Chapter
1 Pre | projectile. The proposition being accepted, the shape of the
2 I | tackle belonging to the crane being hauled from outside, the
3 I | During this time, Ardan, not being able to keep still, turned
4 I | admire you the more for not being able to understand you.”~“
5 II | course, as that its face being opposite the moon, it was
6 II | place by bolts. The screws being undone, and the bolts let
7 IV | themselves perfectly stationary, being shut up in the projectile;
8 V | which is, the Selenites, being older than we, are wiser,
9 VI | are on a line, the earth being in the middle. But they
10 VI | from the moon to the earth being sixty terrestrial radii,
11 VI | fail, Michel, your density being less than that of the projectile,
12 VII | like an avalanche, and not being squirrels we should not
13 VII | it failed in its aim, and being carried beyond the disc
14 VII | Michel, “what I regret is not being able to take a walk outside.
15 VIII| projectile’s course was being traced between the earth
16 VIII| remain immovable forever, being attracted equally by both
17 VIII| equally by both orbs, and not being drawn more toward one than
18 VIII| reasonings. They felt themselves being carried into the domain
19 VIII| equal attraction, its base, being the heavier, will draw it
20 VIII| atmosphere, whose atoms, being no longer held in their
21 IX | fitted without trouble, it being only a matter of bolts and
22 IX | opening while they were being precipitated perpendicularly
23 IX | Barbicane, a phlegmatic being like Nicholl, or an audacious
24 IX | shall soon see. Since we are being borne along in space we
25 X | originally a perfect sphere; but being soon drawn within the attraction
26 XII | horizon without the projectile being sufficiently near to allow
27 XIV | hurrahs. The bold travelers being borne away into gloomy space,
28 XIV | nearing, the disc? Was it being borne in that profound darkness
29 XIV | the solar rays, was then being lost in utter darkness.
30 XV | exactly. Half an hour after being sighted, this luminous point
31 XV | seemed as though they were being precipitated toward an abyss
32 XVI | angular diameter of the moon being so little when compared
33 XVII| The elliptical curve was being rigidly carried out.~At
34 XVII| image of death, without its being possible even to say that
35 XVII| details of the soil were being lost in a confused jumble.
36 XX | been lighted, and steam was being got up. The Susquehanna
37 XXII| the operation was far from being certain. How great were
38 XXII| against them, the projectile being 20,000 feet under the water!
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