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3501 I | silence was only broken by the ticking of the chronometer marking
3502 II | light up.”~Ardan felt the tide of life return by degrees.
3503 VI | inhabitant of the earth by a tie of sympathy; they maintained
3504 XXV | acclimatizing serpents, tigers, alligators, or any other
3505 II | upper fastenings, closed it tightly. Beneath was fixed an aluminum
3506 II | made a large fortune as a timber merchant. Being nominated
3507 Not | have been >working from a time-line. For example, I think he
3508 VIII | parts of copper, twelve of tin, and six of brass.”~“I admit,”
3509 VII | honor, his ears at least tingled. What was he doing then?
3510 XVII | vomiting rays. It was the tire of a brilliant wheel, an
3511 XVIII | theme of which he was never tired of ringing the changes; “
3512 VIII | disperse in space!”~“That is tiresome,” retorted Michel; “nothing
3513 IX | constitutes the elementary tissues of vegetable? This substance
3514 Not | in italics. >The chapter titles are in small caps. >The
3515 Not | pioneers, and ultimately >today’s space program. As “literary”
3516 XXVIII| Captain Nicholl, and, as a token of reconciliation, persuaded
3517 XIII | we have no time to lose; tomorrow we must obtain horses, and
3518 XVII | the same time smoke and tongues of flame. What a wonderful
3519 VI | surface, or reconnoiter her topographically or geologically.~Thus the
3520 XII | caught a glimpse of the tops of another mountain. Barbicane,
3521 III | evening. It was a regular torchlight procession. Irish, Germans,
3522 XII | Netherlands Credit Co.~At Rome, Torlonia and Co.~At Lisbon, Lecesne.~
3523 XVI | trajectory— a new problem which tormented Barbicane’s brain, imprisoned
3524 III | request. He was presently torn from his seat and passed
3525 XV | 200 chimneys vomited their torrents of flame into the air, and
3526 XXV | polar regions to that of the torrid zone.~Ardan wished to convey
3527 XXI | sleeping, then, badly enough, tossing about between the cloths
3528 IV | one to obtain all sorts of totals.~“The expression v zero,
3529 XII | Mobilier.~At Stockholm, Tottie and Arfuredson.~At London,
3530 IX | said Maston, “several touch-holes, so as to fire it at different
3531 XXIII | entrance into this metallic tower was by a narrow aperture
3532 II | to mingle with the mere townspeople in order to catch stray
3533 XVIII | they sell for children’s toys. In a few words, his motto
3534 XXI | lying dead on some bloody track. The same thought seemed
3535 XXI | along which Indians had tracked some enemy, and which the
3536 XIII | after some few miles of tract the nature of the soil gradually
3537 XIV | brickmakers, and artisans of every trade, without distinction of
3538 I | shopkeepers, and mechanics. Simple tradesmen jumped their counters to
3539 III | Washington of science. A single trait of feeling, taken from many
3540 XVI | supposedly rigidly parabolical trajectory— a new problem which tormented
3541 III | subsided into comparative tranquility.~On the following day, thanks
3542 XI | lastly, that vast “Sea of Tranquillity,” in which every false passion,
3543 X | such a weight could not transcend the limits of the earth’
3544 V | have the whole series of transformations undergone by the heavenly
3545 Not | contact publisher for translator information> ><is perihelium {
3546 Not | might be nice to see if the >translators introduced errors. The measurements
3547 V | naturally by the effect of the transmission of the solar rays from the
3548 XIII | hundred and seventy times more transparent than it is, to allow astronomers
3549 III | which Michel Ardan hoped to transplant into Selenite ground, they
3550 XXII | however, no intention of transplanting a race of Franco-Americans
3551 XXV | was very careful as to the transportation of the gun-cotton to Stones
3552 XV | Town. Thence the iron was transported by rail to Stones Hill,
3553 XV | the Rodman gun; they were trapezoidal in shape, with a high elliptical
3554 XXVI | Virginians conversed with trappers and the half-savages of
3555 XI | reaching the American coast, traverses the peninsula of Florida,
3556 XX | deviation of the solar rays in traversing the atmosphere of the moon.
3557 XI | Then, worn out by deceit, treasons, infidelity, and the whole
3558 XII | the public poured into the treasury of the Gun Club.~Let no
3559 II | time. About 1835 a small treatise, translated from the New
3560 XXII | were his first words?~“Ah! trebly brutes! quadruply idiots!
3561 XIII | man, not an animal, not a tree! After all, whether the
3562 II | which made the very hall tremble. The president attempted
3563 XV | magnificent spectacle. The ground trembled, while these molten waves,
3564 XV | ground was agitated with dull tremblings. As many pounds of metal
3565 XVI | points lengthened into a tremulous line. They were very bright.
3566 XXVI | resembled the patriarchs of tribes in the midst of their immense
3567 VII | water-courses emptying the mountain tributaries. Leaning over the abyss,
3568 VIII | reproduced, but without any trick, the wonderful suspension
3569 VII | They took down the most trifling details. A vague uneasiness
3570 XXVI | shirt-pins, brooches, and trinkets, of which the value only
3571 VIII | second meeting were destined triumphantly to answer such questions.
3572 XXIII | failure, the Honorable Harry Trolloppe, judge commissioner, and
3573 XIV | clock in the morning, the troop disembarked on the quays
3574 XI | the San Jacinto, over the troops of Santa Anna!— a country,
3575 II | piece of cast-iron lacework. Trophies of blunderbuses, matchlocks,
3576 XIV | country will be of course more troublesome in a comparatively confined
3577 XXVIII| the immediate effect of troubling the terrestrial atmosphere,
3578 XV | flow into the receiving troughs; and the 1,200 converging
3579 XXVI | and Panamas, blue-cotton trousers, light-colored stockings,
3580 XIV | CHAPTER XIV~ PICKAXE AND TROWEL~The same evening Barbicane
3581 XX | the maintop-gallant-mast truck.~Captain Jonathan Blomsberry (
3582 XX | crescent were rounded and truncated. Now, this appearance could
3583 II | degrees, and suspended upon truncheons, so that the president could
3584 XXV | example, saw that he could not trust this fearless smoker, and
3585 XXI | a great deception, when, trusting to a cursory observation,
3586 XXVII | their glasses prevented any trustworthy observations being made.~
3587 XIII | will save us long expensive tubings; and we shall be working
3588 XXI | the upper branches of the tulip-tree, for a formidable enemy
3589 III | barroom settee with his tumbler of sherry-cobbler before
3590 XII | aloof; which they did to the tune of some reals.~There remained
3591 XII | Rothschild and Son.~At Turin, Ardouin and Co.~At Berlin,
3592 XII | approval of the enterprise.~Turkey behaved generously; but
3593 XIX | turned toward it, as the moon turns hers to the earth? That
3594 XV | other. At the end of the twelve-hundredth visit they were pretty well
3595 VII | yards. We must increase it twenty-fold. Now, reserving for another
3596 XIV | soft luster; they did not twinkle, for there was no atmosphere
3597 XV | eclipsed for a moment, again twinkled in the firmament, and the
3598 XXVI | outshining in her passage the twinkling light of the stars. She
3599 XXVI | the constellation of the Twins, and was now nearing the
3600 XVIII | actual state of this cracked, twisted, and burst disc abundantly
3601 XIV | may be estimated at the two-hundredth part of that which separates
3602 IX | quantity of powder equal to two-thirds of the weight of the projectile,
3603 Not | bold> indicates a different typeface~Removed (only one case)
3604 XV | neither any eruption, nor typhoon, nor storm, nor struggle
3605 Not | early rocket pioneers, and ultimately >today’s space program.
3606 XVI | the Americans the ne plus ultra of earthly felicity. Consequently,
3607 XI | and we seek vainly for Ulysses’ vessel or the “clipper”
3608 XIII | daybreak, which produces the umbrae and penumbrae, and all the
3609 Not | as an accent marker for umlaut.~All are removed.~>^2 means
3610 XVI | proceedings were declared “un-American.” There was very nearly
3611 XVI | projectile must describe a curve unalterably determined by the laws of
3612 IX | Moreover, pyroxyle is unaltered by moisture— a valuable
3613 XXI | This determination was unanimous. The choice of the port
3614 XXI | pang of grief.~“Nicholl unarmed! He has, then, no longer
3615 VIII | brilliancy as to be almost unbearable to the eye. From the gas-burner
3616 XVIII | his cuffs were invariably unbuttoned, through which appeared
3617 XIX | renders our own globe so uncomfortable is the inclination of its
3618 II | companions, Barbicane began to uncover the window at the bottom
3619 Not | italics are marked with underbars~These are left in for the
3620 XXVI | stuffed monkey, fish chowder, underdone ‘possum, and raccoon steaks.
3621 XVIII | of temperature the earth undergoes in the lapse of a century.
3622 XXI | Honorable J. T. Maston was undergoing the greatest excitement
3623 XVIII | replied Barbicane, “I did not undertake this journey in order to
3624 XX | America.~It was a great undertaking, due to the instigation
3625 XXII | observed that insane persons underwent an accession of their disorder
3626 XVIII | to the secretary of the underwriters at Liverpool, requesting
3627 XIX | satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration.
3628 Not | ending was accepted by undisputed “majority rule”~><aluminum
3629 Not | removing the page numbers, undoing all the >hyphenation, and
3630 II | bolts. The screws being undone, and the bolts let go, the
3631 XIV | Fourier wrong. That was the undoubted temperature of the starry
3632 XXVI | Columbiad.~An appalling unearthly report followed instantly,
3633 XIV | intervention of its layers unequally dense and of different degrees
3634 V | single point of her surface unexplored; and notwithstanding that
3635 II | which in this void of ether unfavorable to diffusion did not eclipse
3636 XXII | disheartening. They thought of those unfortunates shut up in the projectile
3637 II | Ardan, “do not let us be ungrateful to it. Since we are leaving
3638 XXVII | between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky
3639 XII | of President Barbicane, unique in the annals of gunnery,
3640 XXVIII| travelers (if still alive) uniting their efforts with the lunar
3641 XVI | as he was in a circle of unknowns which he could not unravel.~
3642 | unlikely
3643 XXI | memorandum book, while his unloaded rifle lay beside him on
3644 III | benches, and compelled the unlucky director to alter his playbill.
3645 XV | this volcano in eruption, unmistakably seen by these earthly savants,
3646 VIII | fields!”~“You rascal, you unmitigated rascal,” replied Barbicane, “
3647 XX | lieutenant, who was quite unmoved. “Unfortunately direct news
3648 I | occasionally cut in two some unoffending pedestrians. These inventions,
3649 XXI | formidable hook rendered very unpleasant.~At this moment Belfast’
3650 XVI | unknowns which he could not unravel.~Neither of the travelers
3651 VI | and commented upon with unreserved approval.~Until that time
3652 XV | These artificial clouds unrolled their thick spirals to a
3653 XV | toward the central well, unrolling their incandescent curves.
3654 XI | every useless dream, every unsatisfied desire is at length absorbed,
3655 II | bring their experiment to an unsuccessful and fatal termination. His
3656 XII | their liberality; others untied their purse-strings with
3657 XXVIII| spaces. He watched with untiring patience the passage of
3658 XIV | the upper hand of these untoward streams; only, in consequence
3659 XXVI | whatever denoted that any unusual matter preoccupied his mind.~
3660 XX | returned the unknown, unwilling to give in.~“No! but at
3661 II | Perhaps the projectile was unwinding its course through space.
3662 XXII | his companions, no longer upheld by the excitement of the
3663 XV | destiny of the lunar world was uppermost. He was seeking to combine
3664 XVII | subside. Circles, craters, and uprooted mountains succeeded each
3665 XII | If the map were turned upside down, showing the moon as
3666 XVI | some new light on their uranographic studies. About five o’clock,
3667 XI | Franklin, Ross, Kane, Dumont, d’Urville, and Lambert have never
3668 X | Without touching upon its uselessness in all points of view, he
3669 Not | longer than 80 character, usually because I have >inserted
3670 XIX | presented in such a way as to utilize the whole of the recoil
3671 I | marks of their indisputable valor. Crutches, wooden legs,
3672 XII | Montevideo, Private Bank.~At Valparaiso and Lima, Thomas la Chambre
3673 II | recalled their attention to the vanishing globe.~“Yes,” said Michel
3674 I | out, so many difficulties vanquished? It’s mere waste of time!
3675 XV | lining in the form of dense vapor-clouds. These artificial clouds
3676 II | longer filtered through the vapory atmosphere of the terrestrial
3677 XIX | life in security from all variations of temperature. You will,
3678 VI | knew that this altitude varies according to the latitude
3679 XXVI | Babel re-enacted. All the various classes of American society
3680 XII | one be surprised at the vastness of the amount. The work
3681 XXI | clouds which obstinately veiled her during the night.~What,
3682 XXVI | pouch by his side, in loose velvet suit, cigar in mouth, was
3683 XII | her people. If she had had Venetia she would have done better;
3684 XXI | himself whether the captain’s vengeance had already been satisfied,
3685 XXI | was no human being, but a venomous spider, peculiar to that
3686 XV | hurled it upward through the vent-holes of the stone lining in the
3687 XV | of thunder. The powerful ventilators added their continuous blasts
3688 XX | if you are so good, who ventures to affirm that?~“The men
3689 VIII | planets, such as Mercury, Venus, or Mars, whose density
3690 XV | the dark horizon; but the verification of this phenomenon was of
3691 XXIII | Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire;
3692 III | shouted in their respective vernaculars; and the “vivas,” “hurrahs,”
3693 XVI | accurately bored, and exactly vertically pointed, was ready for work.
3694 XXI | the wood, there was not a vestige of them visible: so they
3695 XVII | by the first eruptions of Vesuvius and Etna, we find them little
3696 XIV | overflowed into the little vial soldered to the lower part
3697 XV | itself, these tremendous vibrations resembling the shock of
3698 V | these atoms which, by their vibratory motion, produce both light
3699 XXI | if possible to save the victim from its cobweb prison.
3700 I | battle returned the number of victims at ten-fold the quantity
3701 XIV | strange” shadow so dear to Victor Hugo’s pen bound them on
3702 I | like them, carried off victories by dint of lavish expenditure
3703 X | iron-forger then believed himself victorious, and could not evince contempt
3704 XXVI | glimpse of the projectile victoriously cleaving the air in the
3705 XXVI | speedy exhaustion of the victualing powers of Florida, fricasseed
3706 XII | the two continents:~ At Vienna, with S. M. de Rothschild.~
3707 XIII | the Spanish breed, full of vigor and of fire, stood snorting
3708 II | divan, and began to rub vigorously. This means, used with judgment,
3709 XXIII | hitherto been made in anima vili. Whatever its scientific
3710 V | Yes.”~“Poets like Homer, Virgil, Milton, Lamartine, and
3711 XXIII | by Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and Indiana, and, after
3712 XXVI | Tennessee gentlemen and haughty Virginians conversed with trappers
3713 XVII | by the Gun Club had now virtually come to an end; and two
3714 X | conditions, as regards the visibility of the details of the disc,
3715 V | with an infinite range of vision, and placed in that unknown
3716 XXIII | savants had observed de visu, and under particular circumstances.
3717 IV | the moment of firing the visual radius applied to the moon
3718 VI | maintained that the entire vital system is subject to her
3719 XIX | estimate it. But no error could vitiate Barbicane’s calculations.
3720 III | respective vernaculars; and the “vivas,” “hurrahs,” and “bravos”
3721 VII | Nicholl.~“Hip! hip! hip!” vociferated Michel Ardan.~Then the president
3722 VIII | possess, a simple act of volition, a caprice, would bear us
3723 XIX | world, in spite of what Voltaire has said. She has but one
3724 XI | country, in fine, which voluntarily annexed itself to the United
3725 XXV | enclosure. Michel Ardan had volunteered to superintend the transport
3726 XX | midshipman, “I am ready!”~“Oh! volunteers will not be wanting,” answered
3727 VII | take a walk outside. What voluptuousness to float amid this radiant
3728 XVII | of irradiation, a crater vomiting rays. It was the tire of
3729 XIII | 27@ 7’ N. lat. and 5@ 7’ W. long. of the meridian of
3730 XIV | a spirit thermometer on Wafferdin’s system, which gives the
3731 II | mind, and it annuls the wager.”~“What is that?” asked
3732 X | Richmond Inquirer a series of wagers, conceived in these terms,
3733 XVI | rapidly carted away on railway wagons; and such was the ardor
3734 I | He is not sure!— and he waits for the moment when we are
3735 VII | in space, all sentimental walks beyond the projectile are
3736 XIII | magnificent trees fluttered and warbled a little world of brilliantly
3737 XVIII | would shut up in a lunatic ward, rather than within the
3738 XIV | singularly fortunate in warding off the epidemics common
3739 I | change all the conditions of warfare!”~“No! is it possible?”
3740 XIV | members of the Gun Club warmly congratulated their engineer
3741 V | But the sun?”~“The sun warms our projectile, which absorbs
3742 VII | leaves shoot at the first warmth of spring. They felt bewildered.
3743 XX | without breathing, for— I warn you for your own sake— there
3744 XII | forests, according to M. Warren de la Rue’s opinion, who
3745 IX | minutes in nitric acid, then washing it in water, then drying
3746 I | difficulties vanquished? It’s mere waste of time! The New World seems
3747 XXVIII| friend, Joseph T. Maston, was wasting his time, while leaning
3748 XXVIII| hidden from the eyes of the watchers for several nights.~The
3749 XIV | sensation drew them from their watchings. This was an intense cold,
3750 VII | rarefied an atmosphere, and water-courses emptying the mountain tributaries.
3751 XXVII | hurricane rushed like a water-spout through the air.~Not a single
3752 XIII | it? No struggles with the water-springs, which will save us long
3753 XXIII | water, intended to support a water-tight wooden disc, which worked
3754 III | sherry-cobbler before him down to the waterman who got drunk upon his “
3755 XXVI | cotton-planters, brokers, merchants, watermen, magistrates, elbowed each
3756 VII | first quality.” The little watery vapor enclosed in the projectile
3757 XIX | by a graceful bow; then, waving his hands to request silence,
3758 XVIII | changes; “and we are only like weak, silly women, compared with
3759 V | that it is 300,000 times weaker than that of the sun, and
3760 XIII | glorious beauties of this wealth of nature. President Barbicane,
3761 XVI | proposition, the enormous weapon, accurately bored, and exactly
3762 II | over their brain. Was it weariness of body and mind? No doubt;
3763 XXI | north-northeast, and the corvette, wearing, steered at full steam direct
3764 XX | pitching and rolling like a weatherbeaten ship. But the two heros
3765 XI | Comalites, San Ignacio on the Web, Rio Grande City on the
3766 X | Monitor, the Tennessee, the Weehawken discharged enormous projectiles
3767 III | newspapers and journals, daily, weekly, monthly, or bi-monthly,
3768 XIV | hemisphere, the other to Wega in the northern. Imagination
3769 XII | Lambert.~At Madrid, Daniel Weisweller.~At Amsterdam, Netherlands
3770 XXII | results and caused the most well-grounded hopes of success. Barbicane,
3771 VI | it from the stars.”~Some well-intentioned, but rather obstinate persons,
3772 XXI | contradictions rained like hail, the well-known irritability of the secretary
3773 I | grew luxuriantly in the well-manured fields, all mourning garments
3774 XXIV | of Magellan, follows the western coast of Southern America
3775 XXI | crossed the plains still wet with dew, and had taken
3776 I | plant tobacco and distill whale-oil.”~“What!” roared J. T. Maston, “
3777 XX | the entrance of an open wharf on Jones’ Fall.~The two
3778 III | Washington, Harrisburg and Wheeling, which converge at Baltimore,
3779 VI | grease the axles of the wheels? To prevent their heating,
3780 | whenever
3781 | whereas
3782 XXII | man.”~“But the how and the wherefore?” asked Barbicane.~“Well,
3783 | whereupon
3784 III | which converge at Baltimore, whirled away the heterogeneous population
3785 XVIII | little patches of yellowish whiskers upon full cheeks. Round,
3786 III | drunk with joy, gin, and whisky. Every one chattered, argued,
3787 VII | valuable metal possesses the whiteness of silver, the indestructibility
3788 XV | sword, some surrounded by a whitish cloud, and others leaving
3789 I | Ridiculous!” replied Tom Hunter, whittling with his bowie-knife the
3790 | whoever
3791 XXII | Francisco, seemed here in the wide ocean almost impossible.
3792 XII | 000 cruzados. It was the widow’s mite— eighty-six piastres;
3793 Not | reformating has been done. Line widoworphans have been painstakingly
3794 V | and 100 miles, and their width was about 1,600 yards. Astronomers
3795 XXI | Vice-President the Hon. Wilcome was in the act of reading
3796 XVIII | upon full cheeks. Round, wildish eyes, slightly near-sighted,
3797 III | their needles were acting wildly, that is without any constant
3798 XIII | East and West Florida,” “William’s Territory of Florida,”
3799 IX | large as chestnuts, made of willow charcoal, simply dried in
3800 III | interplanetary space, and wilt perhaps be the Eve of all
3801 XXI | captain, but he did not wince. Ardan went forward crying:~“
3802 VIII | to preclude any possible windage. So there will be no loss
3803 XIX | springs, summers, autumns, and winters; every Jovian may choose
3804 V | stationary. Then rising and wiping his forehead, on which large
3805 I | the electric spark on the wire which communicates with
3806 XXIII | York, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin; returning to the south
3807 V | being older than we, are wiser, and have not invented gunpowder.”~
3808 II | chivalrous, yet adventurous withal, and always bringing practical
3809 XVIII | atmosphere was rarefied, probably withdrawn by terrestrial attraction;
3810 XIV | depth they successively withdrew the blocks. The wheel then
3811 III | Barbicane; “the projectile withstood a very much higher temperature
3812 XVI | gratified. Most had counted upon witnessing the spectacle of the casting,
3813 XXVII | lastly, the crowd in general, woke up with frenzied cries. “
3814 VI | in which the “sun of the wolves” played a part; they recalled
3815 XXVI | upon the very ears, they wore an assortment of rings,
3816 XIV | welfare and health of his workpeople, and was singularly fortunate
3817 VI | himself knew, they began to worry themselves regarding her
3818 XXVI | thorough “Frenchman” (and worse, a “Parisian”) to the last
3819 VI | the superstitious. These worthies were not content merely
3820 XXIII | public was bound to respond worthily to the greatness of the
3821 VII | bathe oneself in it, to wrap oneself in the sun’s pure
3822 XXV | a dozen shrubs carefully wrapped up in straw to plant in
3823 II | pressure of the English wrench. These bolts were pushed
3824 XI | roared the Texas deputies. “A wretched little strip of country
3825 XIX | frightfully pale, his forehead wrinkled, and his lips contracted.~“
3826 XVIII | intelligent and furrowed with wrinkles like a newly-plowed field.
3827 XXVI | while upon shirt-fronts, wristbands, and neckties, upon every
3828 V | could swear it.”~“Comic writers like Arnal, and photographers
3829 IV | asked Barbicane.~“It is written in letters of fire,” said
3830 Not | pyroxyle sometimes with xile>~‘yle’ ending was accepted
3831 XXIV | CHAPTER XXIV~ THE TELESCOPE OF THE ROCKY
3832 XXV | CHAPTER XXV~ FINAL DETAILS~It was the
3833 XXVI | CHAPTER XXVI~ FIRE!~The first of December
3834 XXVII | CHAPTER XXVII~ FOUL WEATHER~At the moment
3835 XXVIII| CHAPTER XXVIII~ A NEW STAR~That very night,
3836 IX | French chemist, who called it xyloidine. In 1838 another Frenchman,
3837 IV | there you are, you eaters of x^1; you think you have said
3838 VII | paper, among which n^2 and x^2 frequently appeared, he
3839 XIII | abounding with pineapples and yams, tobacco, rice, cotton-plants,
3840 Not | maybe 18000 instead of 17000 yardssec?> ><30th degree of lunar
3841 | ye
3842 XVIII | s, and little patches of yellowish whiskers upon full cheeks.
3843 VIII | president, “I repeat what I said yesterday. Make yourselves easy; the
3844 XI | iron mines, in which the yield was fifty per cent. of pure
3845 Not | pyroxyle sometimes with xile>~‘yle’ ending was accepted by
3846 | yours
3847 II | table benches arranged in zigzag form, like the circumvallations
3848 XXV | regions to that of the torrid zone.~Ardan wished to convey
3849 Not | umlaut.~All are removed.~>^2 means superscript 2. circumflex
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