It had already been crippled by the expulsion of some quantity of its breath of life, but it was not a creature to surrender its existence at a blow. Its destruction was a work of time, and, as the work proceeded, it heaved and panted and groaned, till,... Crotchets in the Air; Or An (un)scientific Account of a Balloon-trip: In a ... - Page 77 by John Poole - 1838 - 98 pages Full view -
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