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...7. This precious weapon of American origin could throw with ease a conical projectile of nine pounds to a mean distance of ten miles. Thus the Abraham... ...a valve, worked by a spring, allowed to escape into a metal tube. A box of projectiles in a groove in the thickness of the butt end contained about tw... ...e, Captain Nemo did not appear on the platform; but, if one of the conical projectiles had struck 268 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea the shell of the N... ...desire of vengeance animated every soul. I went down at the moment another projectile struck the Nautilus, and I 269 Jules Verne heard the Captain ex... ...m to draw nearer. Besides, the reports were heard more distinctly, and the projectiles, labouring through the am- bient water, were extinguished with ...

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...ourteen pounds each. The reports show- ing the superiority of this gun and projectile, both as regards range, accuracy, and execution, for field servi... ...fixed ammunition to each gun, viz., 225 shells, 225 canister, and 50 solid projectiles, weighing about 24 pounds each, and also 200 shells, 100 canist... ...ing about 24 pounds each, and also 200 shells, 100 canister, and 100 solid projectiles for each of the guns of the fourteen batteries named above, wei...

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...und, gave Friquet a slash with his whip which made him scream with pain. “Ah! devil’s coachman!” cried Friquet, “you’re meddling too! Wait!” And regai... ... of his sword, had re- course to its point. But this last and dreaded resource served only to exasperate the multitude. From time to time a shot from ...

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...partially healed); nay, that a man generally dies after receiving one such projectile on his chest, much more after having his bosom furrowed by a sco...

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...and stare towards Sunbury. As I did so a second report followed, and a big projectile hurtled overhead towards Hounslow. I expected at least to see sm... ...e; then the dull resonance of the shots the Martians fired, and the clumsy projectile whirling over the trees and houses and smashing amid the neighbo...

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...lame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disap- pear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech—and nothing happened. Nothing could ...

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...ted remnant was coming slowly back. The men, having hurled them- selves in projectile fashion, had presently expended their forces. They slowly retrea...

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...hem, almost biting the kerb on the other side. Sutton aimed his car like a projectile, staring ahead. He did not want to know, to think, to realize, h...

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...d forward with a greatly increased force, and we seemed as if we were mere projectiles. During the short halts we were stifled with the heat; whilst w...

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...London, and a number of shabbily dressed men coming and going in this with projectile swiftness, and within this fac- tory companies of printers, tens...

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..., but there are, no less, natures so robustly protected, that this sort of projectile falls flat and harmless on skulls of triple brass, as cannon-sho...

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... closing in from the sides to intervene. The little old lady struck like a projectile upon the resounding chest of the foremost of these, and then Ann...

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...he was full, because she had something in com- mon, even in repose, with a projectile, of great size, loaded and ready for use. That indeed, to Susie’... ...t Densher felt himself turn pale. His mind rebounded for the moment like a projectile that has sud- denly been met by another: he stared at the strang...

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...s fall. The Emperor satisfied turned away, unmindful of the fact that this projectile he had launched had caught among the bushes below, and presently...

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...therleigh 73 H G Wells to convey the quality of her; just simply and with projectile violence: “My God! Benton had heard of a woman who lived with a ...

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...zed the arm of M. Stanislas Kapp, just scratching the flesh. M. Kapp’s own projectile, meanwhile, had passed at ten good inches from the person of Val...

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...as out of spirits, and out of temper, and kept an iron pot lid by him as a projectile for the correction of Mrs. Cruncher, in case he should observe a...

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...nd which she did not practise. The he seemed to sweep out of life, to be a projectile into the beyond. And often, when he went away, she talked to the...

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...Stukely Culbrett had said, ‘Then there is the man, for he is undoubtedly a projectile’; nor were politically-hostile punsters on an arrow- head inacti...

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...is worthy of notice; for it is as if, in a question about the force of any projectile, a man should urge the resistance of the air, not as a limitatio...

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... couple thickly. Windows were thrown up;, forth came a rain of house- hold projectiles. The cry of “Blood! blood!” was repeated by numbers pouring on ...

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...selle de la V alliere with delight. “Yes, madame, as maid of honor.” The old lady’s head sank down as if the blow had been too severe for her. But, al...

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... refuge. Then, and not until then, would he flash from his hiding place, a gray projectile, incredibly swift, never failing its mark — the fleeing squir...

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...no! They bound upwards like ar- rows, cleaving the seas above with as much projectile force as the glittering water-works of Versailles cleave the air...

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... and lets loose motor-cars, bicycles, wireless telegraphy, aeroplanes, new projectiles of every size and shape, and a multitude of ingenious persons u...

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... past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past? (As a projectile form’d, impell’d, passing a certain line, still keeps on, So t...

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...in rushing south to London or north to Scotland. The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley cl...