Book, Chapter
1 I, I | of Count Timascheff. Two hours later they had returned.
2 I, III | as a dormouse for twelve hours at a stretch. Ben Zoof had
3 I, V | sunken thatch.~It was two hours after the catastrophe that
4 I, V | that in less than three hours he will have set.”~Hector
5 I, V | the course of the last few hours, to have become considerably
6 I, V | the changes which a few hours had wrought. The sun had
7 I, VI | day being reduced to six hours.~“We must wait till to-morrow,”
8 I, VI | were groundless. In three hours’ time, without any intervening
9 I, VI | had lasted precisely six hours. Ben Zoof, who was unaccustomed
10 I, VI | it has only been for six hours, but you must make it enough.”~“
11 I, VI | to solve.~During the four hours of daylight that still remained,
12 I, VI | for his night’s rest.~Six hours later, only waiting for
13 I, VI | after a period of sixty hours, found themselves once more
14 I, VII | reduced from twenty-four hours to twelve, Captain Servadac
15 I, VII | accurate account of the passing hours.~In the course of his life,
16 I, VIII | periods of precisely six hours each— a sure proof that
17 I, VIII | own axis in twenty-three hours twenty-one minutes—an evidence,
18 I, IX | was confirmed when, two hours later, she came entirely
19 I, IX | the days had been only six hours long, and that the weight
20 I, X | find a vestige.~Twenty-four hours after leaving the island,
21 I, X | continuously for more than two hours over a considerable area,
22 I, X | For the next thirty-six hours, until the 4th of February,
23 I, XI | progress all through the hours of night. Few as those hours
24 I, XI | hours of night. Few as those hours were, they seemed to those
25 I, XII | to proceed, and in a few hours after quitting the island
26 I, XIII | as the days are only six hours long, we are to have but
27 I, XIII | absent for seven or eight hours. Not even to Corporal Pim
28 I, XIV | investigation, and in two hours were out of sight of the
29 I, XV | just come to light. Some hours were spent in discussion
30 I, XVI | been toiling up for two hours more that they succeeded
31 I, XVII | more than four and twenty hours.~Next day the direct progress
32 I, XVII | Madalena, the Dobryna for some hours held a southeasterly course
33 I, XVII | conversation dropped.~A few hours later the man on watch announced
34 I, XX | something less than three hours. The volcanic eruption was
35 I, XXI | scanned the horizon for hours together with an old telescope,
36 I, XXI | gray eyes, and when, a few hours later, he found himself
37 I, XXII | them in four and twenty hours; consequently Gallia, being
38 I, XXIII| CARRIER-PIGEON~When, three hours after sunset, on the 23d
39 I, XXIII| considerably less than four hours.~The temperature, meanwhile,
40 I, XXIV | Formentera within twelve hours, that is to say, in a single
41 I, XXIV | from Formentera.~Thirty-six hours later, the brave travelers
42 II, VII | meeting adjourned for a few hours. By the appointed time the
43 II, VIII | the sun in 4,332 days 14 hours and 2 minutes; that he travels
44 II, VIII | his axis occupies only 9 hours and 55 minutes.~“His days,
45 II, VIII | first takes only l day 18 hours 27 minutes; the second takes
46 II, VIII | the second takes 3 days 13 hours 14 minutes; the third, 7
47 II, VIII | minutes; the third, 7 days 3 hours 42 minutes; whilst the largest
48 II, VIII | all takes but 16 days 16 hours 32 minutes. The most remote
49 II, X | revolves on his axis in 10 hours 29 minutes, causing his
50 II, X | rotating on its axis in 2212 hours, and revolving at a distance
51 II, X | revolves in its own plane in 10 hours 32 minutes. Of what matter
52 II, XI | there still remained three hours of daylight. The sun was
53 II, XIII | the man of science, some hours had to elapse before any
54 II, XVII | about one-half. Only six hours instead of twelve elapsed
55 II, XVII | sunrise and sunrise; three hours after rising in the west
56 II, XVII | days, though only three hours long, were intensely hot.~
57 II, XVII | The 31st came. Twenty-four hours hence and the balloon, with
58 II, XVIII| been projected. During the hours of daylight it was far from
59 II, XVIII| calculated time of impact was 2 hours 47 minutes 35.6 seconds.
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