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1001 II | are already thinking of employing it in the nomination of
1002 VI | make a hole which would enable him to open it from the
1003 X | conclusion that this country encircled with mountains must be the
1004 XIV | sailors in distress and enclose in a bottle a document giving
1005 XII | square of Chinese puzzle enclosed in another, the Red town,
1006 VII | was a hull solidly built, enclosing the engines, stores, and
1007 III | In this there was much to encourage those who believed in the
1008 XIII | to quiet him. In fact, he encouraged him, and particularly as
1009 VIII | said Uncle Prudent, in vain endeavoring to control himself, “we
1010 VII | Ornithopters, machines which endeavour to reproduce the natural
1011 XIII | Terai, in which fever is endemic. But this offered no obstacle
1012 V | seemed to diminish as if endowed with the contractility peculiar
1013 XXIII| Go-Ahead” tried to distance her enemy by rising still higher.
1014 XVII | the half shadow, which the enfeebled rays of the sun were unable
1015 VIII | engineers in the fore and aft engine-houses. At a sign the helmsman
1016 XI | Yes,” said Robur.~In the engine-room the engineer and his assistant
1017 IV | distinguishes the Yankees of New England.~He continued: “And now,
1018 I | satisfaction. The Americans and Englishmen walked up the left bank
1019 VIII | to cast down your eyes to enjoy a spectacle unparalleled
1020 XXI | those who had devoted to the enterprise a certain part of their
1021 V | venture on the most audacious enterprises, Frycollin’s cowardice had
1022 XV | population was proceeding to the enthronization of his successor. Hence
1023 V | lighter than air” a no less enthusiast for “heavier than air” had
1024 V | their own house. To these enthusiasts for “lighter than air” a
1025 XVI | chronometers, and making full entries in his log-book.~The colleagues
1026 VI | f-r-r-r which seemed to envelop them in a quivering atmosphere.~
1027 XVI | and the “Albatross” was enveloped in the eddy of an enormous
1028 II | among others all those who envied his position. Amongst his
1029 V | and as they hurled their epithets at each other they walked
1030 III | group of “Beforists” were equaled in number by the group of “
1031 XV | Albatross” entered the equatorial region below the tropic
1032 VII | column of air retained their equilibrium by their horizontal resistance.
1033 II | done, the two boards were erected on the same day in the center
1034 I | monster cannon had been erroneously calculated, had flown off
1035 XVIII| crater while it was in full eruption.~An hour afterwards the
1036 X | and at the foot of the escarpments there shot upwards innumerable
1037 XV | francolins, and ibises escorted the “Albatross” and tried
1038 II | amateurs in a fury, and especially foes of those who would
1039 VII | gases. and liquids, acids or essences, to say nothing of its insulating
1040 XXI | atmosphere. But nobody dreamt of establishing a connection between this
1041 V | Forbes sought his large sugar establishment, where Miss Doll and Miss
1042 VII | balloons, he held in high esteem all those partisans of “
1043 VII | Louvrié and his aeroscape, Esterno and his mechanical bird,
1044 VIII | two colleagues could only estimate it imperfectly, for the “
1045 VII | different barometers, some for estimating the heights attained, others
1046 | etc
1047 XIV | to see her pass over the eternal city. Two hours afterwards
1048 XVI | Rugged mountains, peaks eternally capped with snow, with thick
1049 I | stations on Vesuvius, on Etna in the old Casa Inglesi,
1050 V | loggerheads.~It is only an euphemism’ that the verb “discuss”
1051 XIII | and others. Without the evaporation which relieves it of its
1052 III | not been overcome. Many evenings had been devoted to discussing,
1053 XVI | the only one to mark the event, and he did so by pouring
1054 XV | and Gardaia, and destined eventually to run down into the Gulf
1055 XVI | southerly outpost, lashed by the everlasting surf, is the terrible Cape
1056 | Everyone
1057 | Everywhere
1058 XXIII| even in progress. It is evolution and not revolution that
1059 XXII | Go-Ahead” went through all the evolutions that her steersman could
1060 XVI | Sometimes Robur was an ex-minister of the Argentine Republic,
1061 XVI | Admiralty, sometimes an ex-President of the United States, sometimes
1062 XIV | tell the truth, and not to exaggerate like Tapage, it was only
1063 VIII | the deck, leaving them to examine the arrangement of the machinery
1064 XIV | machine. And it was untied, examined, and opened with care.~Suddenly
1065 XIV | Should they follow the example of sailors in distress and
1066 VI | for them—it was enough to exasperate even the most patient of
1067 III | Institute hoping to vent its exasperation on the head of him who bore
1068 XIV | Albatross” tore along. Her speed exceeded that of the swallow, which
1069 III | atmosphere, was not called the Excelsior, a name which is rather
1070 XIX | conversation together which had exceptionally important consequences.~“
1071 VII | and propelling force in excess of all his requirements
1072 IV | interruptions, but only an exchange of arguments.~“But I may
1073 XXI | exercise every tongue and excite every imagination. But by
1074 V | just strength enough to exclaim for. the last time, “Master
1075 VIII | exclaimed Phil Evans. And as the exclamation escaped him, Uncle Prudent
1076 V | necessary.~But there was some excuse for the members of the Weldon
1077 XI | be said that while he was executing these different maneuvers
1078 XV | He was brandishing his executioner’s sword, with its curved
1079 XXI | strange phenomenon which had exercised people’s minds some weeks
1080 XVII | had now sat up. Wan and exhausted, in a terrible state of
1081 II | some of the excitement just exhibited by the members of the Weldon
1082 III | Giffard balloon at the 1878 Exhibition? Twenty-five thousand cubic
1083 I | explained by the unaided existence of a cosmic phenomenon.~
1084 VI | might be used to prolong two existences more precious than his own,
1085 VIII | sweeping across the immense expanse of Lake Ontario. She had
1086 XVI | true his living was not expensive. But, finally, who was this
1087 VII | movement, and the models experimented on have shown that the disposable
1088 IX | the fact. It would be the explanation of the astonishing phenomenon
1089 I | s projectile!~So all the explanations explained nothing, and all
1090 III | not being destined for the exploration of the higher strata of
1091 XV | Golea, one of which was explored in 1859 by the intrepid
1092 XV | so,” said Uncle Prudent, explosively, “you are not content with
1093 XVI | By seizing on some of the explosives on board and simply blowing
1094 I | of the iron tower of the Exposition of 1889, a thousand feet
1095 IV | noticeable, and that was that he expressed himself fluently in English
1096 XXI | Robur the engineer, come expressly to Philadelphia to destroy
1097 XIII | Persian frontier and the extensive plains. The speed was not
1098 VIII | directed their attention to the external arrangements of the “Albatross,”
1099 XIV | inspector.~The document was then extracted from the snuff-box, and
1100 XXIII| assuredly fall.~—End of Voyage Extraordinaire—Robur the Conqueror—~ ~
1101 I | no more about them. It is extremely unlikely that we shall again
1102 XVI | the Weldon Institute to extremities?~Meanwhile the “Albatross”
1103 I | could it be? Was it some exuberant aeronaut rejoicing on that
1104 XV | powerful flyers have always an eyrie or nest somewhere.~And what
1105 VII | paper!~For some years this fabrication had been making considerable
1106 XIV | harnessed to one of those fabulous hippogriffs which cleared
1107 IV | ninety-three!” said the facetious individual.~“And, the common
1108 X | sunlight on their myriad facets. Wonderful was the arrangement
1109 XV | at his command, with what facility could he map the country,
1110 VIII | discovery, and convince “ipso facto” the most incredulous? We
1111 IV | citizens, for my mental faculties. You see before you an engineer
1112 XXI | gifted with an extraordinary faculty of locomotion. In fact,
1113 VIII | was Ottawa.~Soon the city faded off towards the horizon,
1114 VI | to break. A gleam, still faint, filtered through the narrow
1115 VIII | unfortunate Negro. Hence continual faintings. Only think! A fall of over
1116 XIV | and the “Albatross” had it fair, her general course being
1117 I | declared with the utmost good faith that there had certainly
1118 X | defended by waterspouts, the Faithful Friend, with her plume crowned
1119 I | things about it true or false, alarming and tranquillizing
1120 XXII | Albatross” sufficient for his fame. He had declined the honor
1121 X | must evidently have been familiar with this incomparable spectacle,
1122 V | he was followed. And he fancied he could see five or six
1123 XII | with its last sigh.~A noisy fanfare escaped from Tom Turner’
1124 IX | these blocks take the most fantastic shapes. Here and there amid
1125 XVIII| open over half the sky. Its farthest electric effluences were
1126 XVI | outstripped that of the fastest mail-boat.~On the 13th of
1127 XX | There was now no thought of fatigue. Not one of the men of the “
1128 XI | like a bird which grows fatigued by too long a flight, or
1129 IV | has not grown! It has got fatter—and this is not the same
1130 XIV | and we may pardon this fault in an American, who might
1131 V | master had become used to his faults. He had one advantage, and
1132 VII | accumulators left those of Faure-Sellon-Volckmar very far behind in yielding
1133 XIV | meal times.~Tapage then favored him with his company and
1134 XV | a dozen or so at a time, fearlessly hurled them selves on to
1135 XVI | ATLANTIC~Yes, the Atlantic! The fears of the two colleagues were
1136 III | been blown about like a feather. In a hurricane—sixty yards
1137 XVI | dozen of such interesting feathered friends.~That day, as the
1138 VII | Marcy suspected that the feathers open during the return of
1139 XII | barren ravines, torrents fed by glaciers, depressions
1140 I | observatories of the American Federation did not hesitate to do their
1141 XVII | One of the men looked up feebly. His eyes were haggard and
1142 VIII | air, I did not think of feeding you on such a poorly nutritive
1143 XVI | pasturages that could form the feeding-grounds of thousands of animals;
1144 VIII | Prudent and Phil Evans were feeling the pangs of hunger somewhat
1145 XI | along, like a man whose foot feels it is not on solid ground.
1146 XV | night in the desert of which Felicien David has so poetically
1147 XV | family, the masculine and feminine army, and the population
1148 II | animal nourishment, of all fermented liquors, half a Mussulman,
1149 XII | were none of the gigantic ferns and interminable parasites
1150 XVI | long, how beautiful and fertile would most of this country
1151 XV | wander over this land, whose fertility is simply marvelous. For
1152 XV | which signalize its annual festivals, and by its human sacrifices—
1153 VII | were made of gelatinized fiber, which combined in sufficient
1154 VII | portable printing press; a field-piece mounted on a pivot; breech
1155 XV | with giant trees, immense fields of manioc, magnificent forests
1156 II | which are none the less fierce for being latent.~
1157 II | center within less than six fifteenth-hundredths of a millimeter. Phil Evans
1158 XVI | Straits of Magellan. Under the fifty-second parallel at this time of
1159 XVII | January in the northern. The fifty-sixth degree of latitude had been
1160 IV | but into space! You are fighting the impossible!”~Strange
1161 XI | they were in interminable files, ranged in line of battle,
1162 VI | break. A gleam, still faint, filtered through the narrow window
1163 III | a thing! If the aerostat finds support in the air it belongs
1164 X | region, which rivals the finest in Iceland. Leaning over
1165 XIV | morning.~Then came the Gulf of Finland, the Archipelago of Abo,
1166 VII | brothers had built their fire-balloon, and Charles, the physician,
1167 XI | shook it to make sure it was firm; then he drew himself up;
1168 IX | the quiet of the starry firmament. Long bellowing occasionally
1169 XXII | on to Europe one of those first-class storms which it seems to
1170 XXII | the swimming bladder in fishes—into which could be introduced
1171 V | park. The rays streaming fitfully through the branches made
1172 XV | fellow named Bou-Nadi—some five-and-twenty years old, was seated on
1173 XV | country, note the elevations, fix the courses of the rivers
1174 XXII | clearing as if she were a fixture. An immense bell had imprisoned
1175 VI | rapidly.~“No.”~“What! Not a flagstaff, nor a church tower, nor
1176 XVIII| hurricane. The cloud of flame grew as they neared it.
1177 XVI | might have been taken for a flaming aerolite. Never before had
1178 VII | this question of Camille Flammarion’s the answer is easy. It
1179 XVII | It was a boat. Her sail flapped against the mast as she
1180 XIII | thick of the cloud, and the flashes played across her as if
1181 XVIII| than before, owing to the flattening of the earth at the pole.
1182 XV | been accomplished above a flattish country ridged occasionally
1183 XVI | knew how to bring out the flavor of the game and keep down
1184 XVI | which there was no need to flee from as it mounted upwards
1185 XI | fastened into the animal’s flesh.~“Look out!” shouted Turner.~
1186 XI | the ordinary harpoon, the Fletcher fuse, or the javelin-bomb,
1187 VII | combined in sufficient degree flexibility with resistance. This material
1188 VII | the hull was a system of flexible springs to ease off the
1189 XIV | Edison lamps. Up to her there floated the rumble of the vehicles
1190 I | and traditional ham, and floods enough of tea to make the
1191 VIII | seemed like an enormous flowing sheet of crystal amid a
1192 IV | that he expressed himself fluently in English without a trace
1193 XV | iron clapper, and bamboo flutes, whose shrill whistle was
1194 IV | gentleman unaware that this flyer is a mammal? Did he ever
1195 XV | not so. The most powerful flyers have always an eyrie or
1196 XVI | seemed to draw up hills of foaming water to meet them.~Suddenly
1197 XV | undulations draped like the folds of an Arab burnous and broken
1198 XVII | his stomach, but in his folly.~But whither went the “Albatross?”
1199 V | Negro, with the head of a fool and the carcass of an imbecille.
1200 XIX | Evans, and we should be fools not to take the chance now
1201 VIII | sublime.~Before the falls a foot-bridge, stretching like a thread,
1202 XVI | the aeronef, and had been forced to fly aloft to escape from
1203 VII | pressure; a storm-glass for forecasting tempests; a small library;
1204 XVIII| in her topsails and her foresail. Everything showed that
1205 VI | of this. Evidently Robur foresaw what would happen at the
1206 VII | in a few years—as we can foresee—a more practical utilization
1207 VIII | to suit you.”~That is a foretaste of the nature of the relations
1208 VII | little long, but that will be forgiven, for it is necessary to
1209 XV | a fashion that Frycollin forgot for the moment his perpetual
1210 VII | Pariesel, Dieuaide, Melkiseff, Forlanini, Bearey, Tatin, Dandrieux,
1211 III | inventor in return for his formal receipt the last installment
1212 | former
1213 XIX | cabin was a sliding box, forming a small locker, and in this
1214 IV | this the following curious formula has been deduced: If a kilogram
1215 XVI | World.~When she reached Fort Famine the “Albatross” resumed
1216 VI | appeared sooner than the fortieth parallel permitted, it did
1217 XV | of the Sultan, a kind of fortified Kasbah, houses of brick
1218 XVII | the mate. We left her a fortnight ago as she was sinking.
1219 X | shot forth in rays, the Fortress, which seemed to be defended
1220 III | right thumb, while the less fortunate Pilâtre de Rozier fell only
1221 XXI | a certain part of their fortune in time and money—how could
1222 XVI | They had now passed the forty-seventh parallel. The day was but
1223 XIX | How far off are we?”~“Forty-six degrees south of X Island,
1224 XIV | request that it might he forwarded. Then Uncle Prudent folded
1225 XXII | small circle; she moved forwards and backwards in a way to
1226 XV | its walls, defended by a fosse measuring twelve miles round,
1227 IX | some would have us believe, fossil men, overwhelmed by unknown
1228 XV | the Negroes, Berbers, and Foullanes who occupy, it—particularly
1229 XVIII| sunk like a ship as she founders.~Evidently if the violence
1230 X | marvelous power instead of fountains.~In a few minutes the “Albatross”
1231 XI | moment Frycollin was on all fours, creeping to the back of
1232 IX | came the howl of a wolf, a fox, a wild cat, or a coyote,
1233 III | hundred yards a second not a fragment of them would have been
1234 VI | the radius allowed by the frame.~“What do you see?” asked
1235 XVI | appeared in sight a large lake framed in a border of superb forest.
1236 XV | noisy flocks of storks, francolins, and ibises escorted the “
1237 I | rate this confession was a frank one, and the same frankness
1238 IV | was said by our immortal Franklin at the first appearance
1239 I | frank one, and the same frankness characterized the replies
1240 XI | line, and the “Albatross,” freed from her tug, sprang aloft
1241 VI | hands regained their usual freedom.~A vigorous rubbing restored
1242 XI | receive him.~This cook was a Frenchman, and probably a Gascon,
1243 XXII | and he took no part in the frenzied declamations that greeted
1244 XVI | the colleagues almost to frenzy. To find themselves whipped
1245 VIII | and there were rashers of fried ham, and for drink there
1246 XV | winged monster was not a friendly spirit, it was a hostile
1247 XIII | then shout at his ease. But fright contracted his larynx, and
1248 I | disagree about it, and even to frighten the lowly and the ignorant,
1249 XXI | into the thick bushes that fringe its banks; and if this was
1250 XVIII| darkness. With its silver fringes and spangles radiating over
1251 XXI | for whom States had no frontiers and oceans no limits, who
1252 XVII | were unaffected by such frost, would not all the crew
1253 IV | air?~Robur did not even frown. With folded arms he waited
1254 V | buzzing, a quivering, a frrrr, with the rrr unending.~
1255 XI | the Japanese mountain of Fujiyama. When the curtain of mist
1256 IV | The air affords a solid fulcrum. If you will give a column
1257 XIV | for an instant over the fuliginous wreaths of Vesuvius. Then,
1258 XIX | which will lead into the fulminate. My idea is to light it
1259 XIX | necessary to adjust the fulminating cap with which the cartridge
1260 X | upwards innumerable white fumaroles, the vapor escaping from
1261 XXI | insulted the balloonists, made fun of the aeronauts, boasted
1262 III | from American pockets. The funds flowed in even without its
1263 XIII | the “Albatross” from the funnels of the Ashurada streamers,
1264 XI | over the barrier where the fur seals. swarm for the benefit
1265 XVIII| terrible moment when the furnace would wrap them in its fires.~
1266 XIII | and the minor Himalayas—furrowed by the buttresses in which
1267 XVI | one another, tracing two furrows of light. As night fell
1268 I | Appenzell, at the Righi, at the Gäbriss, in the passes of the St.
1269 XIX | instant afterwards the man was gagged and blindfolded and lashed
1270 VI | emitted over and under their gags, to everything that betrayed
1271 XVIII| something else? Could she not gain the center, where it was
1272 III | though guidable aerostats had gained a little speed, they could
1273 XIV | beating to windward in half a gale of wind, will understand
1274 V | was there to hinder the gallop of the horses, not a bush
1275 X | numerous passengers crowded the gangways. Some did not hesitate to
1276 XII | among others that of Ibi Ganim, which the brothers Schlagintweit
1277 X | could glide, such as Bridger Gap, through which runs the
1278 VII | de Villeneuve, Achenbach, Garapon, Duchesne, Danduran, Pariesel,
1279 XV | Timbuktu by way of Laghouat and Gardaia, and destined eventually
1280 XII | pigeon, she passed over Garlock, a town of western Tibet,
1281 XI | inhaled the breezes of the Garonne. How did this Francois Tapage
1282 XXII | to the very lightest of gaseous bodies. Ordinary lighting
1283 VII | It was insoluble in most gases. and liquids, acids or essences,
1284 VI | Schuyllkill with a good gash in their throats instead
1285 IV | Penaud, De Villeneuve, Gauchot and Tatin, Michael Loup,
1286 III | thousand yards, higher than Gay Lussac, Coxwell, Sivet,
1287 XXII | see the “Go-Ahead” as to gaze on these extraordinary men?~
1288 XII | bulls. Occasionally a scared gazelle showed itself far down the
1289 III | balloon.~How large was Nadar’s Géant? Six thousand cubic meters.
1290 XXI | if his screws were out of gear? By that time the “Albatross”
1291 XIX | have to be adjusted and the gearing seen to by which they received
1292 VII | the screws were made of gelatinized fiber, which combined in
1293 XVIII| to which such storms are generally restricted, such zone being
1294 I | Mount Lookout, thanks to the generosity of Mr. Kilgour, and known
1295 I | temple, of the Four Hundred Genii at Canton, the Hindus on
1296 IV | am not mistaken! Is the gentleman unaware that this flyer
1297 I | not come across it; in the geodetic section they had had no
1298 XV | from the “Albatross.”~If a geographer had only such an apparatus
1299 VII | with his guidable kite, and George Cauley with his flying machines
1300 XV | aeronef the little village of Geryville, founded like Laghouat on
1301 II | were struggling, pushing, gesticulating, shouting, arguing, disputing,
1302 X | the last was seen of the geyser region, which rivals the
1303 X | for streamlets, and with geysers of marvelous power instead
1304 I | of the Great Pyramid of Ghizeh, the Parisians at the lighting
1305 XV | world. At the obsequies of Ghozo, the father of Bahadou,
1306 VIII | hill with its citadel, the Gibraltar of North America. There
1307 XXII | of the celebrated Henry Gifford filled the enormous balloon.
1308 XXI | no doubt the aeronef was gifted with an extraordinary faculty
1309 XIV | cathedral with its five domes, gilded and dotted with stars as
1310 II | the father of two charming girls — Miss Dorothy, called Doll,
1311 III | Crocé-Spinelli, Tissandier, Glaisher; another in which he had
1312 V | mysterious in the gathering gloom.~But neither the president
1313 XVIII| the moon had been in full glory but few observations could
1314 IV | the least opposition would glow like coals of fire; and
1315 V | had been said about his gluttony, and still less about his
1316 IV | whiskers, but a large American goatee, revealing the attachments
1317 III | leagues the journeys of Nadar, Godard, and others, to say nothing
1318 XV | across the routes of El Golea, one of which was explored
1319 VI | colleague’s factory—the tiny gong only gave a quarter to three,
1320 XXIII| Citizens of the United States—Good-by!”~And the “Albatross,” beating
1321 XIII | Turner, as he harpooned a good-size fish, not unlike a shark.~
1322 VI | thrown like parcels in a goods wagon, nor where they were,
1323 XIII | Yes! Incomparable is this gorge between the major and the
1324 I | in the passes of the St. Gothard, at the St. Bernard, at
1325 XIV | signaled by the look-outs at La Goulette on the Tunisian coast.~After
1326 XIII | sterlets, which wealthy gourmets have sent alive to Astrakhan,
1327 XV | who displayed much martial grace.~But the time for the hecatomb
1328 II | remade by means of a rule graduated by the micrometrical machine
1329 VI | who was puffing like a grampus. “We must set him free.”~“
1330 IX | elevators” or mechanical, granaries, and the huge Sherman Hotel,
1331 XVII | this icy atmosphere, even granting that the elements of the
1332 XXII | outfit, instruments, cables, grapnels, guide-ropes, etc., and
1333 XI | stumbled along to the rail, and grasped it with both hands, so as
1334 XVI | centrifugal force, were grasping the rail to save themselves
1335 XIII | tall poplars, its roofs grassed over and looking like molehills;
1336 XIX | of rage that could not he gratified.~And Frycollin?” asked Phil
1337 XXIII| for Robur and his crew to gratify their longing for revenge.
1338 XI | which were working with gratifying regularity without any signs
1339 V | A door was shut; and the grating of a bolt in a staple told
1340 IV | French composer groan in his grave.~As the last notes died
1341 XVI | Brunswick Peninsula and Mount Graves, she steered for Mount Sarmiento,
1342 XX | bodies influenced solely by gravitation; and if it was death to
1343 VII | stability. Its center of gravity proved that at once. There
1344 XV | shrubs there succeeded long gray undulations draped like
1345 XV | in his cabin, received a graze from a bullet that came
1346 XIX | of a gun, and the bullet grazed Phil’s shoulder.~“Ah! The
1347 I | simultaneous. A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received
1348 XII | sturdy figure wrapped in a great-coat. He gave the orders, while
1349 XIII | Alexander, when India and Greece contended for Central Asia.
1350 V | difference to him. Grinning and greedy and idle, and a magnificent
1351 I | observatories were not in agreement. Greenwich would not consent to the
1352 XIV | hurrah of stupefaction to greet the imaginary meteor.~The
1353 XVI | Lomas Bay, leaving Mount Gregory to the north and the Brecknocks
1354 XIII | thousand contortions and grimaces.~“I want to get out! I want
1355 IV | Paris, of Donaldson and Grimwood in Lake Michigan, of Sivel
1356 V | made no difference to him. Grinning and greedy and idle, and
1357 XXIII| presses on the chest and grips the legs when we see anyone
1358 XIV | could see the lighthouse at Grisnez cross its electric beam
1359 XII | bathed in the rising sun, the grounds surrounding the houses of
1360 XII | altitude.~Magnificent was the grouping of the chaos of mountains!
1361 V | members of the club in several groups rushed down Walnut Street,
1362 IV | but a child, but it will grow!” It was but a child, and
1363 XI | was not like a bird which grows fatigued by too long a flight,
1364 VI | reduced to stifled sighs, to grunts emitted over and under their
1365 XVI | plains overrun by herds of guanacos, vicunas, and ostriches.
1366 I | observatory at Paris was very guarded in what it said. In the
1367 XXII | and the porpoise became a gudgeon. The ascensional movement
1368 XXII | instruments, cables, grapnels, guide-ropes, etc., and the piles and
1369 XXII | that a balloon could he guided in a calm atmosphere; but
1370 VII | of Leonardo da Vinci and Guidotti, the idea of machines made
1371 XVI | on her electric lamps the guillemots, ducks, and geese came crowding
1372 XV | deerskin drums, calabashes, guitars, bells struck with an iron
1373 X | multitudes of pelicans, swans, gulls and geese, bernicles and
1374 XX | the aerial machine as she gunk through the air, with her
1375 XIX | Phil Evans, “I took some gunpowder as well. With the powder
1376 XV | saluted with many hundred gunshot, and the bullets fell back
1377 XVIII| The wind came in violent gusts, and then for a moment or
1378 VI | duty to put an end to these gymnastics, cut the cords that bound
1379 VII | to avoid any tendency to gyration. Hence the screws as they
1380 XVII | up feebly. His eyes were haggard and his face was that of
1381 XVIII| unhurt. She swept through a hail of ejected material, which
1382 XIV | fifty miles. This was but a half-day’s journey, and the “Albatross,”
1383 XIII | traveling, were spirals of half-luminous vapor due to the difference
1384 VIII | contented himself with a half-smile, and continued in his interrogative
1385 III | conditions. In large, covered halls their success was perfect.
1386 XV | If the “Albatross” had halted, she would have come to
1387 I | phenomenon.~In a week the Hamburgers at the top of St. Michael’
1388 III | said Uncle Prudent, as he handed to the inventor in return
1389 XIII | thought he was going to be hanged. Not he was only going to
1390 II | have passed for one of the happiest men in the world, and even
1391 XV | a series of discourses, harangues, palavers and dances, executed
1392 XVI | have some retreat, some harbor of refuge—in some unknown
1393 VII | are not copied from the hare, nor are ships copied from
1394 XIII | and its old citadel of Hari-Pawata on the slope of the hill
1395 XV | monster. These were more harmless than the rifle-bullets;
1396 XVIII| suspensory screws. And she harmlessly passed over the crater while
1397 XII | notes varied like those of a harmonicon, gave forth a most melancholy
1398 XII | was filled with a singular harmony. It seemed to be a concert
1399 XIV | sky, as if she had been harnessed to one of those fabulous
1400 XIII | shouted Turner, as he harpooned a good-size fish, not unlike
1401 XI | prodigious. However, in harpooning one of these whales, either
1402 XII | be a concert of Aeolian harps. In the air were a hundred
1403 XIV | in double doses, he was hastily swallowing.~Meanwhile Uncle
1404 XIII | beautiful blue.~It was but a hasty glimpse. The “Albatross”
1405 XI | Luckily, with a blow of the hatchet the mate severed the line,
1406 V | is so irritating as that hateful jargon in which all the
1407 XIX | were about to perish. Their hatred against Robur and his people
1408 II | Uncle Prudent one of those hatreds which are none the less
1409 II | balloonists, all with their hats on, under the authority
1410 XIII | which brought up at each haul carp, bream, salmon, saltwater
1411 VII | Pauze, Moy, Pénaud, Jobert, Haureau de Villeneuve, Achenbach,
1412 XIII | prepared to attempt the most hazardous things. The sense of their
1413 VIII | that of an express. In a head-wind the speed would have been
1414 XI | up again, so as to take a header, as it were, and then dived
1415 IV | constitution of iron, a healthy vigor that nothing can shake,
1416 VI | tried by their sense of hearing to obtain some indication
1417 XXII | pushings, which made the mass heave and swell. Nor need we recount
1418 XV | regions of the Dahomian heaven. And now the first head
1419 XV | grace.~But the time for the hecatomb was approaching. Robur,
1420 XV | human sacrifices—fearful hecatombs intended to honor the sovereign
1421 I | years ago between the two heirs of the Begum of Ragginahra,
1422 IV | helix, and its flight is helicopteral. And the motor of the future
1423 IV | Institute, which had decreed, helped, and paid for the making
1424 XVII | were five men asleep or helpless, if they were not dead.~
1425 XV | which the southwest wind hems round with an inaccessible
1426 XIV | that no human power would henceforth be able to check the speed
1427 VII | 1842 we have the Englishman Henson, with his system of inclined
1428 | Herein
1429 I | the anonymous contribution hereunder.~“There will be in the recollection
1430 IV | accidentally hit upon the air from Herold’s “Zampa.”~And they all
1431 | hers
1432 XV | slackened speed as though hesitating to leave Africa behind.
1433 I | Hundred Genii at Canton, the Hindus on the sixteenth terrace
1434 XIII | over the wondrous lands of Hindustan. To cross the Himalayas
1435 XV | addressed to this supernatural hippogriff, which “had doubtless come
1436 XIV | to one of those fabulous hippogriffs which cleared a league at
1437 V | as it happened to be just—historically?~The members of the club
1438 XIII | him into a tub, which they hitched on to a rope—one of those
1439 XII | passed over the valley of the Hoangho and crossed the Chinese
1440 IV | this fellow a madman or a hoaxer? Whoever he was, he kept
1441 X | characteristic heads that Hogarth rejoiced in.~Shall we see
1442 XXII | appeared on the platform and hoisted the American colors. Need
1443 VI | the floor seemed to sound hollow, as if it was not resting
1444 XV | celestial being come to render homage to King Baha-dou. The enthusiasm
1445 IV | the air?”~“Not unlikely.”~“Hooray for Robur the Conqueror!”
1446 III | to the Weldon Institute hoping to vent its exasperation
1447 XIX | allowed Robur to take an horary angle, so that at the time
1448 XVIII| reflection is absent from dark horizons. Under such circumstances,
1449 XV | dagger, and two antelope horns fixed to their heads by
1450 XXIII| fall.~The people, mute with horror, gazed breathlessly; they
1451 III | which is known as a steam horse in a watch case. Gradually
1452 XVII | Tapage treated him most hospitably, on condition that be acted
1453 XV | friendly spirit, it was a hostile spirit. And after the fall
1454 VI | PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY SUSPEND HOSTILITIES~A bandage over the eyes,
1455 II | Uncle Prudent was furiously hot; Phil Evans was abnormally
1456 IX | granaries, and the huge Sherman Hotel, whose windows seemed like
1457 IV | atmospheres, while that of a hound can only amount to one hundred.
1458 XVI | in the form of a gigantic hourglass, and the “Albatross” was
1459 V | neighborhood. They woke up the householders; they compelled them to
1460 XV | Cape Carthage, sometimes hovering, and sometimes darting along
1461 IX | from time to time came the howl of a wolf, a fox, a wild
1462 XIII | particularly as the incessant howling seemed to have a strangely
1463 VI | between two of his lugubrious howls.~“It is possible that we
1464 XII | sunset assumed a deep scarlet hue.~Fortunately the typhoon
1465 V | he could see five or six hulking follows dogging his footsteps.
1466 XII | Celestial million, from the humblest tankader to the best-buttoned
1467 VIII | towards them and, as if a humid fog had been projected into
1468 XXIII| two colleagues, profoundly humiliated, and through them the whole
1469 XVI | to have another game of humming-top like that!”~For ten minutes
1470 IV | pressure of eight and a half hundredweight on a square yard. A balloon,
1471 VIII | truth he had to be very hungry to eat at all, for his jaws
1472 V | could tell. After an hour’s hunt the members had to give
1473 I | their best. If they did not hurl their objectives at each
1474 IV | many guns! Was not this hurling a declaration of war into
1475 XIV | thick on the boulevards—a hurrah of stupefaction to greet
1476 XV | lines of Dahomians were hurrying along the roads from the
1477 VII | and starch and squeezed in hydraulic presses, will form a material
1478 XVIII| could they recognize the hydrographic network of the country or
1479 X | After talking over several hypotheses more or less plausible they
1480 XXII | put into port, was only a hypothesis; and the colleagues reserved
1481 XII | Himalayas, among others that of Ibi Ganim, which the brothers
1482 XV | storks, francolins, and ibises escorted the “Albatross”
1483 VII | and Europe, this aerial Icarian sea, which millions of Icarians
1484 VII | Icarian sea, which millions of Icarians will one day people.”~
1485 VIII | sixty miles an hour; the ice-boats on the frozen Hudson do
1486 XVII | converted into an immense icefield, its aspect could not have
1487 XVII | Pacific are covered with icefields and icebergs. The floes
1488 XVIII| her over the icebergs and icefloes, against which she was in
1489 X | which rivals the finest in Iceland. Leaning over the rail,
1490 IV | of having brought forward ideas of such simplicity. Abandoned
1491 XXIII| and a new “Albatross,” identical with the one destroyed by
1492 V | Grinning and greedy and idle, and a magnificent poltroon,
1493 II | Chapter II~AGREEMENT IMPOSSIBLE~“And
1494 III | Chapter III~A VISITOR IS ANNOUNCED~The
1495 IV | results, there still exist ill-balanced minds who believe in guiding
1496 IX | semi-diaphanous disks.~The State of Illinois was left by its northern
1497 XIX | Prudent and his colleague, imagining they were under way again,
1498 V | fool and the carcass of an imbecille. Being only one and twenty,
1499 XV | ancient world Batouta, Khazan, Imbert, Mungo Park, Adams, Laing,
1500 IX | Robur had not yet found imitators. The chance of encountering
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