My Life and Balloon Experiences: With a Supplementary Chapter on Military Ballooning, Band 1W.H. Allen & Company, 1887 - 13 Seiten |
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... never yet felt paint , struck terror among us , so that for a few minutes order reigned supreme . Some wicked wag , however , soon observed that , for his part , all he was afraid of was that Jack would not remain in office up to the ...
... never yet felt paint , struck terror among us , so that for a few minutes order reigned supreme . Some wicked wag , however , soon observed that , for his part , all he was afraid of was that Jack would not remain in office up to the ...
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... never left me . It was not long before I invested my weekly allowance of pocket money in sundry sheets of tissue paper , beginning on the housetops with tiny parachutes , and progressing towards a rudely constructed paper Montgolfier ...
... never left me . It was not long before I invested my weekly allowance of pocket money in sundry sheets of tissue paper , beginning on the housetops with tiny parachutes , and progressing towards a rudely constructed paper Montgolfier ...
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... never have been known as " B's bulldogs . " It is just possible that some of the more grave and studious of my schoolfellows would object to this undignified portraiture I am giving of a few of our weak points , I beg to qualify my ...
... never have been known as " B's bulldogs . " It is just possible that some of the more grave and studious of my schoolfellows would object to this undignified portraiture I am giving of a few of our weak points , I beg to qualify my ...
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... never again to oppose or make light of us while exercising . It was not very long after this scrimmage that a painful circumstance occurred , and as it concerned three of us who had fought in company , and who were shortly after fated ...
... never again to oppose or make light of us while exercising . It was not very long after this scrimmage that a painful circumstance occurred , and as it concerned three of us who had fought in company , and who were shortly after fated ...
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... never do to remove the spars that propped up each section of the enormous hull until the day of the launch ; the strain would be too great on the timbers were this done until the cradles are driven tight by wedging , which was just what ...
... never do to remove the spars that propped up each section of the enormous hull until the day of the launch ; the strain would be too great on the timbers were this done until the cradles are driven tight by wedging , which was just what ...
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