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To weigh anchor under these circumstances required considerable exertion Going down into the saloon, I saw a lecture announced When the first attempt to lay the Atlantic cable had failed If the Great Eastern is not merely a nautical engine, but rather a microcosm There was no heaving to speak of, but the rolling was dreadful I pictured to myself this enormous bulk borne on the waves These delays considerably affected the enterprize of the freighters The next day I went down towards the basins which form a double line of I thought I recognized in him a friend whom I had not seen for several He was a thin, nervous little man, with quick, restless eyes: a physiognomist Immediately the valves open, the steam from the boilers rushes along the During this last day, however, little by little the gangways were cleared These unhappy men, killed and wounded, were only tools, which could be About nine oclock the bearings of the Great Eastern were west-north-west One would have taken her for a small island, hardly discernible in the Whist was impossible, for the tables glided from under the players hands I should not have been surprised to see the stokers working in black clothes; No land in sight; we had doubled Cape Clear in the night I saw an object moving for several moments at the bows, but it turned out I went towards the fore-part of the vessel, the staircase had not yet been The steersman standing on the bridge between the signal apparatus of the It was for this delicate operation that the engineers intended the engine The fore-masts and the main-masts carry the schooner-sails, the top-sails The 25th still saw the deck strewn with all kinds of tools The arrangements with regard to the interior are admirable A merchant-vessel or a man-of-war would have had no hesitation in manning The giant could have hoisted these ships on its davits like shore-boats In four days, at the latest, the Great Eastern must reach New York harbour; There was a full cargo; provisions, goods, and coal filled the stewards Would not the good Yorrick have done the same? I looked at Dean Pitferge; With what force must these wooden paddles strike the waves which are now I returned by the boulevards on the starboard side, avoiding contact with A catch had broken, and the capstan being forced round by the frightful I did not understand at first for what it was intended, but it appeared Each player stakes one dollar, and draws one of the half or quarter hours: Therefore they were obliged to abandon the steamer, but there still remained Everything was finished by evening; not a trace of mud was visible on the Only at night, perhaps eluding her gaoler, she came out to bathe herself I then made up my mind to visit all the ins and outs of this immense ant-hill These questions were destined to remain unanswered After having passed the great hatchway of the engine-rooms The engine was composed of two horizontal cylinders, and presented a system I thought myself very fortunate that the screw was allowed to continue