Book, Chapter
1 I, II | Length of service: Fourteen years, three months, and five
2 I, II | five days.~Service: Two years at school at St. Cyr; two
3 I, II | at school at St. Cyr; two years at L’Ecole d’Application;
4 I, II | Ecole d’Application; two years in the 8th Regiment of the
5 I, II | Regiment of the Line; two years in the 3rd Light Cavalry;
6 I, II | 3rd Light Cavalry; seven years in Algeria.~Campaigns: Soudan
7 I, II | Hector Servadac was thirty years of age, an orphan without
8 I, II | the army at twenty-eight years of age, but unexpectedly
9 I, VII | of our pole-star 12,000 years hence. The most daring imagination
10 I, VII | that a period of 12,000 years had been crowded into the
11 I, X | Procope, a man of about thirty years of age, and an excellent
12 I, X | he had spent the last few years in that vanished city. All
13 I, XIII | of them were about forty years of age; both of them were
14 I, XIII | Englishmen— for the next five years at least. Preserved meat,
15 I, XVII | little girl, seven or eight years of age, with rich brown
16 I, XVIII| been taken for at least ten years older. Small and skinny,
17 I, XIX | men and a lad of twelve years of age, named Pablo. They
18 I, XIX | amply provisioned for some years to come, and their own Gourbi
19 I, XIX | feeling the burden of his years. At another time he would
20 I, XXII | winter that may last for years, perhaps for centuries?”~“
21 II, I | delight to his audience.~Two years after Servadac left the
22 II, II | replied Rosette. “It is twelve years or more since I saw you;
23 II, III | to the earth again in two years precisely.”~“You mean that
24 II, III | You mean that in two years after the first shock, Gallia
25 II, IV | revolution in precisely two years, and would meet the earth,
26 II, IV | length to two terrestrial years.”~They signified their assent.~“
27 II, VIII | existed for 1,000,000,000 years at a distance of 139,212,
28 II, VIII | burning bosom 100,000,000 years ago. Venus, revolving now
29 II, VIII | assigned the age of 50,000,000 years at least; and Mercury, nearest
30 II, VIII | the space of 10,000,000 years— the same time as the moon
31 II, IX | doubt we are in for a two years’ excursion, but fifteen
32 II, X | was destined, after a two years’ absence, once more to return “
33 II, X | the sun in a period of 29 years and 167 days, traveling
34 II, X | length of seven terrestrial years.~Although the light received
35 II, X | for periods of several years, daily eclipses of the sun
36 II, X | that had happened seventy years previously; transport him
37 II, X | terrestrial sphere of 720 years back; carry him away further
38 II, XVII | experiences of the last two years were fading from their minds
39 II, XIX | seconds in the duel two years ago, the colonel of the
40 II, XIX | educated and cared for. Some years later, Colonel, no longer
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