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" 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
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Crotchets In the Air; or; an (Un) Scientific Account of a Balloon-Trip

John Poole, ESQ. - 1838 - 114 pages
...an hour afterwards we were seated at a comfortable deal table, at a road-side public-house—the " Eagle and Child "—(mercy upon eagle or child either...nothing to wonder at. Had it been self-sustained? No! Gas—puffery!— had been its main support. Tom ;—I quitted the ground with a moral lesson in my...
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