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1504 III | impalpable dust of stars, the “Milky Way,” in the midst of which
1505 | million
1506 V | Poets like Homer, Virgil, Milton, Lamartine, and Hugo?”~“
1507 XIII | on the lunar and that the mineral.~“Ah, indeed!” said Michel
1508 XIV | system, which gives the minima of excessively low temperatures.~
1509 XI | between Greece and Asia Minor, and which mythology in
1510 VIII | and all three formed a miraculous “Ascension” in the center
1511 XVII | overflowings polished like immense mirrors, reflecting the sun’s rays
1512 XVII | calm and isolated those misanthropes, those haters of humanity
1513 X | fatality. The bold attempt had miscarried by a fortuitous circumstance;
1514 X | alighted upon it, if the mischievous meteor had not diverted
1515 | miss
1516 XIV | its course, has awkwardly missed it. To be more just, it
1517 XXIII| to the south by Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana;
1518 XVII | fantastical, that we must mistrust his observation. But who
1519 VI | now that heat is only a modification of motion. When water is
1520 V | cloud, which would have modified that excessive temperature;
1521 X | been, it had sufficed to modify the course of the projectile.
1522 III | also showed the quantity of moisture which it contained. At that
1523 XVII | said Barbicane, “are but mole-hills compared with those of the
1524 I | Gas was not invented for moles.”~So saying, the thoughtless
1525 X | was leaning over a bath of molten silver, turned from it involuntarily;
1526 VIII | the air, like Murillo’s monk of the Cusine des Anges.~
1527 VII | not have made a feigned monster long, for in spite of your
1528 VII | fanciful attitudes of feigned monsters on the top of the projectile.”~“
1529 XXI | above the peninsula of Monterey, stands the important town
1530 II | brilliantly lit by the moon-beams would have been visible
1531 XVIII| inexplicable rays a kind of moraines, rows of erratic blocks,
1532 I | The gravest questions of morals and politics may be discussed,
1533 XVII | the annular mountains of Moret. It skirted at some distance
1534 XV | by a bomb launched from a mortar.”~“Perfect! And the hyperbola?”~“
1535 XIX | seen from a distance, as Moses saw the land of Canaan,
1536 XII | times were so many fiery mouths. A curious arrangement,
1537 | Mr
1538 XVIII| be a comet.”~“Ah! those much-abused comets!” exclaimed Barbicane. “
1539 XV | colors. Of the enormous and much-dreaded globe there remained nothing
1540 XXII | ground, seemed to be the much-sought-for projectile; but their mistake
1541 IV | rapidity. Divisions and multiplications grew under his fingers;
1542 XV | dark. It did not answer the multiplicity of questions put by these
1543 VIII | suspended in the air, like Murillo’s monk of the Cusine des
1544 VIII | merely by the play of the muscles, there requires a strength
1545 VIII | surface of the moon.”~“And our muscular strength will not diminish?”~“
1546 IV | Nicholl.~“Wonderful fellows!” muttered Ardan.~“Do you understand
1547 V | calculations. Michel Ardan was muttering:~“That is just like these
1548 VI | 2] of water.”~ [2] The myriameter is equal to rather more
1549 VI | hundred millions of cubic myriameters [2] of water.”~ [2] The
1550 XVII | the earth cannot break. Mythologists could well have made it
1551 XI | and Asia Minor, and which mythology in ancient times adorned
1552 V | photographers like— like Nadar?”~“Certain.”~“Then, friend
1553 III | a large spot seemingly nailed to the firmament, bordered
1554 IV | rattling in my head like nails in a bag.”~“First effects
1555 IV | upper; so when during this narrative these words are used, they
1556 II | Mexico— a fall which the narrowness of the peninsula of Florida
1557 XI | excessively indented. If navigation ever existed on the surface
1558 XI | Involuntarily the names of Naxos, Tenedos, and Carpathos,
1559 XV | that the vegetable kingdom, nay, even the animal kingdom
1560 XVIII| as far as the circle of Neander, situated on the 40th meridian.
1561 XI | is the card of life, very neatly divided into two parts,
1562 III | the earth! Here and there nebulous masses like large flakes
1563 VI | happen, the precautions necessitated by their fall on to the
1564 XIV | see each other. Hence the necessity of dispelling the darkness.
1565 III | present conditions their needles were acting wildly, that
1566 VII | the moon acting upon their nervous system? Their faces were
1567 VIII | other, particularly the neutralization of the laws of weight. Michel
1568 VIII | But here reality, by the neutralizations of attractive forces, produced
1569 XIX | earth and its satellite are neutralized.~Such was the conclusion
1570 VI | Thus the time passed in never-ending conversations all about
1571 XX | cable between Valentia and Newfoundland, is much better.”~“I agree
1572 XIV | reappears in its turn!”~“Nicely worded!” said Michel, “slightly
1573 XIX | earth. The other part of the nimbus remained brilliant, and
1574 IV | that point, situated about nine-tenths of the distance traveled
1575 II | a circular gap appeared, nineteen inches in diameter, hollowed
1576 II | which it ought to attain ninety-six hours later. Her mountains,
1577 VII | of Florida? Is cotton and nitric acid wanted wherewith to
1578 V | should have made a second Noah’s ark of this projectile,
1579 I | twenty-four, if you like, my noble captain,” said Ardan; “twenty-four
1580 XVIII| solar rays, and retained the nocturnal radiation. Light, like heat,
1581 III | straight line. Then the nodes coincide with the phases
1582 XVII | mountains, would disperse noiselessly at the bottom of the abyss,
1583 XXIII| Drayton, magistrate, were nominated beforehand!~ ~
1584 XV | toward it and not falling normally on the surface of the moon.~“
1585 XXI | The course was then given north-northeast, and the corvette, wearing,
1586 XXII | with a beautiful sea, a northeasterly wind, and rather sharp cold.
1587 XVII | never ending Switzerland and Norway. And lastly, in the canter
1588 I | the right of putting my nose to the window, I could well
1589 XI | stormy banks.~We may also notice that, on the lunar sphere,
1590 II | cannot see it. It was by noticing disturbances that a French
1591 XIX | the top of the towers of Notre Dame, the height of which
1592 XI | land of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and where the Frenchman
1593 III | take their eyes from this novel spectacle, of which no description
1594 III | brought out a fine bottle of Nuits, which was found “by chance”
1595 IV | him, while Michel Ardan nursed a growing headache with
1596 II | was soon accomplished.~The nuts which held the bolts to
1597 VII | There is but one little objection to make to your proposition,”
1598 XXIII| secrets. Who could advance objections against conscientious observers,
1599 XIII | the imperfection in the objective of the glasses or from the
1600 XX | replied the lieutenant obligingly.~The captain of the Susquehanna,
1601 VII | sun’s rays had struck it obliquely, the shadow thrown would
1602 XV | is that it is still more obscure than the word you pretend
1603 XIV | points.~In the interior, the obscurity was complete. They could
1604 IV | puzzle, which allowed one to obtain all sorts of totals.~“The
1605 II | might serve again upon occasion. Then a circular gap appeared,
1606 III | of the projectile direct occasioned by the angle which the moon’
1607 XVI | insignificant), its period of occultation continued. That was evident,
1608 XIII | of which you speak cannot occur.”~Indeed, the slight obliquity
1609 VII | that this possibility now occurred to them for the first time.~“
1610 XX | covering all the islands of Oceanica with a vast electrical network,
1611 II | last phase. It was in its octant, and showed a crescent finely
1612 XVI | moon when in one of her octants.~They could not be mistaken.
1613 XI | pretended seas with at least odd names, which science has
1614 XVII | placed to receive the chefs-d’oeuvre of Selenite architecture.
1615 XXII | which were so smooth as to offer no hold for the hooks. On
1616 XXI | conducted them to the telegraph office through a concourse of spectators.
1617 XXIII| north and west by New York, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin;
1618 IX | cistern did not contain one-fifth part of it; they must therefore
1619 II | It was cloudy, seemingly opaque.~“Well!” he exclaimed, “
1620 XIX | people have sometimes most opportune ideas.”~And with his long
1621 XV | Here is, however, a good opportunity lost of observing the other
1622 XIX | arrangement? In elliptical orbits, the attracting body always
1623 XX | According to the commander’s orders, the fires had been lighted,
1624 XVIII| more rapid. Relatively, the organizing force of matter has been
1625 XVII | travelers there reappeared that original aspect of the lunar landscapes,
1626 XXIII| decorated with the same ornaments, were tables laid and all
1627 XII | CHAPTER XII~OROGRAPHIC DETAILS~The course taken
1628 III | At that moment its needle oscillated between 25.24 and 25.08.~
1629 III | in the air, the balloon oscillates incessantly on the fluid
1630 VI | motion of atoms, a simple oscillation of the particles of a body.
1631 | otherwise
1632 | ours
1633 II | No doubt; for after the over-excitement of those last hours passed
1634 VIII | leaving one’s own planet and over-running the solar world.”~“One moment,
1635 V | lever, which enabled it to overcome the pressure of the inside
1636 VIII | which had arisen in him, the overexcitement of all his moral and quarrelsome
1637 XIV | quantity of spirits of wine overflowed into the little vial soldered
1638 XVII | stratification, beds of lava, overflowings polished like immense mirrors,
1639 XIX | lightening it, as they lighten an overloaded vessel?”~“What would you
1640 XVII | represented a vast fortress, overlooking a long rift, which in former
1641 XVII | reflecting the sun’s rays with overpowering brilliancy. Nothing belonging
1642 XIII | must be, and what giant oxen they must harness to their
1643 II | perfect silence; but the thick padding was enough to intercept
1644 III | cynegetic annals; thou whom the pagans would have given as companion
1645 VIII | weight as they suppress pain by anaesthesia, that would
1646 XIV | black hole. But at length a painful sensation drew them from
1647 III | observing Diana panting painfully. The carbonic acid, by a
1648 XIII | by an earthly landscape painter; it would be spots of ink
1649 V | glance at the captain, took a pair of compasses wherewith to
1650 XVII | this spot the plan of a palace, in another the plateau
1651 XV | pen can describe it? What palette is rich enough in colors
1652 II | Barbicane, “and let down this panel.”~This very simple operation
1653 III | voice returned with the pangs of hunger. It was the amiable
1654 III | the air by observing Diana panting painfully. The carbonic
1655 XVI | in a supposedly rigidly parabolical trajectory— a new problem
1656 XV | whether hyperbolically or parabolically borne away, the projectile
1657 XIX | heights taken on the lunar parallels. Thus the time necessary
1658 XI | coasts recalled rather the parceled-out land of New Brunswick and
1659 XX | is still wanting.”~“Beg pardon, lieutenant,” said the midshipman, “
1660 Pre | Frenchman, an enthusiastic Parisian, as witty as he was bold,
1661 X | mounted by Lord Rosse at Parsonstown, which magnifies 6,500 times,
1662 VI | middle. But they are only partial, during which the earth,
1663 V | was thrown out. Scarcely a particle of air could have escaped,
1664 I | water-cushions placed between the partition- breaks, whose elasticity
1665 IV | box, the lid of which was partly open, said in a low voice, “
1666 III | chose to be part of the party. At this moment the projectile
1667 XXII | which are used to mark the passages of bays or rivers. But,
1668 XXII | the officers, sailors, and passengers. All these men had but one
1669 XI | ever fighting against his passions, which too often gain the
1670 XIII | followed who studied them, as Pastorff, Gruithuysen, Boeer, and
1671 XII | the southern hemisphere (Patagonia for example), the moon’s
1672 XIII | saw at this height. Large patches of different colors appeared
1673 XIV | enough to aggravate the most patient observers. It was just that
1674 XIX | said Nicholl.~“Let us wait patiently,” continued Barbicane. “
1675 XIX | feet, will arrive on the pavement at a speed of 240 miles
1676 III | rather lose an arm than a paw of my poor Satellite.”~Saying
1677 III | planet we should have green peas in twenty-four hours. I
1678 VIII | these earthly-winged animals pecking in your lunar fields!”~“
1679 XII | game of spelikans thrown pellmell. There wants but the hook
1680 XXIII| savants whose sight had penetrated the abyss of Pluto’s circle?
1681 II | moving! This stifling heat, penetrating through the partitions of
1682 XI | coasts are rich in gulfs and peninsulas. They remind one of the
1683 XX | disturbance in the air. The pennant hung motionless from the
1684 XXIII| through the east of the Union, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts,
1685 Pre | debated by the most learned pens of the day, strongly engrossed
1686 XIII | produces the umbrae and penumbrae, and all the magic of chiaro-oscuro,
1687 III | We inhabit a new world, peopled by ourselves— the projectile!
1688 IV | inhabitant of the earth perceives its speed, which, however,
1689 XII | hundred miles. Barbicane, now perceiving that the projectile was
1690 IX | But the projectile was perceptibly nearing the moon, and evidently
1691 VIII | companions had a most desired perception of a new phenomenon. From
1692 II | And the moon; will she perchance fail at our rendezvous?”~“
1693 XXII | taken place, when a sailor, perched on the main-top-gallant
1694 XVII | sheets, as mentioned by Pere Secchi. With more certainty
1695 XXII | any. But in spite of the perfection of the machinery, in spite
1696 VII | they wanted so much room to perform them; and, strange to say,
1697 XX | lunar solitudes with the perfume of his——”~“Yes! it must
1698 XI | when they came upon these perilous coasts, the latter when
1699 XVI | bodies might create serious perils for the travelers. They
1700 XIX | farthest point, and in its “periselene” at its nearest. In the
1701 VI | not complain; they must be perished with cold on their planets.”~“
1702 XXI | the Gun Club constituted a permanent danger for the Honorable
1703 XV | surface, and was so held by a perpendicular passing through its axis.
1704 IX | replied Barbicane. “The perpendicularity of the gun was exact, its
1705 XIII | each region, there reigns a perpetual winter, spring, summer,
1706 XXII | Blomsberry could no longer persist, and in spite of the exclamations
1707 XVIII| having doubtless remained persistently for millions of centuries;
1708 XVIII| but I will add that our personal observations only confirm
1709 XVII | disappear, the foreshortening of perspective disappears, and all proofs
1710 V | on which large drops of perspiration were standing, he put some
1711 VI | I am swimming, when I am perspiring in large drops, why am I
1712 III | though not without much persuasion, Michel Ardan encouraging
1713 XXI | even the bursting of his pet gun, which had more than
1714 XIII | cavities, such as Posidonius or Petavius; there they wound through
1715 II | a French astronomer, M. Petit, was able to determine the
1716 III | nodes coincide with the phases of the moon, and there is
1717 V | that they have artists like Phidias, Michael Angelo, or Raphael?”~“
1718 XIII | circles. Toward the 60° Philolaus stood predominant at a height
1719 V | Hugo?”~“I am sure of it.”~“Philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Descartes,
1720 VIII | Michel Ardan.~After this philosophical reflection, the three friends
1721 XIX | exclaimed Michel Ardan, adding philosophically, “well, when we came into
1722 VIII | amusing piece of natural philosophy.”~And immediately divers
1723 IX | savant like Barbicane, a phlegmatic being like Nicholl, or an
1724 V | writers like Arnal, and photographers like— like Nadar?”~“Certain.”~“
1725 XVII | marvelous if reproduced with photographic exactness. It is but a group
1726 XVII | excrescences of its crater, photography itself could never represent.
1727 XV | spectral appearance which physicians produce with the fictitious
1728 III | violent shock.~As to the pickaxes and different tools which
1729 XXII | They hurried toward him, picked him up, restored him to
1730 XVII | over this soil covered with picturesque projections! Indeed, nature
1731 II | travelers were trying to pierce the profound darkness, a
1732 VIII | should be nothing more than a pigmy, a shrimp!”~“Gulliver with
1733 XVII | another part the sunken pillars of a gigantic bridge, run
1734 V | else. I would give twenty pistoles if we could fall upon the
1735 II | the express trains of the pitiful globe called the earth.”~“
1736 VII | sister of Apollo. A very pitted face!”~But the travelers,
1737 VI | Nicholl.~“Well, then, I am a plagiarist.”~“No doubt about it. According
1738 IV | cabalistic to you, form the plainest, the clearest, and the most
1739 III | advanced by degrees, uttering plaintive cries.~“Good,” said Barbicane: “
1740 XVII | forum, on this spot the plan of a palace, in another
1741 III | upon it as if it were solid plank; but the sun striking it
1742 XI | the Selenites have already planted the flag on one of their
1743 XVII | a palace, in another the plateau for a citadel; the whole
1744 XXIII| flying rails; and on all the platforms, lined with the same flags,
1745 II | intensity. The disc shone like a platinum mirror. Of the earth flying
1746 V | it.”~“Philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant?”~“
1747 X | evidently hit upon the only plausible reason of this deviation.
1748 III | with their fire.~“It is pleasant here,” said Nicholl.~“I
1749 XVI | another manner, and much more pleasantly,” answered the careless
1750 XIX | not complain, the trip has pleased me, and the projectile agrees
1751 I | the passage we shall have plenty of time to investigate the
1752 X | Indeed the moon, liquid and pliable in the first days of its
1753 XIII | shrugging his shoulders.~“Plowed, at all events,” retorted
1754 IV | hammer, or a plow without a plowshare?”~“Hardly.”~“Well, algebra
1755 XIV | seconds had sufficed to plunge it into the absolute darkness
1756 XVII | presented when under the Plutonian forces.~The distance which
1757 II | carefully placed it in his pocketbook. Michel Ardan, taking off
1758 V | Angelo, or Raphael?”~“Yes.”~“Poets like Homer, Virgil, Milton,
1759 I | questions of morals and politics may be discussed, and even
1760 V | Centigrade below zero.”~“Pooh!” said Michel, “that’s nothing!”~“
1761 XX | standing together on the poop. On the appearance of the
1762 XXIII| the other, finding whole populations at table on their road,
1763 VIII | Michel; “one would want a portable crane. However, we will
1764 VIII | degrees.”~“Then all our portables will be upset from top to
1765 II | fear. Now, what is this portentous globe which nearly struck
1766 II | back upon its hinges like a porthole, and the lenticular glass
1767 XVII | the still intact arch of a portico, there two or three columns
1768 XII | however, occupy certain portions of the southern hemisphere
1769 XIII | ordinary cavities, such as Posidonius or Petavius; there they
1770 XVII | mountains, of which the earth possesses no sample. They prove that
1771 XXII | their morale.~“The air, possibly,” answered J. T. Maston
1772 VII | be able to laugh at the post-office administration! But now
1773 XX | young man quickly. “The postal administration has something
1774 XVII | dazzling Tycho, in which posterity will ever preserve the name
1775 VII | these meteors are handy postmen, and cost nothing. And how
1776 III | supplied with chlorate of potassium for two months. They necessarily
1777 IV | honor to the proudest of poultry-yards.~The two Americans could
1778 XIX | snored like a forty-eight pounder.~“That Nicholl has a good
1779 XIV | fifteen days of sun have poured into her.~
1780 X | They possessed magnifying powers of 100. They would thus
1781 Pre | which had been declared practicable by the majority of competent
1782 VIII | the wonderful suspension practiced by Caston and Robert Houdin.
1783 II | And the two improvised practitioners worked so hard and so well
1784 XX | for the steward no end of praise, and turned in, not without
1785 Pre | of December, at midnight precisely, at the moment of her attaining
1786 X | could not be determined with precision. The eye caught the vast
1787 XIII | the 60° Philolaus stood predominant at a height of 5,550 feet
1788 IX | nearer point the weight, predominating, would cause a decided fall.~
1789 Pre | THIS WORK, AND SERVING AS A PREFACE TO THE SECOND~During the
1790 II | disdaining scientific reasonings, preferred thinking that the earth
1791 XVII | as a bed to the rivers of prehistorical times. Not far from that,
1792 Pre | PRELIMINARY CHAPTER~THE FIRST PART OF
1793 XXI | in the act of reading the premature dispatch, in which J. T.
1794 VII | other.~But in spite of his preoccupation, Michel Ardan did not forget
1795 I | is counting the seconds preparatory to launching us into interplanetary
1796 XX | with all the fervor of a Presbyterian, he did not forget to thank
1797 XIX | sense,” said Barbicane; “presently I shall follow his example.”
1798 III | compressed by an hydraulic press, as tender and succulent
1799 XIII | vividly marked. Julius Schmidt pretends that, if the terrestrial
1800 VI | the planetary space.”~“A pretty country, that!” exclaimed
1801 VIII | the lunar attraction was prevailing over the terrestrial; the
1802 XIV | contact with the glass, preventing all observation.~Nicholl
1803 VI | the motion which it had previously possessed? It is transformed
1804 XV | with stiffened limbs, a prey to frightful terror. Their
1805 XXIII| bought the manuscript at a price not yet known, but which
1806 XIX | twenty-two hours.~The rockets had primarily been placed to check the
1807 X | This alteration in the primitive form of the satellite was
1808 XVIII| the insufficiency of the primordial attraction; and then by
1809 VIII | point, a body having no principle of speed or displacement
1810 VIII | to her; it would be the prisoner set at liberty; no more
1811 XIX | glorious bottle drawn from his private cellar. If ideas did not
1812 XVIII| are too high,” said he; “problems utterly insoluble. Do not
1813 XII | again. Nevertheless, let us proceed as if our work would one
1814 VIII | in their coop. But while proceeding with this operation, Barbicane
1815 XVIII| his notebook, where the process of the sitting of the 6th
1816 XV | must not be in a hurry to proclaim the existence of a lunar
1817 VII | transport thither all the prodigies of art, of science, and
1818 III | apparatus, intended for the production of oxygen, was supplied
1819 XI | seen the moon?” asked a professor, ironically, of one of his
1820 V | that you will leave no progeny in the lunar regions!”~Indeed
1821 XVI | through the cone of shadow projected into space opposite the
1822 X | recognize their nature. The prominence of the mountains disappeared
1823 XIX | general brilliancy Tycho shone prominently like a sun.~Barbicane had
1824 Pre | president, Barbicane, the promoter of the enterprise, having
1825 XXII | thought of. They must act promptly in the interest of the travelers.
1826 III | carefully looked over, and pronounced good in spite of the violent
1827 XVII | perspective disappears, and all proofs become white— a disagreeable
1828 I | The two dogs, destined to propagate the canine race on the lunar
1829 X | greater than that which propels our express trains. The
1830 IX | fall by means of rockets properly placed.~Thus, powerful fireworks,
1831 XXIII| fail to be received as the prophet Elias would be if he came
1832 XV | approached it grew to enormous proportions.~Imagine, if possible, the
1833 XIV | ourselves up a little.”~This proposal meeting with no contradiction,
1834 XIX | it?” asked Barbicane.~“I propose to go to sleep.”~“What a
1835 II | Ardan lifted the captain, propped him up against the divan,
1836 VII | has not a greater power of propulsion than that.”~“Hurrah!” exclaimed
1837 XI | speaking thus, Michel made his prosaic companions shrug their shoulders.
1838 I | elasticity will sufficiently protect us?”~“I hope so, Michel,”
1839 IX | the bottom; outside, they protruded about eighteen inches. There
1840 IV | would have done honor to the proudest of poultry-yards.~The two
1841 XV | certain substances, can provide its own oxygen, and thus
1842 III | culinary apparatus, and the provision box furnished the elements
1843 III | found “by chance” in the provision-box. The three friends drank
1844 XIX | our rockets we may perhaps provoke a fall directly on the surface
1845 VII | found themselves, to their proximity to the orb of night, from
1846 Pre | cannot be done with too much prudence. No one is obliged to discover
1847 XII | volcanoes on its right, Ptolemy, Purbach, Arzachel. But
1848 XXIII| high. Indeed, during the publication of “A Journey to the Moon,”
1849 XIV | temperature. Then it was rapidly pulled in.~Barbicane calculated
1850 I | frightful danger added no pulsation.~Three thick and solidly-made
1851 VII | repast with his accustomed punctuality. They ate with a good appetite.
1852 XI | ironically, of one of his pupils.~“No, sir!” replied the
1853 XII | volcanoes on its right, Ptolemy, Purbach, Arzachel. But the projectile
1854 III | completely absorbed it, thus purifying the air.~An inventory of
1855 XX | intelligent Cyrus Field, purposed even covering all the islands
1856 II | wrench. These bolts were pushed outside, and the buffers
1857 IV | defined the rule as a Chinese puzzle, which allowed one to obtain
1858 XVIII| breaking against the chain of Pyrenees, after a circuit of 800
1859 VII | the heat of the gas by the pyrometer. Everything had gone well
1860 VII | charge; they could have quadrupled or quintupled it!” exclaimed
1861 XXII | words?~“Ah! trebly brutes! quadruply idiots! quintuply boobies
1862 XIV | times greater than that qualified by atmospheric strata— the
1863 VIII | overexcitement of all his moral and quarrelsome faculties— he understood
1864 XX | the lieutenant mounted the quarterdeck.~“What depth have we?” asked
1865 X | was said in a tone which quenched Michel Ardan’s last hope.~
1866 III | and lastly with himself, questioning and answering, going and
1867 XVII | that ring of mountains! A quiet city, a peaceful refuge,
1868 VII | could have quadrupled or quintupled it!” exclaimed Michel, with
1869 XXII | brutes! quadruply idiots! quintuply boobies that we are!”~“What
1870 XV | disc, so that it would soon quit the pure shadow. Perhaps,
1871 Pre | time, three human beings quitted the terrestrial globe, and
1872 XVIII| animals: but I add that these races, human and animal, have
1873 XXI | set off at once; and the railroad, which will soon cross the
1874 XXIII| States were joined by flying rails; and on all the platforms,
1875 XXIII| they are on Sundays on the railways of the United States, and
1876 XI | the “Gulf of Dew!” Clouds, rain, storms, and humors— does
1877 XXI | moments, when contradictions rained like hail, the well-known
1878 XIX | the gunner, we had better ram the gunner into the gun.
1879 XXII | this object straying at random on the waves.~All looked
1880 XXIII| would have placed in the rank of demigods.~And now will
1881 III | the midst of which the sun ranks only as a star of the fourth
1882 VII | and where mountains are rare. A favorable circumstance
1883 XIII | east.~This black color is rarely met with on the surface
1884 Pre | they did succeed in their rash enterprise, how would they
1885 IV | and algebraic formula, are rattling in my head like nails in
1886 VI | if only at the bottom of ravines, where its own weight will
1887 XXIII| the Washington station, re-entered Baltimore, where for four
1888 VI | will accompany it until it reaches the moon.”~“Ah! fools that
1889 II | hours passed upon earth, reaction was inevitable.~“Well,”
1890 XIII | Michel, with his usual readiness, hastened to exclaim:~“Look
1891 XXI | Wilcome was in the act of reading the premature dispatch,
1892 IX | existed; they had only to readjust them and replace the movable
1893 VIII | Gulliver. We are going to realize the fable of the giants.
1894 XVII | must the Selenites wait the reappearance of the orb of day.”~“Yes,”
1895 XIV | the moment when the sun reappears in its turn!”~“Nicely worded!”
1896 Pre | billions of litres of gas in rear of the projectile, would
1897 III | himself. He arranged and rearranged, he plunged his hand rapidly
1898 XIV | observed Michel, “we cannot reasonably complain of the monotony
1899 XIX | great a speed.”~“Very well reasoned,” said Nicholl.~“Let us
1900 II | bleeding, but Nicholl was reassured by finding that the hemorrhage
1901 II | by the shock? Did I not recall you to life? Is not the
1902 II | companions had the effect of recalling him to his senses. In any
1903 II | the burner lighted it. The receiver had not suffered at all.
1904 III | placing on the floor several receivers containing caustic potash,
1905 | recently
1906 I | the burner fixed to the receptacle, in which the carbonized
1907 Pre | most singular details. This recital will destroy many illusions
1908 II | the travelers had lost all recollection.~It was captain Nicholl
1909 XIX | a longing eye.~At times recollections of the earth crossed their
1910 Pre | himself carried in triumph, reconciled President Barbicane to his
1911 Pre | Nicholl, and, as a token of reconciliation, persuaded them both to
1912 XXIII| selenographic science, which had reconstructed the lunar world as Cuvier
1913 III | seemed unlikely that he could recover from such a shock. Meanwhile,
1914 XIX | do you mean by that?”~“No recrimination,” said Michel. “I do not
1915 IX | it was probable that its rectilineal course would be changed
1916 Pre | lunar attraction; that its rectilinear movement had been changed
1917 X | these instruments could reduce the lunar surface to within
1918 XIX | seconds, Barbicane had only to refer to his notes, and to reckon
1919 XVII | recognized without trouble, by referring to the Mappa Selenographica.~
1920 II | the air would have been reflected on the metal walls, which
1921 XXII | furnished with powerful reflectors, they could see the dark
1922 XIV | time, by reason of the rays refracted by its atmosphere, the terrestrial
1923 III | of voices an old French refrain to enliven the situation.~
1924 XIV | brilliancy which the sun then refused.~“Devil take the radiant
1925 VIII | to put itself under the regime of oxygen for the sake of
1926 XIII | thirty-two broad.~Barbicane regretted that they were not passing
1927 XXII | under half-steam, as it was regretting to leave the spot where
1928 VII | regulators, tried the taps, and regulated the heat of the gas by the
1929 VII | Michel visited the escape regulators, tried the taps, and regulated
1930 XXII | the flag. Profound silence reigned on the boats. All were breathless.
1931 I | will no longer be there to reimburse your dollars.”~“My stake
1932 XXIII| knew what systems should be rejected, what retained with regard
1933 XVIII| Barbicane, who was relating and rejecting these different opinions.~“
1934 XXII | the bay.~It is needless to relate the conversations on board
1935 V | answered Barbicane. “The first relates to the air shut up in the
1936 III | Barbicane wished to begin the relation of his journey while under
1937 V | Melville Island and Fort Reliance, that is 76° Fahrenheit
1938 IV | conditions of the problem. The remainder is only a question of arithmetic,
1939 III | Captain Nicholl hastened to remedy this state of things, by
1940 XIX | of the audacious boobies remembered the question that they themselves
1941 XVIII| nothing but the imperishable remembrance.~
1942 VII | followed us into space like a remorse.”~“That would have been
1943 II | peninsula of Florida would render not impossible.~The case
1944 II | she perchance fail at our rendezvous?”~“Do not alarm yourself,”
1945 III | But it was not enough to renew the oxygen; they must absorb
1946 XXII | previous day, the operation was renewed. The corvette advanced some
1947 XIX | after twenty-four hours repasses the same lunar meridian.~
1948 VI | Barbicane, which is worth repeating. Michel, supposing it to
1949 VI | help smiling at Michel’s reply; then, returning to his
1950 VII | as motionless as if they reposed on solid earth.~“Do you
1951 VII | Captain,” said Michel, “do not repreat that insolence, or I will
1952 XIX | the dead point. The hours representing the time traveled over were
1953 XV | rich enough in colors to reproduce so magnificent a spectacle?~
1954 IX | two forces, attraction and repulsion, affecting its motion.~“
1955 V | instead of 80,000, which would require the force of projection
1956 IV | question of arithmetic, requiring merely the knowledge of
1957 XXII | day passed in fruitless research; the bed of the sea was
1958 XII | the “Sea of Storms,” it resembled a liquid surface agitated
1959 XIII | contrary, lay a black hollow resembling a vast well, unfathomable
1960 XXII | greatly excited but silent, reserving their hurrahs for the return.
1961 XXII | chamber, drawn under by the reservoirs full of water, disappeared
1962 XIV | succession of equinoxes, will resign their part of the polar
1963 XIX | with a motion of sublime resignation, saying at the same time:~“
1964 IX | flinching, one must be a resolute savant like Barbicane, a
1965 XXII | answered J. T. Maston resolutely, “but their morale never!”~
1966 Pre | Barbicane, the industrious resources of Nicholl, and the audacious
1967 XI | names, which science has respected up to the present time.
1968 XIII | could no longer grasp the respective distances of the different
1969 XVIII| then aerial departure of respirable air, and disappearance of
1970 VII | air which had set their respiratory apparatus on fire, fell
1971 III | in a new light— the first resplendent under the solar rays, the
1972 XXIII| the public was bound to respond worthily to the greatness
1973 VIII | learned his share of the responsibility of this incident, he was
1974 III | you,” said Michel; “we are responsible for your existence. I would
1975 III | eye of man has never yet rested.~“I dare say,” replied Barbicane; “
1976 II | Michel Ardan.~“Or quietly resting on the soil of Florida?”
1977 XIX | Some hours of sleep will restore our strength.”~“Never,”
1978 VIII | three friends set about restoring the order of the projectile.
1979 XVIII| hypothesis. Barbicane sought to restrain them.~“Those speculations
1980 XVIII| insufficient supply of water restricted, vegetation, sudden alternations
1981 XIV | of the disc, a long night resulting from the equality of the
1982 XVII | the bottom of the abyss, retaining the motion, but wanting
1983 XIV | density, these objects will be retarded. Again, the darkness prevents
1984 III | confused, who crept out of her retreat, though not without much
1985 XV | forgot himself in a deep reverie in which the mysterious
1986 V | not believe it. Nicholl revised his figures: they were exact.
1987 VIII | The oxygen has made them revolt.”~“But what do you want
1988 II | the projectile. This body revolved upon its axis, and exhibited
1989 VI | as by evaporation to get rid of all those gaseous substances?”~“
1990 XVII | small extinguished craters, riddling the soil like a colander,
1991 XII | conditions of the moon, these ridges would cast shadows, and
1992 V | not help laughing at this ridiculous remark. But a cry from their
1993 II | the outer plates of the right-hand scuttle gave way under the
1994 XII | according to Tycho Brahe. It rises isolated like a gigantic
1995 III | function, which raised no rival. The gas gave sufficient
1996 III | climbed up by cramp-irons riveted to the walls, but kept the
1997 XX | the waves with a deafening roar!~A few feet nearer, and
1998 VII | had been exposed to the roaring flames of an oven; their
1999 VI | English.~ “And it does not roast us!” exclaimed Michel.~“
2000 III | Maston will think we are roasted!”~“What astonishes me,”
2001 VI | but it prevents us from roasting.”~“Yes!” said Nicholl, “
2002 VIII | practiced by Caston and Robert Houdin. Indeed the dog did
2003 III | Christians as friend to St. Roch; thou who art rushing into
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