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The second glass of the fiery spirit he swallowed greedily, while Rocket looked on in amazement. As he proceeded to pour out another the man's astonishment found vent. "A third?" he said stupidly. Jim deigned no answer, but drank the liquor down, and set the glass forcefully upon the counter. The saloon-keeper quickly recovered himself. Nor was he slow to comment.
At the very door of the tent, however, he came to a halt, for the signals were going again, and a great rocket flashed across the sky. "It looks to me as if there might be civil war down here, with all these men waiting for guns and ammunition," said Shaw, as Nestor concluded the story of the letters which had been forwarded to Washington.
I was, you might say, the stick of his rocket; and after our tremendous soar, after he had played with millions, a golden rain in the sky, after my bird's-eye view of the modern world, I fell again, a little scarred and blistered perhaps, two and twenty years older, with my youth gone, my manhood eaten in upon, but greatly edified, into this Thames-side yard, into these white heats and hammerings, amidst the fine realites of steel to think it all over in my leisure and jot down the notes and inconsecutive observations that make this book.
The Phoenix dashed back and forth at top speed, wheeled in circles, shot straight up like a rocket plunged, hovered, looped rolled, soared, fluttered. Now and then it would swoop back to the ledge beside David and wipe the sweat from its brow. "I trust you see signs of progress, my boy?" David would wrap the wet towel around the Phoenix's neck. "You're doing better and better, Phoenix.
In turn the Cardinal struck him like a flashing rocket, and then red war waged in Rainbow Bottom. The females scattered for cover with all their might. The Cardinal worked in a kiss on one poor little bird, too frightened to escape him; then the males closed in, and serious business began.
The modern improvements made on locomotives consist chiefly in clothing the boiler with wood, felt, and other non-conductors to increase the life-giving heat; in heating the feed-water, coupling the driving-wheels, working the cylinders horizontally, economising steam by cutting off the supply at any part of the stroke that may be required, and economising fuel by using raw coal instead of coke, and consuming the smoke, besides many other minor contrivances, but all the great principles affecting the locomotive were applied by George Stephenson, and illustrated in the "Rocket."
A boyish-looking pilot was on the platform, opening the door of the rocket; he stood aside for Verkan Vall to enter, then followed and closed it, dogging it shut while his passenger stowed his bag and rifle and strapped himself into a seat. "Dhergabar Commercial Terminal, sir?" the pilot asked, taking the adjoining seat at the controls.
The rocket ship up there seems to be getting more and more acceleration in the level. He has me dropping steadily to get air to run the generator. He is going fast enough!" They followed beneath the pirate, faster and faster as the rockets of the ship began to push it forward more and more.
The rocket would slip back, tail first, slowly, slowly, then faster and faster, beginning the long, final plunge to the ground. Out of Control! Rick came back to painful consciousness. He realized that the acceleration was at an end. The torture of G forces was over, and whatever happened from here on wouldn't compare with the past few minutes. He tried to sit up, and strained muscles reacted.
Rocket, if he pleased, should be taken as part or whole payment for Mug, and so cease to be a gift. "I have no mercenary motives in the matter," she said, "With me they will be free, and this, I am sure, will be an inducement for you to consent to my proposal."
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