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A wary eavesdropper can always surprise the secret of a city, through chance scraps of conversation, or by spying from a window, or by coming suddenly round corners. I started on a 'car. American tram-cars are open all along the side and can be entered at any point in it. The side is divided by vertical bars. It looks like a cage with the horizontal lines taken out.
At the bottom of each wheel-pit a 5000 horse-power Girard double turbine is mounted on a vertical shaft, which drives a propeller shaft rising to the surface of the ground; a dynamo of 5000 horse- power is fixed on the top of this shaft, and so driven by it. The upward pressure of the water is ingeniously contrived to relieve the foundation of the weight of the turbine shaft and dynamo.
The Mark Boat's vertical spindle of light lies down to eastward, setting in the face of the following stars. We seem the only thing at rest under all the heavens; floating at ease till the earth's revolution shall turn up our landing-towers. And minute by minute our silent clock gives us a sixteen-second mile. "Some fine night," says Tim, "we'll be even with that clock's Master."
It was nothing unusual to her to see the pretty creatures playing about the branches, or entering the long vertical tunnels that led upward to their nests nothing unusual for Truey to listen for hours to their sweet twittering, or watch their love-gambols around the borders of the vley.
Oddslife," he cried, suddenly springing to his feet, and seizing the lanthorn. "Let us look at these bars." He stepped across to the window, and held the light so that its rays fell full upon the base of the vertical iron that barred the square. "It is much worn by rust, Kenneth," he muttered.
They circled the mountain until Stevens found a favorable point of attack a stupendous vertical cliff of mingled rock and crystal, upon the base of which he trained his terrific infra-red projector. "I'm going to draw a lot of power," he warned the Titanians then. "I'm giving this gun everything she'll take."
Hips level and drawn back slightly; body erect and resting equally on hips; chest lifted and arched; shoulders square and falling equally. Arms and hands hanging naturally, thumb along the seam of the trousers. Head erect and squarely to the front, chin drawn in so that the axis of the head and neck is vertical; eyes straight to the front.
Instead of a heavy shower accompanied by violent gusts, there was a succession of tropical and vertical down-pourings, with now and then a sharp flash and a rattling peal, but usually a heavy monotone of thunder from bolts flying in the distance.
"If he is talking United States instead of Spanish," Jimmie said, "I'll read it for you. The Scouts use those signals. The motion from vertical to right is ONE, that from vertical to left is TWO, and that from vertical to the front is THREE. See! It is United States, for there are two left motions, meaning A. Now there's two twos and a one, repeated. That means two 1's. 'All' is the word."
I adjusted my coat controls for warmth and deflection, but that was the best I could do. The reek of stale decay remained. Then there were also the buildings, painfully almost vertical.
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