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501 IV | Institute shouts, yells, and catcalls were not interruptions,
502 XIII | Albatross.”~But the best catches were made with the drag-nets,
503 VIII | North America. There are the cathedrals. There is the Custom House
504 VIII | above, looked like a vast cauldron in ebullition, throwing
505 VII | guidable kite, and George Cauley with his flying machines
506 XIII | vinegar, and white wine form caviar. Sturgeons from the river
507 I | old Casa Inglesi, at Monte Cavo, the observers made no hesitation
508 XI | that portion of America ceded by Russia to the United
509 XXII | experiment. The system of cellular balloons—analogous to the
510 XVIII| bound to the mainland by a cement of ice.~And the “Albatross”
511 I | been produced from many centers in the terrestrial atmosphere,
512 IX | thermometer only falls a degree centigrade for every seventy meters
513 VII | seven, more elevated, in the centre. The “Albatross” might be
514 VII | move through the air. Two centuries and a half afterwards inventors
515 XVI | without any of the Neptunian ceremonies that still linger on certain
516 VIII | did not care to stand upon ceremony, A meal would commit them
517 XI | Turner, as the back of a cetacean emerged from the surface
518 IX | clock in the morning.~A few chains of hills, “bluffs” as they
519 XIV | and the metal tower of the Champ de Mars, where the enormous
520 VIII | was indeed the old city of Champlain, whose zinc roofs were shining
521 V | reached him.~In short it so chanced that the president and secretary
522 I | rhythm, the chorus of the Chant du Départ.~“Good,” said
523 X | with one of those enormous characteristic heads that Hogarth rejoiced
524 I | and the same frankness characterized the replies from the observatory
525 XIII | cook’s kettle without any charge for transport.~An hour’s
526 XIII | difference in the electric charges of the various beds of cloud.
527 VII | their fire-balloon, and Charles, the physician, had devised
528 II | Forbes, the father of two charming girls — Miss Dorothy, called
529 X | it surpassed that of the chasing wind. Soon she was in Nevada
530 IX | insupportable. And so, in chatting and thinking and waiting
531 XIV | would henceforth be able to check the speed of the “Albatross,”
532 VII | compasses, and sextants for checking the course, thermometers
533 XXI | president and secretary, and cheered them again and again. Jem
534 XIV | there mounted the noisy cheering of the crowd then thick
535 IX | fragments of pachyderms, chelonians, and even, some would have
536 III | from its inventor, a Boston chemist up to then unknown. Calculations
537 XII | Wall in the neighborhood of Chen-Si. Then, avoiding the Lung
538 XV | the desolate tablelands of Chetka scattered their ballast
539 XV | the grand marabout Sidi Chick.~Before night several hundred
540 III | to the curious name was chiefly due to the Weldon Institute
541 XVI | sighted Puerto Arena, a small Chilean village, at the moment the
542 XVII | last.~“Fifty miles from the Chili coast and the Chonos Archipelago,”
543 VI | nor a church tower, nor a chimney?”~“Nothing but space.”~As
544 VII | Robur. But it was in the choice and application of his motive
545 XVI | had the engineer come to choose it? Was he expected by a
546 XI | She can leave it when she chooses. The whole of space is hers.”
547 XXII | day could not have been chosen for an aeronautic experiment.~
548 XIV | Norway in the latitude of Christiania. Ten hours only for these
549 XVI | barometers, thermometers, and chronometers, and making full entries
550 XVI | village, at the moment the churchbells were in full swing; and
551 I | intervened the observatory at Cincinnati, founded in 1870, on Mount
552 VI | vigorous rubbing restored the circulation. A moment after he had slipped
553 XV | DAHOMEY~At this point in the circumnavigatory voyage of the “Albatross”
554 XVIII| Albatross” crossed into the circumpolar region. By what meridian
555 XVIII| and this was a favorable circumstance for the maneuver he desired
556 IX | imaginary ruins of medieval cities with forts and dungeons,
557 I | observation. All of them claimed to have seen it the same
558 XVI | waters consists, the Atlantic claims about a quarter; and it
559 XIX | fugitives one after the other clambered over the side and, seizing
560 XIII | feet above the sea when a clap of thunder was heard. Suddenly
561 XV | bells struck with an iron clapper, and bamboo flutes, whose
562 XXI | to subside in shouts and clappings; then he continued: “At
563 XVI | islands of the Archipelago. Clarence Island, Dawson Island, and
564 IX | buckle in the iron belt which clasps North America round the
565 IV | that would be thought first class even in an ostrich!”~They
566 XXI | discussions, the excitement of all classes of the Philadelphia population,
567 XIV | in less than twenty-three clays!~And now she was off over
568 IX | two excellent berths, with clean linen, change of clothes,
569 XI | which was resting against a cleat on the rail. He fired, and
570 XXIII| to save her crew!~And so cleverly did he handle his vessel
571 X | Some did not hesitate to climb on the roof to get a better
572 XX | extraordinary coolness, climbed up to the broken deck-house,
573 VI | even at the door. It was closely shut and it was impossible
574 XI | who was gradually getting closer.~Soon the aeronef was gliding
575 IX | with clean linen, change of clothes, and traveling-cloaks and
576 XVII | there was no scarcity of clothing on board, the colleagues,
577 XXI | presented himself in the club-room, insulted the balloonists,
578 V | reached the center of a wide clump of trees, whose summits
579 XVIII| Uncle Prudent and Phil Evans clung to the rail and wondered
580 XIII | companion beheld the superb city clustered along both banks of the
581 XI | the Negro by a vigorous clutch at the waist.~“Master Tapage!”
582 XII | artificial lakes, its mountain of coal which towers above the capital;
583 IV | opposition would glow like coals of fire; and above them
584 XIII | she was running along the coast-which formerly belonged to Turkestan,
585 XV | magnificent forests of palms, cocoa-trees, mimosas, orange-trees,
586 XVII | some food and five pints of coffee descended towards them.
587 VIII | Patterson company, with a cogged wheel, has done its eighty
588 XVIII| that the southern pole is colder than the northern one—a
589 XIV | Albatross,” like a huge coleopter, glided gently over the
590 XV | king’s palace. This huge collection of buildings is commanded
591 XIX | complain if they became colonists of X Island?”~But where
592 X | the auriferous lands of Colorado many leagues to the south.~
593 XXIII| from a height. An aerial combat was beginning in which there
594 VII | Landelle and his system of combining screws with inclined planes
595 XIV | He remained silent in a comer of his cabin, sleeping as
596 XXI | accommodated them in the most comfortable of their huts.~As they had
597 XV | such an apparatus at his command, with what facility could
598 III | obediently to the wishes of its commander.~The dynamo-electric machine,
599 XIX | superintendence. It was the best to commence with, in case the “Albatross”
600 XXI | became serious. Agitation commenced. A numerous crowd besieged
601 XXII | neighboring states; industrial and commercial life came to a standstill
602 XIV | so would have been simply committing suicide. To jump from an
603 XVIII| the center, where it was comparatively calm, and where they would
604 III | Twenty-five thousand cubic meters. Compare these three aerostats with
605 XXII | whale—not an inappropriate comparison, for the balloon was somewhat
606 VII | instruments of observation, compasses, and sextants for checking
607 IV | long enough; and so do not compel me to make you any longer
608 V | up the householders; they compelled them to search their houses,
609 XXI | Philadelphia, That is the compendious history of what had occurred
610 V | trials. But he had some compensation. Very little had been said
611 VIII | of the atmosphere, we can compete with an aerostat? Well,
612 II | discover which of the two competitors had most nearly approached
613 V | times had the inhabitants complained of the noisy way in which
614 V | proportions, never had the complaints been better founded, never
615 XIX | the repairs he reckoned on completing before the day was over.
616 VII | birds, whose action is so complex? Has not Doctor Marcy suspected
617 I | to end in international complications; but Russia, in the person
618 VIII | the air, and doubtless to compliment the inventor. And so he
619 XI | particularly vigorous men who composed the crew of the aeronef
620 IV | would have made the French composer groan in his grave.~As the
621 III | new pile was employed the composition of which was still a mystery,
622 XI | filled with an explosive compound, burst, and shot out a small
623 VII | turned hard as metal by compression, and — what was not to be
624 I | adjourn to breakfast?”~This compromise between the national airs
625 XV | aimed, Tom!” said Robur,~His comrades, armed as he was, stood
626 XIII | all the chances pro and con were run over in their heads.
627 VIII | valet Frycollin did not conceal his terror at finding himself
628 XIX | cabin, he had carefully concealed the cartridge with which
629 XI | he, “I have no reason for concealing from you that this town
630 XIX | thought over the matter. His conclusions were as follows. As soon
631 XXII | results might have been more conclusive. There had never been any
632 VII | springs to ease off the concussion when it became advisable
633 XV | keep them in his power and condemn them to perpetual aviation?
634 XVIII| cloud fell in. The vapor condensed in torrents of rain. It
635 XVII | him most hospitably, on condition that be acted as his assistant.
636 II | day in the center of the conference room, and the two candidates,
637 I | deal with. At any rate this confession was a frank one, and the
638 XVIII| country or the orographic configuration, and distinguish the hills
639 XIX | tide-marks, and this tended to confirm Robur in his opinion as
640 II | Weldon Institute. Chip was a confirmed vegetarian, a proscriber
641 IX | which no Tenderfoot would confound with the cry of a wild beast.~
642 II | replied half a hundred voices confounded in one.~“No! It ought to
643 XII | fortunately ran no risk of congelation. The screws, running at
644 XXI | was Frycollin, whom his congeners in their delirium had failed
645 XIV | on its bed of air like a Congreve rocket.~“And shall we last
646 XIX | northwest point there was a conical mountain about two hundred
647 IX | powerful fragrance of the conifers which rose floating. through
648 XXI | strong dose of imagination to connect one of these facts with
649 VII | whose three branches were connected by a metallic circle which
650 XVIII| hurricane! The tempest in Connecticut on the 22nd of March, 1882,
651 XXI | dreamt of establishing a connection between this singular reappearance
652 XVI | That he had broken off all connections with the inhabitants of
653 VIII | It is not worth while to conquer space if we cannot devour
654 XXII | majestically”—an adverb consecrated by custom to all aerostatic
655 I | agreement. Greenwich would not consent to the proposition of Oxford.
656 VIII | Rome. But that was of no consequence; there could be no doubt
657 XIX | exceptionally important consequences.~“Phil Evans,” said Uncle
658 XV | cannons; and another brigade, consisting of vestal virgins, pure
659 IV | of the Flying Saracen at Constantinople, of the monk Volador at
660 XIV | the North Sea, much to the consternation of the thousands of coasting
661 XIII | a word, everything that constitutes in men and material an army
662 IV | but thirty, and I have a constitution of iron, a healthy vigor
663 XVII | the engineer had frequent consultations with his mate. He and Tom
664 XX | more than a third was now consumed? And the spark that was
665 XIX | was a metallic canister containing about two pounds of dynamite,
666 VIII | he remained absorbed in contemplation.~When he raised his head
667 VII | apparatus? And though he had but contempt for those who obstinately
668 I | stepped up to the American.~“I contend, nevertheless, that it was ‘
669 XXI | constructing an engine capable of contending with this powerful machine
670 XV | explosively, “you are not content with being our jailer, but
671 XV | thousand warriors, one of the contigents of the royal army—and not
672 VIII | unfortunate Negro. Hence continual faintings. Only think! A
673 XI | case. he thought it best to continue his course through the fog.~“
674 XVIII| spot, so as to make sure of continuing his voyage.~In the morning
675 XIII | and writhing in a thousand contortions and grimaces.~“I want to
676 XIII | at his ease. But fright contracted his larynx, and he was mute.~
677 V | diminish as if endowed with the contractility peculiar to the mollusca
678 IV | and above them a permanent contraction of the superciliary muscle,
679 IV | and I do not permit any contradiction. I insist on these details,
680 IV | see how far this audacious contradictor would dare to go?~Robur
681 XXIII| today to withstand such contradictory and divided interests as
682 X | southwest.~Great was the contrast between the barren tract
683 XIII | remarks he indulged in—all contributed towards intensifying the
684 I | received the anonymous contribution hereunder.~“There will be
685 VII | thought that the simpler his contrivance the better. And the screws—
686 XI | directed the steersman. He thus controlled the aeronef in every way,
687 I | What nonsense!~But if the controversy was keen in the old world,
688 XIV | the numerous railways that converge into Paris. Then she glided
689 X | This vast dome, like a convex mirror, threw off the rays
690 XVI | locomotion they had such convincing proofs! The idea took such
691 XIII | were seen many columns and convoys, and, in a word, everything
692 V | and he was seized with convulsive fear, paralyzed in his limbs,
693 XVII | Frycollin seldom came out of the cook-house, where Tapage treated him
694 VII | dynamite cartridges; a cooking-stove, warmed by currents from
695 VIII | poetically described by Cooper. Then she followed the southern
696 XII | ellipsoid form clinging to a copper sky, and, on the opposite
697 VII | it is not necessary to copy Nature servilely. Locomotives
698 XXI | from rags, had received a cordial shake from Phil Evans who
699 XXI | she bore would be mangled corpses, which the ocean would not
700 I | question?”~Very ingenious, Mr. Correspondent on the “New York Herald!”
701 XVII | the southern hemisphere corresponds to the 24th of January in
702 I | the unaided existence of a cosmic phenomenon.~In a week the
703 XVI | should be able to build so costly a vessel as the “Albatross”
704 XV | five or six thousand men in cotton drawers and shirts, with
705 VI | inexplicable phenomenon.~“Couldn’t we get up to the window
706 XIV | would have been no time to count the towns and villages.
707 XI | ranged in line of battle, and countable by thousands.~Although they
708 XXI | had gone, and seemed to be counted as nothing. After the first
709 IV | to forget.”~This was a counter-thrust with a vengeance.~“Besides,”
710 III | from St. Louis to Jefferson county; the third, which ended
711 XV | royal army—and not the least courageous one. If it is doubtful if
712 XV | the elevations, fix the courses of the rivers and their
713 XV | shells.~The king and his court and army and people were
714 XV | in pieces.~In one of the courtyards which divide the king’s
715 XVIII| of snow, an icy carapace, covers up the polar surface. There
716 I | were almost simultaneous. A cow peacefully grazing fifty
717 V | enterprises, Frycollin’s cowardice had brought him many arduous
718 XIII | It is scandalous! It is cowardly!” said Uncle Prudent, quite
719 III | higher than Gay Lussac, Coxwell, Sivet, Crocé-Spinelli,
720 IV | Cabo-”~Four or five shots cracked out, fired into space. They
721 XIII | roar of the cannon and the crackling of musketry. But the engineer
722 VI | lamentable fashion, either with cramp in his stomach or in his
723 VIII | them. Evidently beneath the cranium of these two Anglo-Saxon
724 XVIII| harmlessly passed over the crater while it was in full eruption.~
725 VII | When will man cease to crawl in the depths to live in
726 VIII | across which a train was crawling from the Canadian to the
727 V | on a sort of plank that creaked beneath them. They were
728 XVI | aloft to escape from his creditors. As to knowing if he were
729 XIV | thing to leave the cabin and creep along the deck at the risk
730 XIV | Dunkirk came Doullens, Amiens, Creil, Saint Denis. She never
731 XIX | the door and noiselessly crept forward, intending to wake
732 XIII | only sixty feet from the crest of the waves. In two or
733 XXII | of the crowd were almost cricked as they gazed into the air.
734 XI | the bodies of its executed criminals gave off into space.~The
735 VII | left-handed; Smythies, Panafieu, Crosnier, &c. At length, in 1863,
736 X | Then numerous passengers crowded the gangways. Some did not
737 XII | save a couple of those crows which can rise to the utmost
738 XV | celebrated for the frightful cruelties which signalize its annual
739 VIII | heads there was a thick crust of obstinacy, which would
740 IX | would confound with the cry of a wild beast.~
741 X | were with obsidian and tiny crystals, reflecting the sunlight
742 XIX | that at the time of its culmination he could calculate his position.~
743 IX | him on all sides like a cup.~In a couple of hours the “
744 XIV | That two hours hanging cured you of it? At our present
745 XVIII| has hitherto defied human curiosity, There was not much inconvenience
746 XI | cross it at the end of the curve, if her course remained
747 XI | sight. And as the coast curves off from Vancouver Island
748 XV | approaching. Robur, who knew the customs of Dahomey, did not lose
749 VI | set free his rival. A few cuts with the bowie settled the
750 III | pieces. And in one of those cyclones which exceed a hundred yards
751 XI | are shaped as a metallic cylinder terminated by a cylindrical
752 XI | cylinder terminated by a cylindrical shell armed with a shaft
753 VIII | the strongest!”~“That is cynical.”~“But it is true.”~“And
754 XVI | trees-birches, beeches, ash-trees, cypresses, tree-ferns—and broad plains
755 VII | of Perugia, of Leonardo da Vinci and Guidotti, the
756 VII | madman Icarus, the son of Daedalus, whose wings, fixed together
757 XV | carbine, a short-bladed dagger, and two antelope horns
758 XVIII| thought, that he could repair damages during the day and start
759 XI | everything on board very damp.~All that was necessary
760 XV | harangues, palavers and dances, executed not only by professionals,
761 VII | Forlanini, Bearey, Tatin, Dandrieux, Edison, some with wings
762 VII | Achenbach, Garapon, Duchesne, Danduran, Pariesel, Dieuaide, Melkiseff,
763 XVIII| of the rudder.~Amid these dangers the engineer retained his
764 VII | Stringfellow, Prigent, Danjard, Pomés and De la Pauze,
765 VII | we find, in the works of Dante of Perugia, of Leonardo
766 V | the world would be have dared to break in on the conversation
767 XIII | in intensity as the sky darkened.~The “Albatross” and the
768 V | branches made the shadows darker than ever. Frycollin looked
769 VI | long-drawn sigh escaped from the darkest corner of the prison. “What
770 XV | hovering, and sometimes darting along at top speed. Soon
771 I | themselves opposed by those of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire,
772 X | slackening speed so as not to dash against the walls of the
773 XV | desert of which Felicien David has so poetically told us
774 XVI | Archipelago. Clarence Island, Dawson Island, and the Land of
775 XI | with sleeplessness, and dazed in their look, he tottered
776 IV | move. Had they become as deaf as they were patient? Or
777 XI | their cries were enough to deafen a congress. The “Albatross,”
778 VI | And he shall pay pretty dearly!”~“But who is this man?
779 IV | silence which accompanied it.~“Decidedly,” said he, “it was not Amerigo
780 XIX | stopping in the shadow of the deckhouses to listen if there was any
781 XXII | no part in the frenzied declamations that greeted the president
782 IV | Was not this hurling a declaration of war into the very camp
783 XXIII| said? Yes! He will come to declare the secret of his invention,
784 I | the right ascension and declination of the aforesaid body.~But
785 XXII | sufficient for his fame. He had declined the honor of accompanying
786 VIII | due to refraction as it decomposed the solar rays. The sight
787 IV | shown that the wing surface decreases in proportion to the increase
788 IV | Weldon Institute, which had decreed, helped, and paid for the
789 IV | curious formula has been deduced: If a kilogram of dog produces
790 V | moment had come for the deed of violence. In less time
791 XV | giving forth a husky note, deerskin drums, calabashes, guitars,
792 V | the Negro was incapable of defending himself. The president and
793 XVIII| whose secret has hitherto defied human curiosity, There was
794 XV | destined to accompany the defunct king into the other world.
795 XI | were of marvelous strength, defying all weakness and weariness.~
796 VII | by the Austrian Jacques Degen. In 1810 came the pamphlet
797 XI | cannot escape is always much delayed. It must not move unless
798 XIX | fitted. This was the most delicate part of the operation, for
799 XIII | made no secret of their delight at the change in their food
800 XXI | whom his congeners in their delirium had failed to dismember.~
801 XXI | machine, and no one able to deliver them!~The Niagara Falls
802 V | you had had the honor?” demanded Uncle Prudent.~“I would
803 IV | space?~This is what Robur I demonstrated with undeniable logic amid
804 IV | interrupted, interrupted not his demonstration. “Between these different
805 IV | to reply to me by a flat denial, and I shall be glad to
806 IV | tempest of protests and denials which lasted for three long
807 VII | 1810 came the pamphlet by Denian of Nantes, in which the
808 XIV | Doullens, Amiens, Creil, Saint Denis. She never left the line;
809 XI | Then there came a fog so dense that the aeronef had to
810 XVII | they were quite disposed to deny the evidence of their senses.~
811 I | the chorus of the Chant du Départ.~“Good,” said the Yankee
812 XIII | Caspian Sea is a volcanic depression. Into it flow the waters
813 XII | torrents fed by glaciers, depressions with glittering beds of
814 VII | inventions and researches of Derblinger, Vigual, Sarti, Dubochet,
815 I | distinguished the Bureau des Longitudes.~The provinces
816 VII | from the following detailed description, which can be divided under
817 XI | be thought of among the deserts of Eastern Asia, nor on
818 XV | If you have done it—you deserve —”~“What, sir?”~“To follow
819 V | about to treat him as he deserved, he had disappeared.~So
820 III | approaching more and more to that desideratum which is known as a steam
821 VII | perfected by him, and led him to design and then to build this flying
822 XV | no dotted lines, no vague designations which are the despair of
823 VII | the Marquis de Bacqueville designed a system of wings, tried
824 III | replied every voice.~“He desires to prove to us, it would
825 X | chance of speaking to Robur? Desirous of knowing why he had not
826 XVI | Island, and the Land of Desolation, straits and channels, capes
827 XIV | If ever Prudent and Evans despaired on escaping from the “Albatross”
828 XI | the poor fellow, giving a despairing look at the screws.~“At
829 XIII | said Evans. “If the case is desperate I don’t mind —”~“Nor I.
830 XVII | master of an aeronef might despise them. There was every sign
831 VII | and — what was not to be despised in an apparatus flying at
832 XXI | Ouverture, Soulouque, or Dessaline had so much talked about
833 XIX | equal to taking her to her destination, and under ordinary circumstances
834 VII | seen from the following detailed description, which can be
835 XIII | belongs to a scoundrel who detains us on board in defiance
836 I | and Le Léman, it had been detected just as the zenith was paling
837 II | same, for they have been determined with as much accuracy as
838 III | Captain Krebs and Renard had developed a force of twelve horsepower
839 IX | lookout, in case some slight deviation from the course became necessary.~
840 VII | Charles, the physician, had devised his first aerostat, a few
841 VIII | conquer space if we cannot devour it. I wanted the air to
842 IV | well think that a fire was devouring one of its quarters and
843 VII | sheets impregnated with dextrin and starch and squeezed
844 XII | Everest. To the right was Dhawalagiri, reaching twenty-six thousand
845 X | so as to cut across Utah diagonally as she neared the ground.
846 III | with the greatest care, diagrams drawn with the utmost exactitude,
847 II | fifteen-hundredths of a millimeter with a diamond splinter, was brought to
848 XV | vestal virgins, pure as Diana, have blue tunics and white
849 VI | possible that we are doomed to die of hunger in this prison,
850 XIII | in which the mighty range dies out in the basin of the
851 VII | Duchesne, Danduran, Pariesel, Dieuaide, Melkiseff, Forlanini, Bearey,
852 X | inhabitants, the country differing widely from the auriferous
853 III | seen, all the mechanical difficulties had not been overcome. Many
854 IV | that few can equal, and a digestion that would be thought first
855 XXIII| was a fall. The gas had dilated in the higher zones of the
856 XXII | solidity would defy any dilation of gas or violence of wind
857 V | and his limbs seemed to diminish as if endowed with the contractility
858 I | density of which invariably diminishes, and which does not extend
859 XIX | six o’clock the colleagues dined together as usual. Two hours
860 VIII | they followed into a small dining-room in the aftermost house.
861 VI | as if it was not resting directly on the ground of the clearing.
862 I | while they continued to disagree about it, and even to frighten
863 XI | varied. But the fog was very disagreeable, and made everything on
864 XV | nerve could not but be very disagreeably affected by the odors of
865 XVIII| appeared above the horizon to disappear almost immediately. At the
866 XVIII| possible, so as to avoid disaster. And only enough speed was
867 VIII | which did not for a moment disconcert the engineer. He contented
868 IV | died away in a frightful discord Uncle Prudent took advantage
869 XV | hour there was a series of discourses, harangues, palavers and
870 VI | temperament, and very much to the disgust of these eminently practical
871 I | there was a very strong disinclination to say anything about what
872 IX | appearance of semi-diaphanous disks.~The State of Illinois was
873 XXI | their delirium had failed to dismember.~But though the colleagues
874 XV | against their will, and then dismiss them with, “And now gentlemen,
875 XV | of Bahadou, his son had dispatched three thousand, and Bou-Nadi
876 XVIII| as though she could have dispensed altogether with her suspensory
877 XX | be promptly terrified and dispersed. The capture of the prisoners
878 XXIII| did not the “Albatross” display the stars and golden sun
879 IX | The neighborhood did not displease him; he liked to rub shoulders
880 VII | experimented on have shown that the disposable weight, that is to say the
881 XIX | Evans, “have we the right to dispose of his life?”~“We shall
882 V | Uncle Prudent.~Perhaps the disputants would not have been sorry
883 I | acoustical illusion!” And so they disputed. Something, however, was,
884 XII | that had given rise to such disputes, it was to the Celestial
885 II | gesticulating, shouting, arguing, disputing, a hundred balloonists,
886 I | evidently would not do to disregard these observations altogether.
887 XVII | of the sun were unable to dissipate, the surface of the Pacific
888 XV | her rapid flight she soon distanced them.~The evening came.
889 XXI | journals in the Union without distinction of color. The “Daily Negro,”
890 IV | the drawling twang that distinguishes the Yankees of New England.~
891 I | had driven everybody to distraction.~Never had the sky been
892 XIV | the example of sailors in distress and enclose in a bottle
893 XVIII| he then was owing to the disturbance of the needle in the neighborhood
894 XVIII| could remain without being disturbed. The air made but slight
895 XIII | crew could see the large ditches that surround it, and the
896 XI | header, as it were, and then dived with such rapidity that
897 IX | which the seventeen railways diverge, the Queen of the West,
898 III | past eight there occurred a diversion.~The porter of the Weldon
899 XII | immense city, the wall which divides it into two parts—the Manchu
900 II | lines; and on reading the divisions through a microscope the
901 XXI | secret which would not yet be divulged.~And then Uncle Prudent,
902 V | five or six hulking follows dogging his footsteps. Instinctively
903 XI | barking of the innumerable dogs, the cries of the birds
904 XIV | cathedral with its five domes, gilded and dotted with
905 IV | the transformation of the domestic and political manners of
906 V | returning so soon to their domicile. They availed themselves
907 XIV | Norway. Gousta, whose summit dominates this wonderful region of
908 IV | of Blanchard at Paris, of Donaldson and Grimwood in Lake Michigan,
909 X | showed themselves at the doors of the cars. Then numerous
910 XIX | open. He stepped into the doorway and looked around. “Nobody
911 II | two charming girls — Miss Dorothy, called Doll, and Miss Martha,
912 XXI | have required a very strong dose of imagination to connect
913 XIV | the meat which, in double doses, he was hastily swallowing.~
914 IX | the Mississippi, whose double-decked steam-boats seemed no bigger
915 XXI | the end of this day the doubts of the learned world were
916 XIV | and after Dunkirk came Doullens, Amiens, Creil, Saint Denis.
917 XIV | beam with the lights from Dover on the other side of the
918 XIX | cable stretched vertically downward to the ground.~Uncle Prudent
919 XVIII| traveling on a plane sloping downwards from the southwest. Suddenly
920 VII | locomotion,” according to Dr. Marcy, of the Institute
921 XIII | immersed no power could drag them from the abyss.~Suddenly
922 XIII | catches were made with the drag-nets, which brought up at each
923 XVII | The men snatched at it and drank it with an eagerness awful
924 XV | succeeded long gray undulations draped like the folds of an Arab
925 XVI | points as they fell seemed to draw up hills of foaming water
926 II | very rich, and that is no drawback even in the United States;
927 XV | six thousand men in cotton drawers and shirts, with a knotted
928 IV | English without a trace of the drawling twang that distinguishes
929 IX | went to sleep it was to dream of fall after fall, of projections
930 VI | Nothing! Frycollin is dreaming.”~“Between the moment we
931 IV | the realization of your dreams, are throwing your thousands
932 XVIII| like an aerostat, which drifts with the fluid masses in
933 VIII | rashers of fried ham, and for drink there was tea.~Neither had
934 XV | forth a husky note, deerskin drums, calabashes, guitars, bells
935 VII | Derblinger, Vigual, Sarti, Dubochet, and Cagniard de Latour.
936 VII | Villeneuve, Achenbach, Garapon, Duchesne, Danduran, Pariesel, Dieuaide,
937 I | be considered possible.~Dudley at Albany, in the state
938 V | express the way in which the duet between the president and
939 XV | bake, and artesian wells dug in the valley—where the
940 IX | under their feet produced a dull roaring similar to the rushing
941 XVI | the line, and the fact was duly announced to the crew. It
942 IX | medieval cities with forts and dungeons, pepper-box turrets, and
943 XV | constructing on the plans of Duponchel—a long ribbon of iron destined
944 XIV | engaged in the English, Dutch, French, and Belgian trade.
945 XV | skillful in that branch of his duties.~When the “Albatross” came
946 XV | in 1859 by the intrepid Duveyrier.~The darkness was profound.
947 XVI | to them they seemed to be dwarfs. But what a magnificent
948 VII | mythological times, without dwelling on Archytas of Tarentum,
949 XIV | acquaintances.””~““P. and P. E.””~Thus was the strange
950 XI | to the two friends! How eager they were to get out of
951 XVI | wrapped themselves well up and eagerly watched for the sight of
952 XVII | it and drank it with an eagerness awful to see.~“Bread, bread!”
953 IV | they not proved that an eagle weighing five kilograms
954 XVI | petrels, she could like the eagles find calm and sunshine in
955 XVII | somewhat high during the earlier hours of the day. Evidently
956 XVII | singular color which has earned for them the name of the
957 IX | worse for the aerostat—the earthen pot and the iron pot. The “
958 IX | evening. The wind being easterly the rate was not interfered
959 XI | points, so as to head to the eastward.~
960 IX | to ask Robur to take him eastwards he could not then do so.
961 XVIII| of the globe, her speed eating up, so to speak, her weight,
962 XIX | to his position for the ebb and flow are almost imperceptible
963 VII | a metallic circle which economized their motive force. In front
964 XVI | Albatross” was enveloped in the eddy of an enormous waterspout,
965 XVIII| perhaps explain why the eddying storm suddenly turned into
966 XXI | inexplicable; and at the edge of the clearing there were
967 IX | the churches and public edifices, the numerous “elevators”
968 XVII | northern Europe runs through Edinburgh.~The thermometer kept steadily
969 XXIII| belong to you the day you are educated enough to profit by it and
970 X | sureness of hand rendered more effective by the sensitiveness of
971 II | of blows, resulting in an effervescence which had not yet subsided,
972 XVIII| sky. Its farthest electric effluences were lost in the Southern
973 IV | call them from ‘avis,’ ‘efs,’—by means of which man
974 XXI | Philadelphia to destroy in its egg the theory of the balloonists.
975 V | Frycollin, the valet, was an egregious coward.~He was a pure South
976 I | St. Paul’s in London, the Egyptians at the appex of the Great
977 IV | superficies of only the eighth of a square meter. And if
978 VIII | Jersey City has done its eighty-four.~But the “Albatross,” at
979 III | him.~“Speak up!” answered eighty-nine voices, accidentally in
980 XVIII| swept through a hail of ejected material, which was fortunately
981 XV | cutting across the routes of El Golea, one of which was
982 I | colleagues were wrong by an elaborate calculation of the right
983 XIII | thousand feet, and the chain of Elbruz, at whose foot is built
984 I | All we can say is that the elder was an Englishman and the
985 II | had not Phil Evans been elected president of the club? The
986 XXII | excitement. There were neither elections nor meetings this time.
987 XXII | suspicion communicated itself electrically to the brains of all on
988 III | this motor, engineers and electricians had been approaching more
989 VII | world. But he required no electro-motor to produce it. All he trusted
990 XV | a white cap; others, the elephant-huntresses, have a heavy carbine, a
991 XXII | lighting gas possesses an elevating force of about 700 grams
992 XV | map the country, note the elevations, fix the courses of the
993 IX | edifices, the numerous “elevators” or mechanical, granaries,
994 XII | of vapor, large clouds of ellipsoid form clinging to a copper
995 XVII | in a terrible state of emaciation, they lifted their hands
996 II | eye.~The meeting was much embarrassed.~Fortunately one of the
997 II | other. The position was embarrassing, and it might have lasted
998 VI | to the disgust of these eminently practical men. But this
999 VI | stifled sighs, to grunts emitted over and under their gags,
1000 XXI | without showing the slightest emotion, Uncle Prudent took off
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