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1 I | physiognomy. His arms were long, and his feet were planted
2 III | conjectured, but which were too long for us to repeat.~“Well,
3 III | that has always prevented long journeys in the air.”~“My
4 IV | to languish, during eight long months, under vexations
5 IV | Christian in the city could not long be tolerated, and the Foullans
6 V | absolute silence. For a long time past he had been applying
7 VI | hare-brained person; he takes a long time to think over what
8 VII | Summing up.~Dr. Ferguson had long been engaged upon the details
9 VIII | gentleman’s admirers for a long time. Bennet was rather
10 VIII | the expedition.~During the long, unoccupied hours of the
11 VIII | does, indeed.”~“But how long do you think my trip is
12 VIII | mistaken. Were it to be a long one, we should be lost;
13 IX | to be but the first of a long series of superhuman expeditions.~“
14 IX | only nine hours and a half long—a good thing for the lazy
15 IX | sailors.~Thus passed the long evenings on the forecastle
16 IX | and an obstacle only for long journeys, and not for short
17 XI | communicate again for a long time.~“Those are perils
18 XI | was killed by thrusting a long needle into its heart. But,
19 XII | Oh! it won’t take us long to do the cooking—biscuit
20 XIII | A violent shower was not long in drenching our travellers.
21 XIII | we shall not remain here long; so let’s be off.”~Thanks
22 XIII | cocoa-nut-trees of that latitude.~Ere long, the crests of a mountain-range
23 XIII | Shall we go this high very long?” asked Joe.~“The atmosphere
24 XIV | minutes.”~“Oh! that won’t take long,” said Kennedy, going to
25 XIV | gradually rising, and, ere long, the barometer indicated
26 XV | idleness.~They have, for a long period, held the commerce
27 XV | first; but they won’t be long in coming back, either through
28 XV | pretensions to being carved. Long lines of dark-red clay decorated
29 XV | the cutlass, the “sima,” a long sabre (also with saw-like
30 XV | well made, too, under the long robes that they wore gracefully
31 XVI | shrubbery and undergrowth.~Ere long, the Malagazeri, the chief
32 XVI | rain.~“We have delayed too long,” exclaimed the doctor; “
33 XVII | northerly direction. For a long while his quest was fruitless;
34 XVII | foresight of the doctor was not long in bringing its reward;
35 XVII | Kazeh.”~“Shall we keep on long in this way?” inquired the
36 XVII | flung out from the car, ere long began to sweep the grass
37 XVII | breaker.~“We might proceed a long time in this style,” remarked
38 XVII | The elephant uttered a long bellow of terror and agony,
39 XVII | potted meat was enough for a long trip, and there was nothing
40 XVII | surrounding landscape, with its long prairie stretching away
41 XVIII | lake so much desired and so long sought for, of which Captain
42 XVIII | grand secret which has so long remained impenetrable. Near
43 XVIII | to that extent, were not long in falling into sound slumber,
44 XVIII | the appearance of certain long swells that followed the
45 XXI | gaze into space.~It was not long before he thought he could
46 XXI | among the foliage, and ere long Joe seized Kenedy’s hand
47 XXI | bedaub their bodies.~Ere long, two heads appeared to the
48 XXII | thirty years or more, with long black hair, half naked,
49 XXII | disturbed. It was really a long stupor, broken only by an
50 XXII | s request, talked to him long and fully about France.
51 XXII | length, during two more long years, he traversed these
52 XXIII | rage that came over him at long intervals; “and to think
53 XXIII | You would not have to look long among those fissures of
54 XXIII | fragments, and Kennedy was not long in following his example.~“
55 XXIV | aeronauts felt that, ere long, an immensity of sand would
56 XXIV | space around him during that long wearisome day. Nothing could
57 XXIV | horizontal rays stretched in long lines of fire over the flat
58 XXV | thing, anyhow!”~But ere long this picture began to fade
59 XXV | the eastward, extended a long line of whitened bones;
60 XXVI | last extremity.~It was not long, however, before Joe exclaimed:~“
61 XXVII | scorching waste to drink long draughts, and rose again
62 XXVIII | hunger or thirst, will travel long distances, and I think that,
63 XXVIII | wouldn’t have to be coaxed long to eat the Scotchman’s raw
64 XIX | seen yet.”~“It will not be long before we see them,” said
65 XIX | lamantines, twelve feet long, with bodies like seals,
66 XIX | Hamburger. It will not be long, either, before we arrive
67 XIX | and populous villages of long low huts stretched away
68 XIX | upon the sloping plain. Ere long, he returned with half a
69 XXX | inch. He merely grasped his long musket, cocked it, and proudly
70 XXX | disappeared from the horizon long ere this, and the Mandara
71 XXX | in Africa, and it was not long ere he there met his death.
72 XXX | Some boats, fifty feet long, were descending the current
73 XXX | cylinder, and we’ll not be long in descending.”~Half an
74 XXX | ballast, and Ferguson was not long at guessing the truth. Thousands
75 XXXI | existence of which was so long consigned to the realms
76 XXXI | of the water, which was long believed to be salt. There
77 XXXIII | doctor, I shall not be long absent.”~Hereupon, Kennedy
78 XXXIII | and strode through the long grass toward a thicket not
79 XXXIII | aroused Kennedy.~“I have been long and carefully considering
80 XXXIII | swooped down close to the long pirogues that navigated
81 XXXIV | of sand streaked with the long tracks of the many caravans
82 XXXIV | spectacle of destruction.~Ere long the sand had accumulated
83 XXXIV | ocean-billows after a storm; a long succession of hillocks,
84 XXXV | disconcerted him; and therefore, so long as he was in the open lake,
85 XXXV | awakened the sleeper. Ere long this dampness became water,
86 XXXV | looked vainly during all that long, fatiguing day of sore foot-travel,
87 XXXV | mosquitoes, ants half an inch long, literally covered the ground;
88 XXXVII | villages are constructed of long reeds interwoven with branches
89 XXXVII | of the blow-pipe, and not long afterward was comfortably
90 XXXVII | had rapidly passed over a long reach of country, and Kennedy
91 XXXVII | his aerial journey amid a long wake of golden morning sunshine.~
92 XXXVIII| hundred and eighty miles of a long and monotonous day’s journey.~
93 XXXVIII| to the westward.~“And how long will it take us to get there?”~“
94 XXXVIII| remarked Joe, pointing to a long file of animals and men
95 XXXVIII| may judge from that how long it takes them to cross Sahara,
96 XXXVIII| crossed by the natives on long vines stretched from tree
97 XXXVIII| haunts.~“It will not be long before we see the Niger,”
98 XXXVIII| discovered?” asked Joe.~“Long since,” replied the doctor. “
99 XXXVIII| the consequences of his long fatigues. They thought they
100 XLIX | and gliding between the long lines of falling rain, descended
101 XLIX | them with watchful eyes.~Long files of camels and asses
102 XLIX | under the noble trees. Ere long, an amphitheatre of low-built
103 XLIX | course of the river, and, ere long, Timbuctoo was nothing more
104 XLIX | lies stretched out all day long in his hammock, he gets
105 XLI | town of Sego, which was a long time threatened. In 1857
106 XLI | last?”~“Yes, I have for a long time been thinking over
107 XLII | back and slumbered.~How long he had been buried in this
108 XLIII | said the doctor, after a long silence.~“See what’s gained
109 XLIII | lances, and others with long muskets, and they were following,
110 XLIII | would have been out of sight long ago.”~“The rascals follow
111 XLIII | to the bullets from their long guns; and, if they were
112 XLIII | pores of the covering.~Ere long the car was once more grazing
113 XLIII | vegetation. It was made up of long slopes and stony plains,
114 XLIV | we shall be enabled ere long to verify, in turn, the
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