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2002 I | of Isfjord at Spitzbergen—Norwegian one and Swedish the other—
2003 I | was that the Swedes and Norwegians could find themselves in
2004 IV | difficult to say. One thing was noticeable, and that was that he expressed
2005 XXI | tried. Advertisements and notices and articles were sent to
2006 I | thought the statement worth noticing; in the meridional section
2007 | nowhere
2008 VIII | he pointed out a sort of Nuremburg toy planted on a hill top.
2009 XIII | canals, with boats like nut-shells, and boatmen like ants;
2010 VIII | feeding you on such a poorly nutritive fluid. Your first breakfast
2011 IV | seas with the ship, by the oar, the sail, the wheel and
2012 XV | over the Ksars or green oases, sometimes at terrific speed
2013 X | Lake City.~And then, in obedience to an order secretly given,
2014 III | its name by going ahead obediently to the wishes of its commander.~
2015 XI | at their posts ready to obey the orders signaled to them.
2016 XVIII| imperturbable coolness, and the crew obeyed him as if their leader’s
2017 I | they did not hurl their objectives at each other’s heads, it
2018 XIV | Prudent and Phil Evans were obliged to wait for a better opportunity.
2019 XV | came slowly down in an oblique direction. Soon she emerged
2020 XVIII| region was in such profound obscurity. Even if the moon had been
2021 XV | the other world. At the obsequies of Ghozo, the father of
2022 IX | passengers in the aeronef could observe all these details, the inhabitants
2023 X | ribbed as they were with obsidian and tiny crystals, reflecting
2024 VIII | there was a thick crust of obstinacy, which would not be easy
2025 I | the Renommée makes such obstreperous use?~No! There was no balloon
2026 II | election of a lamplighter, occasioning many public manifestations,
2027 XVIII| for a cyclone, a very rare occurrence in these latitudes. Whether
2028 I | not explain a phenomenon occurring only a few miles off, what
2029 VII | world, larger than Africa, Oceania, Asia, America, and Europe,
2030 XXI | States had no frontiers and oceans no limits, who disposed
2031 IX | Lands of Nebraska—a chaos of ochre-colored hills, of mountainous fragments
2032 VIII | f-r-r-r-r rose nearly an octave in the scale of sound, diminishing
2033 XX | him. With the powers of offense possessed by the “Albatross”
2034 XIX | ground was uneven and did not offer a convenient spot to beach
2035 X | rope, an ironical way of offering to tow them.~And then the “
2036 XXI | besieged the post and telegraph offices in case any news should
2037 XVII | Albatross” headed out to the offing.~Certainly there was some
2038 X | geometric lines, formed oftener of palisades than walls.
2039 IX | the products of Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Missouri, and
2040 XVI | and keep down its peculiar oiliness. And here was work for Frycollin
2041 XV | luxuriant bushes of cactus and oleander; and scared away the hundreds
2042 XV | having smelt it, because the olfactory nerve could not but be very
2043 IV | mammal? Did he ever see an omelette made of bat’s eggs?”~The
2044 XXII | North America on that day omitted to send on to Europe one
2045 XVII | surprising to come across such an opalescent mass beyond the limits of
2046 XIV | worsted so as to keep it from opening it as it fell. And then
2047 IX | It is not an abyss that opens beneath the aeronaut, but
2048 I | Iron Works Society, whose opinions in matters of astronomy
2049 I | Massachusetts, found themselves opposed by those of Dartmouth College
2050 VII | many good results. Screws opposing a slanting plane to the
2051 IV | Eyes which at the least opposition would glow like coals of
2052 XV | palms, cocoa-trees, mimosas, orange-trees, mango-trees—such was the
2053 XVIII| position of the earth in its orbit during winter in the antarctic
2054 XI | food for many weeks and her organs were of marvelous strength,
2055 X | Albatross” resumed her original speed, and in half an hour
2056 XIII | porcelain tiles, and its ornamental lakes, which seemed like
2057 VII | screws with vertical axes.~2. Ornithopters, machines which endeavour
2058 XVIII| network of the country or the orographic configuration, and distinguish
2059 XII | the east.~What a superb orographical system! More than two hundred
2060 VII | Prince of Baden, built an orthopteric machine, and protested against
2061 IV | streophores, helicopters, orthopters—or, in imitation of the
2062 XVIII| morning. The barometer, oscillating over a range of twelve millimeters,
2063 IX | Bad Lands are an immense ossuary where lie bleaching in the
2064 XVI | of guanacos, vicunas, and ostriches. Now there were armies of
2065 XI | matters by some premature outbreak.~In any case the present
2066 VI | Uncle Prudent, in a sudden outburst of fury, began to rave and
2067 IX | mountain that could not be outflanked or passed barred the way.
2068 XVI | archipelago, whose most southerly outpost, lashed by the everlasting
2069 V | indemnify them later on for the outrage on their privacy. Vain were
2070 XII | with all the peaks of its outrageous architecture.~Below the “
2071 XIII | mosques, and bungalows on the outskirts; and its old citadel of
2072 XXI | Negro since Toussaint L’Ouverture, Soulouque, or Dessaline
2073 V | a very large clearing—an oval field, a complete amphitheater.
2074 III | difficulties had not been overcome. Many evenings had been
2075 XIII | which relieves it of its overflow, this basin, with an area
2076 XIII | there, taking care not to be overheard, he reported the conversation
2077 X | of an hour the lake was overpassed, and a little farther on
2078 XVI | tree-ferns—and broad plains overrun by herds of guanacos, vicunas,
2079 VI | Uncle Prudent. “He would overwhelm us with his jeremiads, and
2080 XIII | bow, where Frycollin was overwhelming him with piteous pleadings
2081 VI | the most patient of the ovine race, and we know that the
2082 II | it be otherwise when he owned the greater part of the
2083 XXIII| Melbourne he became the owner of a small brigantine of
2084 I | consent to the proposition of Oxford. They were agreed on one
2085 IX | myriads of fragments of pachyderms, chelonians, and even, some
2086 VII | a helix instead of as a paddle wheel. The helix advances
2087 XII | the Yellow town, with its pagodas, its imperial gardens, its
2088 XVII | line was let down, and a pail of fresh water was lowered
2089 XII | palpitation, becoming quite painful followed; and although the
2090 VIII | machine, and he took no pains whatever to hide it.~The
2091 XIII | overboard, when several pairs of hands seized them by
2092 XVIII| archipelago? Or is it a palaeocrystic sea, whose ice melts not
2093 VIII | streets, its huge shops, its palatial banks, its cathedral, recently
2094 XV | of discourses, harangues, palavers and dances, executed not
2095 I | detected just as the zenith was paling with the dawn.~Now it evidently
2096 X | lines, formed oftener of palisades than walls. There were few
2097 XII | forms, made of sheets of palm-leaf, and having at their upper
2098 XV | magnificent forests of palms, cocoa-trees, mimosas, orange-trees,
2099 XII | he went.~Several hours of palpitation, becoming quite painful
2100 VII | Degen. In 1810 came the pamphlet by Denian of Nantes, in
2101 VII | were left-handed; Smythies, Panafieu, Crosnier, &c. At length,
2102 VIII | Phil Evans were feeling the pangs of hunger somewhat keenly
2103 XIV | to knock the ball off the Pantheon or the cross off the Invalides.
2104 VII | diameter in the shape of a parachute can not only impede descent
2105 V | seized with convulsive fear, paralyzed in his limbs, with every
2106 XII | gigantic ferns and interminable parasites stretching from tree to
2107 VI | they had been thrown like parcels in a goods wagon, nor where
2108 XIV | as we know, and we may pardon this fault in an American,
2109 VII | Garapon, Duchesne, Danduran, Pariesel, Dieuaide, Melkiseff, Forlanini,
2110 XI | palaces, villas, gardens, and parks. Even without seeing it
2111 V | different members of the club parted to seek their respective
2112 XVII | produced by myriads of luminous particles of phosphorescent corpuscles;
2113 V | were just tipped by the parting rays of the moon. Beyond
2114 XVII | there!”~The colleagues had partly guessed the engineer’s intentions.
2115 XIX | different kinds; and birds—partridges and bustards—in great numbers.
2116 I | people mad. At one blow party politics dropped unheeded—
2117 V | the thoroughfare for the passersby, who for the most part were
2118 XXIII| within my right. But from the passion kindled in them by the success
2119 IV | from the point of view of passional analogy? The head of a bull;
2120 V | offered, and placards were pasted up, but all to no purpose.
2121 IX | prairie in search of water and pasturage. And when they ceased, the
2122 XVI | would be seen valleys and pasturages that could form the feeding-grounds
2123 XVI | shall get to the coast of Patagonia or Tierra del Fuego. And
2124 XVI | settlement at Port Famine.~If the Patagonians, whose fires could be seen
2125 V | every now and then by the patches of thick woodland—which
2126 III | machine, according to the patent purchased by the Weldon
2127 VII | machines, of which many were patented. Ponton d’Amécourt and his
2128 VII | Joseph Pline with several patents for aerial systems. Bréant,
2129 I | one nor the other of these patriotic tunes, but what was undoubted
2130 VIII | a machine built by the Patterson company, with a cogged wheel,
2131 VII | and broke his arm. In 1768 Paucton conceived the idea of an
2132 I | English at the cross of St. Paul’s in London, the Egyptians
2133 XVIII| millimeters and the “Albatross” paused in her ascent.~What was
2134 VII | Danjard, Pomés and De la Pauze, Moy, Pénaud, Jobert, Haureau
2135 XIV | the two worlds. Thus was peace given to the scientists
2136 XIII | close up with anything but peaceful intentions. Robur motioned
2137 I | almost simultaneous. A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away
2138 XII | she was over the Gulf of Pechelee, and on the 24th she was
2139 XII | and were tied to fixed pegs in the imperial gardens,
2140 XII | ascending the valley of the Peiho on her way to the capital
2141 IV | per minute, between the pelican, which gives seventy —”~“
2142 X | globe, were multitudes of pelicans, swans, gulls and geese,
2143 VII | Pomés and De la Pauze, Moy, Pénaud, Jobert, Haureau de Villeneuve,
2144 IX | bark.~Occasionally came penetrating odors of mint, and sage,
2145 XVI | Now there were armies of penguins and myriads of birds; and,
2146 XVI | bays deep set amid the peninsulas, and islands of the Archipelago.
2147 IX | with forts and dungeons, pepper-box turrets, and machicolated
2148 VIII | of the “Albatross” could perceive a long sinuous liquid ribbon
2149 XIX | In any case, if they had perceived the aeronef, terror had
2150 XV | hundreds of parrots that perch on the telegraph wires and
2151 XVII | might be, would be able to perform such a service? And between
2152 XIII | endeavored to prevent this performance. They were thrust aside.~“
2153 XV | such was the country whose perfumes mounted to the “Albatross,”
2154 XVI | Albatross” had been in extreme peril. Had it not been for her
2155 I | agreement. Then came a short period of rest. Some days elapsed
2156 I | shown itself at very short periods at different points in the
2157 XXIII| engineer said that his ship had perished in a collision, and no further
2158 XVII | Negro, with his master’s permission, very willingly accepted.
2159 VI | than the fortieth parallel permitted, it did not advance with
2160 XI | was over the strait of La Perouse between Saghalien and Northern
2161 XXI | mourning.~So, then, the perpetrator of this kidnapping “was”
2162 I | United Kingdom there was much perplexity. The observatories were
2163 II | micrometrical machine of M. Perreaux, which can divide a millimeter
2164 XV | south. If that direction was persisted in they would cross the
2165 XI | of June, with regrettable persistence. An ascent had to be made
2166 VII | exclaimed one of the most persistent adepts at aviation.~“They
2167 IV | in the atmosphere. They persuade themselves that they can
2168 I | South America, in Brazil, Peru, and La Plata, and in those
2169 VII | in the works of Dante of Perugia, of Leonardo da Vinci and
2170 XVI | on their surface like the petrels, she could like the eagles
2171 XI | day there was a glimpse of Petropaulovski and the volcano of Kloutschew.
2172 XII | was no herbage, only a few phanerogams on the limit of vegetable
2173 I | But what appeared the most phenomenal about it was that the Swedes
2174 XVI | those animalculae that give phosphorescence to the sea, and this showed
2175 XVII | of luminous particles of phosphorescent corpuscles; but it was surprising
2176 XXI | Frycollin after his latest photograph. Rewards were offered to
2177 I | a few bars of a musical phrase in D major, common time,
2178 VI | objurgations and loud-sounding phrases hurled at this Robur—who,
2179 I | nothing about it; in the physical observatory they had not
2180 VII | fire-balloon, and Charles, the physician, had devised his first aerostat,
2181 I | about twenty seconds. At the Pic du Midi this light appeared
2182 XIV | citizen that found it would pick it up, and, being an honest
2183 XV | Arab burnous and broken in picturesque masses. In the distance
2184 XI | seemed to be a breakwater pierced by hundreds of channels.
2185 XIII | bream, salmon, saltwater pike, and a number of medium-sized
2186 XVIII| of God—and God is a good pilot.~The aeronef sped along
2187 V | a bandage, thrown down, pinioned and carried bodily off across
2188 XVI | and he did so by pouring a pint of water down Frycollin’
2189 XVII | with some food and five pints of coffee descended towards
2190 XVI | had been proclaimed for piracy. Sometimes he had been ruined
2191 XIII | two masts; kayuks, the old pirate-boats, with one mast; teimils,
2192 XVI | along by the spout, which pirouetted along the waves with a speed
2193 I | MYSTERIOUS SOUNDS~BANG! Bang!~The pistol shots were almost simultaneous.
2194 XIX | horrible; but at such a pitch had they arrived after five
2195 XIII | was overwhelming him with piteous pleadings to be put “on
2196 VII | field-piece mounted on a pivot; breech loading and throwing
2197 V | rewards were offered, and placards were pasted up, but all
2198 XI | She seemed to skim the placid surface of the sea, which
2199 XV | of the sand,” a soft and plaintive murmur that seems to escape
2200 IV | Tatin, Michael Loup, Edison, Planavergne, and so many others, belongs
2201 I | or Jupiter, or any other planet of the solar system. And
2202 V | grass, but on a sort of plank that creaked beneath them.
2203 VI | and stamp on the sonorous planks, while his hands sought
2204 XIX | clock in the morning.”~“Well planned!” said Phil Evans.~The colleagues,
2205 I | in Brazil, Peru, and La Plata, and in those of Australia
2206 I | in the center of a vast plateau less than thirty miles from
2207 VII | their positive and negative plates? None can say. The engineer
2208 X | hypotheses more or less plausible they came to the conclusion
2209 XII | hundreds, all were brought into play to scare away the aeronef.
2210 XIX | and being no longer the playthings of the atmosphere!~They
2211 XIII | overwhelming him with piteous pleadings to be put “on the ground.”~
2212 XV | look-out was not particularly pleasing to the two friends, whose
2213 VII | to 1863 appeared Joseph Pline with several patents for
2214 XIII | length, and, with a little pluck we might slip down them —”~“
2215 XVI | was work for Frycollin in plucking dozen after dozen of such
2216 X | Faithful Friend, with her plume crowned with the rainbows,
2217 V | at ease to see his master plunging into such deserted spots.
2218 XIV | Desert—it must have been a poet who so called it—has now
2219 VI | servant?” said Phil Evans, pointing to Frycollin, who was puffing
2220 XIV | he would take it to the police-office, and there they would open
2221 III | coolly and calmly, like a policeman amid the storm of the meeting,
2222 V | and more than once had the policemen had to interfere to clear
2223 XV | It is even a matter of politeness when the King of Dahomey
2224 I | people mad. At one blow party politics dropped unheeded—and the
2225 V | idle, and a magnificent poltroon, he had been the servant
2226 VIII | hill top. This toy with its polychrome architecture resembled the
2227 VII | Stringfellow, Prigent, Danjard, Pomés and De la Pauze, Moy, Pénaud,
2228 X | for hills, with lakes for ponds, with rivers for streamlets,
2229 XI | Master Tapage!” said the poor fellow, giving a despairing
2230 VIII | of feeding you on such a poorly nutritive fluid. Your first
2231 XIII | its hills shaded by tall poplars, its roofs grassed over
2232 XIII | with its walls covered with porcelain tiles, and its ornamental
2233 VII | these cabins were lighted by port-holes filled with toughened glass,
2234 VII | tempests; a small library; a portable printing press; a field-piece
2235 III | occurred a diversion.~The porter of the Weldon Institute
2236 XIX | No light shone from the portholes. The aeronef was not only
2237 XXI | black race, published a portrait of Frycollin after his latest
2238 XIII | struggle between the armies of Porus and Alexander, when India
2239 XV | affluents, and determine the positions of the towns and villages!
2240 VII | secret. Of what were their positive and negative plates? None
2241 V | fellows there all the time. Positively they are getting nearer!
2242 V | Chip, publicly accused of possessing an alimentary canal twelve,
2243 XIII | Russians to the English possessions in India, there were seen
2244 V | which all the pronouns are possessive and all the verbs infinitive.
2245 I | hand down their names to posterity. All we can say is that
2246 XIX | give the crew a rest, and postpone what required to be done
2247 III | batteries of bichromate of potassium of the Tissandier brothers
2248 XVI | event, and he did so by pouring a pint of water down Frycollin’
2249 XIII | things. The sense of their powerlessness, the ironical disdain with
2250 VII | render aerial locomotion practicable. Bourcart, Le Bris, Kaufmann,
2251 I | theory, was possible in practice.~In Switzerland, at the
2252 IX | Iowa and Nebraska—immense prairies extending all the way to
2253 XV | said, “these are as good as prawns.”~The aeronef was then eleven
2254 VIII | engineer had taken many precautions against being recognized,
2255 XV | perhaps of yielding to it, he precipitately rushed into his cabin,~“
2256 XV | could not do less than his predecessor. For an hour there was a
2257 VII | these experiments of his predecessors, how could the inquirer
2258 XIV | sweeper, who took it to the prefecture of police. There it was
2259 VIII | being recognized, if by preference he traveled at night, clearing
2260 XII | warm traveling wraps, they preferred to keep to their cabin.~
2261 XV | arrival in an aeronef might prejudice them against you.”~“Sir,”
2262 XIII | Without replying to this preposterous request, Evans returned
2263 VII | library; a portable printing press; a field-piece mounted on
2264 IV | cubic yard of gas. A balloon pretending to resist the wind by aid
2265 IV | might be applied to their pretentious skin bags which are at the
2266 XVI | where the southwest winds prevail, the wind was ahead of them,
2267 IV | birds one simple idea has prevailed—to imitate nature, which
2268 IX | their very real anxiety prevented them. In what adventure
2269 XI | the line, which had been previously wetted in a tub of water
2270 XXI | but as they had paid full price for their berths no American
2271 XV | miserable huts at Raguidi, the priests from the minarets were thundering
2272 VII | Kaufmann, Smyth, Stringfellow, Prigent, Danjard, Pomés and De la
2273 VII | Meerwein, the architect of the Prince of Baden, built an orthopteric
2274 VII | of Nantes, in which the principles of “heavier than air” are
2275 VII | small library; a portable printing press; a field-piece mounted
2276 V | for the outrage on their privacy. Vain were all their trouble
2277 III | government meddles with private affairs as little as it
2278 V | sound sleep which is the privilege of non-manufacturing towns.
2279 XIII | a moment all the chances pro and con were run over in
2280 XVI | at that these insoluble problems drove the colleagues almost
2281 XXI | was possible. The police proceeded with their inquiries in
2282 XV | the whole population was proceeding to the enthronization of
2283 V | the noisy way in which the proceedings ended, and more than once
2284 IV | deduced: If a kilogram of dog produces eight kilograms of masseteric
2285 XXI | end. The body was not a product of nature, it was a flying
2286 IX | reservoir into which flow the products of Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin,
2287 II | They were not engineers by profession, but simply amateurs of
2288 XV | dances, executed not only by professionals, but by the Amazons, who
2289 III | doubtless in the school of Professor Buridan— could not bring
2290 XXIII| you are educated enough to profit by it and wise enough not
2291 XXIII| cheers.~The two colleagues, profoundly humiliated, and through
2292 VIII | if a humid fog had been projected into the air, the atmosphere
2293 I | sixteen times that of ordinary projectiles—or about four hundred and
2294 VII | ship’s deck in fact, with a projecting prow. Beneath was a hull
2295 XIV | resultant of her force of projection and the attraction of the
2296 IX | dream of fall after fall, of projections through space, which made
2297 VIII | the day with the abnormal prolongation of the dawn.~“Yes,” said
2298 XIX | a view to a more or less prolonged stay on the Chatham Islands.
2299 XIV | electric rays.~This aerial promenade, this nocturnal loitering,
2300 XIX | worthy of his name, and that promised well.~To his great surprise,
2301 X | contented. Matters did not look promising, particularly as on reference
2302 XVI | and channels, capes and promontories, all in inextricable confusion,
2303 XIII | European houses rising along a promontory, with a church tower in
2304 XXI | absence of the principal promoters of the affair, of those
2305 XX | Albatross” they would be promptly terrified and dispersed.
2306 V | jargon in which all the pronouns are possessive and all the
2307 XXII | perfectly vertical line—a proof of the calmness of the atmosphere—
2308 XVI | they had such convincing proofs! The idea took such hold
2309 XIX | propeller be could easily keep a proper course.~Meanwhile Uncle
2310 XXI | Tremendous applause. And properly so, for if it was not extraordinary
2311 VII | nothing of its insulating properties, and it proved most valuable
2312 XVI | a man is always his own property; and if necessary, by sacrificing
2313 IV | wing surface decreases in proportion to the increase of the size
2314 VII | increases, the less is the proportional increase in the surface
2315 V | the tumult attained such proportions, never had the complaints
2316 XV | for a day or two?”~Such a proposal could only have been made
2317 II | members of the club then proposed a way out of the difficulty.
2318 IV | monster balloon. And so propositions of the following kind began
2319 VII | two screws, suspensive and propulsive. In 1781 Meerwein, the architect
2320 II | confirmed vegetarian, a proscriber of all animal nourishment,
2321 VII | orthopteric machine, and protested against the tendency of
2322 XIII | himself over to groaning and protesting and crying, and writhing
2323 IV | Here arose a new tempest of protests and denials which lasted
2324 XVI | these clouds a few lengthy protuberances escaped, and their points
2325 III | colleagues were so justifiably proud of it.~This balloon not
2326 X | front, and hung behind, and proudly displayed her flag with
2327 VIII | Quebec two hours ago!”~“That proves that we must be going at
2328 XXIII| of money, quite enough to provide for himself and companions
2329 XXII | amount of air by pumping, had provided for this vertical motion.
2330 XI | to which they could swim, providing Robur made no attempt to
2331 I | Bureau des Longitudes.~The provinces were slightly more affirmative.
2332 XIX | her flight. There she was provisioned for all her voyages. In
2333 XIV | had been carried off, and provoke—how was not very clear—some
2334 VII | fact, with a projecting prow. Beneath was a hull solidly
2335 V | night. Treasurer Jim Chip, publicly accused of possessing an
2336 XXI | organ of the black race, published a portrait of Frycollin
2337 XVI | to the west, they sighted Puerto Arena, a small Chilean village,
2338 VI | pointing to Frycollin, who was puffing like a grampus. “We must
2339 I | director of the observatory at Pulkowa, showed that both were right.
2340 XVIII| to ascend, but the heavy pull soon drew her back, and
2341 VII | steel. There are made of it pulleys, rails, and wagon-wheels,
2342 XXII | certain amount of air by pumping, had provided for this vertical
2343 XIV | and the “Albatross,” as punctual as the mail, reached St.
2344 XIII | along the river banks of the Punjab.~At the base of the Himalayas
2345 V | Schuyllkill bridge. The pupils of his eyes broadened out
2346 III | according to the patent purchased by the Weldon Institute,
2347 XIII | six thousand feet into a purer atmosphere.~And thus vanished
2348 XXI | Prudent by the bonds of purest friendship, could not get
2349 V | pasted up, but all to no purpose. The earth seemed to have
2350 VI | their watches, jewelry, and purses, and thrown their bodies
2351 XVIII| indication of the course pursued. Its inclination was such
2352 XV | without anybody thinking of pursuing them.~In this way was the
2353 XI | Albatross” was towed in pursuit. Besides, the propellers
2354 II | saloon there were struggling, pushing, gesticulating, shouting,
2355 XXII | unaccountable movements, the sudden pushings, which made the mass heave
2356 I | Meteorological Observatory on the Puy de Dome the light had been
2357 XII | like a square of Chinese puzzle enclosed in another, the
2358 VIII | whose appearance had so much puzzled the people of both worlds
2359 XIV | traversing the Alps or the Pyrenees, she flew over the face
2360 II | surprising in America in the qualificative uncle, for you can there
2361 XXII | war.~She possessed all the qualities of a good aerostat. Her
2362 XIII | lads!”~He stepped on to his quarter-deck and his crew went to their
2363 IX | Frycollin, the valet, was quartered forward in a cabin adjoining
2364 IV | listening! Yes! The riot was quelled at once by the totally unexpected
2365 IX | However, nothing could be quieter than this journey through
2366 X | craft as if she were a crack racer in a Royal Victoria match.
2367 XIX | intense. The clouds were racing up from the southwest, and
2368 XII | the large boulevards which radiate from its center, the temples
2369 XXIII| cabins, all formed a sort of raft. When a wounded bird falls
2370 I | two heirs of the Begum of Ragginahra, the French doctor Sarrasin,
2371 XV | in the miserable huts at Raguidi, the priests from the minarets
2372 XIII | in the impalpable dust it raises in its passage. And many
2373 IV | balloon! When to obtain the raising of a couple of pounds you
2374 XVII | was fired and the report rang out over the sea.~One of
2375 XI | were in interminable files, ranged in line of battle, and countable
2376 XII | province of Nepal. These ranges block the road into India
2377 XIV | now sunk from the first rank to the fifth or sixth. A
2378 IV | held them out at the front ranks of the infuriated mob.~In
2379 XVIII| made for a cyclone, a very rare occurrence in these latitudes.
2380 XII | followed; and although the rarefaction of the air was not such
2381 XII | keep the aeronef in this rarefied atmosphere the suspensory
2382 VIII | intensity as the air became more rarified, and the machine rose vertically,
2383 VIII | excellent soup; and there were rashers of fried ham, and for drink
2384 IV | Between these different rates —” he continued.~“There
2385 VII | varies in almost inverse ratio to the square of the speed,
2386 VI | outburst of fury, began to rave and stamp on the sonorous
2387 XVII | restrained them in their ravenousness.~“Where are we?” asked the
2388 XII | there snowy peaks and barren ravines, torrents fed by glaciers,
2389 XIII | Albatross” and the storm we’re sure to meet, for they were
2390 XII | the right was Dhawalagiri, reaching twenty-six thousand eight
2391 I | and tranquillizing their readers—as the sale required—and
2392 II | bear on the lines; and on reading the divisions through a
2393 XVI | he could, recording the readings of his barometers, thermometers,
2394 IV | hundred, who believe in the realization of your dreams, are throwing
2395 VII | birds, that they trusted to realize aerial locomotion.~This
2396 XXIII| in the atmosphere in the realm that none can take from
2397 XXI | connection between this singular reappearance and the no less singular
2398 XVII | the act of a madman.~Thus reasoned the President and Secretary
2399 VII | However, Robur, for many reasons, had rejected the two first.~
2400 XIX | Frycollin was strangely reassured. What a difference! To be
2401 XIX | could repair it, and even rebuild it. In his warehouses were
2402 XXIII| redoubtable Robur. Now he had recaptured them, would he carry them
2403 XV | when the King of Dahomey receives a visit from some high personage
2404 VIII | locomotion, is susceptible of receiving greater speed. It is not
2405 XIX | engineer began the repairs he reckoned on completing before the
2406 X | had put them out of their reckoning.~After talking over several
2407 XV | forests.~On this plain the recognition of the new king was to take
2408 I | hereunder.~“There will be in the recollection of most people the rivalry
2409 I | section there had been no record; in the calculating room
2410 XXII | heave and swell. Nor need we recount the number of cheers which
2411 XIX | But there was no time for recriminations, and Uncle Prudent was in
2412 VI | amenities to which we need not recur, we had kept our eyes more
2413 XIII | at the wall and yell with redoubled power.~It was noon. The “
2414 XXIII| become the prisoners of the redoubtable Robur. Now he had recaptured
2415 IX | coyote. It was the shout of a Redskin, which no Tenderfoot would
2416 XVIII| vessel would have had to reef in her topsails and her
2417 X | promising, particularly as on reference to the compass it appeared
2418 X | appeared a vast disk, which reflected the solar rays as if it
2419 X | obsidian and tiny crystals, reflecting the sunlight on their myriad
2420 XIV | Mars, where the enormous reflector was inundating the whole
2421 VIII | roofs were shining like reflectors in the sun. The “Albatross”
2422 VIII | thousand rainbows due to refraction as it decomposed the solar
2423 XXII | way to convince the most refractory disbeliever in the guiding
2424 VIII | shook with fear, and almost refused to work. “If it was to break!
2425 XIX | his intention had been to regain X Island by crossing the
2426 VI | something happened. Phil Evans, regaining his coolness, managed to
2427 IX | air was too remote to be regarded. In any case it would be
2428 III | aerial locomotion.~With regards to the means employed to
2429 XVIII| along with it.~Great was the regret that the whole region was
2430 XXIII| rag.~An appalling silence reigned on the ground. It seemed
2431 X | characteristic heads that Hogarth rejoiced in.~Shall we see Mr. Robur
2432 XXI | they would then speak, and relate the impressions of their
2433 VIII | foretaste of the nature of the relations that were to obtain between
2434 XII | eight hundred feet, and relegated to second place since the
2435 XVI | engineer was bound, but what reliance could be placed on the information
2436 XIII | Without the evaporation which relieves it of its overflow, this
2437 XV | where there vegetates a religious chief. the grand marabout
2438 II | the measurements should be remade by means of a rule graduated
2439 XIII | founded by the Macedonian in remembrance of his victory have long
2440 IV | of arguments.~“But I may remind you, all the same, that
2441 XXI | self-defence, and felt no remorse whatever. Evans was but
2442 IX | through the air was too remote to be regarded. In any case
2443 VIII | which would not be easy to remove.~On his part, Robur did
2444 III | not.~Then the president removed his hat. Thanks to this
2445 XV | where the aeronef could have renewed her water supply. But, thanks
2446 XII | the special apparatus for renewing oxygen in the cabins, the
2447 I | instrument of which the Renommée makes such obstreperous
2448 XXII | the Weldon Institute was repeated by a hundred thousand mouths:~“
2449 VI | Uncle Prudent sounded his repeater—which was a masterpiece
2450 XIII | Tom Turner and his men replenished their water supply, which
2451 I | frankness characterized the replies from the observatory of
2452 XIII | on the ground.”~Without replying to this preposterous request,
2453 XXII | soldiers, magistrates, reporters, white natives and black
2454 XII | the Chinese orchestra, gun reports by the thousand, mortars
2455 XV | which, if he had need of repose or revictualing, be could
2456 III | yard at Philadelphia there reposed an enormous aerostat, whose
2457 XXI | who carried off by way of reprisal Uncle Prudent, Phil Evans
2458 VII | machines which endeavour to reproduce the natural flight of birds.~
2459 XVII | where to?”~“Where he can reprovision the ship,” said Uncle Prudent.~“
2460 IV | of a couple of pounds you require a cubic yard of gas. A balloon
2461 VII | force in excess of all his requirements under any circumstances.~
2462 VII | came the inventions and researches of Derblinger, Vigual, Sarti,
2463 IV | head of what animal did it resemble from the point of view of
2464 VIII | polychrome architecture resembled the House of Parliament
2465 VIII | as the Montreal cathedral resembles St. Peter’s at Rome. But
2466 XXIII| away the ballast she had in reserve; she made a new leap of
2467 IV | were patient? Or were they reserving themselves to see how far
2468 VI | and for a time they must resign themselves to their fate—
2469 VI | fragrance of the grass and the resinous odor of the park trees.
2470 IV | A balloon pretending to resist the wind by aid of its mechanism,
2471 VII | than that the air is highly resistant. A circumference of only
2472 V | by surprise, would have resisted.~They had neither time nor
2473 XIII | they did not yield without resisting. They tried to throw off
2474 XIX | four days.~Hence Robur’s resolve to anchor on the Chatham
2475 XV | immediately a fusillade resounded over the plain.~These menaces
2476 XVII | the incognito was to be respected. But had the flying machine
2477 XXI | not sparing of their most respectful demonstrations, Uncle Prudent,
2478 V | club parted to seek their respective houses. To mention the most
2479 XII | the utmost limits of the respirable air.~The pass at last was
2480 XV | the adventure, for I am responsible for the safety of the guests
2481 XIX | and there the “Albatross” rested when tired with her flight.
2482 XVII | The mate with difficulty restrained them in their ravenousness.~“
2483 IV | who had some difficulty in restraining himself.~And Robur spoke
2484 XVIII| such storms are generally restricted, such zone being bounded
2485 XIV | Albatross,” and as if the resultant of her force of projection
2486 II | even interchanges of blows, resulting in an effervescence which
2487 XV | Perhaps the answers will be revealed. Anyhow the bird-like Robur
2488 XX | anger. The escape meant the revelation of his secret to the world.
2489 XVI | where the “Albatross” could revictual. That he had broken off
2490 XV | he had need of repose or revictualing, be could betake himself?
2491 XV | we shall have passed in review the Dahomian army.~Abomey
2492 VII | through the air on four revolving wings. In 1853 came Béléguic
2493 XIV | you might have for your rheumatics!”~“It seems to me we shall
2494 X | the banks of this basin, ribbed as they were with obsidian
2495 IV | Beleguir, Moreau, the brothers Richard, Babinet, Jobert, Du Temple,
2496 XVI | been his history? Here were riddles impossible to solve; and
2497 XV | above a flattish country ridged occasionally with large
2498 XVIII| Albatross” remained motionless, riding like a ship in a roadstead.~
2499 XXI | slightly wounded by the rifle bullet, and the three made
2500 XV | were more harmless than the rifle-bullets; though assuredly, if the
2501 XV | engineer.~And the magazine rifles of the “Albatross” in the
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