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...o grow any more. And as for manure, his thoughts jumped track within their locomotion so that he might change the persistent discourse in his solitary... ...ulated and was manipulated by to move and assess movement in this nebulous terrestrial cloud or fog he found himself in. To some degree he was part of... ... If at moments feeling extremely solitary and purposeless in his indolent, terrestrial drifting, being dragged in the vicissitudes of life, and trying... ...n his hands, what could be said to him? He was reticent for not having any terrestrial concerns to impart and so he was a cockroach on her plate, an a...

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...clads, and all the material and methods of war, and from that to shipping, locomotion, building, every conceivable form of human industry. The chance ... ... not foreseen. The absentmindedness that had just escaped depopulating the terrestrial globe, might at any moment result in some other grave inconveni... ...ar—Cavor told me the distance was perhaps eight hundred miles and the huge terrestrial disc filled all heaven. But already it was plain to see that th... ...t on the moon, luckily for us, our weight was only one-sixth of what it is terrestrially, and we fell very merci- fully. I recall a sensation of utter... ... a coralline shape of many feet in height. Compared with such a growth the terrestrial puff-ball, which will sometimes swell a foot in diameter in a s... ...e ceased to be my Mentor and became my fellow- learner in the art of lunar locomotion. 55 H. G . Wells We chose a still easier jump and did it withou... ...irty leaps, we could judge the effort necessary for a distance with almost terrestrial assurance. And all this time the lunar plants were growing arou... ... to them; but some of the profounder scholars are altogether too great for locomotion, and are carried from place to place in a sort of sedan tub, wab...

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...ooks the icy disorder of another Theodule. It is so like our planet that a terrestrial botanist might find his every species there, even to the meanes... ... a strenuous struggle with Utopian constables, the voice that has thrilled terrestrial millions in eloquent protest. The writ of arrest, drifting loos... ...o an extent quite beyond anything our native earth has seen. It is now our terrestrial experience that whenever economic and political developments se... ...communications limit us now, and 34 A Modern Utopia every facilitation of locomotion widens not only our poten- tial, but our habitual range. Not onl... ...r further speculation. Those who are concerned with the problems of public locomotion will be following these aeronautic investigations with a keen an... ...o like an eagle’s swoop in comparison with the blind-man’s fumbling of our terrestrial way. Even before our own brief Utopian journey is out, we may g... ...6 But my friend and his great trouble turn my mind from these questions of locomotion and the freedoms that cluster about them. In spite of myself I f... ... the locality, and we shall meet with nothing there to correspond with our terrestrial absurdity of Local Option. The Utopians will certainly control ... ... cheap and effi- cient administration of justice, maintain cheap and rapid locomotion and be the common carrier of the planet, con- vey and distribute...

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...o reach a depth of thirty miles we should have arrived at the limit of the terrestrial crust, for there the temperature will be more than 2372 degrees... ...g, amongst other problems, the hypothesis of the liquid struc- ture of the terrestrial nucleus. We were agreed that it could not be in a liquid state,... ...refore twice every day there would be internal tides, which, upheaving the terrestrial crust, would cause periodical earthquakes!” “Yet it is evident ... ...r and fervent enthusiasm. “You see, Axel,” he added, “the condition of the terrestrial nucleus has given rise to various hypotheses among geolo- gists... ... be 46; Ursa Minor. Then I fell fast asleep. CHAPTER XVIII THE WONDERS OF TERRESTRIAL DEPTHS At eight in the morning a ray of daylight came to wake u... ...ffect was due to local causes alone, and those volcanic. The manner of our locomotion left no doubt in my mind. An enormous force, a force of hundreds...

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... question, the untiring rapidity of its movements, its surprising power of locomotion, and the peculiar life with which it seemed endowed. If it was a... ...f the sea.’ I have often read it. You have carried out your work as far as terrestrial science permitted you. But you do not know all—you have not see... ...in?” “Yes; I love it! The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert,... ...e unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases... ... future would decide that. CHAPTER XIII THE BLACK RIVER THE PORTION of the terrestrial globe which is covered by water is estimated at upwards of eigh... ...ying each other, resembled the shell which clothes the bodies of our large terrestrial reptiles. It explained to me how natural it was, in spite of al...

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...e into these subjects; he was a solid body, traversing an orbit around the terrestrial globe, according to the laws of rational mechanics. He was at t... ...after leaving Yokohama, Phileas Fogg had traversed exactly one half of the terrestrial globe. The General Grant passed, on the 23rd of November, the o... ...ve thousand miles; whereas he would be forced, by the irregular methods of locomotion, to traverse twenty-six thousand, of which he had, on the 23rd o...

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... power. Man is the tool-using, fire- making animal. From the outset of his terrestrial career we find him supplementing the natural strength and bodil... ...ts on the ground cultivated, but the ease and the costlessness of mod- ern locomotion enables them to maintain a group of resi- dences in the nearest ...

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... the tram-lines, railways: and in- deed every form of track for mechanical locomotion. Where 12 The War in the Air land was cheap the rail ran along ... ... photo- graphs of himself, and generally spread his personality across the terrestrial sky. The published portraits insisted primarily upon an immense...

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...tirely devoid of reproach. Once only in my life have I used that method of locomotion, and I can truly say I found it far superior, in spite of its in... ...f my friend and colleague, Jean-Baptiste Biot, to determine the arc of the terrestrial meridian from 359 Balzac Barcelona to the Balearic isles. I wa...

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...w and Equity that he has become a kind of fossil imp, to account for whose terrestrial existence it is reported at the public offices that his father ... ...pplied their place with distracting smoothings of the bed linen, elaborate locomotion on tiptoe, vigilant peeping at her kinsman’s eyes, and one exasp...

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... — On the inhabitants of oceanic islands — Absence of Batra- chians and of terrestrial Mammals — On the rela- tion of the inhabitants of islands to th... ...arth-worms; but these all pair. As yet I have not found a single case of a terrestrial animal which fertilises itself. We can understand this re- mark... ... understand this re- markable fact, which offers so strong a contrast with terrestrial plants, on the view of an occasional cross being indispensable,... ...n occasional cross being indispensable, by considering the medium in which terrestrial animals live, and the nature of the fertilising element; for we... ...in the case of plants, by which an occasional cross could be effected with terrestrial animals without the con- currence of two individuals. Of aquati... ...des. The adult might become fitted for sites or habits, in which organs of locomotion or of the senses, &c., would be useless; and in this case the fi...

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... several insects and spiders. The following list completes, I believe, the terrestrial fauna: a fly (Olfersia) living on the booby, and a tick which m... ...xcursion north of Cape Frio — Great Evaporation — Slavery — Botofogo Bay — Terrestrial Planariae — Clouds on the Corcovado — Heavy Rain — Musical Frog... ...r ponderous forms and great strong curved claws seem so little adapted for locomotion, that some eminent naturalists have actually believed, that, lik... ...ayey earth of the Pampas, with its calcareous concretions and the bones of terrestrial quadrupeds. This verti- cal section clearly tells us of a large... ...f the existing great river the Plata, and the presence of so many bones of terrestrial quadrupeds: but now Professor Ehrenberg has had the kindness to... ...genera in common, were much more closely related in the character of their terrestrial in- habitants than they now are. The more I reflect on this cas...

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... not, on this occasion, of the charms of the landscape or the pleasures of locomotion that they chiefly discoursed. Their talk took a more closely per... ...walked up the Fifth Avenue with all a newly- landed voyager’s enjoyment of terrestrial locomotion. It was a charming autumn day; there was a golden ha... ...e Fifth Avenue with all a newly- landed voyager’s enjoyment of terrestrial locomotion. It was a charming autumn day; there was a golden haze in the ai...

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...ollow on all this tremendous development of swift, secure, and cheap- ened locomotion, just as they followed almost necessarily upon the mechanical de... ...ulus of novelty rather than by constant toil, and this revolution in human locomotion that brings nearly all the globe within a few days of any man is... ... This conflict follows as inevitably upon these new gigantic facilities of locomotion as the _Mauretania_ followed from the discoveries of steam and s... ...er at the present time. Such an army , properly supplied, could— so far as terrestrial forces are concerned—hold that frontier against any number of a...

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...sses, a lost one. 13 Thomas Carlyle Observe, however, that of man’s whole terrestrial posses- sions and attainments, unspeakably the noblest are his ... ...we behold men of weight and influence threading the great vortex of French Locomotion, each on his several line, from all sides of France towards the ... ...ish after a month’s session, on this 12th of December, year 1788: the last terrestrial Notables, not to reappear any other time, in the History of the... ...et the Reader confess too that, taking one thing with another, perhaps few terrestrial Appearances are better worth considering than mobs. Your mob is...

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... not let any critic say that I grudge these young travelers their right to locomotion. Neither their right to locomotion is grudged by me, nor any of ... ...hings may possibly be learned; but the visitor requires his facilities for locomotion at the first moment of his entrance into the city. I heard it as... ... neigh- bors, and going upon a new theory that shall lead them direct to a terrestrial paradise, we button up our pockets and lock up our spoons. And ...