A few gas-jets lighted in the narrowest streets, and in a shop here and there strove to shine out in the thick wet air.
The dead man was lifted up; they laid him on a sofa in a corner of the room, and the nearest gas-jets were put out.
And through this two Martians slowly waded, and turned their hissing steam jets this way and that.
Enormous quantities of a ruddy-brown fluid were spurting up in noisy jets out of the machine.
Thunder-clap followed thunder-clap, long jets of white flame pierced the darkness, and now and again the very air seemed to kindle, and brilliant sheets and shreds of flame blazed and crackled round us.
Down in the valley, where several British batteries were in action, long thinjets of flame darted forth incessantly.
In the obscurity he at first heard the plashing of the fountains without being at all able to see them, but on approaching he at last distinguished the slender phantoms of the ever rising jets which fell again in spray.
And not a soul was to be seen: there was but the faint sound of his own light footsteps and the sleepy glow of the gas jets whose light was softly whitened by globes of frosted glass.
I walk beneath the shadowy multitude of towers; Within the gloom the fountain jets its pallid mist in lily flowers.
AT ONE Sometimes a sudden fount of tears jets in my heart And oft-times golden gleams will through my being dart: Your cry or laugh, my sweet, though we are far apart.
And by dint of light and extremely unorthodox use of what jets he had left in usable shape he did land her free, almost within the limits of the observatory's field; and having landed, he inerted her.
He had enough intelligence left to realize that, with practically all of his jets clogged and his wings and tail shot off, he couldn't land his little vessel inert.
Gobs of viscous slag slapped it liquidly, freezing into and clogging up jets and orifices.
But for a long while he could distinguish the black speck with luminous jets on either side, as the oar-blades intermittently rose and fell, till at length, entering within the shadow of the land, he lost sight of it.
The ground was literally starred with divergingjets of flame.
A coat of whitewash and gas jets instead of the electric light would make the illusion complete.
Jets of vapour, caused by the cold moisture coming in contact with the warm cylinders, drifted into his face and buffeted his bloodshot eyes.
Her fine profile was lit up by the bright light from the row of gas jets of a cafe.
The entire cellar was lit up by wreaths of gas jets and Chinese lanterns hidden in the foliage, masking the walls of stone.
Out of the trees and onto the trail, both drivers shifted gears, dropping rear skis to the more solid pack of the trail and sending jets of steam shooting out from the thrust tubes of the Sno cars.
When the present storm had ended and before new snow fell again, the south slopes would again be stained with clouds of black, mono-molecular film, gushing out in clouds behind spray jets of the survey planes.
Their great million-gallon-a-minute jets forced the bore hole water up to the surface and kept sucking up the waters cascading now into the cavern.
The big nuclear pumps stood thirty feet high with their great jets at the top.
This made a delay and when we did get our jets reversed and working, our timing was off.
You get in the Air Force, let us train you for a good job, say you work to be a mechanic for jets and rockets, then maybe you might be assigned here.
I could pick the Air Force and maybe get to see some rockets and jets in action.
It was now pitch dark outside, three gas-jets were flaring in the room, diffusing dim rays in the midst of the tobacco-smoke.
Then the room danced round, the gas-jets seemed to shoot like stars.
Exhaust pipes on roofs puffed out violent jets of steam; an automatic sawmill added a rhythmic screeching; a button factory shook the ground with the rumbling of its machines.
She had done so, and the fountain was sending upwards its jets of diamonds under the rays of the reflectors at the front door.
In the black chimney the fire darted jets of golden sparks.
He took out a match and was feeling for the nearest of the hall jets when a sound from the lower floor reached him.
There were some few moments of silence; the secretary leaned back in his chair, his fingers pattering upon its arms; that he was interested was shown by the quick little jets of smoke which rose above his head.
The cross seas defeated this; wave meeting wave, actually sending those crests, which otherwise would have rolled over in combing foam, upward in terrific jets d'eau.
On such occasions, it is no uncommon thing to see jets d'eau hundreds of feet in height, and the driving spray is often carried to a great distance inland, before the wind.
The disks at one end of the shaft are smaller than those at the other; the steam enters at the small end in a circle of jets that blow against the wings and set them and the whole shaft whirling.
When the freezing is complete, jets of steam or quick immersion of the can in hot water releases the cake and the can is ready for another charge.
Just as a water-wheel is driven by the weight or force of the water striking the blades or paddles of the wheel, so the force of the many jets of steam striking against the little wings makes the wheels of the steam-turbines revolve.
A formation of jets swam into view against the sky.
Over at the airfield they're walking around beaming happy over the way the jets are flyin' themselves.
Now they got jets that put down their own landing-gear, and holler when fuel's running low, and do acrobatics happy if you only jiggle the stick.
It was foaming and surging at a terrible rate, occasionally emitting small jets of hot water nearly to the mouth of the orifice.
Each alternate report shook the ground a distance of two hundred yards or more, and the massive jets of vapor which accompanied them burst forth like the smoke of burning gunpowder.
Back of this ridge are several small springs which throw up geyser-like jets of water intermittently to the height of three feet.
The latter geyser has a double orifice, which discharges five radiating jets to the height of sixty feet, the falling drops and spray giving the appearance of a feather fan.
Jets of hot vapor were expelled through a hundred natural orifices with which it was pierced, and through every fracture made by passing over it.
The earth trembles under the descending deluge from this vast fountain; a thousand hissing sounds are heard in the air; rainbows encircle the summits of the jets with a halo of celestial glory.
Beyond them we saw with great distinctness the jets of the mud volcano and geyser.
The average height of the flowing was about fifteen feet, though some of the jets reached fully thirty feet.
The waving to and fro of the gigantic fountain, in a bright sunlight, when its jets are at their highest, affords a spectacle of wonder of which any description can give but a feeble idea.
The shadowy lines became accented by twin rows of flickering fire, the rear jetsseen with a blurred halo of mist round each of them, the halo crawling feebly within itself, tormented by a feeble wind.
There was an odour of frying in the room, and a hissing noise proceeded from a soft of metal caldron which stood over a row of gas-jets on the pewter counter.
Just imagine, a globe of crystal, gilded all over, the lower part beautifully incrusted, perfumes burning at the top, and jets from which flame issued when they were lighted.
The diligence was an hour later than usual, and I passed the time in watching the smoke which continued to increase in volume, and was mingled, from time to time, with jets of inky blackness.
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