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1501 XIX | was an island lost in the immensity of the Pacific Ocean between
1502 XIII | the sea. Once they were immersed no power could drag them
1503 XV | recent razzias were to be immolated in his honor.~It was about
1504 IV | forget what was said by our immortal Franklin at the first appearance
1505 III | States, Harry W. Tinder, immortalized by three of his ascents
1506 XIV | swiftly that they seemed immovable, and it was with irresistible
1507 XIII | the seeds of fever in the impalpable dust it raises in its passage.
1508 XIV | gigantic barrier apparently impassable. And when the “Albatross”
1509 IV | to an end.~Robur remained impassible, and continued: “There is
1510 VII | a parachute can not only impede descent in air, but can
1511 VIII | colleagues could only estimate it imperfectly, for the “Albatross” had
1512 XV | carriages jumping so as to imperil the lives of the artillery-women,
1513 XXII | balloon could attain; her impermeability enabled her to remain for
1514 XVIII| the engineer retained his imperturbable coolness, and the crew obeyed
1515 VIII | on the compass, followed imperturbably without hesitation the route
1516 XVI | colleagues had reached a stage of impotent fury, and were prepared
1517 VI | evident that all flight was impracticable except through the door,
1518 VII | Unsized paper, with the sheets impregnated with dextrin and starch
1519 XI | Phil Evans endeavored to impress on his irascible colleague,
1520 VI | asked Evans, who was much impressed at the continuous f-r-r-r.~“
1521 XXI | then speak, and relate the impressions of their voyage. But for
1522 VI | followed us, and when we imprudently ventured into Fairmount
1523 XI | six hundred feet under the impulse of her ascensional screws.
1524 XXII | speed of the whale—not an inappropriate comparison, for the balloon
1525 V | last two, for the Negro was incapable of defending himself. The
1526 XIII | and particularly as the incessant howling seemed to have a
1527 V | alimentary canal twelve, inches longer than that of other
1528 XXI | unexpected and scandalous incident of the night before. A stranger
1529 XVIII| the course pursued. Its inclination was such that at one time
1530 XV | seen it, because their view included the whole triangle of three
1531 VII | flying at great heights— incombustible. The different parts of
1532 II | would return an annual income of three hundred million
1533 VIII | the passengers were not inconvenienced by it, it was because they
1534 XI | beating the waters with incredible violence, and as he turned
1535 XXII | enabled her to remain for an indefinite time in the atmosphere;
1536 V | their houses, prepared to indemnify them later on for the outrage
1537 XV | Baha-dou. The enthusiasm was indescribable, the shouts were interminable,
1538 IX | which flow the products of Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Missouri,
1539 X | A few forts to keep the Indians in order crowned the bluffs
1540 XVI | sometimes a Viceroy of the Indies who had sought a more elevated
1541 XIX | points even in accepting with indifference the frightful death in store
1542 V | most part were supremely indifferent on the question of aerial
1543 IV | ninety-three!” said the facetious individual.~“And, the common house
1544 XIII | them, the brutal remarks he indulged in—all contributed towards
1545 XII | Himalayas, from which the Indus flows to the west and the
1546 XXII | it seems to have in such inexhaustible numbers. A better day could
1547 XVI | and promontories, all in inextricable confusion, and bound by
1548 XI | a Gascon he must in his infancy have inhaled the breezes
1549 IV | whose nerves are in no way inferior to his muscles. I have no
1550 I | takes place, not in the infinite void, but within the atmospherical
1551 V | possessive and all the verbs infinitive. Let it be understood, then,
1552 XXIII| the balloon, which, half inflated still, was falling rapidly.~
1553 XXII | aerostatic art—she was what an “Inflexible” or a “Formidable” is in
1554 XXIII| revenge. Here was a chance for inflicting on their foes a terrible
1555 XX | accelerating swiftness of bodies influenced solely by gravitation; and
1556 XIV | the engineer.””~““Please inform our friends and acquaintances.””~““
1557 XVI | reliance could be placed on the information given by this Gascon? Sometimes
1558 IV | at the front ranks of the infuriated mob.~In each hand was one
1559 I | body in question?”~Very ingenious, Mr. Correspondent on the “
1560 I | on Etna in the old Casa Inglesi, at Monte Cavo, the observers
1561 XI | must in his infancy have inhaled the breezes of the Garonne.
1562 I | that this engine, whose initial velocity as it left the
1563 XVI | twenty others, black as ink, raged around her. Fortunately
1564 XVI | rising on their flanks, inland seas, bays deep set amid
1565 I | recording in what locality the inoffensive ruminant had just tasted
1566 VII | predecessors, how could the inquirer have conceived so perfect
1567 XX | away home. They would begin inquiring into matters. They might
1568 IV | that the stag beetle, an insect weighing only two grammes,
1569 XIV | speed had to be reduced. Inside the deck-house the “Albatross”
1570 XVI | Not a spot of land was insight in this huge field of vision.
1571 VII | therefore becomes almost insignificant.~It is also known that as
1572 IV | permit any contradiction. I insist on these details, honorable
1573 II | the members, Truck Milnor, insisted that the measurements should
1574 XIV | sneeze on the part of the inspector.~The document was then extracted
1575 III | formal receipt the last installment of the hundred thousand
1576 XX | windward.~The maneuver was instantly executed. If a passing ship
1577 IX | of some animal. Strange instinct! These terrestrial beings
1578 V | follows dogging his footsteps. Instinctively he drew nearer to his master,
1579 IV | was one of those American institutions known as revolvers which
1580 I | rejoicing on that sonorous instrument of which the Renommée makes
1581 VII | light india-rubber boat, insubmersible, which could carry eight
1582 VII | essences, to say nothing of its insulating properties, and it proved
1583 XXI | himself in the club-room, insulted the balloonists, made fun
1584 V | I would have stopped the insulter before he had opened his
1585 IX | the temperature was not insupportable. And so, in chatting and
1586 VI | several blows it remained intact.~The light had now increased,
1587 II | number of Americans of high intelligence are already thinking of
1588 IV | bull; but a bull with an intelligent face. Eyes which at the
1589 XIX | noiselessly crept forward, intending to wake Frycollin and take
1590 XIII | escape could not but be intensified. Even supposing they jumped
1591 XIII | all contributed towards intensifying the aggravation which daily
1592 XIX | way out of the route of inter-oceanic communication. There it
1593 XIII | her.~Phil Evans went to intercede for Frycollin, and asked
1594 II | noisy meetings, and even interchanges of blows, resulting in an
1595 XI | their will, became greatly interested in the spectacle.~The whale,
1596 XIII | currents are troubled! They are intermittent!” And, in fact, the “Albatross”
1597 I | discussion threatened to end in international complications; but Russia,
1598 I | interests of the milk trade—interposed.~“Suppose we say it was ‘
1599 VIII | half-smile, and continued in his interrogative style, “Perhaps you ask
1600 IV | yells, and catcalls were not interruptions, but only an exchange of
1601 I | places, in succession, at intervals, during some hours. Hence,
1602 I | world of science.~Then there intervened the observatory at Cincinnati,
1603 V | better founded, never had the intervention of the police been more
1604 IV | keep us free!” with such intonations and variations as would
1605 XVII | United States.~What was this intractable Robur going to do? Had not
1606 XV | explored in 1859 by the intrepid Duveyrier.~The darkness
1607 XIV | the enormous reflector was inundating the whole capital with its
1608 XIV | Pantheon or the cross off the Invalides. She hovered over the two
1609 I | air, the density of which invariably diminishes, and which does
1610 VII | weight varies in almost inverse ratio to the square of the
1611 IX | experiments had they been invited? How would the business
1612 VIII | discovery, and convince “ipso facto” the most incredulous?
1613 XI | endeavored to impress on his irascible colleague, though he was
1614 V | the circumference of his iris, and his limbs seemed to
1615 VI | when you hit it.”~“Is it of ironwood?”~“No; it isn’t iron and
1616 XV | insult us.”~“Oh! a little irony, that is all!”~“Are there
1617 V | acrimony. These were the irreconcilables, Uncle Prudent and Phil
1618 XIV | immovable, and it was with irresistible power that they screwed
1619 XVIII| hundred miles of the pole.~Irresistibly was she drawn towards this
1620 XVIII| attraction of the cyclone was irrestible. During the few moments
1621 I | the 28th and 29th that of Isfjord at Spitzbergen—Norwegian
1622 XI | running down by the Kurile Isles, which seemed to be a breakwater
1623 XIX | the southwest point was an islet and a range of rocks. On
1624 VII | in air, but can render it isochronous. That is a fact.~It is equally
1625 VII | air,” English, American, Italian, Austrian, French—and particularly
1626 I | nothing but reasonable.~But in Italy, at the meteorological stations
1627 IV | Chapter IV~IN WHICH A NEW CHARACTER
1628 IX | Chapter IX~ACROSS THE PRAIRIE~In one,
1629 VII | at flight by the Austrian Jacques Degen. In 1810 came the
1630 XV | not content with being our jailer, but you insult us.”~“Oh!
1631 XVIII| magnetic pole discovered by Sir James Ross. And an hour later,
1632 XVII | corresponds to the 24th of January in the northern. The fifty-sixth
1633 V | irritating as that hateful jargon in which all the pronouns
1634 XI | the Fletcher fuse, or the javelin-bomb, of which there was an assortment
1635 XI | his reach was one of those javelin-bombs, of Californian make, which
1636 VIII | hungry to eat at all, for his jaws shook with fear, and almost
1637 X | extraordinary. In spite of all the jealousy of the two enemies of “lighter
1638 III | miles from St. Louis to Jefferson county; the third, which
1639 XIII | the Kour, the Kouma, the Jemba, and others. Without the
1640 VI | would overwhelm us with his jeremiads, and we have something else
1641 XVI | be caught by another, and jerked to pieces with the shock.~“
1642 VIII | locomotive between Trenton and Jersey City has done its eighty-four.~
1643 VI | relieved them of their watches, jewelry, and purses, and thrown
1644 V | day and night. Treasurer Jim Chip, publicly accused of
1645 XV | towards Robur, could not help joining him in such a work of humanity.~“
1646 VII | From 1854 to 1863 appeared Joseph Pline with several patents
1647 I | impossible to say.~It was then a journal whose publicity is immense—
1648 III | many hundred leagues the journeys of Nadar, Godard, and others,
1649 XIX | the ground.~Think of their joy at again treading the earth
1650 XI | shall have an opportunity of judging.”~Impossible to be more
1651 I | the St. Bernard, at the Julier, at the Simplon, at Zurich,
1652 XII | as in the thickets of the jungle. There were no animals—no
1653 I | moon or Mars, or Venus, or Jupiter, or any other planet of
1654 III | and his colleagues were so justifiably proud of it.~This balloon
1655 IX | latrans,” whose name is justified by his sonorous bark.~Occasionally
1656 III | all it had to do was to justify its name by going ahead
1657 XXII | terribly—and in their idea so justly—avenged, existed no longer.
1658 XV | facilitate the future conquest of Kabylia. Next, not without difficulty,
1659 XII | Kuen Lung, the other the Karakorum, bordering the longitudinal
1660 XV | Sultan, a kind of fortified Kasbah, houses of brick which had
1661 VII | practicable. Bourcart, Le Bris, Kaufmann, Smyth, Stringfellow, Prigent,
1662 I | 27th, the observatory of Kautokeino at Finmark, in Norway, and
1663 XIII | kesebeys, with two masts; kayuks, the old pirate-boats, with
1664 XI | must not move unless it keeps its whistle or its horn
1665 XV | kingdom, from Whydah, and Kerapay, and Ardrah, and Tombory,
1666 XIII | recognizable by their peculiar rig—kesebeys, with two masts; kayuks,
1667 XIII | element into the cook’s kettle without any charge for transport.~
1668 XV | the ancient world Batouta, Khazan, Imbert, Mungo Park, Adams,
1669 XII | of the province of Cari Khorsum.~On the 27th of June, Uncle
1670 XIII | had continued shouting and kicking at his cabin wall, and making
1671 I | to the generosity of Mr. Kilgour, and known for its micrometrical
1672 III | seven hundred feet, and yet killed himself on the spot!~At
1673 XXIII| right. But from the passion kindled in them by the success of
1674 XV | palace of the ancient Somai kings.~The engineer had no notion
1675 XIII | ants; its palaces, temples, kiosks, mosques, and bungalows
1676 VII | Vaussin-Chardannes with his guidable kite, and George Cauley with
1677 XI | Petropaulovski and the volcano of Kloutschew. Then she rose again to
1678 IV | said Robur, and his brows knit, “when I have just seriously
1679 VI | remained to be seen if the knives could cut into the walls.~“
1680 XIX | night fell Robur and his men knocked off work. The fore propeller
1681 VI | wrists. Little by little the knot slipped, his fingers slipped
1682 XV | drawers and shirts, with a knotted tuft to increase their stature,
1683 XIII | the Hydaspes.”~“And who knows that they don’t watch us
1684 IX | amid this enormous game of knucklebones there could be traced the
1685 XV | confused outline of the Kong mountains in the kingdom
1686 XII | twenty-five miles of the Korean strait, and while the typhoon
1687 XIII | the Ural, the Kour, the Kouma, the Jemba, and others.
1688 XIII | the Volga, the Ural, the Kour, the Kouma, the Jemba, and
1689 XV | sometimes leisurely over the Ksars or green oases, sometimes
1690 XII | barrier. The first was the Kuen Lung, the other the Karakorum,
1691 XI | Okhotsk, running down by the Kurile Isles, which seemed to be
1692 XXI | a Negro since Toussaint L’Ouverture, Soulouque, or
1693 VII | the various steps in the ladder of aerial locomotion, on
1694 VIII | viaduct over the Venice lagoon. Soon they could distinguish
1695 VIII | amid the gleaming of many lagoons obliquely struck by the
1696 XXI | writing!~Then did the people lament and stretch out their hands
1697 VI | began to writhe in a most lamentable fashion, either with cramp
1698 XIV | the Negro, beginning his lamentations.~“Take care, Fry, take care!
1699 II | had been an election of a lamplighter, occasioning many public
1700 XVIII| decided to stop at it without landing. He thought, that he could
1701 X | with green trees, pines and larches, and at the foot of the
1702 VIII | worked together with a little lard, which boiled in water made
1703 XIII | sufficed to fill up the larders of the aeronef, and she
1704 VIII | rose vertically, like a lark singing his song in space.~“
1705 XIII | But fright contracted his larynx, and he was mute.~Uncle
1706 XIX | to occur too soon or too late.~Uncle Prudent had carefully
1707 II | the less fierce for being latent.~
1708 XXI | portrait of Frycollin after his latest photograph. Rewards were
1709 VII | Dubochet, and Cagniard de Latour. In 1842 we have the Englishman
1710 IX | or a coyote, the “Canis latrans,” whose name is justified
1711 I | subject whatever.~There was a laugh at the asserted discovery
1712 I | Melbourne; and Australian laughter is very catching.~To sum
1713 VII | just been invented. In 1784 Launoy and Bienvenu had maneuvered
1714 XXI | all due form and with all lawful slowness. They dragged the
1715 XIII | drive through its lowest layers. She was about three thousand
1716 XVI | cabin, the engineer was busy laying out his course and marking
1717 V | and still less about his laziness.~Ah, Valet Frycollin, if
1718 XVIII| crew obeyed him as if their leader’s mind had entered into
1719 XIV | hippogriffs which cleared a league at every sweep of the wing.~
1720 VIII | eleven knots an hour.~As they leaned over the rail the passengers
1721 XXIII| reserve; she made a new leap of three thousand feet;
1722 X | the liquid columns which leaped up as though to furnish
1723 V | takes to tell, six men came leaping across from under the trees,
1724 III | practical utility the money leaps nimbly enough from American
1725 XXI | this day the doubts of the learned world were at an end. The
1726 XIX | mind. If the “Albatross” leaves this place tonight, the
1727 II | vociferations which filled the lecture room for a good quarter
1728 VII | ascensional screws were left-handed; Smythies, Panafieu, Crosnier, &
1729 XV | desert was crossed, sometimes leisurely over the Ksars or green
1730 I | Annecy, Le Bourget, and Le Léman, it had been detected just
1731 XVII | Although the days begin to lengthen after the 21st day of June
1732 XVIII| immediately. At the pole the night lengthened into one of a hundred and
1733 XVI | From these clouds a few lengthy protuberances escaped, and
1734 VI | window. The window was not of lenticular glass like those on shipboard,
1735 XV | Adams, Laing, Caillé, Barth, Lenz, on that day by a most singular
1736 VII | of Dante of Perugia, of Leonardo da Vinci and Guidotti, the
1737 XIV | screws should be somewhat lessened. The “Albatross” glided
1738 XXI | luncheons joint of boiled lettuces, and William T. Forbes and
1739 VII | birds’ wings. in 1852 came Letur with his system of guidable
1740 IV | Volador at Lisbon, of De Leturn in 1852, of De Groof in
1741 XX | deck-house, and seizing the lever reversed the rotation, so
1742 IV | Nadar, De Luzy, De Louvrié, Liais, Beleguir, Moreau, the brothers
1743 VII | forecasting tempests; a small library; a portable printing press;
1744 IX | an immense ossuary where lie bleaching in the sun myriads
1745 VI | for some time as though lifeless. Then as the sense of sight
1746 II | might have lasted for the lifetime of the candidates.~One of
1747 XI | Eh, stand up!” he said, lifting the Negro by a vigorous
1748 XIX | have said, had considerably lightened their work. At this moment
1749 XXII | power was due to the very lightest of gaseous bodies. Ordinary
1750 XIV | moment they could see the lighthouse at Grisnez cross its electric
1751 XI | taking fire, ran out like lightning. When the whale rose to
1752 IX | did not displease him; he liked to rub shoulders with the
1753 | likely
1754 XII | a few phanerogams on the limit of vegetable life. Down
1755 VI | his range of view was much limited.~“Break the glass,” said
1756 IX | excellent berths, with clean linen, change of clothes, and
1757 IX | traveling-cloaks and rugs. No Atlantic liner could have offered them
1758 II | nourishment, of all fermented liquors, half a Mussulman, half
1759 IV | of the monk Volador at Lisbon, of De Leturn in 1852, of
1760 VII | excessive lightness.~This list may be a little long, but
1761 XIX | Uncle Prudent and Phil Evans listened. Ali was silent within the
1762 VI | poured forth an interminable litany, in which the terrors of
1763 VII | mounted on a pivot; breech loading and throwing a three-inch
1764 I | far as recording in what locality the inoffensive ruminant
1765 IX | have been on the top of a lofty building. The abyss has
1766 XVI | making full entries in his log-book.~The colleagues wrapped
1767 V | set the two colleagues at loggerheads.~It is only an euphemism’
1768 IV | demonstrated with undeniable logic amid the uproar that arose
1769 XXIII| and at the same time very logical.~But the “Albatross” began
1770 XIV | promenade, this nocturnal loitering, lasted for about an hour.
1771 XVI | the Pacific. After passing Lomas Bay, leaving Mount Gregory
1772 XVII | That ought to be in some lonely island in the Pacific with
1773 VI | right,” said Prudent.~Here a long-drawn sigh escaped from the darkest
1774 XI | nearing the June solstice, the longest day of the year in the northern
1775 XIX | exactitude, was as follows:~ Longitude, 176° 10’ west.~Latitude,
1776 I | distinguished the Bureau des Longitudes.~The provinces were slightly
1777 XII | Karakorum, bordering the longitudinal valley parallel to the Himalayas,
1778 XIV | she was signaled by the look-outs at La Goulette on the Tunisian
1779 XI | with the ducks, divers, and loons, whose husky cries filled
1780 VI | came in through a kind of loophole.~As may be imagined, Phil
1781 XVI | Argentine Republic, sometimes a lord of the Admiralty, sometimes
1782 II | board that had fallen to his lot. The man who planted his
1783 VI | without many objurgations and loud-sounding phrases hurled at this Robur—
1784 XII | drawn in rapidly, sounding louder as they sank, or else fell
1785 XV | minarets were thundering their loudest maledictions against the
1786 XXI | of the Weldon Institute loudly talking together, and with
1787 III | and fifty miles from St. Louis to Jefferson county; the
1788 XIII | it or drive through its lowest layers. She was about three
1789 I | and even to frighten the lowly and the ignorant, who, thanks
1790 X | were sensible of a certain lowness of temperature which was
1791 IV | practical solution. When De Lucy showed that the stag beetle,
1792 VI | Negro between two of his lugubrious howls.~“It is possible that
1793 XII | wings almost acted as a lullaby.~During this day, appearing
1794 XVI | to some pretty bouncing Lunarian!”~Frycollin reported this
1795 XXI | was there, having left his luncheons joint of boiled lettuces,
1796 XI | almost choked, as if his lungs were short of air.~“This
1797 III | thousand yards, higher than Gay Lussac, Coxwell, Sivet, Crocé-Spinelli,
1798 XV | stream hidden under its luxuriant bushes of cactus and oleander;
1799 XII | salt, lakes surrounded by luxurious forests, with icy winds
1800 IV | La Landelle, Nadar, De Luzy, De Louvrié, Liais, Beleguir,
1801 IV | Into the street with him!”~“Lynch him!”~“Helix him!”~The rage
1802 XIII | two towns founded by the Macedonian in remembrance of his victory
1803 IX | pepper-box turrets, and machicolated towers. And in truth these
1804 I | driving ordinary people mad. At one blow party politics
1805 XIX | bore. The act was that of madmen, it was horrible; but at
1806 XVI | But could they get at the magazines?~Fortunately for them, Frycollin
1807 XVI | the last islands of the Magellanic archipelago, whose most
1808 XXII | members of Congress, soldiers, magistrates, reporters, white natives
1809 XVIII| was one of incomparable magnificence, and the light showed the
1810 XIV | Albatross,” as punctual as the mail, reached St. Petersburg
1811 XI | have tried to succeed by main force. But as they were
1812 XVIII| to its being bound to the mainland by a cement of ice.~And
1813 VIII | cataracts.~In an instant a majestic sound, a roar as of the
1814 XXII | and the “Go-Ahead” rose “majestically”—an adverb consecrated by
1815 XIII | of country, the home of malarious vapors, the Terai, in which
1816 XV | trees. Before him stood his male army, his Amazons, and his
1817 XV | thundering their loudest maledictions against the aerial monster.
1818 IV | unaware that this flyer is a mammal? Did he ever see an omelette
1819 VI | regaining his coolness, managed to slacken the cord which
1820 VIII | of the machinery and the management of the ship or to give their
1821 XII | tankader to the best-buttoned mandarin, an apocalyptical monster
1822 XII | surrounding the houses of the mandarins; then in the middle of the
1823 XXI | those whom she bore would be mangled corpses, which the ocean
1824 XV | mimosas, orange-trees, mango-trees—such was the country whose
1825 II | occasioning many public manifestations, noisy meetings, and even
1826 VIII | not to say his prisoners. Manifestly he wished to give them time
1827 XV | trees, immense fields of manioc, magnificent forests of
1828 IV | the domestic and political manners of the old world, by the
1829 XIII | the wind had wrapped in a mantle of dust.~However, about
1830 II | Watch Company, an important manufactory, which makes every day five
1831 XXI | And William T. Forbes, the manufacturer of sugar from rags, had
1832 XVI | course and marking it on his maps, taking his observations
1833 XV | religious chief. the grand marabout Sidi Chick.~Before night
1834 II | armed with a fine needle, marched towards the board that had
1835 XIII | ahead, for the mountains marked on the map are of very moderate
1836 XVI | laying out his course and marking it on his maps, taking his
1837 VII | to multiply. In 1742 the Marquis de Bacqueville designed
1838 XVI | Fry, why? You might get married to some pretty bouncing
1839 II | Dorothy, called Doll, and Miss Martha, called Mat, who gave the
1840 XV | Amazons, who displayed much martial grace.~But the time for
1841 IV | condemned than that whose martyrology contains the names of Pilâtre
1842 XV | soveriegn, the royal family, the masculine and feminine army, and the
1843 XI | the good of such useless massacre? Doubtless to show off the
1844 XVI | were thick black clouds, massed in mountains, on their upper
1845 IV | attachments of the jaw whose masseter muscles were evidently of
1846 IV | produces eight kilograms of masseteric force, a kilogram of crocodile
1847 VI | his repeater—which was a masterpiece from his colleague’s factory—
1848 I | hesitation in admitting the materiality of the phenomenon, particularly
1849 II | of each of these lines is mathematically the same, for they have
1850 I | station in the park of St. Maur. The same respect for the
1851 VIII | which they could take their meals during the voyage. There
1852 VIII | sinuous liquid ribbon which meandered like a mere brook through
1853 XIII | he said.~Turner saw his meaning at once. Frycollin was dragged
1854 XV | walls, defended by a fosse measuring twelve miles round, with
1855 XV | Youbou-Kamo square, where the meatmarket stands close to the palace
1856 VII | accumulators; a stock of preserves, meats and vegetables sufficient
1857 XV | up to then, this African Mecca had only been visited by
1858 XX | with his hands, excellent mechanic as he was. He hurried on
1859 XXI | Who was then this bold mechanician that possessed such powers
1860 XIII | But the engineer never meddled with the affairs of others
1861 III | United States the government meddles with private affairs as
1862 IX | traced the imaginary ruins of medieval cities with forts and dungeons,
1863 XIII | saltwater pike, and a number of medium-sized sterlets, which wealthy
1864 XV | the beautiful valley of Medjeida above its yellow stream
1865 VII | and propulsive. In 1781 Meerwein, the architect of the Prince
1866 XII | harmonicon, gave forth a most melancholy murmuring. It seemed as
1867 VII | Danduran, Pariesel, Dieuaide, Melkiseff, Forlanini, Bearey, Tatin,
1868 VII | fixed together with wax, had melted as they approached the sun.~
1869 XVIII| palaeocrystic sea, whose ice melts not even during the long
1870 IV | with wings like birds, or membranes like certain fish, or certain
1871 XXI | abnormal had happened since the memorable sitting of the 12th of June.
1872 IX | night air.~At last came a menacing yell, which was not due
1873 IV | honorable citizens, for my mental faculties. You see before
1874 XXII | W. Tinder, whose name we mentioned at the beginning of this
1875 IV | never obtain any speed worth mentioning. It would take you ten years
1876 XI | trust themselves to the, mercies of the Chinese or Japanese,
1877 IV | skin bags which are at the mercy of every current in the
1878 XVIII| point where all the world’s meridians cross is still to be discovered.~
1879 I | statement worth noticing; in the meridional section they knew nothing
1880 XXII | Institute.~Did they not merit such an honor? Did it not
1881 VIII | machine?”~“And by what right, Messieurs Balloonists, did you insult
1882 XIV | surprise, read as follows:~““Messrs. Prudent and Evans, president
1883 I | inhabitants. Astronomers and meteorologists would soon have dropped
1884 I | matters of astronomy and meteorology began to have much weight
1885 XV | around a mosque, among them Metlili, where there vegetates a
1886 VII | and in the same year came Michel Loup with his plan of gliding
1887 II | the divisions through a microscope the following were the results:
1888 XVII | Albatross?” Was she in mid-winter bound for the southern seas
1889 XVI | Albatross” exploding in midair, he would not have shrunk
1890 I | twenty seconds. At the Pic du Midi this light appeared between
1891 XIII | with a church tower in the midst of them.~The “Albatross”
1892 I | York, and West Point, the military academy, showed that their
1893 I | in the interests of the milk trade—interposed.~“Suppose
1894 V | usual state. Was it a flour mill that had anchored on it
1895 III | been obtained. Against a miller’s wind— nine yards a second—
1896 IV | which gives millions —”~“No, milliards!”~But Robur, the interrupted,
1897 XV | forests of palms, cocoa-trees, mimosas, orange-trees, mango-trees—
1898 I | the Turks on the highest minaret of St. Sophia, the Rouennais
1899 IX | came penetrating odors of mint, and sage, and absinthe,
1900 XV | and Sarahama, as in the miserable huts at Raguidi, the priests
1901 XXI | nothing to give a clue to the missing three. The most minute search
1902 IX | the Father of Waters, the Mississippi, whose double-decked steam-boats
1903 XIII | I think there can be no mistake as to this scoundrel’s intention
1904 IV | nature, which never makes mistakes. Between the albatross,
1905 IV | enough to fire — pocket mitrailleuses in fact.~And taking advantage
1906 XIII | beluga, the eggs of which mixed up with salt, vinegar, and
1907 IV | ranks of the infuriated mob.~In each hand was one of
1908 VIII | cathedral, recently built on the model of St. Peter’s at Rome,
1909 VII | ascensional movement, and the models experimented on have shown
1910 X | her suspensory screws and moderating her speed so as not to leave
1911 XIV | the city, the mosques and modern churches, the cathedral
1912 V | Institute noticed the strange modification in the landscape of Fairmount
1913 XIX | and then, having slightly moistened it, he wrapped it up in
1914 XIII | grassed over and looking like molehills; its numerous canals, with
1915 V | contractility peculiar to the mollusca and certain of the articulate;
1916 IV | at Constantinople, of the monk Volador at Lisbon, of De
1917 XVI | many were the hours whose monotony was unbroken by any phenomenon
1918 XI | capture of one of these monstrous cetaceans.~At the shout
1919 I | the old Casa Inglesi, at Monte Cavo, the observers made
1920 VII | solution.~In 1783, before the Montgolfier brothers had built their
1921 V | crescent just beginning its monthly life. Frycollin kept a lookout
1922 I | from the observatory of Montsouris and the magnetic station
1923 I | Hudson and on the Bunker Hill monument at Boston, the Chinese at
1924 XIX | The night was dark and moonless. Heavy clouds made the darkness
1925 VI | For if we were in a boat moored on the Schuyllkill we should
1926 IV | Louvrié, Liais, Beleguir, Moreau, the brothers Richard, Babinet,
1927 XV | road of the caravans from Morocco to the Sudan, and that part
1928 XII | reports by the thousand, mortars fired in hundreds, all were
1929 XV | grouped on a hill around a mosque, among them Metlili, where
1930 IV | And a half!”~“And the mosquito, which gives millions —”~“
1931 XIII | peaceful intentions. Robur motioned them away.~“Yes, on you
1932 XV | people.~At the foot of the mound fifty musicians were playing
1933 XXIII| so.~However, instead of mounting into the sky the “Albatross”
1934 XXI | for whom the Union was in mourning.~So, then, the perpetrator
1935 VII | Pomés and De la Pauze, Moy, Pénaud, Jobert, Haureau
1936 XV | seen by the Arabs, the Mozabites, and the Negroes who share
1937 XXII | she contained was 40,000 multiplied by 1,100 or 44,000 kilograms.~
1938 VII | afterwards inventors began to multiply. In 1742 the Marquis de
1939 X | highest in the globe, were multitudes of pelicans, swans, gulls
1940 XV | Batouta, Khazan, Imbert, Mungo Park, Adams, Laing, Caillé,
1941 XII | forth a most melancholy murmuring. It seemed as though they
1942 IV | contraction of the superciliary muscle, an invariable sign of extreme
1943 XIII | was kept in an English or Muscovite pocket. Terrestrial interests
1944 XV | foot of the mound fifty musicians were playing on their barbarous
1945 XV | were not sparing of their musket-shots, particularly when crossing
1946 XIII | cannon and the crackling of musketry. But the engineer never
1947 II | fermented liquors, half a Mussulman, half a Brahman. On this
1948 IV | worthy of the trunk. No mustaches, no whiskers, but a large
1949 IV | aimed at Robur like the muzzles of so many guns! Was not
1950 X | reflecting the sunlight on their myriad facets. Wonderful was the
1951 | myself
1952 XIV | afterwards she crossed the Bay of Naples and hovered for an instant
1953 XIII | bitterness being due to the naptha which pours in from the
1954 XXI | unknown origin, of anonymous nationality, had unexpectedly presented
1955 XXIII| divided interests as yours. Nations are not yet fit for union.~“
1956 XIII | in the breeze. These were native vessels recognizable by
1957 I | miles round our spheroid.~Naturally the newspapers took up the
1958 XVI | the Beagle Channel, and Navarin Island and Wollaston Island,
1959 IV | nef,’ which comes from ‘navis,’ call them from ‘avis,’ ‘
1960 IX | was over Omaha, on the Nebraskan frontier—Omaha City, the
1961 XII | the air was not such as to necessitate recourse being had to the
1962 IX | northwest, whose moderate height necessitated no rise in the course of
1963 I | solar system. And so of necessity we have to find out what
1964 XXII | smaller to the eye, and the necks of the crowd were almost
1965 II | the distance between the needles was so small as to be invisible
1966 VII | had sufficed for all the needs of his flying machine. One
1967 IV | in imitation of the word ‘nef,’ which comes from ‘navis,’
1968 VII | were their positive and negative plates? None can say. The
1969 XX | the work, but nothing was neglected, everything was carefully
1970 XV | to hold its own with its neighbor Ashantee, its area is somewhat
1971 II | uncle without having either nephew or niece. There they speak
1972 XVI | place without any of the Neptunian ceremonies that still linger
1973 XV | it, because the olfactory nerve could not but be very disagreeably
1974 IV | before you an engineer whose nerves are in no way inferior to
1975 I | way to Goat Island, the neutral ground. between the falls.
1976 XIV | Petersburg and the banks of the Neva at two o’clock in the morning.~
1977 VI | But whence comes this never-ending rustling?” asked Evans,
1978 I | two and three o’clock; at Nice it had been noticed between
1979 XIX | was a matter of extreme nicety, and the electric lamps
1980 II | having either nephew or niece. There they speak of uncle
1981 XIII | tremendous noise.~“That wretched nigger will not be quiet, then?”
1982 IX | made his sleep a horrible nightmare.~However, nothing could
1983 III | utility the money leaps nimbly enough from American pockets.
1984 III | this last quarter of the nineteenth century have given considerable
1985 | ninety
1986 IV | second —”~“One hundred and ninety-three!” said the facetious individual.~“
1987 IV | which gives one hundred and ninety-two per second —”~“One hundred
1988 VI | The only result was to nip up his knife, to snip off
1989 XIV | This aerial promenade, this nocturnal loitering, lasted for about
1990 XIX | Then they shut the door and noiselessly crept forward, intending
1991 I | strange and inexplicable noises, do you not at once endeavor
1992 VII | aeromotive!” shouted the noisiest of all, who had turned on
1993 II | thinking of employing it in the nomination of the President of the
1994 V | which is the privilege of non-manufacturing towns. The different members
1995 XIX | to look with the greatest nonchalance on the awful destruction
1996 I | a flying machine!”~What nonsense!~But if the controversy
1997 XIII | redoubled power.~It was noon. The “Albatross” was only
1998 XIII | screws had regained their normal speed and checked the descent;
1999 XXI | telegram the French mail-boat “Normandie” came into the Hudson, bringing
2000 XI | started off at full speed in a northerly direction.~It may be imagined
2001 XX | are a long way off to the northward, and never think of keeping
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