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Within twenty minutes we would be on board, and there I could breathe easy again because my tank's current air supply seemed to be quite low in oxygen. But I was reckoning without an encounter that slightly delayed our arrival. I was lagging behind some twenty paces when I saw Captain Nemo suddenly come back toward me.
I never had a mother, nor a wife, nor a sister, nor a brother. Even my father was early prejudiced in Tank's interest against mine, always. The one happy memory of my boyhood years was the loving interest of Asher Aydelot's mother, who made the old Aydelot farmhouse on the National road a welcome spot to me.
"Thore's, Kyril's, Tank's!" repeated Hund to himself; "then there must be magic in the case. I could have sworn that not an eye on earth witnessed the doings there. If Rolf turns out to be the witness, I shall be certain that he has the powers of the region to help him."
"Get the lamps lighted, Jean, and make sure that the tank's full. As for the engine, I must humour it and trust to luck. I'll get her to Paris somehow," said the Duke. He went back to the chateau, and Firmin followed him. When the Duke came into the great hall he found Germaine and her father indulging in recriminations.
Tank's paper bags, and Karl had retorted: "Great Scott, Georgia, is there anything the world needs much worse than paper bags?" To-night Mr. Tank was all enthusiasm about a ball game he had attended that afternoon. He gave Karl the story of the game in the picturesque fashion of a man more eager to express what he wishes to say than to guard the purity of his English.
The old name of the place was Gebel Tarik, which means Tank's Hill; and it is easy to see how Gebel Tarik got gradually changed into Gibraltar." In another two hours the Straits were passed, and the Rock of Gibraltar appeared, rising across a bay to the left. View of Gibraltar from the Mediterranean. "There is your destination, lad," the captain said. "It is a strong-looking place, isn't it?"
By that time she'll have attained top speed and it would be taking our lives in our bands to try to make a flying jump, get inside, and shut off the motors." "Then the tank's got to smash!" said Ned gloomily. Tom did not answer for a moment. He and his chum watched the fleeing figures running away from the war engine.
Carey's face as he sat looking through the open window at the stretch of green clover down the valley. "I was about ready to call time on myself one winter here when Carey brought me a letter. It was from Alice Leigh, my brother Tank's wife. Tank and I were related by marriage. We had the same father, but not the same mother. My mother died the day I was born.
"Tank's connected with the reservoir o' the lead-works on the hill up there. Big wooden pipe comes in the gable-end." "Turn 'er on," said D'ri, quickly, "an' let me hev thet air hose." The landlord ran up a ladder. D'ri stuck the hose out of the window. The stream shot away with a loud hiss. I stood by and saw the jet of water leap forth as big as a pikestaff.
This tower cost $425; but it was not all extravagance, because a third of the expense would have been incurred in protecting the engine and making the tank frost-proof. To distribute the water, I had three lines of four-inch pipe leading from the tank's out-flow pipe.
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