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Immediately the "Albatross" shot upwards, and past her, higher still, there mounted the noisy cheering of the crowd then thick on the boulevards a hurrah of stupefaction to greet the imaginary meteor. The lamps of the aeronef were turned off, and the darkness and the silence closed in around as the voyage was resumed at the rate of one hundred and twenty miles an hour.
"Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young; Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung." "Poor man! And in such weather!" exclaimed Barbara. "And such a huge creature! I see! They thought now the killing of the bird had brought the calm, and they would have their revenge! A bad set, those sailors! People that deserve punishment always want to punish. Do go on."
You must go outside, if you want to curse, barring of course you're a millionaire and like to make a splash." "Rick, Rick, you do not amuse me. I do not belong to the Albatross Club." "No; over age," replied his companion blandly, and chuckled violently. "I like to score off old Ayre, you know," he said, in reporting the episode afterward. "He thinks himself smart." "But look here.
All that was necessary was to get above this bed of mist, which was nearly thirteen hundred feet thick, and the ascensional screws being increased in speed, the "Albatross" was soon clear of the fog and in the sunny regions of the sky.
I have brought it to you personally, because I happened to be cruising in these waters; and I wished at the same time to gratify your curiosity and my own." There was nothing to answer to this reasoning this was the only conclusion the doctor could draw. "Yon are here, then, with the 'Albatross'?" he asked, eagerly. "Without doubt."
For neither had I then read the Rhyme, nor knew the bird to be an albatross. Yet, in saying this, I do but indirectly burnish a little brighter the noble merit of the poem and the poet.
He ascended the wooden stairs, and in a dingy room with one desk and chair found his former aid. "Well, what the hill is this, Hennesey tryin' to take the brid out of honest min's mouths?" "I've me livin' to make, Murphy, an' I'm a-doin' it. I got the crew of the Albatross." "An' what did ye do wid 'em?" "Put 'em wid Stillman, over beyant. Ye might ha' had 'em had ye played fair."
If you could only fly a matter of a few miles, you would see a sail and that's more than we had any reason to expect. "'What can be the matter with the birds to-day? said the captain, who was in rather an irritable mood himself. 'They are silent enough generally' for the voice of the albatross is rarely heard at sea. "'Move your arms, I tell you, croaked the albatross.
But the "Albatross," at full speed, could do her hundred and twenty miles an hour, or 176 feet per second. This speed is that of the storm which tears up trees by the roots. In a word, as Robur had said, the "Albatross," by using the whole force of her screws, could make the tour of the globe in two hundred hours, or less than eight days. Is it necessary to say so?
And the lateen spread both her great wings like an albatross, and leaped and plunged, and flew before the mighty gale. "THIS is nice. The boat does not upset or tumble as it did. It only courtesies and plunges. I like it." "The sea has not got up yet, miss," said Jack. "Hasn't it? the waves seem very large." "Lord love you, wait till we have had four or five hours more of this."
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