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2004 XXII | broke their hearts. Here a rock, there a projection from
2005 III | globe. On sea, the vessels rocked by the waves are still in
2006 XIX | produced by the pressure of the rocket apparatus. The chances were
2007 XVII | world, where avalanches, rolling from the summits of the
2008 XVII | certainty than the illustrious Roman astronomer, Barbicane was
2009 XVII | circle, in which ancient Rome could have been held in
2010 VIII | establishment might be founded with rooms of oxygen, where people
2011 III | lower glass, at another roosting in the heights of the projectile,
2012 XXI | the ocean. The end of the rope was carefully lashed to
2013 XI | their poles, while Franklin, Ross, Kane, Dumont, d’Urville,
2014 VII | system? Their faces were as rosy as if they had been exposed
2015 XVIII| inequality of the two motions of rotation and revolution, the days
2016 I | circular divan, and a roof rounded in the shape of a dome.~
2017 XXI | public curiosity was greatly roused. A dense crowd soon assembled
2018 II | Barbicane sat up suddenly, and rousing his companions with a loud
2019 IX | become diverted from our route,” said Michel; “but why?”~“
2020 XI | while his imagination thus roved over “the seas,” his grave
2021 V | of us? We shall get right royally weary.”~Barbicane and Nicholl
2022 II | across his forehead and rubbing his temples, he called in
2023 XII | according to M. Warren de la Rue’s opinion, who gives the
2024 V | looked at his friends with a rueful countenance.~“One question
2025 XVI | inimitable firework, which no Ruggieri could imitate, had lit up
2026 XIII | betrayed the hand of man; not a ruin marked his course; not a
2027 IV | right, and who defined the rule as a Chinese puzzle, which
2028 IV | the knowledge of the four rules.”~“That is something!” replied
2029 IV | wished to awake you by this rural sound.” So saying, he gave
2030 III | of which the emperor of Russia had given some chests for
2031 VI | saw a sort of flattened sack floating some yards from
2032 III | especial choice; as to the sacks of different kinds of grain
2033 XVII | were too precious to be sacrificed in idle discussion. The
2034 V | why should we not arrive safely? We are launched; we have
2035 XXII | obliged to give the order to sail.~On the 29th of December,
2036 XXIII| Journey to the Moon,” the sale of this paper amounted to
2037 VII | as if he was in a fencing saloon; “I do not know.”~“You do
2038 XV | alcohol impregnated with salt.~“By Jove!” cried Michel
2039 VII | be made. Neither metals, saltpeter, nor coal can fail in the
2040 XVII | which the earth possesses no sample. They prove that the moon’
2041 XII | plains composed of arid sand, as the first astronomer
2042 XVI | They were to them so many sandbanks upon that sea of ether which,
2043 VIII | the absorption of a dozen sandwiches. He first tried to get some
2044 XV | of their courage, their sang-froid, their carelessness of danger,
2045 XXII | spot where the projectile sank under the waves was exactly
2046 VI | part of them!”~“That reason satisfies me,” replied Michel. “Besides
2047 VIII | great planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; for there
2048 XXII | and electric cables. The saving of Barbicane, Nicholl, and
2049 VIII | is needless to say that a scale would not show this loss;
2050 VIII | first, soon collected his scattered senses. Although he had
2051 IX | replied Barbicane.~“You are sceptical,” retorted Michel Ardan. “
2052 XIII | have known them. It was Schroeter who in 1789 first drew attention
2053 XIV | humidity, produces this scintillation. These stars were soft eyes,
2054 XI | of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and where the Frenchman
2055 IX | steel guns, which could be screwed on to the base of the projectile.
2056 XVIII| companions watched with scrupulous attention the brilliant
2057 XI | Tendre card,” got up by a Scudary or a Cyrano de Bergerac. “
2058 XIV | invisible face is still more searched by the heat than the visible
2059 V | projectile to rise more easily; secondly, because it would be enough
2060 XV | order, the result of the section of a cone intersected by
2061 III | projectile. There, too, they were secure. Reiset and Regnaut’s apparatus,
2062 IX | regions, as an aeronaut sees the earth from his car.~
2063 XV | miles of the earth, but they seldom fall upon it. The same with
2064 XIII | this opinion of the German selenographer, an opinion shared by Boeer
2065 XIII | colors appeared on the disc. Selenographers are not agreed upon the
2066 XII | taking observations. In the selenographical maps where, on account of
2067 Pre | and gas for some days. A self-acting apparatus supplied the three
2068 VI | parallel, and p the apparent semidiameter——”~“Oh!” said Michel. “Do
2069 VI | shadow, and that the sun sends her its rays, not only from
2070 XIV | But at length a painful sensation drew them from their watchings.
2071 XX | three fathoms long, and sentences three miles long, and then
2072 XIV | two-hundredth part of that which separates the sun from the earth,
2073 XVII | whose squibs, rockets, serpents, and suns, after a superb
2074 XIX | pass to the state of humble servants to a moon whom we are accustomed
2075 Pre | FIRST PART OF THIS WORK, AND SERVING AS A PREFACE TO THE SECOND~
2076 III | the first year of their settlement on the lunar continent,
2077 VI | already accomplished nearly seven-tenths of the way. This peculiarity
2078 XI | sentimental card of the seventeenth century, it is the card
2079 VIII | CHAPTER VIII~AT SEVENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND
2080 XXI | for it,” replied Belfast severely.~“And that cursed projectile
2081 III | of the lunar mountains, a sextant to take the height of the
2082 III | nature had yet happened to shake the travelers’ confidence;
2083 III | the divan. Terrified and shaken by the initiatory shock,
2084 XIII | of mountains capriciously shaped, lying in the full light.
2085 XXIII| into a hundred thousand shares of a thousand dollars each,
2086 VIII | words from Barbicane soon shattered his enthusiasm.~“That is
2087 XIV | of two degrees, and which sheds a light thirteen times greater
2088 XIII | similar to the reflection of a sheet of steel freshly polished.
2089 XV | amid a hail of howitzer shells, the smallest of which might
2090 III | CHAPTER III~THEIR PLACE OF SHELTER~This curious but certainly
2091 XV | that the projectile was shifting toward it and not falling
2092 II | into space. See those stars shining in the night, and that impenetrable
2093 XXII | signal. The screw had been shipped, and the whole power of
2094 XI | human reason is so often shipwrecked. Not far off lies the “Sea
2095 VII | in their brains as leaves shoot at the first warmth of spring.
2096 XX | such a depth so near in shore, and only 200 miles from
2097 XXIII| globe toward the American shores, would they leave the Union
2098 II | they seemed to fear, in a shower of aluminum.~The interior
2099 XX | Rocky Mountains, and that it shows objects on its surface of
2100 VIII | nothing more than a pigmy, a shrimp!”~“Gulliver with the giants,”
2101 XIX | Frenchman and two Americans shrink from such a word?”~“But
2102 III | different kinds of grain and shrubs which Michel Ardan hoped
2103 XI | made his prosaic companions shrug their shoulders. Barbicane
2104 XIII | fields!” replied Nicholl, shrugging his shoulders.~“Plowed,
2105 XXII | lengths of the object.~A shudder ran through the whole crew.
2106 II | thoughtfully to let down the shutter of the second side. He succeeded;
2107 IV | top of the projectile, and shutting a box, the lid of which
2108 IX | projectile continued its course sideways to the moon, and with it
2109 XV | incalculable course which no sight-mark would allow them to ascertain.
2110 XV | And the observation of a sign-point, quite inexplicable in itself,
2111 XXII | glasses saw that the object signalled had the appearance of one
2112 II | receipt in pencil, dated and signed it with the usual flourish, [
2113 III | they gave her a pie, which silenced her complaints. As to Satellite,
2114 V | courageous beast which old Silenus loved to mount. I love those
2115 VII | morning, through the scuttles silvered by its rays, they saluted
2116 VI | earth which will greatly simplify things.”~“And if the earth
2117 XXIII| immense banquet, saluting them simultaneously with the same hurrahs! The
2118 XV | inopportune moment. The sinister truth remained that, whether
2119 XIV | its light for fifteen days sinks below the horizon, see a
2120 XXIII| another, from the Polar to Sirius? Will this means of locomotion
2121 VII | am sorry for the amiable sister of Apollo. A very pitted
2122 XVIII| where the process of the sitting of the 6th of December may
2123 XIX | consequences of these different situations, and thinking what inference
2124 X | an apparent distance of sixteen leagues. And more than that,
2125 IX | only be reckoned at one sixth of terrestrial weight; a
2126 X | the morning did not exceed sixty-five miles, and in a medium free
2127 XXIII| world as Cuvier did the skeleton of a fossil, and say, “The
2128 V | Michel, “they make their skins into drums.”~Barbicane and
2129 XVII | annular mountains of Moret. It skirted at some distance the summits
2130 XIV | rapidly, the projectile was skirting the moon’s north pole at
2131 XX | Humboldt’s current, which skirts the coast of America as
2132 III | down with great care. Its skull had been broken against
2133 I | dollars,” replied Nicholl, slapping the pocket of this coat. “
2134 II | will only appear to us as a slender crescent which will soon
2135 III | temperature than this as it slid through the strata of the
2136 III | he had distilled on the slopes of Burgundy, the sun chose
2137 XVII | the interior and exterior sloping flanks rose in stories like
2138 XIX | hours as they passed too slow for their wish; Barbicane
2139 II | three soon in a profound slumber.~But they had not forgotten
2140 III | friends returned to their slumbers. Could they have found a
2141 IV | said Michel Ardan, in his sly tone, “mathematics have
2142 XV | of howitzer shells, the smallest of which might destroy it
2143 IX | that the projectile would smash like glass, Michel replied
2144 II | down to the bottom by the smashing of the partition-breaks
2145 II | not escaped. Besides, the smell would have betrayed it;
2146 V | of endowing the Selenite smoking divans with them.”~“My friend,”
2147 XXII | the walls of which were so smooth as to offer no hold for
2148 XIX | himself on the divan, he soon snored like a forty-eight pounder.~“
2149 VIII | obliged to sleep themselves sober over their oxygen as a drunkard
2150 VII | of the projectile? Their sobriety could not be doubted. This
2151 XVII | who have a distaste for social life!”~“All! It would be
2152 XI | Sea of Humors,” barely softened by some drops of the waters
2153 XIII | lunar landscape without the softening of the phenomena of chiaro-oscuro
2154 VI | of that assigned to their sojourn in the projectile; but they
2155 XIV | overflowed into the little vial soldered to the lower part of the
2156 I | match by striking it on the sole of his boot; and approached
2157 XVIII| liquid, when the moon was solidified by cooling, and had become
2158 I | pulsation.~Three thick and solidly-made couches had been placed
2159 VII | orb forever mute in the solitude of space. That last day
2160 VII | idiotic stampings, and somersaults like those of the boneless
2161 VII | tremendous voice the popular song “Yankee Doodle,” while from
2162 XIX | us! In the other life the soul will want to know nothing,
2163 IV | crowing of a cock which sounded through the car. Michel
2164 XX | morning, the hauling in of the sounding-line was not yet completed; 1,
2165 XXIII| Louisiana; they went to the southeast by Alabama and Florida,
2166 II | his friends, who did not spare friction.~“He breathes though,”
2167 XVIII| was the origin of these sparkling rays, which shone on the
2168 XXI | strengthened by a couple of spars, was thrown into the ocean.
2169 XXI | air,” continued a third speaker; “they must have died of
2170 X | excellent marine glasses specially constructed for this journey.
2171 Pre | cylindro-conical form. This species of aerial car was lined
2172 VII | scuttle Barbicane saw the specter of the dog, and other divers
2173 XV | sheets, assumed that livid spectral appearance which physicians
2174 XVIII| to restrain them.~“Those speculations are too high,” said he; “
2175 Pre | observers. When a purely speculative discovery is announced to
2176 II | such circumstances left him speechless. He had never before seen
2177 XXII | their fall. The air was spent, and doubtless with the
2178 I | moment we shall leave our spheroid. Thus we still have twenty-seven
2179 XIII | region was bristling with spikes and circles. Toward the
2180 XIV | furnished himself with a spirit thermometer on Wafferdin’
2181 XVIII| never weary, admire the splendors of Tycho. Their projectile,
2182 IV | cried Ardan; “my head is splitting with it.”~“And now,” said
2183 IV | tongue? That creature will spoil my design!”~But Nicholl
2184 VIII | sake of its health!”~Michel spoke with so much animation that
2185 XI | must say I have heard it spoken of.”~In one sense, the pupil’
2186 XVIII| the crater of Tycho. They sprang from him. Herschel attributed
2187 XII | not these rays be simply spurs of mountains which reflect
2188 VIII | bodies, and inversely as the squares of the distances. Hence
2189 V | said Michel, “we might have squeezed a little.”~“The fact is,”
2190 XVII | carcase of fireworks, whose squibs, rockets, serpents, and
2191 VII | avalanche, and not being squirrels we should not come out safe
2192 V | neither have been made a stable nor a shed.”~“Well, we might
2193 XXI | they reached by a circular staircase, a masterpiece of lightness,
2194 I | reimburse your dollars.”~“My stake is deposited at the bank
2195 VII | there?” replied Barbicane, stamping with his foot as if he was
2196 VII | maniacal gestures, idiotic stampings, and somersaults like those
2197 XXI | the peninsula of Monterey, stands the important town from
2198 IX | fireworks, taking their starting-point from the base and bursting
2199 I | that, when the projectile starts, it matters little whether
2200 Pre | worthy Joseph T. Maston, the staunchest friend of the three travelers,
2201 XII | that the projectile was steadily approaching the lunar disc,
2202 XIV | unknown hemisphere which was stealing from their sight. That face
2203 VIII | object itself; but a spring steelyard for example, the tension
2204 XXI | and the corvette, wearing, steered at full steam direct for
2205 XX | it smashed close to the stem, and buried itself in the
2206 VII | projectile will be.”~“That is a step certainly. A ball without
2207 XVII | Crystallized by cooling, they have stereotyped that aspect which the moon
2208 XX | brandy-grog, which earned for the steward no end of praise, and turned
2209 XIII | regularly placed?”~“You stick to your vegetation, then?”
2210 XV | were mute, motionless with stiffened limbs, a prey to frightful
2211 II | yes, we are moving! This stifling heat, penetrating through
2212 I | moon-dogs,’ which will make a stir!”~“If there are dogs in
2213 XXIII| manned by a driver and a stoker, and bore, by special favor,
2214 VIII | days. Everything about him, stomach and brain, were overexcited
2215 XVIII| something like a lunar stomach-ache.” said Michel Ardan.~“Besides,”
2216 XIX | even with success from a stomachic point of view. Certainly
2217 III | without eating, and their stomachs were suffering from the
2218 VI | the consequences of the stoppage would have been.~“But,”
2219 XIX | would mark the projectile’s stopping-point on the neutral line. At
2220 XI | for the establishment of stores in the interests of lunar
2221 XVII | exterior sloping flanks rose in stories like gigantic terraces.
2222 XI | took the soundings of its stormy banks.~We may also notice
2223 II | had fallen from a fifth story on their heads. Bah!” he
2224 III | Selenite ground, they were stowed away in the upper part of
2225 XX | of America as far as the Straits of Magellan.”~“These great
2226 XII | that savants would ever be stranded for want of an explanation.”~“
2227 XVII | captivate them by its very strangeness. They were moving over this
2228 XXIII| adventurers? Those legions of strangers, hurrying from all parts
2229 XXIII| curious mountain of Tycho, the strangest system of lunar orography?
2230 VI | produced by the combustion of a stratum of coal surrounding the
2231 XXII | bridge, examining this object straying at random on the waves.~
2232 XX | the borders of a Selenite stream, near a projectile half-buried
2233 XXII | consequently it floats!”~Ah! what stress the worthy man had laid
2234 XVII | peaks and mountains which strewed the soil. The satellite
2235 XI | selenographic map, one peculiarity strikes us. Contrary to the arrangement
2236 XI | there is but one slight strip of land separated from other
2237 II | as if he had been at his strong-box, the president drew forth
2238 XV | might answer that men so strong-minded were above such anxieties—
2239 Pre | learned pens of the day, strongly engrossed the public attention.~
2240 XIX | CHAPTER XIX~A STRUGGLE AGAINST THE IMPOSSIBLE~For
2241 VI | around the black vault was studded with brilliant points, which
2242 XV | Barbicane, who was carefully studying the phenomenon through his
2243 XIII | they are rifts.”~“Rifts? stuff!” replied Michel mildly; “
2244 XIV | again will be nothing but a stump frozen and deformed by the
2245 VIII | companions were surprised and stupefied, despite their scientific
2246 Pre | was on this spot, after stupendous labor, that the Columbiad
2247 III | writing, in a business-like style.~During this time Nicholl,
2248 XXI | view.” This arrangement subjected all objects to but one reflection,
2249 IV | ignoramus in mathematical subjects; and it is impossible for
2250 XI | given by a large majority of sublunary beings. How many people
2251 II | the earth; no, nor are we submerged in the Gulf of Mexico. Yes!
2252 XIII | altered. They must rigidly submit. They could not guide a
2253 III | whether the earth’s satellite submitted like herself to its magnetic
2254 XXII | affair. Every one who had subscribed to the Gun Club was directly
2255 Pre | setting on foot a public subscription, which realized nearly L1,
2256 XVII | and this movement did not subside. Circles, craters, and uprooted
2257 XV | the lightnings in space subsided by degrees; its accidental
2258 XII | stratification produced by successive eruptions, and the neighborhood
2259 XXIII| alike. At certain hours, successively calculated, marked by electric
2260 III | hydraulic press, as tender and succulent as if brought straight from
2261 XIII | following night with the suddenness of a lamp which is extinguished
2262 III | and their stomachs were suffering from the imperious laws
2263 VII | the moon, a region more suitable for landing.~Without imparting
2264 VII | voice.~“I shall speak if it suits me,” exclaimed Michel, seizing
2265 VIII | his surprise to see the sulphur shine with so extraordinary
2266 XI | but these? and is it not summed up in these four words?~
2267 XXIII| were stopped as they are on Sundays on the railways of the United
2268 XVII | aqueduct; in another part the sunken pillars of a gigantic bridge,
2269 XV | assent to an observation so superficially obtained? Dared they pronounce
2270 III | aerial car had a base with a superficies of fifty-four square feet.
2271 XXIII| to see the heroes of this superhuman enterprise.~The expedition
2272 XX | at the forewheel, who was superintending the operation.~The captain
2273 XX | ideal description of his superior officer.~“I should like
2274 III | closed with a plentiful supper carefully prepared. No accident
2275 VIII | in its functions, what a supplement to life it would derive.
2276 VIII | and demanded from Michel a supplementary repast. Michel, utterly
2277 XX | one of the most ardent supporters of the Gun Club, who had
2278 XX | level bottom, like that supporting the American cable between
2279 I | disencumbered of its last supports.~Nicholl, once introduced
2280 XVI | have been the case in a supposedly rigidly parabolical trajectory—
2281 VI | Michel.~“It is an impossible supposition,” said the practical Barbicane; “
2282 VIII | suppressing weight as they suppress pain by anaesthesia, that
2283 VIII | if we could succeed in suppressing weight as they suppress
2284 II | with a sigh of relief. “Surely infinity of space is large
2285 IX | terrors of the Infinite, surged up inopportunely. To face
2286 Pre | destroy many illusions and surmises; but it will give a true
2287 XXII | flag floating on the wind surmounted its cone, which emerged
2288 XV | So the atmosphere does surround that part of the moon.”~“
2289 II | miles of atmosphere which surrounds the globe.”~“Just so,” replied
2290 V | determined them, they could not suspect its truth; it was evident
2291 IV | said Nicholl, looking suspiciously at his companion.~“Yes,”
2292 XIX | extinguished.~The projectile sustained a certain shock, which was
2293 VI | Michel, with an amiable swagger, “I have a few ideas of
2294 II | perhaps less agreeable to swallow.” Then, passing his hand
2295 II | could not stand. His head swam, from the rush of blood;
2296 III | of the celestial sphere swarmed with stars and constellations
2297 V | Pascal, Newton?”~“I could swear it.”~“Comic writers like
2298 XX | great tempest, which by sweeping away the groups of clouds
2299 XXI | as St. Louis, where the swift mail-coaches awaited them.
2300 VI | run a long time, when I am swimming, when I am perspiring in
2301 XVII | more seas. A never ending Switzerland and Norway. And lastly,
2302 VII | spite of your diver’s dress, swollen by the expansion of air
2303 VIII | in time.~After a perfect swoon, which lasted some minutes,
2304 XV | turn, some flaming like a sword, some surrounded by a whitish
2305 IV | above them, they might have sworn that they were floating
2306 XXIII| may remember the intense sympathy which had accompanied the
2307 V | earth passed through the tail of a comet? Or let us suppose
2308 IV | not help laughing.~“Fine talent that,” said Nicholl, looking
2309 I | conclude, then, you everlasting talker?” asked Barbicane.~“I conclude
2310 IX | scene of the meeting held at Tampa Town, in Florida, when Captain
2311 IX | line which might become a tangent. But it was certain that
2312 VII | escape regulators, tried the taps, and regulated the heat
2313 XIX | Nicholl, “every one to his taste; I shall go to sleep.” And
2314 VIII | I am not sorry to have tasted a little of this heady gas.
2315 XII | exclaimed Michel. “That will teach me to reason with savants.”~
2316 I | Satellite!” he exclaimed, teasing them; “so you are going
2317 XXI | telegram the Naval Secretary telegraphed to the Susquehanna to wait
2318 III | which no atmosphere can temper, either in temperature or
2319 XXIII| is part of the American temperament to foresee everything in
2320 XIV | minima of excessively low temperatures.~Before beginning the experiment,
2321 XX | not even felt the great tempest, which by sweeping away
2322 XVII | marked out the place for a temple, here the ground of a forum,
2323 II | forehead and rubbing his temples, he called in a firm voice:~“
2324 IX | the base of the projectile tended toward the moon; but the
2325 III | by an hydraulic press, as tender and succulent as if brought
2326 XI | Nectar,” with its waves of tenderness and breezes of love; “The
2327 XV | one from the other, both tending indefinitely in the two
2328 XI | compared this map to a “Tendre card,” got up by a Scudary
2329 XI | Involuntarily the names of Naxos, Tenedos, and Carpathos, rise before
2330 XXIII| visiting the center by Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and
2331 XVII | the disc with its silver tentacles, an enormous eye filled
2332 XVI | bright. Such appeared the terminal line of the moon when in
2333 XXI | them opened a metal well terminated by the metallic mirror,
2334 XVII | in stories like gigantic terraces. They appeared to be higher
2335 III | crouched under the divan. Terrified and shaken by the initiatory
2336 XV | limbs, a prey to frightful terror. Their projectile, the course
2337 IX | hypothesis, big with all the terrors of the Infinite, surged
2338 XXIII| Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana; they went
2339 XXI | communication the captain thanked him. The course was then
2340 | thence
2341 III | instruments was then begun. The thermometers and barometers had resisted,
2342 XVII | gigantic bridge, run into the thickest parts of the rift. He distinguished
2343 I | a comfortable room with thickly padded walls, furnished
2344 Pre | diameter of 108 inches and a thickness of twelve inches to its
2345 XIII | projectile was over the thirteenth lunar parallel and at the
2346 VII | to the ground.”~“By the thirty-nine stars of the Union!” said
2347 I | Yes,” replied Nicholl. “Thirty-seven minutes six seconds past
2348 XXI | like the Susquehanna. In thirty-six hours she had covered that
2349 VII | people them, to transport thither all the prodigies of art,
2350 II | dropped, and Barbicane began thoughtfully to let down the shutter
2351 I | for moles.”~So saying, the thoughtless fellow lit a match by striking
2352 XXI | Club maintaining for the thousandth time that he had just seen
2353 VII | knock your teeth down your throat!”~The two adversaries were
2354 | throughout
2355 XX | fell, with the noise of thunder, upon the bowsprit, which
2356 V | This revelation came like a thunderbolt. Who could have expected
2357 XVII | its craters, filled with thunderings, vomited at the same time
2358 I | silence was only broken by the ticking of the chronometer marking
2359 II | light up.”~Ardan felt the tide of life return by degrees.
2360 II | upper fastenings, closed it tightly. Beneath was fixed an aluminum
2361 VII | honor, his ears at least tingled. What was he doing then?
2362 XVII | vomiting rays. It was the tire of a brilliant wheel, an
2363 VIII | disperse in space!”~“That is tiresome,” retorted Michel; “nothing
2364 XIV | sake, they drank without toasts, without hurrahs. The bold
2365 Pre | Captain Nicholl, and, as a token of reconciliation, persuaded
2366 VII | resounded the masculine tones of the “Marseillaise.”~Then
2367 IV | voice, “Will you hold your tongue? That creature will spoil
2368 XVII | the same time smoke and tongues of flame. What a wonderful
2369 XXII | it displaces twenty-eight tons, or in other words 56,000
2370 VI | surface, or reconnoiter her topographically or geologically.~Thus the
2371 XII | caught a glimpse of the tops of another mountain. Barbicane,
2372 XVI | trajectory— a new problem which tormented Barbicane’s brain, imprisoned
2373 IV | one to obtain all sorts of totals.~“The expression v zero,
2374 XIX | thrown from the top of the towers of Notre Dame, the height
2375 III | in? On the earth, houses, towns, cottages, and country feel
2376 XVI | supposedly rigidly parabolical trajectory— a new problem which tormented
2377 XI | lastly, that vast “Sea of Tranquillity,” in which every false passion,
2378 XXII | inferior to that of the transatlantic cable which had been drawn
2379 VI | motion which is thus lost by transformation.”~“Yes, I understand,” replied
2380 VI | previously possessed? It is transformed into heat, and the brake
2381 XIV | of sound, was wanting to transmit the groanings of that moon
2382 XIII | hundred and seventy times more transparent than it is, to allow astronomers
2383 III | which Michel Ardan hoped to transplant into Selenite ground, they
2384 VII | them, to people them, to transport thither all the prodigies
2385 XIX | Thus the time necessary to travel over the distance between
2386 II | thought had been for the traveler, not for the car.~“Well,
2387 II | yards, which was enough to traverse Paris or New York in a second?
2388 XI | Then, worn out by deceit, treasons, infidelity, and the whole
2389 XIV | very ill supplied, very ill treated, by nature.”~“Never mind,”
2390 VII | nothing. They could have trebled the Columbiad’s charge;
2391 XXII | were his first words?~“Ah! trebly brutes! quadruply idiots!
2392 XIII | man, not an animal, not a tree! After all, whether the
2393 VII | the senate struck up in a tremendous voice the popular song “
2394 XVI | points lengthened into a tremulous line. They were very bright.
2395 VII | water-courses emptying the mountain tributaries. Leaning over the abyss,
2396 VIII | reproduced, but without any trick, the wonderful suspension
2397 VII | They took down the most trifling details. A vague uneasiness
2398 XIX | I do not complain, the trip has pleased me, and the
2399 XXIII| at full speed, drawing a triumphal carriage, had the right
2400 II | Barbicane’s moral energy triumphed over physical weakness,
2401 XXIII| failure, the Honorable Harry Trolloppe, judge commissioner, and
2402 XIII | shades of green, belonging to tropical vegetation, kept up by a
2403 Pre | the immediate effect of troubling the terrestrial atmosphere,
2404 XX | the maintop-gallant- mast truck.~Captain Jonathan Blomsberry (
2405 XXI | a great deception, when, trusting to a cursory observation,
2406 XIX | turned toward it, as the moon turns hers to the earth? That
2407 XXII | And that it displaces twenty-eight tons, or in other words
2408 X | and at the zenith of the twenty-eighth parallel. An observer placed
2409 XIV | is nearer to the sun by twice her distance from the earth;
2410 XIV | soft luster; they did not twinkle, for there was no atmosphere
2411 XV | eclipsed for a moment, again twinkled in the firmament, and the
2412 XVIII| actual state of this cracked, twisted, and burst disc abundantly
2413 XIV | may be estimated at the two-hundredth part of that which separates
2414 XI | and we seek vainly for Ulysses’ vessel or the “clipper”
2415 XIII | daybreak, which produces the umbrae and penumbrae, and all the
2416 VIII | its speed failing, and unable to reach the point of equal
2417 XVI | projectile must describe a curve unalterably determined by the laws of
2418 XXI | This determination was unanimous. The choice of the port
2419 VIII | brilliancy as to be almost unbearable to the eye. From the gas-burner
2420 II | companions, Barbicane began to uncover the window at the bottom
2421 V | terrestrial globe would undergo if the sun disappeared one
2422 XVIII| of temperature the earth undergoes in the lapse of a century.
2423 XXI | Honorable J. T. Maston was undergoing the greatest excitement
2424 V | to the sun, it would have undergone a heat 28,000 times greater
2425 II | Nicholl above, Barbicane underneath.~Ardan lifted the captain,
2426 XVIII| replied Barbicane, “I did not undertake this journey in order to
2427 XII | The Selenites might have undertaken these immense works and
2428 XX | America.~It was a great undertaking, due to the instigation
2429 II | bolts. The screws being undone, and the bolts let go, the
2430 XIV | Fourier wrong. That was the undoubted temperature of the starry
2431 XIV | intervention of its layers unequally dense and of different degrees
2432 II | which in this void of ether unfavorable to diffusion did not eclipse
2433 Pre | journalists had announced.~But an unforeseen circumstance, viz., the
2434 XXII | disheartening. They thought of those unfortunates shut up in the projectile
2435 II | Ardan, “do not let us be ungrateful to it. Since we are leaving
2436 XXIII| world uninhabitable, and now uninhabited.”~To celebrate the return
2437 Pre | travelers (if still alive) uniting their efforts with the lunar
2438 V | both light and heat in the universe.”~They now proceeded to
2439 XII | a room in the Cambridge University, carried into space. Let
2440 XVI | as he was in a circle of unknowns which he could not unravel.~
2441 | unlikely
2442 XV | this volcano in eruption, unmistakably seen by these earthly savants,
2443 VIII | fields!”~“You rascal, you unmitigated rascal,” replied Barbicane, “
2444 XX | lieutenant, who was quite unmoved. “Unfortunately direct news
2445 III | worked out figures with unparalleled dexterity. Michel Ardan
2446 XXI | formidable hook rendered very unpleasant.~At this moment Belfast’
2447 XVII | complete and decided, showing unquestionably the frightful volcanic action
2448 XVI | unknowns which he could not unravel.~Neither of the travelers
2449 XI | every useless dream, every unsatisfied desire is at length absorbed,
2450 II | bring their experiment to an unsuccessful and fatal termination. His
2451 II | Perhaps the projectile was unwinding its course through space.
2452 XXII | his companions, no longer upheld by the excitement of the
2453 XV | destiny of the lunar world was uppermost. He was seeking to combine
2454 XVII | subside. Circles, craters, and uprooted mountains succeeded each
2455 XII | If the map were turned upside down, showing the moon as
2456 XVI | some new light on their uranographic studies. About five o’clock,
2457 XI | Franklin, Ross, Kane, Dumont, d’Urville, and Lambert have never
2458 XIX | presented in such a way as to utilize the whole of the recoil
2459 XVIII| does not expend herself in vain; and a world so wonderfully
2460 XI | before the mind, and we seek vainly for Ulysses’ vessel or the “
2461 XX | the American cable between Valentia and Newfoundland, is much
2462 III | atmosphere, at least in the deep valleys, and there springs and streams
2463 II | recalled their attention to the vanishing globe.~“Yes,” said Michel
2464 XI | Crises;” then the “Sea of Vapors,” whose dimensions are perhaps
2465 II | longer filtered through the vapory atmosphere of the terrestrial
2466 XIII | length; that their breadth varied from 1,000 to 1,500 yards,
2467 XIV | monotony of our journey! What variety we have had, at least in
2468 VIII | end of the projectile was varying a little from its normal
2469 I | replied the captain. “We’ve still thirteen minutes and
2470 III | were even “red.”~Preserved vegetables (“fresher than nature,”
2471 XXI | clouds which obstinately veiled her during the night.~What,
2472 IV | sound.” So saying, he gave vent to a splendid cock-a-doodledoo,
2473 VII | an air-pump, I could have ventured out and assumed fanciful
2474 VIII | planets, such as Mercury, Venus, or Mars, whose density
2475 XV | the dark horizon; but the verification of this phenomenon was of
2476 XXIII| Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire;
2477 XV | an aeronaut can give a vertical motion to his balloon. They,
2478 III | of the globe. On sea, the vessels rocked by the waves are
2479 XVII | by the first eruptions of Vesuvius and Etna, we find them little
2480 VI | CHAPTER VI~QUESTION AND ANSWER~On the
2481 XIV | overflowed into the little vial soldered to the lower part
2482 V | these atoms which, by their vibratory motion, produce both light
2483 XIV | strange” shadow so dear to Victor Hugo’s pen bound them on
2484 XI | which too often gain the victory. Then, worn out by deceit,
2485 II | divan, and began to rub vigorously. This means, used with judgment,
2486 VII | CHAPTER VII~A MOMENT OF INTOXICATION~
2487 VIII | CHAPTER VIII~AT SEVENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND
2488 VII | to remark that the lunar vines, warmed by that ardent sun,
2489 V | Yes.”~“Poets like Homer, Virgil, Milton, Lamartine, and
2490 XXIII| by Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and Indiana, and, after
2491 X | conditions, as regards the visibility of the details of the disc,
2492 XXIII| Georgia and the Carolinas, visiting the center by Tennessee,
2493 XX | at her zenith a cargo of visitors may be sent to her.”~“It
2494 XXIII| savants had observed de visu, and under particular circumstances.
2495 XIX | estimate it. But no error could vitiate Barbicane’s calculations.
2496 XXII | these conditions until the vitiated air compelled the divers
2497 VII | Nicholl.~“Hip! hip! hip!” vociferated Michel Ardan.~Then the president
2498 XXIII| hurrahs, and all the admiring vociferations of the American language,
2499 VIII | possess, a simple act of volition, a caprice, would bear us
2500 VI | Michel, “what hundred of volumes we might make of all that
2501 XX | midshipman, “I am ready!”~“Oh! volunteers will not be wanting,” answered
2502 VII | take a walk outside. What voluptuousness to float amid this radiant
2503 XVII | filled with thunderings, vomited at the same time smoke and
2504 XVII | of irradiation, a crater vomiting rays. It was the tire of
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