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No, if we expect to get back under our own power, we've got to break away pretty quick these lifeboats have very little accumulator capacity, and the receptors are useless above about three hundred million kilometers...." "But it'll take us a long time to go that far, won't it?" "Not very.
"I'm in a hurry. We'll see each other to-morrow!" He saluted, and walked away. Amadeo Zureda, with Rafaela at his right and Manolo at his left, quitted the station. "Is the town very far away?" asked he. "Hardly two kilometers," she answered. "All right then, let's walk." Slowly they made their way down the road that stretched, winding, between two vast reaches of brown, plowed land.
Then he said: "If they still seem infinitely long to me, the several thousand kilometers which separate me from the instant when, my task accomplished, I shall at last find oblivion in the cloister for the things for which I was not made, let me tell you this; the several hundred kilometers which still separate us from Shikh-Salah seem to me infinitely short to traverse in your company."
He caused the great gate of the courtyard to be closed, and every preparation was made for an energetic resistance. As the Prussians were on the opposite side of the Morelle, an immediate assault was not to be feared. There was a bridge two kilometers away, but they evidently were not aware of its existence, and it was hardly likely that they would attempt to ford the river.
On the forecastle was mounted the latest model breech-loading cannon, very heavy of barrel and narrow of bore, a weapon that would figure in the Universal Exhibition of 1867. Made in America, this valuable instrument could fire a four-kilogram conical projectile an average distance of sixteen kilometers without the least bother. So the Abraham Lincoln wasn't lacking in means of destruction.
There was a man last night at the Villa Rose. There were a man's blurred footmarks in the mould before the glass door. That man drove madame's car for a hundred and fifty kilometers, and he leaves the mould which clung to his boots upon the floor of his seat. Mlle. Celie and another woman drove away inside the car. Mlle.
They form a whirlpool aptly called "the ocean's navel," whose attracting power extends a distance of fifteen kilometers. It can suck down not only ships but whales, and even polar bears from the northernmost regions. This was where the Nautilus had been sent accidentally or perhaps deliberately by its captain. It was sweeping around in a spiral whose radius kept growing smaller and smaller.
The route from Khorsabad to Mosul was about 18 kilometers, taking into account all the detours that had to be made in order to have a somewhat firm roadway.
Next morning we went about three kilometers before coming to some steep hills, beautiful to look upon, clad as they were in dense, tall, tropical forest, but ominous of new rapids. Sure enough, at their foot we had to haul up and prepare for a long portage. The canoes we ran down empty. Even so, we were within an ace of losing two, the lashed couple in which I ordinarily journeyed.
The attack was made on a front of 40 kilometers between Gommécourt on the north and Vermandovillers on the south of the river.
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