Chapter
1 1 | peaks beyond the reach of man. Now, the Great Eyrie did
2 2 | said he, “are you still the man who on so many occasions
3 2 | then listen.”~Mr. Ward, a man of about fifty years, of
4 2 | Elias Smith, was a tall man, vigorous and enterprising,
5 3 | accompanied us, Harry Horn, a man of thirty, and James Bruck,
6 3 | very natural desire of a man possessed by the demon of
7 3 | that nature had worked as man does, with careful regularity.
8 5 | which it is not given to man to understand.~We had fully
9 8 | of no personal use to the man, that he should hide it
10 8 | mechanical world as the man himself. But since the accident
11 8 | stand in the presence of our man, what am I to do with him?”~“
12 8 | cannot argue long with a man making two hundred miles
13 8 | Hart, of Illinois, was a man of thirty years; the other,
14 8 | trustworthy reports of the “man of the hour.” The first
15 8 | was no further news of our man, there was no response from
16 10| spirit of a jester. Only one man could have written it; and
17 10| known only to myself. The man who had threatened me was
18 10| very good reason that the man whom it concerned remained
19 11| comrades or myself.~The man to whom I was sent with
20 11| train when I picked out the man who awaited us. He was scanning
21 11| found Arthur Wells to be a man of about forty, large and
22 12| heard upon the shore. The man with a lantern and his companion,
23 13| World.”~I approached the man on the look-out, and after
24 13| was solved at once. The man at the bow left his post,
25 13| hatchway was raised. The man I had so impatiently awaited
26 13| stern, he took the helm. The man whom he had relieved, after
27 13| Terror” increased.~This man, so interesting both to
28 14| hand in order to seize this man who had been outlawed! Should
29 14| not leave my place. The man at the bow was close by
30 14| was he not insane, this man who proclaimed himself,
31 15| the enormous pride of this man who proclaimed himself Master
32 15| sprung from the hand of man, and against which men were
33 15| debris from the hand of man, bits of broken wood, heaps
34 16| portrait of this extraordinary man had been printed in all
35 17| the future. Now only one man can establish the identity
36 17| Robur the Conqueror. This man is I his prisoner, I who
37 17| glance was not that of a sane man. Indeed, it seemed to reflect
38 17| of the two assistants, a man whom I now recognized as
39 17| haughty attitude as of a man who in his immeasurable
40 18| heart of this prodigious man had driven him to give equal
41 18| notorious Robur, you will be the man of the hour. I hope that
42 18| that never was inquisitive man put to greater straits to
43 18| had prophesied, I was the man of the hour.~One of the
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