Hence, also, is obtained a plentiful supply of fuel for the use of the
engines. Whoever had gazed into the dismal obscurity of the broad cavern mouth, whence ever and anon darted huge tongues of dusky flame, and had seen the strange, half-shaped monsters, and visions of faces horribly grotesque, into which the smoke seemed to wreathe itself, and had heard the awful murmurs, and shrieks, and deep, shuddering whispers of the blast, sometimes forming themselves into words almost articulate, would have seized upon Mr.
Our bow was pointed straight toward the U-boat now as I heard word passed to the
engine for full speed ahead.
97," which took them over from the old Dominion of Light which had them out of the wreck of the Persew aeroplane in the years when men still flew wooden kites over oil
engines!
It would take months to penetrate those mighty walls, in fact the work has already commenced, and there would be little to fear were the
engine of the pumping plant to run as it should and as they all have for hundreds of years now; but the worst, we fear, has happened.
For twenty minutes the Coldwater bucked the great seas with her three
engines. I doubt if she advanced a foot; but it was enough to keep her nose in the wind, and, at least, we were not drifting toward thirty.
A long saloon carriage, with a guard's brake behind and an
engine in front, was waiting there.
About four hours after we began our journey, I awaked by a very ridiculous accident; for the carriage being stopped a while, to adjust something that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had the curiosity to see how I looked when I was asleep; they climbed up into the
engine, and advancing very softly to my face, one of them, an officer in the guards, put the sharp end of his half-pike a good way up into my left nostril, which tickled my nose like a straw, and made me sneeze violently; whereupon they stole off unperceived, and it was three weeks before I knew the cause of my waking so suddenly.
Rout had gone away, and Captain MacWhirr could feel against his ear the pulsation of the
engines, like the beat of the ship's heart.
The furnaces roared, and the powerful
engines whizzed and clanked, like a great metallic heart.
I wished the beast would exhaust itself, and not be insensible to fatigue like a steam
engine. But it was of no use.
A fire
engine was enshrined in his heart as an appalling thing that he loved with a distant dog-like devotion.
"If the
engine gets stopped," he said, "I don't know how we shall get out of this."
the fire-engine!" shouted two or three voices, "stand back, make way!" and clattering and thundering over the stones two horses dashed into the yard with a heavy
engine behind them.
Whenever I see the movement of a locomotive I hear the whistle and see the valves opening and wheels turning; but I have no right to conclude that the whistling and the turning of wheels are the cause of the movement of the
engine.
"My dear colleagues," said Barbicane, without further preamble, "the subject now before us is the construction of the
engine, its length, its composition, and its weight.
