Chapter
1 Note | in voyaging through the air as in journeying “Twenty
2 III | keen and black; a natural air of daring courage; in fine,
3 III | him? Travel through the air! There, now, he’s jealous
4 III | but passing high up in the air, doctor, there’s the rub!”~“
5 III | prevented long journeys in the air.”~“My dear Dick, I have
6 VI | crossing Africa through the air, for Joe the thing was already
7 VII | to convey him through the air—was the constant object
8 VII | times lighter than common air. The production of this
9 VII | by a displacement of the air amounting to forty-four
10 VII | forty-seven cubic feet of air weigh about four thousand
11 VII | hydrogen gas, instead of common air—the former being fourteen
12 VII | should one burst in the air, he could, by throwing out
13 VII | hold to the currents of air as a half-inflated one must
14 VIII | too violent currents of air threaten to carry me out
15 VIII | motionless with reference to the air that surrounds it. What
16 IX | you. Then you have to take air along in bottles, so as
17 IX | similarity between the two cases. Air is infinitely less dense
18 X | accomplish this by compressing air in an inner receptacle.
19 X | You know how it acts. The air of the apartments is forced
20 X | 1614 more cubic feet of air, which will increase its
21 X | it displaces a weight of air exactly equal to that of
22 X | exact equilibrium with the air, and neither mounts nor
23 X | temperature of the surrounding air by means of my cylinder.
24 XI | of the trip through the air. Every one looked forward
25 XI | who was to ascend into the air, was received with rage.
26 XII | Night under a Nopal.~The air was pure, the wind moderate,
27 XII | against this monster of the air that swept along so majestically
28 XII | last, for the keen, open air had mightily sharpened his
29 XII | they see us sailing in the air? I’m sure they must feel
30 XII | Victoria sped through the air, skimming the summits of
31 XIII | feel the effect of pure air and sunshine.”~“There’s
32 XIII | I bring Dick into good air, as the doctors do, every
33 XIII | mouths and ears. Respirable air was wanting. Some years
34 XIII | balloon to keep it in the air. Meanwhile the wind had
35 XIV | Kanyeme.—A Night in the Open Air.—The Mabunguru.—Jihoue-la-Mkoa.—
36 XIV | every draught, raised in the air with quick and sudden motion
37 XIV | a gun rang out upon the air.~“What’s that?” exclaimed
38 XIV | swaying to and fro in the air.~“Ha!” said Joe, halting, “
39 XIV | sought for a current of air at different heights, and,
40 XIV | profoundly silent in the upper air.~Dick and Joe stretched
41 XIV | majestically soared into the air.~It was then about one hundred
42 XIV | devoured the least breath of air, the balloon was floating
43 XV | appear well disposed; the air is calm; there is not a
44 XV | upon the walls, and the air could, therefore, circulate
45 XV | For a divinity, he had the air of a very clever sort of
46 XV | astride of it through the air.~The stupefaction of the
47 XVI | sensible that this state of the air portends a struggle of the
48 XVI | crocodiles snuffing the air aloud!”~“They’re choking!”
49 XVI | impending storm: the thickened air actually seemed no longer
50 XVI | possible of the rarefied air. “We are not moving an inch!
51 XVI | noise, hissed through the air and rattled on the covering
52 XVI | trifling distance up in the air. It’s a fine sight!”~
53 XVII | shrill cry rang through the air, and the following phrases,
54 XVII | twirling his trunk in the air, and finally fell with all
55 XVIII | waved his bark hat in the air. Kennedy took aim at him,
56 XX | the gantlet through the air. Tossed at one moment toward
57 XX | could have gardens up in the air; and the small house-owners
58 XX | they’d haul us through the air!”~“The thing has been seriously
59 XX | fighting furiously, and the air was dotted with volleys
60 XXI | clouds, but not a breath of air was stirring; and the balloon,
61 XXI | almost motionless in the air.~In the mean time the doctor
62 XXII | imperceptible breath of air impelled the balloon directly
63 XXII | three hundred feet into the air, amid the howlings of the
64 XXII | arms outstretched in the air, and presently dashed to
65 XXII | delight the keen morning air.~“How do you feel to-day?”
66 XXIII | difficult, and he asked for air. The curtains were drawn
67 XXIII | said Joe, with a contrite air.~“Listen! I will take the
68 XXIII | was carried up into the air. But it was impossible to
69 XXIII | but the hunter put on the air of a man who could do nothing
70 XXIV | held here suspended in the air at a dead calm.~“Let us
71 XXV | there was no current of air in their collected mass.~
72 XXV | from them, floating in the air with its car and its aeronauts.
73 XXV | the mean time, for this air is stifling?”~“Let us drink
74 XXVI | order to sustain him in the air? He had gained a little
75 XXVII | toward them through the air from the southeast, with
76 XXVII | when he bounded through the air; but he had not touched
77 XXVIII | it was with the gravest air imaginable that he wrote
78 XXVIII | weight with him through the air, and gave him his choice
79 XXVIII | rain of fire filled the air. This was the most intense
80 XIX | the Arabs, perfumed the air up to the height where the
81 XXX | cloth stretched in the open air, on large trunks of trees.~
82 XXX | and shot to and fro in the air like rockets, forming a
83 XXXI | Hurrah for trips in the air!” cried Joe. “Here we are
84 XXXII | and, besides, a little air could be felt over this
85 XXXII | gunshot, and were making the air ring with their hoarse cries.
86 XXXII | their country up in the air, or daring to fly like themselves!”~“
87 XXXII | They swept through the air in rapid, fantastic curves,
88 XXXII | ocean! For travellers in the air, this situation is just
89 XXXII | thousand feet up in the air!”~At this moment, one of
90 XXXII | a thousand feet into the air, and the wind, burying itself
91 XXXIII | be off again through the air.”~“But, should the wind
92 XXXIII | two hundred feet into the air. It seemed to hesitate at
93 XXXIV | three hundred feet into the air, and took her route directly
94 XXXIV | go whirling through the air, impelled by opposing currents.~
95 XXXV | green trees, when a puff of air strongly impregnated with
96 XXXV | lake, like a monster of the air. They were the distant witnesses
97 XXXVI | and fifty feet into the air.~Joe clung with all his
98 XXXVIII| seen sweeping through the air, and, off on the horizon,
99 XL | sought for other currents of air at different heights, but
100 XL | They are the prawns of the air,” said Joe, who added that
101 XLII | load to carry through the air.”~“But then, Samuel, how
102 XLII | weight, rose upright in the air and tugged strongly at the
103 XLII | a thousand feet into the air.~Frightful yells resounded
104 XLII | caught in a current of air that rose with the dawn
105 XLIII | Cataracts of Gouina.—The Hot Air.—The Passage of the River.~“
106 XLIII | musketry pealed out on the air.~“Too far, you fools!” bawled
107 XLIII | absolutely, get higher into the air.”~“What can we throw out?”
108 XLIII | and rebounding through the air. A strange sight it was
109 XLIII | and floated loosely in the air, and the folds of the silk
110 XLIII | cross the river with hot air!”~“Ah, doctor,” exclaimed
111 XLIII | inflate a balloon with hot air. A head of one hundred and
112 XLIII | diminish the weight of the air it contains to the extent
113 XLIII | shall have her full of hot air.”~“Here it is, doctor!”~
114 XLIV | his journey through the air, and obtained for himself
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