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2502 XIII | recognizable by their peculiar rig—kesebeys, with two masts;
2503 I | canton of Appenzell, at the Righi, at the Gäbriss, in the
2504 IX | Here and there were many rios, affluents or minor affluents
2505 XI | ocean. His hair would have risen on end—if it had not been
2506 XX | drifted off more rapidly. He risked being blown a long, way
2507 VI | to at once set free his rival. A few cuts with the bowie
2508 XIV | had fallen in the Rue de Rivoli, opposite No. 200, when
2509 XIV | over the famous fall of the Rjukanfos in Norway. Gousta, whose
2510 XVIII| riding like a ship in a roadstead.~It was the first time she
2511 IX | the herds of buffalo that roamed over the prairie in search
2512 IX | their feet produced a dull roaring similar to the rushing of
2513 XV | air was troubled by the roarings of the numerous herds of
2514 V | of people who intended to rob them? The people did nothing
2515 IV | this line attached by a robust neck there rose an enormous
2516 XVII | north of us? That is not a rock?”~“No, Tom; there is no
2517 X | half they were through the Rockies, and the “Albatross” resumed
2518 XIV | along the streets, and the roll of the trains on the numerous
2519 VII | the crew, or as machine rooms. In the center house was
2520 XVIII| of those whirlwinds that root up the trees, carry off
2521 VIII | which tears up trees by the roots. It is the mean speed of
2522 XX | seizing the lever reversed the rotation, so that the propeller became
2523 XIX | which they received their rotatory movement.~It was the screw
2524 I | minaret of St. Sophia, the Rouennais at the end of the metal
2525 XVIII| THE VOLCANO~The sea was as rough as ever, and the symptoms
2526 XIV | out his trumpet and blew a rousing tarantaratara.~At this moment
2527 XV | southwesterly, cutting across the routes of El Golea, one of which
2528 XI | change from the ordinary routine, would have endeavored to
2529 IV | to rise along the first row of seats—a sign that the
2530 V | quivering, a frrrr, with the rrr unending.~And that was the
2531 IX | displease him; he liked to rub shoulders with the great
2532 XV | which was sweeping a wave of ruddy sand along the surface of
2533 VI | That he began by being rude and ended in being unbearable.”~
2534 XIV | fall?~It had fallen in the Rue de Rivoli, opposite No.
2535 XVI | hours of the southern day! Rugged mountains, peaks eternally
2536 IX | and traveling-cloaks and rugs. No Atlantic liner could
2537 XVI | piracy. Sometimes he had been ruined by making the aeronef, and
2538 XVI | their upper surface, and ruled off below by a sharp horizontal
2539 XIV | to her there floated the rumble of the vehicles as they
2540 I | locality the inoffensive ruminant had just tasted her last
2541 XI | six to seven feet long, russet in color, and weigh from
2542 XIV | ancient capital of all the Russias.~From Moscow to St. Petersburg
2543 XI | swarm for the benefit of the Russo-American Company. An excellent business
2544 XV | festivals, and by its human sacrifices—fearful hecatombs intended
2545 XVI | property; and if necessary, by sacrificing his life —”~“If we are to
2546 IX | penetrating odors of mint, and sage, and absinthe, mingled with
2547 XI | strait of La Perouse between Saghalien and Northern Japan, and
2548 XV | could be seen of the Trans- Saharan Railway constructing on
2549 XVIII| Under such circumstances a sailing vessel would have had to
2550 XI | as follows: “Gentlemen, a sailing-ship or a steamship caught in
2551 XXII | execute all the movements of a sailing-vessel in beating to windward,
2552 X | Tabernacle, where ten thousand saints can worship at their ease.
2553 I | tranquillizing their readers—as the sale required—and almost driving
2554 IV | Babinet, Jobert, Du Temple, Salives, Penaud, De Villeneuve,
2555 XIII | at each haul carp, bream, salmon, saltwater pike, and a number
2556 XIII | haul carp, bream, salmon, saltwater pike, and a number of medium-sized
2557 XV | Certainly, for she was saluted with many hundred gunshot,
2558 XIV | passed over Moscow without saluting the flag on the Kremlin.
2559 XXII | of the northern seas.~A salvo of cheers mounted towards
2560 XV | occasionally with large sandhills. If the “Albatross” had
2561 XV | the morning star over the sands of the Sahara.~On the 30th
2562 XIII | Demavend appeared above the sandstorm, and the “Albatross” was
2563 XIII | disappeared in one of those sandstorms which are so frequent in
2564 XV | In the rich quarters of Sankere and Sarahama, as in the
2565 IV | the death of the Flying Saracen at Constantinople, of the
2566 XV | quarters of Sankere and Sarahama, as in the miserable huts
2567 XXIII| and, at their expense, are sarcastic still.~And now, who is this
2568 XVI | Graves, she steered for Mount Sarmiento, an enormous peak wrapped
2569 I | Ragginahra, the French doctor Sarrasin, the city of Frankville,
2570 VII | researches of Derblinger, Vigual, Sarti, Dubochet, and Cagniard
2571 I | was adopted to the general satisfaction. The Americans and Englishmen
2572 I | observatory could not give a satisfactory answer what was the use
2573 XIII | threatening. The electric saturation of the atmosphere had become
2574 I | Switzerland, at the observatory of Sautis in the canton of Appenzell,
2575 XV | had hitherto happened, the savages saw in her a celestial being
2576 XIII | her —”~“Let us begin by saving ourselves” answered Phil
2577 II | IMPOSSIBLE~“And the first who says the contrary —”~“Indeed!
2578 VIII | nearly an octave in the scale of sound, diminishing gradually
2579 V | would have been such a scandal.”~“And what would you have
2580 XVII | keen; but as there was no scarcity of clothing on board, the
2581 XII | were brought into play to scare away the aeronef. Although
2582 XV | shirt with a blue or red scarf, with white-and-blue striped
2583 XII | at sunset assumed a deep scarlet hue.~Fortunately the typhoon
2584 XVI | had no suspicion of their scheme. At the thought of the “
2585 XII | Ganim, which the brothers Schlagintweit traversed in 1856 at a height
2586 I | There was no trumpet in Herr Schulze’s projectile!~So all the
2587 IV | Seventy-one,” said the voice of a scoffer.~“And the bee, which gives
2588 XXI | escape to the earth, the scramble among the rocks, the bullet
2589 IV | In vain the steam whistle screamed its fanfares on to the assembly.
2590 XIX | in mid-air.~Phil Evans, screened by his companion, was now
2591 XIV | irresistible power that they screwed themselves through the air.~
2592 II | Twenty times there had been a scrutiny, and twenty times the majority
2593 XXIII| chances of safety as in a sea-fight. It was the first of its
2594 XI | the barrier where the fur seals. swarm for the benefit of
2595 XX | It was empty! Tapage had searched Frycollin’s cabin, and that
2596 V | were all their trouble and searching. Robur was nowhere to be
2597 X | beating of the surf on the seashore. It was the Pacific Ocean!~
2598 XII | slate-colored field, with a large sector quite clear in the north.
2599 XXIII| idea—to be avenged. But to secure his vengeance he would have
2600 X | seized the opportunity of securing an ample supply of trout,
2601 XIII | tebbad” bears along the seeds of fever in the impalpable
2602 XV | bird-like Robur was not seeking his nest on the northern
2603 XIV | master may send you to the seesaw!” And Frycollin gulped down
2604 VII | wings, tried it over the Seine, and fell and broke his
2605 XV | crossing the Mountain of Sel, whose green and violet
2606 XVII | his prisoners. Frycollin seldom came out of the cook-house,
2607 XV | fearlessly hurled them selves on to the aeronef to the
2608 IX | their arms the appearance of semi-diaphanous disks.~The State of Illinois
2609 III | to this extreme measure a semi-silence was obtained.~“A communication!”
2610 I | four o’clock; while at the Semnoz Alps between Annecy, Le
2611 XVII | deny the evidence of their senses.~
2612 X | Prudent and Phil Evans were sensible of a certain lowness of
2613 X | rendered more effective by the sensitiveness of the rudder, maneuvered
2614 XIX | Prudent did not finish his sentence.~There was a noise on the “
2615 XVI | the adventure would end, sentenced to perpetual aviation, was
2616 X | hundred and eighty miles then separated them from San Francisco,
2617 XIII | morning the aeronef was over Serinuggur, which is better known under
2618 XV | Tapage for his larder. And he served them up in so succulent
2619 XV | power of the aeronef and the services it could render to humanity.~
2620 VII | necessary to copy Nature servilely. Locomotives are not copied
2621 XVI | That day, as the sun was setting about three o’clock in the
2622 VI | and we can return later to settle with this Robur —”~“And
2623 XVI | later they were over the old settlement at Port Famine.~If the Patagonians,
2624 VII | themselves—“I am master of the seventh part of the world, larger
2625 VIII | must be going at a speed of seventy-five miles an hour.”~Such was
2626 XVIII| into one of a hundred and seventy-nine hours. Everything showed
2627 IV | which gives seventy —”~“Seventy-one,” said the voice of a scoffer.~“
2628 VI | third whose attempt deserves severe reprisals. And this third
2629 XI | of the hatchet the mate severed the line, and the “Albatross,”
2630 VII | observation, compasses, and sextants for checking the course,
2631 XIII | Cannot we do something now?”~“Sh! They are watching us much
2632 XI | cylindrical shell armed with a shaft having a barbed point. Robur
2633 XIII | that surround it, and the Shah’s palace, with its walls
2634 XXI | the vegetarian, had even shaken hands with the president
2635 XIV | but we shall go so fast we shan’t have time to fall! That
2636 XI | an arquebus and which are shaped as a metallic cylinder terminated
2637 IX | take the most fantastic shapes. Here and there amid this
2638 XXI | Prudent was the largest shareholder, thought of suspending its
2639 II | the greater part of the shares in Niagara Falls? A society
2640 XIII | good-size fish, not unlike a shark.~It was a splendid sturgeon
2641 XIX | pounds of dynamite, enough to shatter the aeronef to atoms. If
2642 IV | Robur disappeared amid a sheaf of hands that were thrown
2643 XIV | turned on. Two brilliant sheaves of light shot down and moved
2644 VI | Institute were not precisely sheep as far as patience went.
2645 I | at Yale College, in the Sheffield Science School, had been
2646 XV | exploded like so many small shells.~The king and his court
2647 XX | supporting Phil Evans, had taken shelter among the rocks. They had
2648 IX | granaries, and the huge Sherman Hotel, whose windows seemed
2649 XVIII| more probable as the wind shifted more to the east after they
2650 VIII | Champlain, whose zinc roofs were shining like reflectors in the sun.
2651 VI | lenticular glass like those on shipboard, but was a simple flat pane.
2652 XVII | indications were such as a shipmaster might feel anxious at, though
2653 XIV | document giving the place of shipwreck and throw it into the sea?
2654 XIX | wealth, had established a shipyard in which he built his aeronef.
2655 XV | Dahomey. Some have a blue shirt with a blue or red scarf,
2656 XV | men in cotton drawers and shirts, with a knotted tuft to
2657 VI | and it was impossible to shoot back the lock. All that
2658 VIII | s wide streets, its huge shops, its palatial banks, its
2659 XV | have a heavy carbine, a short-bladed dagger, and two antelope
2660 XI | is what I think, and very shortly you shall have an opportunity
2661 XIX | the bullet grazed Phil’s shoulder.~“Ah! The brutes!” said
2662 VI | prairie wagons, or some show-caravan —”~“Evidently! For if we
2663 XXII | people might troop to the show-master, workmen, women, old men,
2664 I | there was no doubt, was showering off from his body certain
2665 I | to say. Anyhow the duel shows how great was the excitement,
2666 XV | little gun shot forth its shrapnel, which really did marvels.~
2667 XII | forth a note of intense shrillness in spite of the trifling
2668 XVIII| Was the “Albatross” to be shriveled up in their flames like
2669 XV | hills covered with trees and shrubs there succeeded long gray
2670 IV | Indeed!” said Robur, shrugging his shoulders, and resuming, “
2671 XVI | midair, he would not have shrunk from betraying his master.~
2672 XI | reached the mouth of the great Siberian river, the Amoor.~Then there
2673 XV | chief. the grand marabout Sidi Chick.~Before night several
2674 VI | of glass toughened on the Siemens system—as after several
2675 VI | were reduced to stifled sighs, to grunts emitted over
2676 XXII | the Pennsylvania capital sightseers from the neighboring states;
2677 XV | frightful cruelties which signalize its annual festivals, and
2678 XI | had for some hours been silvering the eastern horizon. They
2679 VI | bowie-knife. It gave back a silvery sound, but it did not break.~
2680 VII | Robur had thought that the simpler his contrivance the better.
2681 IV | brought forward ideas of such simplicity. Abandoned and resumed times
2682 I | Bernard, at the Julier, at the Simplon, at Zurich, at Somblick
2683 I | pistol shots were almost simultaneous. A cow peacefully grazing
2684 VIII | vertically, like a lark singing his song in space.~“Master!
2685 I | town and annihilate it at a single blow.~“Still less will it
2686 XVII | fortnight ago as she was sinking. We have no water and no
2687 VIII | Albatross” could perceive a long sinuous liquid ribbon which meandered
2688 VIII | be compared to that of a siren in acoustical experiments.
2689 VIII | to the southwest.~“Now, sirs, if that is what you wanted
2690 XVIII| were rendered useless the situation of the aeronef above the
2691 IV | Grimwood in Lake Michigan, of Sivel and of Crocé-Spinelli, and
2692 III | than Gay Lussac, Coxwell, Sivet, Crocé-Spinelli, Tissandier,
2693 I | Canton, the Hindus on the sixteenth terrace of the pyramid of
2694 VIII | the frozen Hudson do their sixty-five miles an hour; a machine
2695 X | resumed her former speed of sixty-two miles an hour. She was steering
2696 XVII | and his face was that of a skeleton. As he caught sight of the “
2697 XXI | hands in despair to the skies. Uncle Prudent and his colleague
2698 XVIII| and it required all his skill to keep her straight. In
2699 XI | moderate speed. She seemed to skim the placid surface of the
2700 IV | applied to their pretentious skin bags which are at the mercy
2701 XV | Chapter XV~A SKIRMISH IN DAHOMEY~At this point
2702 XIV | on somebody and crack his skull it might never be found.~
2703 VI | his coolness, managed to slacken the cord which bound his
2704 VII | results. Screws opposing a slanting plane to the bed of air
2705 XVIII| aeronef, and she shot up slantingly as if she was traveling
2706 XI | wounded, gave the sea such a slap with his tail, that the
2707 XII | streaks of carmine on a slate-colored field, with a large sector
2708 V | twenty, he had never been a slave, not even by birth, but
2709 XIV | in a comer of his cabin, sleeping as well as he could, except
2710 XIX | wished to make up for a sleepless night.~Neither Robur nor
2711 XI | cabin. His eyes red with sleeplessness, and dazed in their look,
2712 XIX | berths in the cabin was a sliding box, forming a small locker,
2713 XIX | would be no difficulty in slipping down it.~The colleagues
2714 XII | breath of the wind these slips, with all their notes varied
2715 XII | showed itself far down the slopes. There were no birds, save
2716 XVIII| was traveling on a plane sloping downwards from the southwest.
2717 XIX | put the dynamite and the slow-match. In this way the match would
2718 VII | motion of the wings becomes slower.~A flying machine must therefore
2719 XXI | form and with all lawful slowness. They dragged the Schuyllkill
2720 XI | No, but it will end by smashing.”~“Why? Why?”~“Because everything
2721 XX | asked Robur.~“Don’t you smell something? Isn’t it burning
2722 VIII | that it doesn’t break!”~A smile of disdain was Robur’s only
2723 IV | rising and falling like a smith’s bellows; arms, hands,
2724 XI | Robur, who walked about smoking alone or talking to the
2725 XII | north. Then the sea was smooth and calm and at sunset assumed
2726 VII | Bourcart, Le Bris, Kaufmann, Smyth, Stringfellow, Prigent,
2727 VII | screws were left-handed; Smythies, Panafieu, Crosnier, &c.
2728 XIV | place. It was a terrific sneeze on the part of the inspector.~
2729 V | remain at Boston with the Sneffels, and not have given them
2730 VI | to nip up his knife, to snip off its point, and transform
2731 XIX | Frycollin’s cabin. Tapage was snoring away in a style worthy of
2732 XVII | white. It seemed like a vast snowfield, whose undulations were
2733 XII | several peaks, lost in the snows that bounded the horizon.~
2734 XVI | a few natives with long snowshoes on their feet were swiftly
2735 XIV | to Uncle Prudent. He took snuff, as we know, and we may
2736 XIV | might do worse. And as a snuff-taker he possessed a snuff-box,
2737 XIV | Frycollin gulped down his sobs as he gulped down the meat
2738 XXIII| will greatly change the social and political conditions
2739 XV | the song of the sand,” a soft and plaintive murmur that
2740 X | deck. Was it, then, for the sole pleasure of his guests that
2741 XX | swiftness of bodies influenced solely by gravitation; and if it
2742 IV | on the top of it if the soles of his boots have a superficies
2743 XVII | height. If the sea had been solidified by the cold, and converted
2744 VII | prow. Beneath was a hull solidly built, enclosing the engines,
2745 XVIII| bury in the most mysterious solitudes the aeronef and all she
2746 XI | They were nearing the June solstice, the longest day of the
2747 XV | the palace of the ancient Somai kings.~The engineer had
2748 I | the Simplon, at Zurich, at Somblick in the Tyrolean Alps, there
2749 I | the highest minaret of St. Sophia, the Rouennais at the end
2750 XXI | since Toussaint L’Ouverture, Soulouque, or Dessaline had so much
2751 VI | But when Uncle Prudent sounded his repeater—which was a
2752 XII | either drawn in rapidly, sounding louder as they sank, or
2753 IX | comfort. If they did not Sleep soundly it was that they did not
2754 XVI | the sight of land to the southward. At Uncle Prudent’s request
2755 XV | following hours the course lay southwesterly, cutting across the routes
2756 XV | this day was deserted. The soveriegn, the royal family, the masculine
2757 XVIII| With its silver fringes and spangles radiating over space, it
2758 XVI | United States, sometimes a Spanish general temporarily retired,
2759 XX | was now consumed? And the spark that was creeping along
2760 XVI | attributed to a bank of fish spawn, nor to a crowd of those
2761 XXII | seemed to have been made specially for the experiment, although
2762 IV | country did this remarkable specimen come? It was difficult to
2763 II | seemed to be an excellent speculation. The seven thousand five
2764 V | second they were rendered speechless by a gag, blind by a bandage,
2765 X | when passing a ship less speedy than their own, held out
2766 XVI | end somewhere. That Robur spent his life in the air on board
2767 I | than six miles round our spheroid.~Naturally the newspapers
2768 IV | neck there rose an enormous spheroidal head. The head of what animal
2769 I | Boston, the Chinese at the spike of the temple, of the Four
2770 XVI | the sea. But she began to spin round on herself with frightful
2771 VII | kinds:—~1. Helicopters or spiralifers, which are simply screws
2772 XIII | storm was traveling, were spirals of half-luminous vapor due
2773 I | at the end of the metal spire of their cathedral, the
2774 VII | aerostat, a few adventurous spirits had dreamt of the conquest
2775 X | the sun shone in superb splendor.~“It is because of the “
2776 II | millimeter with a diamond splinter, was brought to bear on
2777 XX | Albatross.” The cabins flew into splinters. The lamps went out. The
2778 XIX | betraying itself by its smoke or spluttering. Uncle Prudent lighted the
2779 XI | stopping to share in the spoil, resumed her course to the
2780 III | at the cost of a slight sprain in the right thumb, while
2781 XI | Albatross,” freed from her tug, sprang aloft six hundred feet under
2782 IX | hardly noticed Frycollin sprawling at full length in the bow,
2783 X | the rainbows, the Giant, spurting forth a vertical torrent
2784 XX | would have heard the feeble sputtering that, was going on in the
2785 XIII | was heard. Suddenly the squall struck her. In a few seconds
2786 VII | with dextrin and starch and squeezed in hydraulic presses, will
2787 VII | apparatus possessed sufficient stability. Its center of gravity proved
2788 VI | fury, began to rave and stamp on the sonorous planks,
2789 VI | the same stuff. When they stamped on the floor it gave a peculiar
2790 XV | square, where the meatmarket stands close to the palace of the
2791 XXII | commercial life came to a standstill that the people might troop
2792 V | the grating of a bolt in a staple told them that they were
2793 VII | impregnated with dextrin and starch and squeezed in hydraulic
2794 XIX | the atmosphere!~They were staring up the creek to the interior
2795 IX | trouble the quiet of the starry firmament. Long bellowing
2796 IX | we are to return to our starting-place.”~And, in fact, the “Albatross”
2797 VIII | trumpet which blared its startling fanfares through the air
2798 IV | when I have just seriously stated a serious thing I do not
2799 I | they had not thought the statement worth noticing; in the meridional
2800 I | the head of the Liberty statue at the entrance of the Hudson
2801 XVII | Edinburgh.~The thermometer kept steadily below freezing, so that
2802 IX | Mississippi, whose double-decked steam-boats seemed no bigger than canoes.
2803 IX | deeper notes of the river steamers to trouble the quiet of
2804 XI | Gentlemen, a sailing-ship or a steamship caught in a fog from which
2805 I | Schultze, in the city of Steeltown, both in the south of Oregon
2806 VIII | no longer there. At the stem the man at the wheel in
2807 XIII | a number of medium-sized sterlets, which wealthy gourmets
2808 X | Yellowstone River, leaving Mount Stevenson on the right, and coasting
2809 XV | difficulty, the peaks of Stillero were passed against a somewhat
2810 IV | balloonists? Was not this a stirring up of strife between ‘the
2811 XIV | Sweden in the latitude of Stockholm, and Norway in the latitude
2812 XXII | were just launched from the stocks. And was she not a vessel
2813 XIX | As he had said, he had stolen into the magazine, and there
2814 VI | was not wood; it was not stone, And all the cell seemed
2815 XIX | indifference the frightful death in store for them. “Have you all
2816 XIX | provisions of all sorts stored for the fifty inhabitants
2817 XV | some miles noisy flocks of storks, francolins, and ibises
2818 I | of their cathedral, the Strasburgers at the summit of their minister,
2819 XI | recourse must be had to strategy as soon as the “Albatross”
2820 XVIII| Albatross” would be but as a straw caught in one of those whirlwinds
2821 VII | houses, cabins— were made of straw-paper turned hard as metal by
2822 XII | the opposite horizon, long streaks of carmine on a slate-colored
2823 V | trees in the park. The rays streaming fitfully through the branches
2824 X | for ponds, with rivers for streamlets, and with geysers of marvelous
2825 IV | and which we can call streophores, helicopters, orthopters—
2826 XXI | did the people lament and stretch out their hands in despair
2827 X | Albatross” had made several stretches north and south at tremendous
2828 XV | and army and people were stricken with fear at the turn things
2829 IV | not this a stirring up of strife between ‘the lighter” and ‘
2830 XXIII| bird of prey was going to strike the “Go-Ahead.”~And yet,
2831 IV | himself by warming the air he strikes, their answer is ready.
2832 XIX | was then wound round with string and attached to the cap
2833 VII | Le Bris, Kaufmann, Smyth, Stringfellow, Prigent, Danjard, Pomés
2834 XII | demonstrations. But the strings which held the kites, and
2835 XV | scarf, with white-and-blue striped trousers and a white cap;
2836 X | by waving the Stars and Stripes.~In vain the prisoners,
2837 IV | America, all the world, may strive in vain to keep me from
2838 XXIII| have annihilated her at a stroke, and Uncle Prudent and his
2839 XI | And Robur continued his stroll without waiting for an answer,
2840 I | an aerial monster, whose structure they were unable to determine,
2841 II | great saloon there were struggling, pushing, gesticulating,
2842 II | that was all.~Uncle Prudent stuck in his needle at the same
2843 IV | Since we have begun the study of the flight of large and
2844 VII | course, thermometers for studying the temperature, different
2845 VI | seemed to be made of the same stuff. When they stamped on the
2846 XI | haste. That done, the Negro stumbled along to the rail, and grasped
2847 VIII | the Weldon Institute was stupefied; his companion was astonished.
2848 XXI | earth.~What excitement! What stupor! The telegram from Paris
2849 XIII | shark.~It was a splendid sturgeon seven feet long, called
2850 XIII | white wine form caviar. Sturgeons from the river are, it may
2851 VIII | surrounds me as it surrounds the submarine boat, and in it my propellers
2852 XXI | allowed the enthusiasm to subside in shouts and clappings;
2853 II | effervescence which had not yet subsided, and which would account
2854 XXI | at day to take some more substantial nourishment, for he fell
2855 III | motors had gradually been substituted. The batteries of bichromate
2856 X | permanent ebullition by subterranean fire.~The cook might have
2857 V | his factory in the distant suburb, where the engines worked
2858 XII | Chinese town—the twelve suburbs which surround it, the large
2859 XI | they might have tried to succeed by main force. But as they
2860 XVI | possessed millions, thanks to successful razzias in the aeronef,
2861 XV | the enthronization of his successor. Hence there was great agitation
2862 XV | he served them up in so succulent a fashion that Frycollin
2863 XVI | through the spout which sucked him back in defiance of
2864 XIX | But the two propellers had suffered, and more than Robur had
2865 VII | of M. Renard in 1884 have sufficiently proved. But, as has been
2866 I | There remained only the suggestion offered by the director
2867 XIV | have been simply committing suicide. To jump from an express
2868 XII | breathing musical oxygen.~It suited Robur’s whim to run close
2869 II | glucose by treating rags with sulphuric acid. A man of good standing
2870 XV | the ancient palace of the Sultan, a kind of fortified Kasbah,
2871 IV | Saint Helix keep us free!” sung out one of the members,
2872 X | crystals, reflecting the sunlight on their myriad facets.
2873 XI | clear of the fog and in the sunny regions of the sky. Under
2874 XVI | the eagles find calm and sunshine in the higher zones.~They
2875 IV | permanent contraction of the superciliary muscle, an invariable sign
2876 IV | soles of his boots have a superficies of only the eighth of a
2877 XX | themselves, a life that seemed superhuman and sublime.~Tom Turner
2878 XXII | to her propellers a power superior to anything yet obtained.
2879 XX | Uncle Prudent and Frycollin, supporting Phil Evans, had taken shelter
2880 XIII | but be intensified. Even supposing they jumped overboard they
2881 XXII | to take possession of the supra-terrestrial domain.~A hundred thousand
2882 V | who for the most part were supremely indifferent on the question
2883 II | triangle in a trigonometrical survey. That done, the two boards
2884 XXII | who accompanied him had survived. The secret of the “Albatross”
2885 VIII | for aerial locomotion, is susceptible of receiving greater speed.
2886 VII | complex? Has not Doctor Marcy suspected that the feathers open during
2887 VI | PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY SUSPEND HOSTILITIES~A bandage over
2888 XX | that the propeller became a suspender. The fall continued, but
2889 VIII | Three miles below was a suspension-bridge, across which a train was
2890 VII | apparatus with two screws, suspensive and propulsive. In 1781
2891 XXI | down in a way that seemed suspicious and certainly was inexplicable;
2892 XVIII| both propelling screws had sustained damage during the tempest.
2893 IV | urge that the bird only sustains himself by warming the air
2894 V | to have opened and bodily swallowed the president and secretary
2895 XIV | double doses, he was hastily swallowing.~Meanwhile Uncle Prudent
2896 X | multitudes of pelicans, swans, gulls and geese, bernicles
2897 XI | barrier where the fur seals. swarm for the benefit of the Russo-American
2898 XIX | we know. But if he would swear on his honor not to take
2899 XIV | Archipelago of Abo, the Baltic, Sweden in the latitude of Stockholm,
2900 I | phenomenal about it was that the Swedes and Norwegians could find
2901 I | Spitzbergen—Norwegian one and Swedish the other—found themselves
2902 XIV | was picked up by an honest sweeper, who took it to the prefecture
2903 V | for him his evening tea, sweetened with his own glucose. Truck
2904 XXII | made the mass heave and swell. Nor need we recount the
2905 VIII | second) and that of the swift (274 feet per second).~In
2906 XX | fall with the accelerating swiftness of bodies influenced solely
2907 XIII | stream. They were both good swimmers. A plunge would give them
2908 XXII | balloons—analogous to the swimming bladder in fishes—into which
2909 XVI | churchbells were in full swing; and a few hours later they
2910 II | every respect to the best Swiss workmanship. Phil Evans
2911 XVI | was crouching behind the swivel amidships where the effect
2912 XXI | nourishment, for he fell into a swoon when he recognized it. How
2913 XIII | of them.~The “Albatross” swooped down towards the surface
2914 XXIII| Go-Ahead,” it was a case of the swordfish and the whale.~This could
2915 I | in those of Australia at Sydney, Adelaide, and Melbourne;
2916 III | being necessary to form a syndicate. Three hundred thousand
2917 X | disk was the roof of the Tabernacle, where ten thousand saints
2918 VIII | There they found a well-laid table at which they could take
2919 XII | Tibet consists of high table-lands without vegetation, with
2920 XV | the sea.~Then the desolate tablelands of Chetka scattered their
2921 XV | power of the Tuaregs of Taganet.~“Gentlemen, Timbuktu!”
2922 IV | Aviator,” he said “you who talk so much of the benefits
2923 XIII | outline, its hills shaded by tall poplars, its roofs grassed
2924 XV | cries and blows of beaks and talons, the natives, in no way
2925 XVI | south. Passing between Mount Tam on the Brunswick Peninsula
2926 I | pyramid of the temple at Tanjore, the San Pietrini at the
2927 XII | million, from the humblest tankader to the best-buttoned mandarin,
2928 XV | Cashmere still filled her tanks in the center of the African
2929 XIV | trumpet and blew a rousing tarantaratara.~At this moment Uncle Prudent
2930 VII | dwelling on Archytas of Tarentum, we find, in the works of
2931 XV | That is a matter of taste,” answered the engineer. “
2932 I | inoffensive ruminant had just tasted her last tuft of herbage,
2933 II | thought so to listen to the taunts, objurgations, and vociferations
2934 XIX | fixed to the shore by the taut cable. But the two propellers
2935 IV | when in the accident at the Tay Bridge you saw the storm
2936 VIII | anger.~“I have nothing to teach you,” answered Robur.~“And
2937 XIX | would blow in the deck and tear away the framework of the
2938 VIII | that of the storm which tears up trees by the roots. It
2939 XIII | regions. The wind called the “tebbad” bears along the seeds of
2940 XIII | at whose foot is built Teheran.~As soon as the day broke
2941 XIII | pirate-boats, with one mast; teimils, and smaller craft for trading
2942 XXI | received the news through its telephones, and in less than an hour
2943 XIV | this wonderful region of Tellermarken, stood in the west like
2944 XIX | audacity to start without telling him. But there was no time
2945 XXI | fallen a victim to his own temerity?~The first twenty-seven
2946 IX | Be calm!”~“And keep your temper until it is wanted.”~By
2947 VI | pleasant thing for the Yankee temperament, and very much to the disgust
2948 VII | storm-glass for forecasting tempests; a small library; a portable
2949 XVI | sometimes a Spanish general temporarily retired, sometimes a Viceroy
2950 XIII | on the prisoners, whose temptation to escape could not but
2951 XV | The engineer was seriously tempted to put his threat into execution,
2952 XIX | no tide-marks, and this tended to confirm Robur in his
2953 IX | shout of a Redskin, which no Tenderfoot would confound with the
2954 XIII | of malarious vapors, the Terai, in which fever is endemic.
2955 XI | shaped as a metallic cylinder terminated by a cylindrical shell armed
2956 XV | squares and roads and the terraces built like amphitheaters.
2957 XXII | on whom they had been so terribly—and in their idea so justly—
2958 VI | interminable litany, in which the terrors of fear were mingled with
2959 XXI | this telegram? It was the text of the document found at
2960 XXI | him back to America. After thanking their adorers, who were
2961 VIII | sign the helmsman changed the-direction of the “Albatross” a couple
2962 XXI | discussion on the events of the-preceding evening.~And not only was
2963 VI | own, he contented himself thenceforth with groaning in quiet.~
2964 XIV | is over a mile in width.~Thenceforward the flight of the “Albatross”
2965 XXI | Could it be this Robur whose theories had been so brutally thrown
2966 XII | from tree to tree as in the thickets of the jungle. There were
2967 VI | to Robur, for an ordinary thief would have relieved them
2968 V | It seemed to him that the thieves were approaching, and preparing
2969 IV | vanished; and when it had thinned away there was no trace
2970 XVII | perhaps dying of hunger and thirst! Well, it shall not be said
2971 XVIII| zone being bounded by the thirtieth parallel of north latitude
2972 III | a storm—twenty-seven to thirty-three yards a second—they would
2973 V | then, that Frycollin was a thorough coward.~And now it was midnight,
2974 V | to interfere to clear the thoroughfare for the passersby, who for
2975 II | to understand each other thoroughly, but they did not, for both
2976 VIII | foot-bridge, stretching like a thread, united one bank to the
2977 XIII | bridges stretching across like threads, its villas and their balconies
2978 XV | seriously tempted to put his threat into execution, and, fearful
2979 II | And in spite of your threats —”~“Mind what you are saying,
2980 VII | breech loading and throwing a three-inch shell; a supply of powder,
2981 XXIII| The ship was an English three-master, the “Two Friends,” bound
2982 XIX | miles round, was like a three-pointed star in the sea.~Off the
2983 VI | opened. A man appeared on the threshold. It was Robur.~“Honorable
2984 VI | with a good gash in their throats instead of throwing them
2985 XIII | this performance. They were thrust aside.~“It is scandalous!
2986 III | slight sprain in the right thumb, while the less fortunate
2987 XV | priests from the minarets were thundering their loudest maledictions
2988 XII | wild horses, or yaks, or Tibetan bulls. Occasionally a scared
2989 XI | driving against wind an tide,~Luckily, with a blow of
2990 XIX | the shore there were no tide-marks, and this tended to confirm
2991 XIII | walls covered with porcelain tiles, and its ornamental lakes,
2992 XIX | slow match do duty as a time-fuse.~“When I got the cartridge,”
2993 XIX | would have to be carefully timed, so as not to occur too
2994 VI | horizon of Philadelphia is tinged by the first rays of the
2995 V | whose summits were just tipped by the parting rays of the
2996 I | Scientists began at last to tire of the mystery, while they
2997 XIX | Albatross” rested when tired with her flight. There she
2998 XI | obvious that the whale was tiring. Then, at a gesture from
2999 X | Shall we see Mr. Robur to-day?” asked Phil Evans.~“I don’
3000 XIX | screw, and put the other to-rights on the voyage.”~“Mr. Robur,”
3001 XV | Kerapay, and Ardrah, and Tombory, and the most distant villages.~
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