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  1 1,2|          in all emergencies those three conditions which united
  2 1,2|      servant Neb." ~"That will be three," replied Pencroft; "and
  3 1,3|    continued thus for a length of three miles, ending suddenly on
  4 1,3|           is evidently making. In three hours we will attempt the
  5 1,3|       wrong in his anticipations. Three hours later at low tide,
  6 1,3|        got through capitally. All three arrived without difficulty
  7 1,4|         said, rose to a height of three hundred feet, but the mass
  8 1,5|        cave was thus divided into three or four rooms, if such dark
  9 1,6|       perished with him. ~Towards three o'clock new flocks of birds
 10 1,6|         grouse nests, each having three or four eggs. He took great
 11 1,6|           hooks with their beaks. Three voracious grouse swallowed
 12 1,7|           had just awoke; and all three rushed towards the opening
 13 1,7|        Here and there grew two or three trees, inclined towards
 14 1,9|     itself came to light it." All three climbed the bank; and arrived
 15 1,9|       Pencroft, after having torn three sticks from the trunk of
 16 1,9|     rascal!" cried Pencroft. ~All three directly darted after Top,
 17 1,0|          10 ~In a few minutes the three hunters were before a crackling
 18 1,0|         breeze at an elevation of three thousand feet would have
 19 1,1|      sheet of water must be about three hundred feet, because the
 20 1,1|        proposal was replied to by three hurrahs. ~And that evening,
 21 1,2|       according to Bischof, takes three hundred and fifty millions
 22 1,2|         and he did well. ~Towards three o'clock the dog disappeared
 23 1,3|     Island had not made more than three thousand, which were ranged
 24 1,3|          oven, that is to say, in three or four days. ~It was on
 25 1,4|           is not more than two or three thousand miles from New
 26 1,4|            would give an error of three hundred miles in latitude
 27 1,5|        iron, by carrying away the three to four per cent. of coal,
 28 1,5|      performed the operation, and three hours afterwards Cyrus Harding
 29 1,5|           much intelligence, that three days afterwards the little
 30 1,6|        and must have weighed from three to four thousand pounds.
 31 1,7|          of the water of the lake three feet." "And how will you
 32 1,7|           dashed down a height of three hundred feet on to the beach! ~ ~
 33 1,8|          wall only measured there three feet in thickness. ~Harding
 34 1,0|         the hunt was this: nearly three hundred pounds of fat, all
 35 1,0|          fatty acids. ~From these three acids-oleic, margaric, and
 36 1,0|     tobacco-plant, which produces three hundred and sixty thousand?
 37 1,0|         they would make more than three millions, at a hundred and
 38 1,0|   thousand a bushel, Pencroft." ~"Three millions!" cried Pencroft. ~"
 39 1,0|      millions!" cried Pencroft. ~"Three millions." ~"In four years?" ~"
 40 1,0|  tobacco-seeds, which multiply by three hundred and sixty thousand,
 41 1,2|         visited every day, and at three different times, during
 42 1,2|           In one of them he found three animals which would be very
 43 1,2|       peccaries are not more than three months old! They will be
 44 2,1|          bullet was not more than three months old?" ~"Not more,
 45 2,1|           that proves that within three months a gun-shot was fired
 46 2,1|           have landed here within three months. Did these men arrive
 47 2,1|       fired in the island, within three months at most. But I am
 48 2,1|       back. The turtle, which was three feet in length, would have
 49 2,2|          of the coast, was nearly three miles from the Mercy. The
 50 2,2|         up in going a distance of three miles-the boat touched the
 51 2,3|        enough to sustain them for three days, the time which Harding
 52 2,3|        was already strong, for in three days the moon would be full,
 53 2,3|     excellent cordage; and two or three ebony trees of a beautiful
 54 2,3|        stalks, scarcely more than three feet high, which produced
 55 2,3|    straight for a length of about three miles. But it was to be
 56 2,3|      trees. Sometimes even two or three of these animals stopped
 57 2,4|           a distance of less than three miles, they had only to
 58 2,4|    rodents were seen, also two or three koalas, at which Pencroft
 59 2,4|        have contained even two or three fishing-boats. It served
 60 2,4|          in Lincoln Island within three months. ~It was already
 61 2,5|           in the straight line of three miles which formed the south
 62 2,5|       there was nothing. ~Towards three o'clock Harding and his
 63 2,5|       replied the engineer, "that three months or more ago, a vessel,
 64 2,6|        the sailor's words, two or three quadrumana showed themselves
 65 2,6|        they were still there, and three or four times a nose or
 66 2,6|          trying to escape. Two or three ran and clambered from one
 67 2,7|      there was only a distance of three miles and a half, and from
 68 2,7|           was already defended on three sides by water-courses,
 69 2,7|           the Mercy bridge lasted three weeks of regular hard work.
 70 2,7|            There was there two or three feet of vegetable earth,
 71 2,8|         in the proportion of from three to five volumes of concentrated
 72 2,8|         time the settlers cleared three acres of the plateau, and
 73 2,8|     corral did not take less than three weeks, for besides the palisade,
 74 2,8|       island, that is to say, the three kingdoms of Nature. ~Yes;
 75 2,9|          rain and fog, except for three or four fine days on which
 76 2,9|           soda, mixed with two or three parts of powdered coal,
 77 2,0|   sufficient room to move; two or three large herbivorous animals
 78 2,0|         an enormous animal two or three miles out in the open sea
 79 2,0|           beach of Flotsam Point, three miles from Granite House,
 80 2,0|    disagreeable operation lasting three days, but from which the
 81 2,1|          two hundred and fifty or three hundred years." ~"That is
 82 2,2|          settlers saluted it with three cheers. ~The cold season
 83 2,2|      reluctance in letting two or three of his companions venture
 84 2,2|          now stood off the shore, three or four miles across from
 85 2,2|        And the two brave men gave three tremendous cheers in honor
 86 2,3|            One day in the island, three or four to return, they
 87 2,3|     ridges of Mount Franklin, and three hours after the last of
 88 2,3|       give her a speed of between three and four knots an hour.
 89 2,3|          two hundred and fifty or three hundred feet which rose
 90 2,3|          out of which rose two or three hills of no great height.
 91 2,3|         exclaimed,-~"A hut!" ~All three immediately ran towards
 92 2,4|          necessity. They were all three anxious to continue their
 93 2,4|         and civilized beings. All three felt this, and they well
 94 2,4|          a piercing glance at the three men, who walked near him,
 95 2,5|  unsuccessful, since you are only three, just as you went!" ~"Excuse
 96 2,5|         Pooh! it is not more than three miles from Granite House,
 97 2,5|         me, for you do as much as three men in all our work." ~Herbert
 98 2,6|            On this morning two or three bushels of wheat were ground,
 99 2,7|          that there still existed three survivors from the wreck
100 2,7|         by prayer! For two years, three years, this went on, but
101 2,7|        say if it was after two or three years of solitude, but at
102 2,8|    trouble of coming every two or three days to visit the corral.
103 2,8|       even if he managed to count three hundred grains a minute,
104 2,9|     scattered trees appeared, and three miles further even these
105 2,9|         all sizes, from twenty to three hundred feet in height,
106 2,0|         colonists had been absent three days from their dwelling.
107 2,0|    Granite House more than two or three miles. ~Thus passed the
108 2,0|         month of October, towards three o'clock in the afternoon,
109 3,1|           that she was of between three and four hundred tons burden,
110 3,2|      Harvey. ~At his shout two or three pirates awoke, jumped up,
111 3,2|        favored his flight. Two or three pirates, awakened by the
112 3,2|           deck in two bounds, and three seconds later, having discharged
113 3,3|       propose that we divide into three parties. The first of which
114 3,3|           boat now contained only three able men. Carried on by
115 3,3|           the wounded, and two or three guns were fired with no
116 3,3|           in the brig, but two or three reports, and the crash of
117 3,4|         stopped up; a vessel from three to four hundred tons, why
118 3,4|      quickly given the alarm. The three following day-the 19th,
119 3,5|      striking a sharp rock nearly three miles from Granite House,
120 3,6|        the lake was raised two or three feet, the opening would
121 3,6|     exceed eight feet in width by three in height, were rapidly
122 3,6|        took their guns, and about three o'clock all three left Granite
123 3,6|           about three o'clock all three left Granite House. ~Neb
124 3,6|       This was only a distance of three miles and a half, but Gideon
125 3,6|     morning, the engineer and his three companions had passed Creek
126 3,7|       Pencroft. He uttered two or three words. He did not know what
127 3,9|         with one, while the other three went to search the forests
128 3,9|         clock in the evening. The three settlers were talking in
129 3,9|        corral, had taken scarcely three quarters of an hour to cross
130 3,0|         lay as one dead. ~Towards three o'clock in the morning Herbert
131 3,1|     administered to Herbert every three hours. ~The next day some
132 3,1|        hour a day, then two, then three. His strength visibly returned,
133 3,1|           valleys which supported three quarters of the base of
134 3,2|       Peninsula, it was only from three to four miles in breadth.
135 3,2| neighboring parts of the forest. ~Three hours passed thus. The wind
136 3,3|           base of Mount Franklin, three only were wooded and rich
137 3,3|           watered. ~Now, of these three well-watered valleys, either
138 3,3|        nothing! ~Indeed, in these three words was summed up so much
139 3,4|                       Chapter 14 ~Three years had passed away since
140 3,4|        and how often during those three years had they spoken of
141 3,4|          of a ship of from two to three hundred tons would be great
142 3,4|           prosperity, achieved by three years of continued hard
143 3,5|           nine they had traversed three out of the five miles which
144 3,6|         with the inhabited world; three long years have I passed
145 3,6|        the 6th of November, 1866, three men were cast on board his
146 3,6|         Canadian fisherman. These three men had been hurled overboard
147 3,6|         might have returned these three men to the ocean, from whence
148 3,6|         22nd of June, 1867, these three men, who knew nothing of
149 3,6|         incident witnessed by the three strangers thrown on board
150 3,8|          the volcano. Already for three months had the crater emitted
151 3,8|         grayish column, more than three hundred feet in width at
152 3,8|           were sleeping soundly. ~Three days passed by-the 4th,
153 3,8|         extended to within two or three feet of the water's edge. ~
154 3,9|      animals it enclosed. ~Before three in the morning they arrived
155 3,9|          in raising an embankment three feet high and some hundreds
156 3,9|         of the aspect of the lake three hours alter the eruption
157 3,9|          to a height of more than three thousand feet. The wall