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1 1 | swiftly away, troubling the air with harsh cries.~Why then
2 1 | strange noise swept across the air, a sort of whirring, accompanied
3 2 | certainly a tumult in the air, but I felt no quivering
4 3 | was beautiful, the fresh air in that climate is still
5 3 | straight upwards in the air rose the rocky wall which
6 4 | suction of the tremendous air currents engendered by its
7 4 | seize a cannon-ball in the air, as it leaped from the mouth
8 4 | whistlings shrieked through the air warning all to give passage
9 5 | then to vanish into thin air. True, he had at length
10 5 | spout up columns of mingled air and water. Now, this strange
11 8 | power of flying through the air. Nevertheless, everything
12 8 | to chase men through the air! I asked myself if my colleagues
13 13| directly from the surrounding air or from the water, by processes
14 14| their thunders burst on the air and several cannon shot
15 15| of our voyage through the air. It puzzled me and I asked
16 15| airship. Earth, sea and air, — it could move through
17 15| in its course through the air with surprising ease. Assuredly
18 15| Assuredly the roads of the air were as familiar to it as
19 15| Terror” soared into the air, I had sunk into complete
20 15| some movement, even in the air. I lay in my berth in the
21 15| above. A wave of light and air penetrated my cabin.~With
22 15| the machine through the air.~The chief aerial support,
23 15| theory of the “heavier than air” flying machine was employed
24 15| moment I felt a breath of air; a breeze came from the
25 16| theory of the “lighter than air” machine; and under their
26 16| lay with the heavier than air machines, and that he had
27 16| long, was upheld in the air by a large number of horizontal
28 16| that their lighter than air machine was at least the
29 16| superiority of the heavier than air machines.~Mr. Prudent and
30 16| which the conquest of the air will bring to them. Uncle
31 16| States, the conquest of the air is made; but it shall not
32 16| masterpiece had risen through the air carrying me a prisoner on
33 17| directly from the surrounding air by some new process, what
34 17| had he become, when earth, air and water combined to offer
35 17| Terror” sped through the air or the ocean? My only chance
36 17| had never been seen in the air. And would not this fourth
37 17| cracklings which filled the air. From the deck of the “Terror,”
38 17| swerves and balancings in the air followed. Then the turbines
39 17| Eyrie, and launched into the air as a ship launches into
40 17| in the upper zones of the air until he had left all the
41 17| and sea. We floated in the air above an ocean, at a height
42 17| would again rise in the air to clear the mountainous
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