3459 XI | Involuntarily the names of Naxos, Tenedos, and Carpathos, rise before
3460 XVII | the disc with its silver tentacles, an enormous eye filled
3461 XXVI | with huts, cottages, and tents. Every nation under the
3462 VI | south, and of west and east, termed her libration, she permits
3463 XVI | bright. Such appeared the terminal line of the moon when in
3464 XIII | northern and tropical floras, terminating in prairies abounding with
3465 XVII | in stories like gigantic terraces. They appeared to be higher
3466 XX | precaution, for the air will be terribly rarified.”~“My good sir,
3467 III | crouched under the divan. Terrified and shaken by the initiatory
3468 IX | hypothesis, big with all the terrors of the Infinite, surged
3469 XII | remittance of 250,000 thalers, testified her high approval of the
3470 XII | a remittance of 250,000 thalers, testified her high approval
3471 V | earth.~From the time of Thales of Miletus, in the fifth
3472 XXI | communication the captain thanked him. The course was then
3473 III | announced, at the Baltimore theatre, the production of “Much
3474 I | degree of perfection than theirs, but that they exhibited
3475 XVIII | hero! a hero!” he cried, a theme of which he was never tired
3476 XIV | workmen.~No fresh occurrence thenceforward arrested the progress of
3477 XX | and others who demonstrate theoretically that fishes were never made
3478 I | advanced and inveterate theorists set themselves again to
3479 | thereby
3480 X | heavier, the other became thicker in proportion. The Merrimac,
3481 XVII | gigantic bridge, run into the thickest parts of the rift. He distinguished
3482 XXI | the copse. It was a dense thicket, in which rose huge cypresses,
3483 XIII | scattered among less dense thickets— a few isolated groups detached
3484 I | a comfortable room with thickly padded walls, furnished
3485 XIII | turn; smaller trees became thinly scattered among less dense
3486 Not | has “thirteenth” where “thirtieth” would be >more appropriate.
3487 XXVI | thirty-six!— thirty-seven!— thirty-eight!— thirty-nine!— forty! FIRE!!!”~
3488 IX | place of three hundred and thirty-three pounds of powder, the quantity
3489 XII | At Valparaiso and Lima, Thomas la Chambre and Co.~At Mexico,
3490 V | or not they were unable thoroughly to ascertain.~The Americans,
3491 II | dropped, and Barbicane began thoughtfully to let down the shutter
3492 I | for moles.”~So saying, the thoughtless fellow lit a match by striking
3493 XXI | Club maintaining for the thousandth time that he had just seen
3494 II | some noise in the world.”~A thrill of excitement ran through
3495 VII | knock your teeth down your throat!”~The two adversaries were
3496 XXVI | by five million of hearty throats, rose like a roaring tempest
3497 XXVI | five millions of spectators thronged the soil of Florida.~For
3498 XXI | noise disturbed his dreams. Thundering blows shook his door. They
3499 XVII | its craters, filled with thunderings, vomited at the same time
3500 XX | recurrence, they attributed to thunderstorms generated in the lunar atmosphere.”~“
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