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Also, and not least important for such long-range work as we contemplate, the entire Area of Experiment is anchored immovably to the solid crust of the planet, so that there can be not even the slightest vibration to affect the direction of our beams of force, which must, of course, be very long." He closed the master switches of his power-plants and the two resumed work where they had left off.
"Call me if you see the slightest sign of a breeze," said the former, as he went below. The cabin was not very large nor yet very clean; indeed, cockroaches and centipedes were crawling about in all directions, and every now and then dropped down on the white cloth from the beams above.
This projected its powerful beams straight ahead and there, under the ocean, was a pathway of illumination for the treasure-seekers. "Fine!" cried Captain Weston, with more enthusiasm than he had yet manifested. "That's great, if you don't mind me mentioning it. How deep are we?" Tom glanced at a gage on the side of the pilot tower. "Only about sixty feet," he answered.
Q. Will the pressure given to the beam of an engine in different directions facilitate its fracture? A. Iron beams bent alternately in opposite directions, or alternately deflected and released, will be broken in the course of time with a much less strain than is necessary to produce immediate fracture.
It might have been the dry bed of a high-banked placer-river, with spare lengths of steel railway-line borne across from bank to bank, covered with beams and sheets of corrugated iron and tarpaulins, with wide chinks to let in the much-needed air and light.
"Between the hours of eleven and twelve?" Silence. A spider, seeing the light, swung down in jerks from the beams and dangled at the side of the candlestick. Suddenly the priest reached over and caught the vicomte's restless hand. "Rest assured, Jesuit, that when you broke my sword you left me weaponless." "I did well to break that sword. It was an evil one."
Go, brave young man, visit this valley; confer with the wise old reptiles that inhabit it: above all see if the lights which illumine it be the eyes of those snakes, or dazzling meteors shining by their own light, or precious stones lit up by the beams of the sun. And thou must bring me a tooth from the jaw of a living king, and a rattle from his tail, and an eye from his skull.
"Methinks thou couldst well do that thyself, my faithful knight," answered Joan, with a great light in her eyes; "for methinks all evil must fly thy presence, as night flies from the beams of day. Art thou not pledged to a high and holy service? and hast thou not proved ere now how nobly thou canst keep that pledge?" At that moment John stirred in his sleep and opened his eyes.
Her sweet voice hush'd within the silent grave, While o'er her dust the weeping willows wave. Dead! dead! You call her dead! And yet she lives, and loves! Oh, wondrous truth! In golden skies she breathes immortal youth! Look upward! where the roseate sunset beams, Her airy form amid the brightness gleams! Dead! dead! You call her dead!
Do you not see the beams come from that half glass-door leading to the greenhouse?" "Yes; and there's the footstep again, or another." Tramp, tramp came a footfall again upon the gravel path, and, as before, died away upon their listening ears. "What do you say now," said Mr. Chillingworth "are there not two?"
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