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After the long separation which had estranged us from each other After having passed the great hatchway of the engine-rooms Whist was impossible, for the tables glided from under the players hands She alone could store on board the 2100 miles of metallic wire weighing There was no longer any doubt of icebergs being very near These wagers, amounting to several hundred dollars, he lost every one; In order to modify it, he has only to press his hand lightly on a small Each player stakes one dollar, and draws one of the half or quarter hours: Below us, at a distance of forty feet, the screw was beating the water The officer on watch had ordered the sails to be taken in Thanks to this natural condition, the streams of the Thames and the Mersey Once more the partitions began creaking, and again the luggage made its During this last day, however, little by little the gangways were cleared Hatch, was an orator of no mean power The result of this pool was not to be known for four days; it was what It was a three-mast ship of about five or six hundred tons Beside the Great Eastern, these three-mast ships looked like barges; their The group of passengers dispersed, some to the saloons, others to their cabins Of these six masts, supported by shrouds and metallic back-stays, the second Thus the reason for rearranging the ship to this purpose Here between the last small deck cabin and the enormous gratings of the At the base they measure 43 inches in diameter, and the largest (the main-mast) The spectators hurried towards the unfortunate men, the wounded were taken The four corpses, enveloped in coverings, were let down, and placed on The first officer, well wrapped in his macintosh, and perched on the bridge The slate-coloured sea broke in great foamless billows Friends exchanged quiet greetings; every one held a Prayer-book in his It was the reverend gentleman of whom I have before spoken a little But special arrangements were necessary for storing away the cable in the A merchant-vessel or a man-of-war would have had no hesitation in manning Involuntarily one looked for the village steeple which was calling to prayer It was for this delicate operation that the engineers intended the engine About noon Captain Anderson ordered sail to be hoisted, so that the ship This day the chief engineer tried the boilers Fabian had not recognized her, although he had cried, It is she On leaving the station, I went to the Adelphi Hotel The laying of the cable having been successfully accomplished After twenty passages from England to America, one of which was marked The Great Eastern turned in time to avoid her, thanks to the promptitude In order to raise the anchors it was only necessary to send the steam from The tender immediately sheered off, and the sailors went to the lows He had told me as much of his past life as he wished me to know; his life About nine oclock the bearings of the Great Eastern were west-north-west Her steel hull was so heavy that the davits to which it was attached bent If the Great Eastern is not merely a nautical engine, but rather a microcosm Towards five oclock a small steamer, intended as a shore-boat for the Great I was going to reply to this wise observation, when there was a loud cry The execution could not fail to be worthy of the work I was willing to content myself with this reason, and in the meantime observed It is an immense depression of the land filled with water