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1 II, IV | the 47th of April or the 118th of May.~According to the
2 I, XII | 34 degrees.~Here, on the 11th of February, there suddenly
3 I, II | July 19th, 18—.~Property: 1200 francs in rentes.~Length
4 II, X | Sirius in Canis Major, 123 millions of millions; the
5 I, VIII | at the rate of more than 126,000,000 miles a year, and
6 II, VIII | the second takes 3 days 13 hours 14 minutes; the third,
7 II, VIII | Venus, revolving now 66,131,000 miles away, may be assigned
8 II, IX | The index registered only 133 grammes!~“You see, Hakkabut,
9 II, IV | It corresponds with the 133d day of the terrestrial year.
10 II, XVII | comet being little less than 138,000 miles an hour.~It was
11 II, VIII | 000 years at a distance of 139,212,000 miles. The earth,
12 II, IV | this will leave her about 140,000,000 leagues distant
13 II, X | square miles; his volume, 143,846 millions of cubic miles.
14 II, X | miles; his superficies, 144,000 millions of square miles;
15 II, IV | have attained a distance of 155,000,000 leagues from the
16 II, XIII | August, Gallia advanced 164,000,000 leagues along her
17 II, X | a period of 29 years and 167 days, traveling at the rate
18 I, XXII | whether it was one of the 169 asteroids already included
19 II, VIII | earth and the sun; on the 16th, the distance was further
20 II, X | the planet itself, being 17,605 miles broad; and the
21 I, VI | entire circumference of about 171 miles.~“What does it all
22 II, V | the sun at the end being 172,000,000 leagues, about four
23 I, XIV | Three times, indeed—in 1727, 1779, and 1792— France
24 I, XIV | Three times, indeed—in 1727, 1779, and 1792— France and Spain
25 I, XIV | indeed—in 1727, 1779, and 1792— France and Spain have disputed
26 I, XIII | broken on the morning of the 17th of February by the old calendar.~
27 II, XV | their celebrated game in 1846 between Washington and Baltimore,
28 0, Int | year with “Off on a Comet,” 1877, was published also the
29 II, XVII | wanted soon came.~On the 18th, Rosette was overheard in
30 II, VIII | planet at a distance of 1,192,820 miles.~“They have been
31 I, II | department of the Gironde, July 19th, 18—.~Property: 1200 francs
32 II, XVII | diminished at the rate of nearly 208,000 miles an hour, the speed
33 II, VIII | years at a distance of 139,212,000 miles. The earth, 91,
34 I, XV | It was the morning of the 21st of February. The count,
35 II, X | rotating on its axis in 2212 hours, and revolving at
36 I, XVII | leagues—a difference of 23,000,000 leagues in one month;
37 II, XVII | professor talking about the 238th of June, and the 325th of
38 I, XXIII| hours after sunset, on the 23d of March, the Gallian moon
39 II, XV | distance was somewhere about 240 miles. Captain Servadac
40 II, VII | supply the world with about 246,000 trillions of francs.”~“
41 I, XVI | planetary regions.~On the 24th of February, after following
42 I, X | min N. and long. 3 degrees 25 min E., the very spot which
43 II, VIII | distance was further reduced to 26,000,000 leagues. The planet
44 II, IV | 26th of March. It is the 266th day of the Gallian year.
45 II, VIII | Neptune, situated 2,746,271,000 miles from the sun,
46 II, X | of December, Gallia was 276,000,000 leagues from the
47 II, X | millions; the Pole-star, 282 millions of millions; and
48 II, IV | 630,000 square miles; just 292 times less than that of
49 I, X | him that at this date, the 2d of February, the schooner
50 II, X | revolves at a distance of 2,314,000 miles.~Another most
51 II, XVII | the 238th of June, and the 325th of December.~It soon became
52 II, VIII | revolution round the sun in 4,332 days 14 hours and 2 minutes;
53 I, XIII | sealed with the seal of the 33rd Regiment. It was directed:~
54 I, XII | reached the latitude of 34 degrees.~Here, on the 11th
55 II, X | of millions; and Capella, 340 millions of millions of
56 II, VIII | compression to be about 2,378 miles; how the axis, being
57 II, VIII | the earth; his volume is 1,387 times, and his mass 300
58 II, VIII | diameter of Jupiter is 85,390 miles, nearly eleven times
59 II, IX | Gallia and Jupiter were 40,000,000 miles apart. It
60 II, X | Saturn would not be less than 415,000,000 miles; but even
61 II, X | revolving at a distance of 420,000,000 miles from Gallia,
62 II, VIII | 1st of October, reduced to 43,000,000 miles. The belts
63 II, VIII | 000 miles. The earth, 91,430,000 miles from the sun,
64 II, X | Gallia, and consequently 874,440,000 miles from the sun,
65 II, VIII | diminished to 5 degrees 46 mins.~And what an increased
66 II, VIII | he travels at the rate of 467 miles a minute along an
67 II, IV | unheard-of dates as the 47th of April or the 118th of
68 I, X | schooner was in lat. 36 degrees 49 min N. and long. 3 degrees
69 II, X | along an orbit measuring 5,490 millions of miles in length.
70 II, XI | use. This now registered 53 degrees below freezing-point.~
71 II, VIII | occupies only 9 hours and 55 minutes.~“His days, then,
72 II, III | and Gallia at the rate of 57,000 leagues an hour, therefore
73 I, XVIII| the 31st of January to the 5th of March, a period of thirty-five
74 II, X | planet itself, being 17,605 miles broad; and the outer,
75 II, VIII | them was scarcely more than 61,000,000 leagues, and this
76 II, X | though transparent, is 9,625 miles in breadth; the intermediate
77 II, VIII | according to Rosette, the 63rd of April. In the course
78 II, X | of a dusky hue, being 8,660 miles broad.~Such, they
79 I, XII | of 20 degrees Cent. (or 68 degrees Fahr.), and sometimes
80 II, XVIII| two, and Gallia is only 72,000 miles from the terrestrial
81 II, X | the terrestrial sphere of 720 years back; carry him away
82 II, X | of cubic miles. Saturn is 735 times larger than the earth,
83 II, VIII | be. Neptune, situated 2,746,271,000 miles from the sun,
84 II, VIII | back. Uranus, revolving 1,753,851,000 miles from the center
85 II, X | the most remote, occupies 79 days in its rotation, and
86 II, XV | of the community.~On the 7th of October the comet re-entered
87 II, VIII | planet at a distance of 1,192,820 miles.~“They have been enlisted
88 II, X | square miles; his volume, 143,846 millions of cubic miles.
89 II, VIII | The diameter of Jupiter is 85,390 miles, nearly eleven
90 II, VIII | Uranus, revolving 1,753,851,000 miles from the center
91 II, IV | days hence, it will be the 86th of March.”~“Ha, ha!” roared
92 II, X | Gallia, and consequently 874,440,000 miles from the sun,
93 I, XIII | draw up a report that 1,882 names were missing from
94 I, XIII | survivors of a garrison of 1,895 men, but with true British
95 II, X | Jupiter; in mass he is only 90 times greater than the earth,
96 II, VII | is 1.15, on Venus it is .92, on Mars .5, and on Jupiter
97 II, VII | decimeters, each of course 3.93 inches long. A lath was
98 II, XVII | apprehended.~Gallia was now within 96,000,000 miles of the sun,
99 II, VIII | along an orbit measuring 2,976 millions of miles; and that
100 I, XI | overwhelmed the earth.~On the 9th of February the Dobryna
101 I, XIII | colonel was taken somewhat aback, and did not reply immediately,
102 II, XIX | of his tartan, and by the abandonment of his fortune, he disappeared
103 I, XXII | continent, and till the cold was abated they feared to undertake
104 I, II | spinning tops.” His good abilities, however, and his ready
105 II, XII | of the ridicule which his abject wretchedness excited, he
106 I, XXIII| ebullition, and the fish that abounded in its depths defied the
107 I, XVI | leagues and they ought to be abreast of the shores of France.
108 I, XXII | under this condition of absolute stillness, will remain uncongealed
109 I, XVII | with the fate of AEsop’s abstracted astronomer, who found himself
110 II, XIII | sufficient for solving the most abstruse problems of the chess-board.
111 II, XVIII| Montmartre!” And, smile at the absurdity as others might, nothing
112 II, XVI | he became so intolerably abusive, that Servadac threatened
113 II, XII | every reason to believe abutted upon the central funnel.
114 I, XII | was plunged deep into the abysses that they left. The screw
115 I, VIII | rain, now formed an equally acceptable shelter from the burning
116 I, XIX | will pay him by bills of acceptance on some of his old friends
117 I, XXI | store should all be readily accessible.~On further investigation
118 II, XI | brought to an end without accident of any kind; and when the
119 I, XIII | men were reloading; and accidents, such as so frequently mar
120 I, XIV | Captain Servadac, who accompanies me,” continued the count, “
121 II, VIII | recapitulate that Jupiter accomplishes his revolution round the
122 II, XVI | fingers, but Nina persisted in accomplishing her own share of it. The
123 II, VIII | Total annihilation might not accord with his views, but he would
124 I, XIII | was maneuvered in strict accordance with the rules of “The Artilleryman’
125 I, XXII | circumstance that quite accorded with the absence of the
126 II, IV | salutation or of preface, accosted the lieutenant in the way
127 II, I | the count.~“There is no accounting for the freaks of philosophers,
128 II, VIII | certain that no danger could accrue? Was not Gallia, when its
129 I, XVI | little prospect of vapors accumulating in the atmosphere; and nothing
130 II, XVI | his imprecations on the accursed race were full of wrath.
131 I, II | and although Ben Zoof’s achievements had fairly earned him the
132 II, VIII | the wider philosophy that acknowledges the credibility of a habitable
133 I, XIV | gesture, made the slightest acknowledgment of this familiar greeting.~“
134 II, XV | if there is one.”~“I will acquaint him with your arrival,”
135 II, XIII | little disposed to renew an acquaintanceship that was marked by so little
136 I, XVII | sure, therefore, you will acquiesce in my wish to continue our
137 I, XV | Precisely so,” the lieutenant acquiesced.~“Well, then,” continued
138 II, IV | wish it,” said the captain, acquiescing.~“If I wish it!” exclaimed
139 I, V | of meadow land, about an acre in extent. A soft and delicious
140 I, V | as the springboard of an acrobat; they scarcely touched it
141 II, IX | Captain Servadac had been acting only in jest. Aware that
142 0, Int | situation were reproduced in actuality, if ever a comet should
143 I, III | consideration. The captain was actuated by no personal animosity
144 I, XV | the coast; it ran up in an acute-angled triangle till its apex coincided
145 II, XIX | seemed likely, to be the Adam and Eve of a new world.~
146 I, XIII | respect, and are excellently adapted to protect the territory
147 I, XVII | been its natural frontier.~Adapting her course to these deviations
148 I, XIX | bargain prompted him to add, “provided you do not overcharge
149 I, XIII | temperament, and both much addicted to the wearing of their
150 II, X | mutually coalescing, would form additional satellites to circle round
151 I, XXIII| proficiency; Captain Servadac, an adept in athletics, almost outvied
152 II, XIII | gallant soldiers who had adhered so well and so manfully
153 I, XVII | eccentricity.”~“As the writer adheres to the appellation of Gallia,
154 II, III | comet might have remained in adhesion to the earth; and in neither
155 I, III | built of brick or stone. It adjoined an old stone hostelry, previously
156 II, VII | orderly’s remark, the meeting adjourned for a few hours. By the
157 I, XVI | look beyond! By Heaven, I adjure you, let us disembark, and
158 II, II | breath, and never failed to administer the strongest cordials upon
159 II, I | ordinary mortal, whilst they administered cordials and restoratives
160 I, XIII | dispositions, got on together admirably. It is not to be questioned
161 I, II | accepted by her two ardent admirers.~During his residence in
162 II, XIX | and of its being refused admission to the catalogue, he published
163 II, XVI | said Ben Zoof, whom no admonitions could quite reduce to silence.~“
164 II, III | the professor was right in adopting the supposition of its being
165 I, XXI | tapestried with the sails and adorned with the flags belonging
166 II, III | angry, Captain Servadac adroitly gave a new turn to the conversation
167 II, XIX | not only detailing his own adventures, but setting forth, with
168 I, V | meeting between the two adversaries.~Servadac cast a hasty glance
169 I, IX | regard him in the light of an adversary; circumstances had changed,
170 I, IX | orderly.~The wind being adverse, the Dobryna did not make
171 II, XVIII| which they were making their aerial adventure.~“Forty-six minutes!”
172 II, XVIII| terrestrial atmosphere.~But as the aeronauts were being hurried on at
173 I, XVII | have met with the fate of AEsop’s abstracted astronomer,
174 I, XXIV | of view, Servadac from an aesthetic, were alike impressed by
175 II, X | distance, although too great to affect the comet’s progress more
176 II, XV | it could never be called affectionate, had been uniformly friendly
177 I, I | all respects worthy of his affections, he should love her “in
178 I, XIV | answer any provocation that affects her honor. Here I am the
179 I, XIV | has disappeared, but I can affirm that a large section of
180 I, IX | the count responded in the affirmative. He was acquainted with
181 I, VII | is not the moon,” again affirmed the captain.~“Why not?”
182 I, XV | been accelerated; and this affords an adequate explanation
183 I, XII | MERCY OF THE WINDS~As the affrighted cormorants had winged their
184 I, XV | the message had been set afloat by some savant left alone,
185 I, XI | been destroyed by Scipio Afri-canus or Roman Carthage by Hassan
186 I, XIV | Dobryna“ painted on the aft-board. A sinuous irregularity
187 I, XXIII| There, the ice-fields are an agglomeration of hummocks and icebergs,
188 I, XVI | recognized some fragments of that agglutination of yellow limestone which
189 I, XIX | their new asteroid to an aggregate of thirty-six.~Even upon
190 II, VI | gold. But how much do you agree to give me for the hire—
191 I, XX | discovery, more unexpected than agreeable, suddenly arrested their
192 II, XVI | Lieutenant Procope met by agreement in the cave, formally to
193 II, XVI | quite capable of being made airtight by means of a varnish, the
194 II, XIV | subterranean retreat for the more airy and commodious quarters
195 I, VII | surface of a large stone al-caraza gave evidence that it was
196 II, XII | carried down with the greatest alacrity, and the diminished weight
197 II, XIII | vigor became at times almost alarming. The readings around the
198 I, XII | that all the sea-birds, the albatross, the gull, the sea-mew,
199 I, XIII | at least. Preserved meat, ale, brandy—all were in abundance;
200 II, II | his attendant was on the alert to gather all he could,
201 I, X | famous edict of the Emperor Alexander, Procope was sincerely attached,
202 I, XII | coast of Egypt, and from Alexandria or some other port they
203 II, I | blackboard was covered with algebraical symbols traced in chalk,
204 I, XV | Gibraltar right away to Alicante. Malaga, Almeria, Cape Gata,
205 I, XVI | geological character altogether alien to the universal rocks around.
206 II, XVIII| where would the balloon alight? If upon terra firma, would
207 I, XX | agility of chamois, but never alighting on anything except on the
208 II, XIV | had parted with all the alimentary articles in his cargo without
209 II, XI | he could watch over his all-precious cargo, though continually
210 II, VIII | the professor could quite allay the general apprehension
211 I, XXI | left of the common hall was allotted for the special use of Servadac
212 II, VIII | that he had made all proper allowances for any perturbations that
213 II, I | speculations to replace it.~Alluding to Rosette, Servadac took
214 I, XIX | cheeses, and a collection of almanacs and miscellaneous literature.
215 I, XV | away to Alicante. Malaga, Almeria, Cape Gata, Car-thagena.
216 II, XVI | provide the means of floating aloft long enough to give time
217 0, Int | return of his characters, the alpha and omega of his tale, how
218 I, VIII | stretched before his eyes— an alphabet which, to his mortification,
219 I, XVI | that embraced the Maritime Alps and reached beyond Monaco
220 II, XVIII| greater or less brilliancy alternated on its surface, the brighter
221 II, XVI | that this atmosphere will amalgamate with that of the earth,
222 I, XVIII| wares, he had contrived to amass considerable wealth.~On
223 I, XXI | frequently assumed a very ambiguous character.~“I will tell
224 I, II | height.~Ben Zoof’s most ambitious desire was to induce the
225 II, XIX | Jehoram is making money in America by exhibiting himself as
226 II, XV | concluded; but, like the two American clubs that played their
227 I, XXIV | marvelous perfection the Americans had brought their sail-sledges,
228 I, I | either side, and all might be amicably adjusted. But no representations
229 0, Int | rest. Yet, certainly, even amid Verne’s remarkable works,
230 II, XIV | was something very much amiss up in the sky.~To Servadac
231 II, VIII | planetary system, is of an age amounting to many hundred millions
232 I, X | terraced like the seats of an amphitheater. Astounding as it seemed,
233 I, XI | Dellis, built like Algiers, amphitheater-wise, had totally disappeared;
234 II, VI | spot; but Servadac, rather amused than otherwise, determined
235 I, XXIII| either in the labors or the amusements of the colony. In spite
236 II, IV | Nothing, sir; only it amuses me to see how you want to
237 I, XV | said, “Perhaps we might analyze it word by word, and from
238 I, VIII | of “sparkling” which the ancients were accustomed to confer
239 I, XVIII| their lives. They were all Andalusian majos, agricultural laborers,
240 I, II | encyclopaedia; and for his stock of anecdotes and trooper’s tales he was
241 II, XII | and Servadac carried an aneroid barometer, by means of which
242 I, XVII | as the appearance of an angel; and, incredible as it may
243 I, XVII | beautiful as one of Murillo’s angels, was peeping shyly through
244 I, XXIII| in its depths defied the angler’s craft; they were, as Ben
245 I, XII | rounding the sharpness of its angles, or in modifying the color
246 I, XIII | they had been told that Anglo-Saxons were fashioned out of some
247 II, VIII | not a new record in the annals of science?~Although it
248 I, VI | and on the site of the annex or suburb of Surkelmittoo.
249 II, XV | friendship.~The project was the annexation of Ceuta to the French dominion.
250 I, V | the eye could reach, and annihilating the tract of country which
251 II, XIII | note of Rosette’s monthly announcements of the comet’s progress,
252 II, IV | him, and was manifestly annoyed at having the insignificant
253 II, IV | time have completed two annual revolutions, in the very
254 II, XII | worse off than thousands who annually winter in Arctic regions.
255 I, II | patronymic was one of those anomalies which the most sagacious
256 I, XV | of time, all apparently antagonistic circumstances would be explained
257 I, XV | miles to the north, and the Antarctic about 350 miles to the south
258 I, XV | Servadac smiled intelligently, anticipating the answer he was about
259 I, XIX | orderly made no secret of his antipathy to him, and generally replied
260 II, V | might be their doubts or anxieties, they were fain to keep
261 II, XII | idea of having separate apartments. The single cave must be
262 I, XVIII| naturally as careless and apathetic as men of their class usually
263 I, I | simplicity.” Whether the aphorism were universally true was
264 I, XIX | they owe me twenty reals apiece for their passage here;
265 I, IX | to offer you my sincere apologies for failing to keep my appointment
266 I, XXI | installed with all his culinary apparatus.~“What a saving of expense
267 II, IV | and made up into wearing apparel. A daily course of out-door
268 I, XXIV | provisions, amounted almost to an appeal for help. Captain Servadac
269 I, XIX | Servadac was disposed to appease the old man’s anxiety by
270 II, XIII | replied the professor, quickly appeased; “only will you have the
271 I, XVII | the writer adheres to the appellation of Gallia, do you not think,”
272 II, X | outline of this strange appendage, which revolves in its own
273 II, XIII | planet then; everything that appertained to the planet was determined;
274 I, II | was matchless.~Thoroughly appreciating his servant’s good qualities,
275 I, X | patron’s service. After an apprenticeship on a merchant ship he had
276 I, XI | anniversary, all combined to apprise him of the sanctity of the
277 I, XX | and the count were at once apprised of the fact, and had little
278 II, XIV | him receive all Rosette’s approaches with a careful reservation.~
279 II, V | proposal met with general approbation. Before they started, Professor
280 I, XVIII| there could be no harm in appropriating the goods for the common
281 I, XXI | formalities. Everyone, however, approved of all the internal arrangements
282 II, V | as the figures traced by aquatic insects upon the surface
283 II, I | natural position on the aquiline nose. The professor heaved
284 I, XII | Romans, Vandals, Greeks, Arabians, and the knights of Rhodes,
285 II, III | measurement already made of the arc of the meridian of Paris,
286 I, VIII | miles a year, and although Arcturus is traveling through space
287 I, II | and accepted by her two ardent admirers.~During his residence
288 II, XIII | devoting himself with equal ardor to the analysis of all the
289 I, VII | breathing. “And yet,” he argued with himself, “if our encampment
290 I, XXII | or a thin coating of ice arising from atmospheric condensation
291 I, XI | schooner, like a second Noah’s ark, carried the sole survivors
292 II, IV | enough for a bed, a table, an arm-chair, a chest of drawers, and,
293 II, XI | flitted about, now singly, now arm-in-arm, now joining the captain’
294 I, VIII | All very well for two armies, but for a couple of planets
295 I, XXIII| seemed just the thing to arouse the flagging spirits, and
296 I, XII | assuming the form of a simple arris, sharply defined as though
297 I, XI | derived its name, with the Arsenal, the Goletta, and the two
298 I, XXIII| performed prodigies in the art.~This exercise was not only
299 II, IX | he recovered his power of articulation, Isaac began to pour out
300 I, XIII | orders.”~In quick time an artillery-wagon was on the spot, and the
301 I, XIII | accordance with the rules of “The Artilleryman’s Manual,” and the firing
302 I, VIII | own peculiar star in the ascendant. Captain Servadac, it may
303 II, III | observations both in right ascension and in declination, and
304 II, II | in.”~“Oh, it is you, old Ashtaroth, is it? What do you want?
305 0, Int | the other planets, Verne asks us to accept a situation
306 I, XXII | much to soften the general asperity, the surface nevertheless
307 II, XV | Zoof, as if meditating an assault.~“No, no, Ben Zoof,” answered
308 I, XIX | colony should forthwith assemble at the gourbi. The Spaniards
309 II, III | the heart to gainsay his assertion. Ben Zoof alone ventured
310 I, XI | spot on which tradition asserts that the canonized monarch
311 II, XIX | indignation, and reiterating his asseveration that a fragment of Gibraltar
312 II, XVI | comet’s atmosphere would be assimilated with the terrestrial atmosphere,
313 II, I | ordinarily based upon the assumption that the orbit is a parabola,
314 I, I | of the Shelif. With the assurance that they would not fail
315 I, XV | Lieutenant Procope renewed his assurances that he entertained good
316 I, XII | shouted from the bow, rushed astern and took the helm, and before
317 II, IX | repeatedly observed “it was astonishing how they reconciled themselves
318 I, XIII | their lost comrades, and astounded beyond measure at finding
319 I, VI | Zoof simultaneously got astride his mare Galette, named
320 I, XXIII| Captain Servadac, an adept in athletics, almost outvied his instructor,
321 II, VIII | remote, and does not come athwart our path. Jupiter is our
322 II, VII | professor took the cube, and, on attaching it to the hook of the steelyard,
323 I, II | ventured to declare his attachment; of rivals he was well aware
324 I, VI | the highest point of view attainable, could distinguish sea,
325 I, XV | spent in discussion and in attempting to penetrate the mysteries
326 I, XVIII| goodly number of stacks attested the industry of Ben Zoof
327 II, XV | the commanding officer, attired in full uniform, was seen
328 I, XVIII| foliage, their grotesque attitudes, combined with the pitiable
329 II, III | the 10th of March, and, attracting Nerina, carried it off as
330 I, XXI | ris pot, ripette!~Si vous attrapez mon refrain,~Fameux vous
331 I, XVIII| unwonted rapidity which was attributable to their specific lightness,
332 I, XVIII| their orbit, might, for aught they knew, last for an almost
333 I, VII | nor could he make out the aureole of light which emanates
334 I, III | betokened a display of aurora borealis, even had such
335 II, XVIII| right upon Mount Caucasus; Austria resembled a huge cat curled
336 II, V | me,” said the professor, authoritatively, as if ex cathedra.” I need
337 0, Int | by our astronomers! Other authors who, since Verne, have told
338 I, VIII | the meadows. Summer and autumn seemed blended into one.
339 II, XIV | go to the devil!”~Without availing himself of this polite invitation,
340 II, X | represented by the greed and avarice of the miserable Jew.~After
341 II, XVII | Quick, or out you go!”~The avaricious old man was found to value
342 I, XII | the prize. Their extreme avidity was recognized as a proof
343 II, XIX | was pursuing his ordinary avocation; the cattle were browsing
344 I, XIII | rejoicings, were all happily avoided.~Much to the chagrin of
345 I, XX | open the fairest chance of avoiding a fatal climax to their
346 II, VII | fixed upon Ben Zoof. He was avowedly following the example of
347 I, XXIII| parcouru du 1er Mars au 1er Avril: 39,000,000 1.!~Distance
348 II, XVII | to the network. It only awaited the stowage of the passengers.~
349 II, XV | Lord of the Admiralty still awaits the mail.”~“But allow me
350 II, XI | fellow-creatures upon earth, a day that awakens afresh the kindliest sentiments
351 II, II | asleep.”~“I can wait until he awakes.”~“Then wait where you are.”~
352 0, Int | in the author’s power of awaking interest. Many of his best
353 II, XIII | have full meed of praise to award to the gallant soldiers
354 II, II | down night after night, and awoke to their avocations morning
355 I, XX | of an orb which had its axes always perpendicular to
356 I, XXIV | our own provisions on our backs in knapsacks,” interposed
357 II, XV | inside of a prison. Thus badgered, he secluded himself more
358 I, VII | his judgment was utterly baffled; his only remaining hope
359 I, XV | much to be deplored; it baffles our investigations in every
360 II, XVII | modest little fortune— a mere bagatelle,” said the Jew.~“And what
361 II, III | months’ victuals, was all the baggage he took with him, except
362 I, XXII | as hard as you can.”~Nina balanced the piece of ice two or
363 II, I | inches high, with a round bald head, smooth and shiny as
364 I, XIX | barrels of dried herrings, bales of cotton, clothing of every
365 II, XVII | pay 50,000 francs for a balloon-ticket, or else he should be left
366 II, XVI | exclaimed. “Out of the question! Balloons are exploded things. You
367 II, XV | 1846 between Washington and Baltimore, the two gallant officers
368 II, V | desist entirely from his bantering.~“I require, gentlemen,”
369 I, XX | of rock should suddenly bar their further progress.~
370 II, II | his hope of making good bargains with European traders was
371 I, XVIII| being at all times ready to barter, and prepared to deal in
372 I, XXI | which he might effect some bartering upon advantageous terms.~
373 I, XI | fragments of columns, carved bas-reliefs, statues, and portions of
374 II, XVI | entirely destroyed. The basement of the icy pedestal on which
375 I, VI | whole country was as it were bathed in twilight. “What can this
376 I, III | with a piece of poetry. One battalion has fought— now for the
377 II, VII | Lieutenant Procope.~“A jolly battle-field for cowards!” exclaimed
378 I, II | the protege of the god of battles.~For the first year and
379 II, XIV | of peace, do you mean?” bawled Ben Zoof, in open-mouthed
380 I, VII | hands could make it, and the beads of condensed steam upon
381 I, XX | which would at least be bearable.~The plan that seemed to
382 II, V | crystals upon their whiskers, beards, eyebrows, and eyelashes,
383 II, XI | the rapid motion of their bearers, had much the appearance
384 I, XVIII| ejaculations.~“Thieves, captain! beastly thieves! Bedouins! pirates!
385 I, XXI | tenancy of such birds and beasts as had escaped the recent
386 II, I | heart was found to be still beating, though very feebly. Asserting
387 I, II | descriptions of the unparalleled beauties and advantages of this eighteenth
388 I, XVII | and lustrous dark eyes, beautiful as one of Murillo’s angels,
389 I, XX | where she is; the weather is beautifully calm, and the steam-launch
390 II, II | vouchsafing any reply, the captain beckoned to the old man to follow
391 | becomes
392 I, III | which he also used as a bed-room, and where, extended on
393 I, XVIII| captain! beastly thieves! Bedouins! pirates! devils!”~“Why,
394 II, II | not leave the professor’s bedside. He had constituted himself
395 I, XXI | mountain was like a vast bee-hive perforated with innumerable
396 | beforehand
397 I, XXII | Protector who has hitherto befriended us, and we must trust His
398 II, IX | trembling like a street beggar. “Don’t impose on me. I
399 I, XVIII| birds: I mean those lazy beggars that are shirking their
400 I, IX | affecting leave of his master, begging him, if chance should carry
401 II, VIII | ever done, he should have begrudged every moment that distracted
402 II, VIII | the planet, seemed to be beguiled into comparative forgetfulness
403 I, XIII | defense.~The men who were thus beguiling their leisure were two officers
404 I, XIII | catastrophe, Corporal Pim, on behalf of himself and his comrades,
405 I, XII | throughout it all the crew behaved with the greatest courage
406 I, VII | overjoyed at once again beholding what the poet has called:~“
407 I, XVII | proceeded to observe that he believed the paper might be considered
408 II, XVII | applying to his eyes some belladonna which he found in the Dobryna’
409 I, VII | applying his mouth in lieu of bellows, and a bright flame started
410 II, VI | mouth. “Stop that howling, Belshazzar!”~“Let him alone, Ben Zoof.
411 I, VI | again encamped in a slight bend of the shore, at a point
412 II, I | Servadac happened to be bending down closely over him, examining
413 II, II | which promised to be so beneficial should not be disturbed,
414 I, XX | Russians retaining their berths upon the yacht, while the
415 II, II | By the God of Abraham, I beseech you, give me some tidings
416 I, XIX | his jeers, persevered in besetting him with questions, he tried
417 I, II | incessantly were Servadac’s ears besieged with descriptions of the
418 I, III | that the compasses would bestow upon his verses the measure
419 II, X | heat which that luminary bestows upon the earth. On consulting
420 I, XX | That was clear.~The idea of betaking themselves to the Dobryna
421 I, VI | cried aloud; but suddenly bethinking himself, he added: “But
422 II, XI | party to collect themselves betimes into one group. “Unless
423 II, XVIII| its surface, the brighter betokening the continents, the more
424 I, XXIII| precaution to have the ice beveled away from the keels, so
425 II, XI | precautionary measure of beveling, was going on slowly but
426 II, XIV | coffee, and as coffee was a beverage without which he deemed
427 I, XXII | its chemical character to bewilder the savants at a museum.”~“
428 I, VIII | spots, which, according to Bianchini, are a chain of seas. It
429 II, XVI | and without any personal bias applied their best energies
430 II, XVII | sudden check by Servadac’s bidding two of the sailors, without
431 II, I | Lieutenant Procope.~“We must bide our time and hear,” replied
432 II, XVI | rigidly shut out. But Servadac bided his time. He grew more and
433 II, V | the stream of lava made a bifurcation in its course. From this
434 I, IV | Whence came it that the billows raged and rose to a height
435 II, IX | of his just profits, by binding him down to a maximum price
436 II, X | would be a witness of the birth and death of Christ; convey
437 I, II | unreserved admiration for his birthplace; and to his eyes the heights
438 I, VI | and filled his pouch with biscuits and game; water, he felt
439 I, XIII | SALUTE~“Then I take your bishop, major,” said Colonel Murphy,
440 II, II | grazed the earth; and the bits of the earth which you have
441 I, XI | to be seen. The town of Bizerta, once charming in its oriental
442 0, Int | deeps under ground, the blackness, the endless wandering passages,
443 I, XVIII| Sancho Panza tossed in a blanket by the merry drapers of
444 I, XXIV | in defiance of the icy blast, remained standing at the
445 II, XII | resource was to proceed by blasting with gunpowder. However
446 I, IV | Whence came it that a new blazing spheroid, hitherto unknown
447 I, XVII | was arrested by a faint bleating, and immediately afterwards
448 I, XVIII| 3rd of February. The wind blew from the west, and consequently
449 II, XVII | sky until he was nearly blind. But all in vain; not a
450 II, XIII | and consequently was in blissful ignorance of the fate that
451 II, XI | regularity. The two children, blithe as birds, flitted about,
452 I, XIX | boxes of lucifer matches, blocks of salt, bags of pepper
453 I, VII | for the compression of the blood-vessels which both he and Ben Zoof
454 I, XIII | get their arms and legs blown off,” added the officer.~“
455 II, II | knocking, evidently of some blunt heavy instrument against
456 II, IV | occasional visit from the blustering, nervous, little professor,
457 I, II | To crown all, Montmartre boasted a mountain—a veritable mountain;
458 II, I | to one of the Rhumkorff’s bobbins of which the thread, several
459 I, XXIII| Zoof remarked, “too much boiled to bite.”~At the beginning
460 I, XIII | kept them in check from any boisterous demonstration of their satisfaction.~“
461 I, XXIV | The worm-eaten door was bolted on the inside. Servadac
462 II, XVII | well live upon an exploding bomb?—with much more to the same
463 I, XIII | and withdrew.~Of all the bombs, howitzers, and various
464 I, XVII | no trace; the Strait of Boni-facio had been replaced by a vast
465 I, XVIII| hair, huge feet, and long bony hands, he presented all
466 I, XIII | reverberation of the cannon still booming in their ears? Or was it
467 I, I | them made fast enough at a booth during the fete of Montmartre.”~“
468 II, XI | had produced the wines of Bordeaux and Burgundy which they
469 I, XVII | enclosed by the same unvarying border of mineral concrete. This
470 I, XVI | to the Italian height of Bordighera? And did it not give in
471 I, III | betokened a display of aurora borealis, even had such a phenomenon
472 II, XII | industry, the process of boring was completed, and the lieutenant
473 II, XIV | professor was contemplating borrowing some money; he was consequently
474 I, I | future sweetheart’s face.’”~“Bosh!” cried Servadac in disgust; “
475 I, XI | Goletta, and the two peaks of Bou-Kournein, had all vanished from the
476 I, X | the highest peak, Mount Boujereah, had reached an altitude
477 I, VI | occupied in tracing the boundaries of their new domain; and
478 I, XX | flowing there is the gift of a bounteous Providence; it will provide
479 I, XXI | were set boiling, and a bountiful supper, to which all were
480 II, III | welcome,” said Rosette, bowing to the count with a smile
481 I, XIX | of paper, bottles of ink, boxes of lucifer matches, blocks
482 I, XII | shout was heard. “Quick, boys, quick! Hoist the jib, and
483 I, X | surface of the water; not one branch of a tree had been seen
484 I, XVII | peeping shyly through the branches. Apparently discovering
485 I, VIII | seem to require a skin of brass and a brain of adamant;
486 I, V | into a roar of laughter. “Bravo!” he said, “we should make
487 II, X | transparent, is 9,625 miles in breadth; the intermediate one, which
488 I, XII | waves did not culminate in breakers, but rather in a long swell
489 II, XVIII| breast.~All at once Ben Zoof breaks the silence: “Montmartre!
490 II, XVI | without a particle of air to breathe.”~“But would not our chances
491 I, XVIII| alighted gently on the sward.~Breathless and half exhausted as was
492 I, XVII | specimen of that domestic breed which, with considerable
493 II, XVI | carried rapidly along by breezes to which the Gallian atmosphere
494 I, XI | the island tomb, the open breviary, the ritual of the ancient
495 I, III | any habitation built of brick or stone. It adjoined an
496 II, XIII | Sir,” said the professor, bridling up, “I want no assistant;
497 I, I | the coast with a dazzling brightness, was hidden by a dense mass
498 I, XXII | crater rather resembled a brimming basin, of which the contents
499 I, V | it to his lips. “Salt as brine!” he exclaimed, as soon
500 II, II | out, man?”~“Ask him if he brings any tidings of Europe,”
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