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1 I | was hit.~Who were these two gentlemen? We do not know,
2 I | observed between one and two o’clock in the morning;
3 I | it had been seen between two and three o’clock; at Nice
4 I | few years ago between the two heirs of the Begum of Ragginahra,
5 II | undoubted boldness. They were two men made to understand each
6 II | T. Forbes, the father of two charming girls — Miss Dorothy,
7 II | of the United States.~On two boards of perfect whiteness
8 II | trigonometrical survey. That done, the two boards were erected on the
9 II | conference room, and the two candidates, each armed with
10 II | to discover which of the two competitors had most nearly
11 III | that the partisans of the two systems had almost come
12 IV | an insect weighing only two grammes, could lift a weight
13 IV | four hundred grammes, or two hundred times its own weight,
14 V | that was waiting for him.~Two of the most important balloonists—
15 V | most important balloonists—two only—did not seem to think
16 V | subject which had set the two colleagues at loggerheads.~
17 V | across from under the trees, two onto Uncle Prudent, two
18 V | two onto Uncle Prudent, two onto Phil Evans, two onto
19 V | Prudent, two onto Phil Evans, two onto Frycollin—there was
20 V | was no need for the last two, for the Negro was incapable
21 VI | Evans. “We are now only two men agreed to avenge ourselves
22 VI | were thrown in here only two minutes elapsed. It is thus
23 VI | attempt on the liberty of two citizens of the United States.”~“
24 VI | Now to work.” And then the two men, with their hands stretched
25 VI | answered the Negro between two of his lugubrious howls.~“
26 VI | might be used to prolong two existences more precious
27 VII | to move through the air. Two centuries and a half afterwards
28 VII | idea of an apparatus with two screws, suspensive and propulsive.
29 VII | reasons, had rejected the two first.~The ornithopter,
30 VII | apparatus depended on these two movements, as will be seen
31 VII | instead of sails bore each two horizontal screws, not very
32 VII | on horizontal axes, were two propelling screws, each
33 VII | Turner, an engineer and two assistants, two steersman
34 VII | engineer and two assistants, two steersman and a cook—eight
35 VIII | ascend to higher zones. The two propellers were running
36 VIII | of the ship was great the two colleagues could only estimate
37 VIII | But we only left Quebec two hours ago!”~“That proves
38 VIII | the ground.~It was almost two hours before Robur appeared.
39 VIII | were transmitted to the two assistant engineers in the
40 VIII | the tour of the globe in two hundred hours, or less than
41 VIII | beneath the cranium of these two Anglo-Saxon heads there
42 VIII | conversation which he had begun two hours before.~“Gentlemen,”
43 VIII | Go-Ahead” against her!”~The two colleagues shrugged their
44 IX | and Phil Evans had found two excellent berths, with clean
45 IX | else he was asleep, and the two colleagues sat down to breakfast
46 IX | northern frontier in less than two hours and a half; and they
47 X | feet round and more than two hundred feet high.~Robur
48 X | all the jealousy of the two enemies of “lighter than
49 X | locomotion.~In less than two hours and a half they were
50 XI | force. But as they were only two—for Frycollin could only
51 XI | night appeared to be to the two friends! How eager they
52 XI | himself with bowing to his two guests as he passed them
53 XI | ship in sight—of that the two colleagues soon assured
54 XI | out a small harpoon with two branches, which fastened
55 XI | Chinese or Japanese, the two friends had made up their
56 XI | gave off into space.~The two colleagues were out on the
57 XII | Leaning over the rail, the two colleagues, as the engineer
58 XII | wall which divides it into two parts—the Manchu town, and
59 XII | India from the north. The two northern ones, between which
60 XII | orographical system! More than two hundred summits have been
61 XIII | still there, although the two towns founded by the Macedonian
62 XIII | peculiar rig—kesebeys, with two masts; kayuks, the old pirate-boats,
63 XIII | twenty-five miles long and two hundred wide, because the
64 XIII | great that about half-past two o’clock Robur witnessed
65 XIII | the crest of the waves. In two or three seconds the deck
66 XIV | Albatross” it was during the two days that followed. It may
67 XIV | the banks of the Neva at two o’clock in the morning.~
68 XIV | hurt you too much? That two hours hanging cured you
69 XIV | document what had become of the two victims of Robur the Conqueror!~
70 XIV | Invalides. She hovered over the two minarets of the Trocadero
71 XIV | Albatross” were turned on. Two brilliant sheaves of light
72 XIV | pass over the eternal city. Two hours afterwards she crossed
73 XIV | explained to the people of the two worlds. Thus was peace given
74 XV | away beneath their wings.~Two hours after sunset the helm
75 XV | frontier of the Sudan. About two o’clock in the afternoon
76 XV | most singular chance the two Americans could boast of
77 XV | stay there for a day or two?”~Such a proposal could
78 XV | Oh, quite an arsenal.”~“Two revolvers will do, if I
79 XV | particularly pleasing to the two friends, whose chances of
80 XV | short-bladed dagger, and two antelope horns fixed to
81 XV | his honor.~It was about two o’clock when the “Albatross”
82 XVI | Atlantic! The fears of the two colleagues were realized;
83 XVI | from one another, tracing two furrows of light. As night
84 XVIII| torrents of rain. It was two o’clock in the morning.
85 XVIII| passed the prime meridian. Two luminous points then showed
86 XVIII| Albatross.” There were the two volcanos of the Ross Mountains—
87 XVIII| hid from their view the two colossal torches which light
88 XVIII| the long polar night.~At two o’clock in the morning Balleny
89 XVIII| got firmly fixed between two large blocks. The cable
90 XIX | a conical mountain about two hundred feet high.~No natives
91 XIX | the taut cable. But the two propellers had suffered,
92 XIX | degrees south of X Island, or two thousand eight hundred miles.”~“
93 XIX | is to be done with those two gentlemen and their servant?”~“
94 XIX | It will be seen that the two colleagues were agreed on
95 XIX | dined together as usual. Two hours afterwards they retired
96 XIX | canister containing about two pounds of dynamite, enough
97 XX | the day was out! But in two hours the “Albatross” would
98 XX | At a few minutes after two the first part of the work
99 XX | said Robur, “It is about two hours and a half since we
100 XX | we have to stop a day or two on the island —”~“We’ll
101 XXI | complete disappearance of these two considerable personages
102 XXI | passed. Then a week, then two weeks, and there was nothing
103 XXI | what had happened to the two personages for whom the
104 XXI | no doubt these were the two men, and not their shadows.
105 XXI | their adventures, and in two weeks landed in New Zealand.~
106 XXI | follows: we are going to use two screws, one at each end
107 XXII | these extraordinary men?~Why two and not three? Why not Frycollin?
108 XXII | William T. Forbes with his two daughters on his arm. All
109 XXIII| broken, her deck smashed in two, had been apparently annihilated.~
110 XXIII| English three-master, the “Two Friends,” bound for Melbourne,
111 XXIII| a tempest of cheers.~The two colleagues, profoundly humiliated,
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