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...efly hydrogen, moving with an enor- mous velocity towards this earth. This jet of fire had become invisible about a quarter past twelve. He compared i... ...other, sprang from the scattered group of men. It was as if some invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame. It was as if each man ... ...e afternoon’s news. The ringing impact of trucks, the sharp whistle of the engines from the junction, mingled with their shouts of “Men from Mars!” Ex... ...lds purpose, cleared the air of it again by wading into it and directing a jet of steam upon it. This they did with the vapour banks near us, as we sa... ...a fruitless struggle to get aboard a North-Western train at Chalk Farm—the engines of the trains that had loaded in the goods yard there ploughed thro... ...rder—trains swarming with people, with men even among the coals behind the engines— going northward along the Great Northern Railway. My brother suppo... ... the iron- clad seaward fired a small gun and hoisted a string of flags. A jet of smoke sprang out of her funnels. Some of the passengers were of opin... ... between Foulness and the Naze. In spite of the throbbing exertions of the engines of the little paddle-boat, and the pouring foam that her wheels flu... ...k gas at the ironclad. It hit her larboard side and glanced off in an inky jet that rolled away to seaward, an unfolding torrent of Black Smoke, from ...

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...e door with a white painting upon it, faintly representing a tall straight jet of misty spray, and these words underneath— “The Spouter Inn:—Peter Cof... ... has been seen almost in every sea and is commonly the whale whose distant jet is so often de- scried by passengers crossing the Atlantic, in the New ... ...face in the remotest and most sullen waters; his straight and single lofty jet rising like a tall misanthropic spear upon a barren plain; gifted with ... ...r again in unensanguined billows hundreds of leagues away, his unsul- lied jet would once more be seen. But even stripped of these supernatural surmis... ...y of the Tattoo Land? Was it not so, O Morquan! King of Japan, whose lofty jet they say at times assumed the semblance of a snow-white cross against t... ...Lively, boys, lively, now!’ And with that the pump clanged like fifty fire-engines; the men tossed their hats off to it, and ere long that peculiar ga... ...nlarge” your mind? Subtilize it. Let us now with whatever levers and steam-engines we have at hand, cant over the sperm whale’s head, that it may lie ...

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...e door with a white painting upon it, faintly representing a tall straight jet of misty spray, and these words underneath — “The Spouter Inn: — Peter ... ... has been seen almost in every sea and is commonly the whale whose distant jet is so often descried by passengers crossing the Atlantic, in the New Yo... ...face in the remotest and most sullen waters; his straight and single lofty jet ris ing like a tall misanthropic spear upon a barren plain; gifted wit... ...for again in unensanguined billows hundreds of leagues away, his unsullied jet would once more be seen. 180 Chapter 41 Moby Dick But even stripped of... ...y of the Tattoo Land? Was it not so, O Morquan! King of Japan, whose lofty jet they say at times assumed the semblance of a snow white cross against t... ... ‘Lively, boys, lively, now!’ And with that the pump clanged like fifty fire engines; the men tossed their hats off to it, and ere long that peculiar ga... ...nlarge” your mind? Subtilize it. Let us now with whatever levers and steam engines we have at hand, cant over the sperm whale’s head, so that it may l...

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...She’s the victim of fools: that seems nearer the mark. On earth there are engines and numerous fools. Why the Lord can permit them, we’re still in th... ...r, browed with sweat, Hurling dust of fool and knave In a hissing smithy’s jet. More it were not well to speak; Burn to see, you need but seek. Once b... ...our inner springs, T oo often dry for this he brings, Which seems the very jet of earth At sight of sun, her music’s mirth, As up he wings the spiral ... ...ging of delight; Shrill, irreflective, unrestrained, Rapt, ringing, on the jet sustained Without a break, without a fall, Sweet-silvery, sheer lyrical... ...’s hold: And though of gentler mood serene, Still forceful of her fountain-jet. So shall her blows be shrewdly met, Be luminously read the scene Where... ...Whither whose echo is Whence, T o jar unanswered, shall rise As a fountain-jet in the mind Bowed dark o’er the falling and strewn. * * * Unwitting whe... ...ail (We will rank them as flatly sincere, Devoutly detesting a wrong, 376 Engines o’ercharged with our human steam), Question thee, seething amid the... ...ttering pinions, The voice as through the brazen tube of Fame. X Hugest of engines, a much limited man, She saw the Lustrous, her great lord, appear T...

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... a mighty and leisurely applause. Abreast of Hermann’s ship he stopped the engines; and a profound silence reigned over the rocks, the shore and the s... ...ck, bringing in contact with his thick lips, and taking away again after a jet of smoke, the curved mouthpiece fitted to the stem of his pipe. The nig... ...rds his fate seemed to be urged by an impatient and passionate desire. The engines must have been driven to the very utmost of their revolutions. W e ... ...hen with a fresh gale on the quarter and all their canvas set, to help the engines. But by itself the sail power was not enough to keep way on her. Wh... ...often listened to the wa- ter washing about the dark engine-room where the engines, stilled for ever, were decaying slowly into a mass of rust, as the...

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...s would have been immedi- ately extinguished. Captain Anderson ordered the engines to be stopped at once, and one of the men went down to ascertain th... ...w destination. She was a frigate of great speed, fitted with high-pressure engines which admitted a pres- sure of seven atmospheres. Under this the Ab... ...der, officers, masters, sailors, cabin boys; even the engineers left their engines, and the stokers their furnaces. The order to stop her had been giv... ...m the frigate. “Silence!” said the captain. “Up with the helm, reverse the engines.” The steam was shut off, and the Abraham Lincoln, beat- ing to por... ... said the Captain, hast- ily. “I repeat, sir, that the dynamic power of my engines is almost infinite. The pumps of the Nautilus have an enormous powe... ...l laws of equilibrium. From between their stony knees trees sprang, like a jet under heavy pressure, and upheld others which upheld them. Natural towe...

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...ten with a profound and concentrated attention to the deadened beat of the engines (his own engines) and the slight grinding of the steering chains up... ...ive manner, and apparently wrapped up in such a taci- turn concern for his engines that he seemed to have lost the use of speech. When addressed direc... ...ought had impelled him to rush and see whether somebody had not stolen the engines while he dined. In port at the end of the trip he went ashore regul... ...alk to himself in excessive astonishment, he said not very loud— “Stop the engines now. What next, I wonder?” He waited, stooping from the shoulders, ... ...elt over the Sofala’s side. Captain Whalley or- dered the lead in, set the engines ahead without haste, and averting his eyes from the coast directed ...

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...nce the tenor of 26 The Soul of a Bishop the preacher would begin, a thin jet of sound, a ray of light in the darkness, speaking to all these men as ... ...a garage, and a yard where chauffeurs were accus- tomed to “tune up” their engines. All these facts were persis- tently audible to any one sitting dow...

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...mes of water did not burst the deck in or smash one of the hatches, if the engines did not give up, if way could be kept on the ship against this terr... ...oken shouts: “Keep on hammering … builders … good men… . . And chance it … engines… . Rout … good man.” Captain MacWhirr removed his arm from Jukes’ s... ...-east. The rudder might have been gone for all he knew, the fires out, the engines broken down, the ship ready to roll over like a corpse. He was anxi... ... were firing-up. The third engi- neer was standing by the steam-valve. The engines were being tended by hand. How was it above? “Bad enough. It mostly... ...away, and Captain MacWhirr could feel against his ear the pulsation of the engines, like the beat of the ship’s heart. Mr. Rout’s voice down there sho... ... smiled upon a woman in a black mantle of generous proportions armoured in jet and crowned with flowers blooming falsely above a bilious ma- tronly co...

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...nd passen- ger, puffed and steamed, waiting the word to depart. De- tached engines hurried in and out of sheds and round- houses, seeking their trains... ...ked. “I never can reach.” He left the front door open and extinguished the jet in its dull red globe. Promptly they were involved in darkness. “Good-n... ...se, who read Meredith, who revelled in swift gal- lops through the park on jet-black, long-tailed horses, who 197 Frank Norris affected black velvet,... ...ck, long-tailed horses, who 197 Frank Norris affected black velvet, black jet, and black lace in her gowns, who was conscious and proud of her pale, ... ...dows, while the grey light of morning drowned the yellow haze from the gas jet that came through the transom, while the “early call” alarms rang in ne...

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... strong- limbed foreigners who dug the earth, blasted the rocks, drove the engines for the “progressive and patriotic undertaking.” In these very word... ...sregarding the threats of the soldiers set on guard over them, stopped the engines, pro- testing that they would rather be shot than run the risk of b... ...de out, and, at the pitiful entreaties of the captain, Sotillo allowed the engines to be stopped again to wait for one of those periodical lightenings... ...cheeks, had inclined his head slightly to the left, letting a thin, bluish jet of smoke escape through his pursed lips. He had understood. His Excelle... ... and the colonel sprang back with a low cry of dismay, as if aspersed by a jet of deadly venom. Quick as thought he snatched up his revolver, and fire... ...ith an elderly hairless face, wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and his jet-black, coarse hair plastered down smoothly. Stooping carefully behind a...

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...cking-cases went north and east and west to various pantechnicons, and the engines were boxed with peculiar care. It became evident these precau- tion... ...lations, great dark fish-like shapes, showing hardly any light at all, the engines making a throb-throb-throbbing sound that was very audible out on t... ...p and then down, down, down, and the throbbing and tremulous quiver of the engines. His mind began to teem with memories—more memories and more. Throu... ...l; but along this Bert did not go, and from first to last he never saw the engines. But he went up a ladder against a gale of ventilation—a ladder tha... ... in it. I wonder which of our ships beat her. Maybe she got a shell in her engines. It’s a running fight! I wonder what the Barbarossa is doing,” he w...

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...sed, when she became aware of certain dark eyes and a handsome face set in jet-black hair, presenting itself over her shoulder in the long glass. ‘You... ... not let her stir from his side. Water had been the great deficiency. Fire-engines were slow in coming, and the supply from the fountains was as noth-... ...and wardrobe, not until then allowing her the luxury of shrieking at every jet of flame. The other ser- vants and the villagers had worked with hearty...

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...rn green leather. “They are changing the run of one of the crack passenger engines down be- low, and are sending her up to Fresno. There was a smash o... ...ffair of “farmer’s satin.” Mrs. Hooven had pendent ear- rings of imitation jet in her ears. Hooven was wearing an old frock coat of Magnus Derrick’s, ... ...e roar of the locomotive. “They use it in case they have to derail runaway engines. It runs right off into the country. We’ll pile him up there. Ready... ...rom the greater danger, returning towards the less. Inevitably now the two engines, one on the up, the other on the down line, must meet and pass each... ...om the sooty window sill of the cab. “Fire on him! Fire on him!” While the engines were yet two hundred yards apart, the duel began, shot answering sh... ...s of heavy ordnance developed with the abruptness of an explosion. The two engines passed each other, the men firing the while, emptying their revolve...

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... to think of seeing things; their metallurgy was all too poor to make such engines even had they thought of them. For a time they could not make instr... ... as a fact in human consciousness to the perfec- tion of the great turbine engines that preceded the utilisation of intra-molecular power. Nearly ever... ...der was this when the cost, even of these earliest and clumsiest of atomic engines, is com- pared with that of the power they superseded. Allowing for... ...ed, and soared humming softly into the sky. And with an equal speed atomic engines of various types invaded industrialism. The railways paid enormous ... ...s paid enormous premi- ums for priority in the delivery of atomic traction engines, atomic smelting was embarked upon so eagerly as to lead to a numbe... ...regions, great fragments of earth or drain or masonry suddenly caught by a jet of disruptive force might come fly- ing by the explorer’s head, or the ...

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...abble will undo us all. Why, lords, and think you not how dangerous It is to jet upon a prince’s right? What, is Lavinia then become so loose, Or Bass... ...at we intend; Titus Andronicus Act II, scene i 19 And she shall file our engines with advice, That will not suffer you to square yourselves, But t... ... along with thee about the globe. Provide thee two proper palfreys, black as jet, To hale thy vengeful waggon swift away, And find out murderers in th...

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...n a six-thou- sand-ton hotel, and asking the third engineer what makes the engines go round, and whether it isn’t very warm in the stokehold. Ho! ho! ... ...ater yet. Go down, dear, and I’ll stay here. I don’t like the smell of the engines… . Poor Dick! He deserved one,—only one. But I didn’t think he’d fr... ...nsult the surgeon; sometimes the rigging, and then I advise; sometimes the engines, and we go to the brain-specialist; sometimes the look-out on the b... ... the Thames and was lifting to the pulse of the Channel. The rattle of the engines, the reek of oil and paint, and a very familiar sound in the next c... ...e to Port Said. And the sea roared or was still as the winds blew, and the engines sang their song day and night, and the sun grew stronger day by day...

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...s tall stalwartness Adam Bede was a Saxon, and justified his name; but the jet-black hair, made the more noticeable by its contrast with the light pap... ...pel i’ this world. Look at the canals, an’ th’ aqueduc’s, an’ th’ coal-pit engines, and Arkwright’s mills there at Cromford; a man must learn summat b... ...e harsh key in the lock and opening the door wide enough to admit Dinah. A jet of light from his lantern fell on the opposite corner of the cell, wher...

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...able to a fire office; never was a man with such a natural taste for pumping engines, running up ladders, and throwing furniture out of two pair of s...

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...ws of hay, And soon his body, colored like soap-stone, Gemmed with eyes of jet. And you wondered in a trance of thought What he knew, what he desired,... ...ront in Chicago, Where the railroad keeps a switching yard, With whistling engines and crunching wheels And smoke and soot thrown over the city, And t... ...s a boy I made balloons And wondrous kites and toys with clocks And little engines with tracks to run on And telephones of cans and thread. I played t...