But Adam would not take 'em, Nor the ships he wouldn't make 'em, Singing:--"Water, Earth and
Air and Fire, What more can mortal man desire?"(The Apple Tree's in leaf.)
"But there is another way to make it float, which is to fill it with hot
air. Hot
air isn't as good as gas, for if the
air should get cold the balloon would come down in the desert, and we should be lost."
By these two means they would be enabled to restore to the vitiated
air its life- supporting properties.
In fact, I was already obliged to increase my respirations to eke out of this cell the little oxygen it contained, when suddenly I was refreshed by a current of pure
air, and perfumed with saline emanations.
But bye and bye, as she stared ahead into the black chasm with a beating heart, she began to dimly see the form of the horse Jim--his head up in the
air, his ears erect and his long legs sprawling in every direction as he tumbled through space.
He also had put on board an apparatus of compressed
air very cleverly designed.
A weight of four thousand pounds is represented by a displacement of the
air amounting to forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-seven cubic feet; or, in other words, forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-seven cubic feet of
air weigh about four thousand pounds.
Then the mistake was made of putting too little shot on her, and she rose high in the
air, got her bearings and started eastward across San Francisco Bay.
Left to himself the Prince soon forgot the wise counsels of his mother, and feeling very much bored with his own company, he ordered some of the spirits of the
air to carry him to the court of a neighbouring sovereign.
For, d'ye see, rainbows do not visit the clear
air; they only irradiate vapor.
"Do you find that the
air here makes you drowsy?" Francine asked.
In this attitude were they all three silent together, and sniffed and sipped the good
air with one another.
"Well, if friend Nick can manufacture, from this mess of rubbish, a Thing that will fly through the
air and carry us to safety, then I will acknowledge him to be a better mechanic than I suspected."
I struggled along heroically, my correlations breaking down, my legs tottering under me, my head swimming, my heart pounding, my lungs panting for
air.
Kurt came in with a general
air of ignoring Bert, but muttering to himself in English nevertheless.