Chapter
1 Pre | carry it toward the orb of night.~These questions determined
2 Pre | of December at twelve at night, at the exact moment when
3 Pre | cleared the atmosphere on the night of the 11th and 12th of
4 Pre | the black sky.~That very night a telegram was sent from
5 Pre | orbit round the star of night it had become its satellite.
6 II | those stars shining in the night, and that impenetrable darkness
7 II | could not see the orb of night, which, traveling from east
8 II | bold men watched the orb of night, the great aim of their
9 IV | IV~A LITTLE ALGEBRA~The night passed without incident.
10 IV | without incident. The word “night,” however, is scarcely applicable.~
11 IV | daylight on the lower part, and night on the upper; so when during
12 IV | have been thinking of all night?”~“No,” answered the president.~“
13 V | during its fifteen days of night at either face, we shall
14 VI | full. Above, the orb of night was nearing the line followed
15 VII | calculations were true. That very night, at twelve o’clock, in eighteen
16 VII | they saluted the orb of night with a confident and joyous
17 VII | proximity to the orb of night, from which only a few hours
18 IX | the lunar disc. The orb of night shone splendidly into space,
19 IX | twenty-five seconds to eleven at night; and we ought to arrive
20 IX | windows until eight o’clock at night. The moon had grown so large
21 IX | one side, and the orb of night on the other, flooded the
22 X | Long’s Peak, the orb of night, magnified 48,000 times,
23 X | the center of the orb of night. It is needless to say,
24 X | to say, that during the night of the 5th-6th of December,
25 XIII| twilight on her surface; night following day and day following
26 XIII| following day and day following night with the suddenness of a
27 XIII| to him as on the darkest night. Judge of the impression
28 XIII| was plunged in profound night!~
29 XIV | CHAPTER XIV~THE NIGHT OF THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR
30 XIV | point of the disc, a long night resulting from the equality
31 XIV | breakfast. After a whole night of watching it is fair to
32 XIV | talked over the interminable night of three hundred and fifty-four
33 XIV | even enjoy during its long night any view of the earth so
34 XIV | calculate, in the midst of this night? All these questions made
35 XIV | looking out into the dark night, amid the silence of absolute
36 XIV | continents, when the orb of night has lost by radiation all
37 XV | the phenomenon through his night glass. “What should it be,
38 XV | again buried in impenetrable night.~
39 XVII| this now peaceful orb of night must have been when its
40 XIX | forever around the orb of night.”~“A revolution not at all
41 XIX | old, having been new the night before at twelve; and two
42 XIX | one in the morning on the night of the 7th-8th of December.
43 XX | sleep.~It was then ten at night. The eleventh day of the
44 XX | a close in a magnificent night.~The Susquehanna, a corvette
45 XX | sounding. It was on the night of the 11th-12th of December,
46 XXI | twenty-seven minutes past one at night, she entered the bay of
47 XXI | extinguishing her fires. Day and night she must be ready to put
48 XXI | obstinately veiled her during the night.~What, then, was their delight
49 XXI | days of waiting, on the night of the 5th of December,
50 XXI | companion. Each minute of the night they thought they saw the
51 XXI | discussions.~During the night, from the 14th to the 15th
52 XXI | platform (it was ten at night) and gave him a dispatch.
53 XXII| hurried the workmen day and night. He was ready to don the
54 XXII| December, at eight o’clock at night, the corvette meeting with
55 XXII| twenty-five minutes past one at night, and the chamber, drawn
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