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1 I | appeared a sort of huge bird, an aerial monster, whose
2 IV | aviation, who urge that the bird only sustains himself by
3 IV | for flying machines. The bird flies, and he is not a balloon,
4 IV | replied Phil Evans. “But the bird has no helix; that we know!”~“
5 IV | shown that in reality the bird makes a helix, and its flight
6 VII | Esterno and his mechanical bird, Groof and his apparatus
7 VII | natural laws, to imitate the bird, “that admirable type of
8 VII | ornithopter, or mechanical bird, offers certain advantages,
9 VII | striking like the wings of a bird—raised itself by beating
10 X | speed of her wings, as a bird rising in its flight, the “
11 X | enormous beetle or a gigantic bird of prey. She headed off,
12 XI | stop? She was not like a bird which grows fatigued by
13 XII | sank, or else fell like a bird shot through both wings,
14 XIII | want to get out! I am not a bird! Boohoo! I don’t want to
15 XV | blade surmounted by a metal bird, whose weight rendered the
16 XVI | waves like the powerful bird whose name she bore. If
17 XIX | smash the wings of this bird of Robur’s! This night I
18 XXII | growing larger. Was it a bird beating with its wings the
19 XXIII| It was he who like a huge bird of prey was going to strike
20 XXIII| of raft. When a wounded bird falls on the waves its wings
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