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...ot passen- gers flung across the chasm and the air was webbed with slender cables. A cliff of edifice hung above him, he per- ceived as he glanced upw... ...and obliquely in an unfamiliar lettering. Here and there close to the roof cables of a peculiar stoutness were fastened, and drooped in a steep curve ... ...tween high walls, along which ran an extraordinary number of tubes and big cables. “What a huge place this is!” said Graham. “Is it all one building? ... ...o see the moving platforms below. But he saw people going to and fro along cables and along strange, frail-looking ridges. And thence they passed acro... ... see whence he came, and beheld through the glassy roof and the network of cables and girders, dim rhyth- mically passing forms like the vans of windm... ...rian London. The place upon which he stood was level, with huge serpentine cables lying athwart it in every direction. The circular wheels of a number... ... journey. Messengers and men on unknown businesses shot along the drooping cables and the frail bridges were crowded with men. It was like peering int... ...rast. The buildings on the oppo- site side of the way seemed deserted, the cables and bridges 70 When the Sleeper Wakes that laced across the aisle w... ...tions and advertisements indistinctly seen, and up through the girders and cables was a faint interrupted rib- bon of pallid sky. A number of people h...

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...hip’s anchors. A ves- sel in the Channel has her anchors always ready, her cables shackled on, and the land almost always in sight. The anchor and the... ...to speak of between her and the South Pole, the anchors are got in and the cables disappear from the deck. But the anchors do not disappear. Technical... ...asts were painted white. But it is a wonder that we did not carry away the cables of both our anchors, for, as may be imagined, I did not stand upon t... ...ce. And they come swiftly from the other side of the earth, over wires and cables, for your electric tele- graph is a great alleviator of anxiety. Det... ...ng crew. I was elated 61 Joseph Conrad with having handled heavy anchors, cables, boats without the slightest hitch; pleased with having laid out sci... ...he seas, makes, by contrast with the great piles of bricks, the chains and cables of their moorings appear very nec- essary, as if nothing less could ... ...ng upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint. Chain cables and stout ropes keep her bound to stone posts at the edge of a paved...

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... Old SmallWays went to his grave under an intricate net- work of wires and cables, for Bun Hill became not only a sort of minor centre of power distri... ...as bridged—a series of great iron Eiffel T ower pillars carrying mono-rail cables at a height of a hundred and fifty feet above the water, except near... ... himself with a megaphone. He avoided churches, build- ings, and mono-rail cables with consummate ease as he con- versed. “Me name’s Butteridge,” he s... ...it pos- sible to attempt a landing. Once or twice as the rope dragged over cables he found his hair erect with electricity, and once he had a slight s... ..., large gateway opening out upon a tree-lined high road. All the wires and cables of the country- side converged upon it like guests to entertainment.... ... omnipres- ent mono-rail lines, and altogether free from overhead wires or cables. Everywhere was the white, black and yellow of Imperial Germany, eve... ...onster now rose 78 The War in the Air softly, released from its bonds and cables into the air. Then, taking a beautifully exact distance, a third asc... ... the sea, four colossal bridges over the east river, and a dozen mono-rail cables east and west, the upward growth went on. In many ways New York and ... ...g men. And these strange nocturnal editions contained also the first brief cables from Europe of the fleet disaster, the North Atlantic fleet for whic...

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...m fleck’d are they, And when the sea puffs black from grey, And ships part cables, loudly neigh The stallions of Camargue, all joyful in the roar; And...

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...the entrance. Danger is, therefore, on all hands. The entrance gapes three cables wide at the narrowest, and the formidable surf of the Pacific thun- ... ...ose a- starboard, the reef under her heel; and steaming and veering on her cables, the unhappy ship fenced with her three dan- gers. About a quarter t... ...of her escape, must have taken more than two hours to cover less than four cables. As she thus crept seaward, she buried bow and stem alternately unde... ... one side, then from the other, and losing at the same time two of her own cables. Captain von Ehrhardt instantly slipped the remainder of his mooring...

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...old and grey long since the time has grown, Which saw the linked cables moor The fleet, when erst it came to Ilion’s sandy shore; ...

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...ending the extremities into a hook. Having thus fixed fifty hooks to as many cables, I went back to the north east coast, and putting off my coat, sho... ...and leaving the looks fixed to the ships, I resolutely cut with my knife the cables that fastened the anchors, receiving about two hundred shots in my... ...wo hundred shots in my face and hands; then I took up the knotted end of the cables, to which my hooks were tied, and with great ease drew fifty of th... ...tended, were at first confounded with astonishment. They had seen me cut the cables, and thought my design was only to let the ships run adrift or fal... ...arm pits; and now, the most labori ous part being over, I took out my other cables, which were stowed in one of the ships, and fastened them first to... ...ds of their strongest linen together. I was at the pains of making ropes and cables, by twist ing ten, twenty, or thirty of the thickest and stronges...

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...name was Nielsen. He had come out East long before the advent of telegraph cables, had served English firms, had married an English girl, had been one... ...te nape of her neck—while the brig, down at the point there, surged at her cables within a hundred yards of nasty, shiny, black rock-heads. Ugh! And t...

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...em to cross the reef, until the rocks rose from out of the water. Then two cables of iron wire 129 Balzac were fastened several feet apart between on... ...nd in this manner the rocks were covered with a system of baskets and wire-cables, not unlike the filaments which a certain species of spider weaves a... ...ck that morning there was not a sign to show that either staircase or wire-cables had ever existed, and Sister Theresa’s body had been taken on board....

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...the most careful attention. They saw nothing but a strong eddy about three cables’ length dis- 6 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea tant, as if the surface... ... was not mistaken, and we all per- ceived the object he pointed to. At two cables’ length from the Abraham Lincoln, on the starboard quarter, the sea ... ...ain under the bowsprit. The frigate approached noiselessly, stopped at two cables’ lengths from the animal, and following its track. No one breathed; ... ... the dugong, which floated about two miles from the Nautilus. Arrived some cables-length from the cetacean, the speed slackened, and the oars dipped n... ...r sharp polished fila- ments; they measured about 300 yards in length—real cables, thicker than one’s thumb; and, having great te- nacity, they are of...

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...’s no smoke without some fire. And I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if we get cables before noon that the British War Office had sent an ulti- matum.” An... ...t’s over keep quiet about all this, you know. Ask me to read you some more cables some day. It brings good luck.” He gathered up his despatches and th... ...th some Liverpool fellows to-day, and I had to wait down town to get their cables to-night. You got my telephone, did you, Laura?” “Yes, but you said ... ...aid then you’d be up in half an hour.” “I know—I know. But those Liverpool cables didn’t come till all hours. Well, as I was saying, Mr. Corthell, I h... ... lights, and beyond that, at the extreme end of the vista, the girders and cables of the La Salle Street bridge. The sidewalks on either hand were enc... ...the market go below a dollar twenty. When I come back we’ll make out those cables.” That day Jadwin carried out his programme so vehemently announced ... ...ace upon his principal. “I’ve just received,” he said, “the answers to our cables to Liverpool and Paris. I offered wheat at both places, as you know,...

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...al tele- graph all but broke down beneath the strain of hundred word coded cables; and that I practically broke into the house of a stranger to get hi... ...wake. He told me that—that ‘my sort of questions “‘—he slapped the pile of cables—”were only taken between 11 and 2 P.M. So I waited.” “And when you g... ...s of the New Era were borne into the Province on the wings of inexplicable cables. The Gihon Hunt read speeches and sentiments, and policies which ama...

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...ef, that he should employ the dormant energies of the crew in hauling both cables up on deck and turning them end for end. 18 A Personal Record For a... ... us to be stuck on the river- side outskirts of Rouen, but I know that the cables got hauled up and turned end for end according to my satanic suggest...

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...pt a man. Forward lay the windlass and its tackle, with the chain and hemp cables, all very unpleasant to trip over; the foc’ sle stove- pipe, and the... ...raft, and compared notes in his vast head. He coiled himself away on chain-cables in marine junk-shops, asking questions with cheerful, unslaked Weste...

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..., that he should employ the dormant ener- gies of the crew in hauling both cables up on deck and turning them end for end. For a moment Mr. Paramor wa... ...ed us to be stuck on the riverside outskirts of Rouen, but I know that the cables got hauled up and turned end for end according to my satanic sugges-...

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...akened by the wild features of the scene. The strange vessel was about two cables’ length ahead of the Scud, standing by the wind athwart her bows, an... ...long delayed. On these narrow waters anchors are never stowed in-board, or cables that are intended for service unbent, and Jasper was saved much of t... ... vessel at sea. The two bowers were soon ready to be let go, ranges of the cables were overhauled, and then the party paused to look about them. No ch... ...en Jasper went to the helm, the Scud was riding, head to sea, with the two cables stretched ahead in lines that resembled bars of iron. “This is not w... ... water as the Scud, Jasper trusted to the aid of this reaction to keep his cables from parting. In short, the upper and lower currents would, in a man... ...lance over the bows, he smiled in triumph, as he pointed exultingly to the cables. Instead of resembling bars of iron in rigidity, as before, they wer... ... an- chored with his broadside to bear, and, no doubt, with springs on his cables; Pathfinder’s eye and hand are as true as the needle; and we shall g...

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...I have professed me thy friend and I confess me knit to thy deserving with cables of perdu rable toughness; I could never better stead thee than now....

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...ill safe we anchor’d in the shelter’d bay: Our sails we gather’d, cast our cables o’er, And slept secure along the sandy shore. Soon as again the rosy... ...ats with human food. Whilst thus their fury rages at the bay, My sword our cables cut, I call’d to weigh; And charged my men, as they from fate would ... ..., and lay composed to rest. Now placed in order, the Phaeacian train Their cables loose, and launch into the main; At once they bend, and strike their... ...s they loosed, they lash’d the mast aside, And cast their anchors, and the cables tied: Then on the breezy shore, descending, join In grateful banquet...

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...s, on the floor of which stood all sorts of engines and machinery, wheels, cables, pulleys, levers, catapults, &c. &c., expressive of enormous power p...

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...s bedded in the earth. Here people deal in ship’s gear of all kinds, such as cables and sails, and here, too, are the places where oars are made, for ... ...vily at harvest time, for the soil is deep. There is a good harbour where no cables are wanted, nor yet anchors, nor need a ship be moored, but all on... ... set and it came on dark, the men laid themselves down to sleep by the stern cables of the ship. Then Circe took me by the hand and bade me be seated ...