 | John Poole - Balloon ascensions - 1838 - 112 pages
...people to glide away from us with safety to themselves, down they all went about thirty feet — then, up they came again, and so on. There we sat quietly...loose the rope by which the earth was suspended to us — like Atropos cutting the connexion between us with a pair of shears — down it went with everything... | |
 | John Poole - Balloon ascensions - 1838 - 114 pages
...people to glide away from us with safety to themselves, down they all went about thirty feet — then, up they came again, and so on. There we sat quietly...loose the rope by which the earth was suspended to us — like Atropos cutting the connexion between us with a pair of shears — down it went with everything... | |
 | 1837 - 800 pages
...away from us with safety to themselves, down they all fell, about thirty feet — then, up they come again, and so on. There we sat quietly all the while,...loose the rope by which the earth was suspended to us — like Atropos cutting the connection between us with a pair of shears— down it went with everything... | |
 | Household words - 1852 - 252 pages
...to glide away from us with safety to themselves — down they all went about thirty feet ! — then, up they came again, and so on. There we sat quietly...little iron, and thus letting loose the rope by which tlie earth was suspended to us — like Atropos, cutting the connexion between us with a pair of shears... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1852 - 914 pages
...quietly all the while, in our wicker buck-bai tet, utterly unconscious of motion ; till, at lengtii, Mr. Green snapping a little iron, and thus letting loose the rope by which the earth vas susjiemled to us — like Átropos, cutting the connection between us with a pair of shears —... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Household words - 1853 - 504 pages
...to glide away from us with safety to themselves — down they all went about thirty feet ! — then, up they came again, and so on. There we sat quietly...loose the rope by which the earth was suspended to us — like Atropos, cutting the connexion between us with a pair of shears — down it went, with... | |
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I speak from the evidence of my senses, founded upon repetition of the fact. Upon each of the three or four experimental trials of the powers of the balloon to enable the people to glide away from us with safety to themselves, down they all went about... 