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1 I, I | whom were French. Besides being one of the principal district
2 I, I | the slightest intention of being wounded at all.”~Incredulous
3 I, II | seemed born to please without being conscious of the power he
4 I, II | confessed that Servadac, being naturally idle, was very
5 I, II | of the cliff; altogether being in no hurry at all to bring
6 I, IV | possible that a single human being could have survived the
7 I, V | him. What accounts for its being as light as this?”~Nothing
8 I, VI | which it was propelled. Such being his temperament, it may
9 I, VI | for the length of the day being reduced to six hours.~“We
10 I, VI | not meet a single human being. At nightfall they again
11 I, VI | turned abruptly to the north, being no longer formed by the
12 I, VII | were asleep. The gourbi being in ruins, they were obliged
13 I, VII | theory. Though far from being advanced in the knowledge
14 I, VII | Ben Zoof presently, such being his ordinary way of opening
15 I, VII | irritation and annoyance at being unable to identify any one
16 I, VII | utter impossibility of its being any longer the central pivot
17 I, VII | constellations.~The pole-star being manifestly thus displaced,
18 I, VIII | of the length of the year being either diminished or increased.~
19 I, IX | and his orderly.~The wind being adverse, the Dobryna did
20 I, IX | not the least important being that the schooner had no
21 I, X | incurring any probable risk of being precipitated onto the sun.”~“
22 I, X | you suppose, the earth is being drawn on so as to be precipitated
23 I, XI | it had the appearance of being the projecting summit of
24 I, XI | not come across a human being?”~Lieutenant Procope looked
25 I, XI | had all the appearance of being deserted, nor did a cannon-shot
26 I, XII | vitality was visible.~Such being the condition of the adjacent
27 I, XII | was on the very point of being hurled upon the cliff, when
28 I, XIII | some months—the players being so deliberate, and so fearful
29 I, XIII | and it was on the point of being loaded for the last time,
30 I, XIV | preliminaries of etiquette being thus complete, there was
31 I, XV | from the round of the earth being completed in 1 ,400 miles,
32 I, XV | explanation of our days and nights being thus curtailed. But how
33 I, XV | that a mass of the earth on being detached would be eccentric
34 I, XV | shores, rich in vegetation, being transformed into rocks arid
35 I, XV | sure to use a bottle as being more secure; and, accordingly,
36 I, XV | we may have the honor of being registered among the minor
37 I, XVII | thither was on the point of being adopted, when Lieutenant
38 I, XVII | their own strange destiny in being rolled away upon a new planet
39 I, XVII | temperature, the thermometer being, on an average, about two
40 I, XVII | first all the appearance of being utterly desert; but on the
41 I, XVII | man’s cow.” So far from being alarmed at the presence
42 I, XVII | communication.~Instead of being enclosed in a telescope-case,
43 I, XVII | me probable that they are being sent broadcast upon the
44 I, XVIII| the orbit of Gallia was being traversed at its perihelion,
45 I, XVIII| the most imminent risk of being utterly devoured. It was,
46 I, XVIII| water in its congealed state being divested of every particle
47 I, XVIII| the sea, his real business being that of a merchant trading
48 I, XVIII| a crew of three men, as being adequate to work so light
49 I, XVIII| stuffs, and gunpowder—and being at all times ready to barter,
50 I, XVIII| but they could not help being very considerably embarrassed
51 I, XIX | Mediterranean, the whole being encompassed by a barrier
52 I, XIX | the Gallians for the time being should reckon on nothing
53 I, XIX | certainly be told that we are being carried away into unknown
54 I, XX | although Gourbi Island (being on the equator of an orb
55 I, XX | The excavation of any silo being thus manifestly hopeless,
56 I, XX | steam-launch, its screw being propelled, on the Oriolle
57 I, XX | summit of the promontory being enveloped in flames. To
58 I, XXI | bulk of the island cattle being slaughtered, as the extreme
59 I, XXI | given no orders, that he was being moved against his will,
60 I, XXII | excited as to their once again being about to enjoy the peaceful
61 I, XXII | hours; consequently Gallia, being of superior volume, might
62 I, XXII | Pablo and Nina, Ben Zoof being their companion in play-hours,
63 I, XXIII| indication of the proprietor being still on board. There was
64 I, XXIII| light and heat which were being enjoyed by all besides;
65 I, XXIII| risk of the ships’ sides being crushed by the increasing
66 I, XXIII| remarkable. So far from there being any likelihood of the fire
67 I, XXIII| any likelihood of the fire being extinguished by the vehemence
68 I, XXIII| care was necessary to avoid being burnt by the fragments of
69 I, XXIII| discovered that she was being attacked by half a dozen
70 I, XXIV | snow-drifts that were continually being whirled across it. But Hector
71 I, XXIV | go, as, in case of there being several persons to be rescued,
72 I, XXIV | gentle, the oscillation being less than that of an ordinary
73 I, XXIV | imagined that they were being conveyed through the air
74 I, XXIV | conceived, that any human being could there have survived
75 II, I | more dried up than he is, being brought all the way from
76 II, I | comet”; and that theory being abandoned, they were driven
77 II, I | sections of every variety being repeated in countless profusion.~
78 II, II | discovery of the comet was being contested or denied; but
79 II, III | The French Government, being desirous of verifying the
80 II, III | small star that had escaped being entered in the catalogue.
81 II, III | conspicuous at their perihelia, as being their shortest distances
82 II, III | adopting the supposition of its being parabolic.~Just as in a
83 II, III | orbit.~These two elements being obtained, the position in
84 II, III | motion of the comet, as being retrograde, or, unlike the
85 II, III | The nucleus of the comet, being excessively hard, has done
86 II, IV | congratulating themselves upon being rid of his odious presence.~
87 II, IV | and the solar distances being inserted for each month
88 II, IV | quarters in a sphere which, being of his own discovery, he
89 II, V | sun, or whether they were being carried right away within
90 II, V | from the sun at the end being 172,000,000 leagues, about
91 II, V | attraction, as we have said, being less, the weight will proportionately
92 II, V | ordinary pair of scales, being under the influence of attraction,
93 II, V | proportionately dwarfed; its beams being all but destitute of their
94 II, V | waterline, both vessels being now some fifteen feet above
95 II, VI | his usual formula about being a poor man and having nothing
96 II, VII | is all decimal, the franc being the standard of which the
97 II, VIII | planet, running a risk of being attracted within its influence?
98 II, VIII | first, that the comet, being irresistibly attracted,
99 II, VIII | secondly, that as the result of being brought under that attraction,
100 II, VIII | 378 miles; how the axis, being nearly perpendicular, caused
101 II, VIII | average distance from the sun being 475,693,000 miles.~“And
102 II, VIII | were true, he would prefer being captured by Mercury than
103 II, VIII | by Jupiter, for Mercury, being so much the younger, would
104 II, VIII | planet, the orbit of Jupiter being inclined at an angle of
105 II, VIII | question was continually being asked, “What does the professor
106 II, VIII | between edge and edge, being intensely bright. The belts
107 II, X | than the planet itself, being 17,605 miles broad; and
108 II, X | the outer, of a dusky hue, being 8,660 miles broad.~Such,
109 II, XI | while the schooner, as being lighter, had been raised
110 II, XI | could prevent the hull from being dashed to pieces, and then
111 II, XI | vehemently about his goods being carried off “against his
112 II, XI | present to the naked eye, is being closely watched by the telescopes
113 II, XI | manner of expedients are being discussed as to the best
114 II, XI | the resources of Gallia being so limited, to make the
115 II, XI | and thither, occasionally being out of sight completely.
116 II, XII | ramifications of Nina’s Hive were being pervaded by a cold that
117 II, XII | however, was quite capable of being lighted by means of lamps
118 II, XII | greater zest. The fear of being to a certainty frozen to
119 II, XIV | where they were, the crater being the sole outlet by which
120 II, XIV | remark about things not being very straight. The way in
121 II, XV | had groaned within him at being compelled to reap the fruits
122 II, XV | the event of any measures being suggested by which the shock
123 II, XV | slightly stouter than before.~Being only about twelve miles
124 II, XV | which he had heard of as being made by the two English
125 II, XVI | we should run the risk of being suffocated, for all our
126 II, XVI | either of the comet’s poles being the point of contact?”~“
127 II, XVI | close, and quite capable of being made airtight by means of
128 II, XVI | the future could prevent being glad and hearty.~A double
129 II, XVII | from the certain fate of being drowned.~The 31st came.
130 II, XVII | earth; and this interval was being diminished at the rate of
131 II, XVII | the speed of the earth being about 70,000 miles, that
132 II, XVII | miles, that of the comet being little less than 138,000
133 II, XVIII| But as the aeronauts were being hurried on at a speed of
134 II, XVIII| identified, and instead of being, as it were, depicted on
135 II, XVIII| itself, in which they were being conveyed, would be rent
136 II, XVIII| stretch, was manifestly being sucked into a vortex. Every
137 II, XIX | Gallia at all, and of its being refused admission to the
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