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A captain who was there estimated that the thickness of the block which separated them from their mates could not be less than fifty metres.
They delayed and were left fifty metres behind; he was lifting her, in spite of her resistance, when the gallery was suddenly stopped up; an enormous block fell in and separated them from the others.
The brat's twenty sous and my thirty, that makes fifty.
Day and night we observed the surface of the ocean, and those with nyctalopic eyes, whose ability to see in the dark increased their chances by fifty percent, had an excellent shot at winning the prize.
Whether this individual was thirty-five or fifty years of age, I could not precisely state.
"And that gives you?""A speed of fifty miles per hour."
My second hull, the outer cover, includes a keel fifty centimeters high by twenty-five wide, which by itself weighs 62 metric tons; this hull, the engine, the ballast, the various accessories and accommodations, plus the bulkheads and interior braces, have a combined weight of 961.52 metric tons, which when added to 394.96 metric tons, gives us the desired total of 1,356.48
I've set our course east-northeast at a depth of fifty meters.
"In the Quebec Museum?""Begging master's pardon," Conseil answered, "but this seems more like the Sommerard artifacts exhibition!""My friends," I replied, signaling them to enter, "you're in neither Canada nor France, but securely aboard the Nautilus, fifty meters below sea level."
Ten, twenty, fifty, a hundred?""I'm unable to answer you, Mr. Land.
The compass still showed our heading as east-northeast, the pressure gauge indicated a pressure of five atmospheres (corresponding to a depth of fifty meters), and the electric log gave our speed as fifteen miles per hour.
The Nautilus kept to an east-northeasterly heading, a speed of twelve miles per hour, and a depth between fifty and sixty meters.
It consists of a tank built from heavy sheet iron in which I store air under a pressure of fifty atmospheres.
But at merely fifty meters, one encounters a firm foundation of rock."
Fifty feet below its peak, amid a shower of stones and slag, a wide crater vomited torrents of lava that were dispersed in fiery cascades into the heart of the liquid mass.
Near three o'clock in the morning, I observed that we encountered the Ice Bank's underbelly at a depth of only fifty meters.
The Nautilus passed the wide estuary formed by the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, and on April 4 we lay abreast of Uruguay, albeit fifty miles out.
It needed to sink to fifty meters, searching for a resting place in the bowels of the sea.
We were racing north-northeast with frightful speed, fifty meters down.
He was a fat little man of fifty, with white skin and blue eyes, the forepart of his head bald, and he wore earrings.
Another had gone one hundred and fifty miles in a straight line, and swum four rivers; and his own father had possessed a poodle, which, after twelve years of absence, had all of a sudden jumped on his back in the street as he was going to dine in town.
But as the doctor's house was only some fifty paces from the inn, they had to say good-night almost immediately, and the company dispersed.
A doctor of medicine, fifty years of age, enjoying a good position and self-possessed, Charles's colleague did not refrain from laughing disdainfully when he had uncovered the leg, mortified to the knee.
Lheureux ran off to his shop, brought back the money, and dictated another bill, by which Bovary undertook to pay to his order on the 1st of September next the sum of one thousand and seventy francs, which, with the hundred and eighty already agreed to, made just twelve hundred and fifty, thus lending at six per cent in addition to one-fourth for commission: and the things bringing him in a good third at the least, this ought in twelve months to give him a profit of a hundred and thirty francs.
Well, Madame Liegard assured me that her three young ladies who are at La Misericorde have lessons at fifty sous apiece, and that from an excellent mistress!"
Then running up the page with his finger, "Let's see! let's see!August 3d, two hundred francs; June 17th, a hundred and fifty; March 23d, forty-six.
On this he closed his eyes to reflect, wrote down a few figures, and declaring it would be very difficult for him, that the affair was shady, and that he was being bled, he wrote out four bills for two hundred and fifty francs each, to fall due month by month.
He is a Companion of several Orders, has a high forehead, an aquiline nose, and on the whole his face is not wanting in a certain regularity: indeed, the first impression formed of it may be that it combines with the dignity of a village mayor that sort of charm which may still be found in a man of forty-eight or fifty.
I have been here for six and fifty years; I have christened almost all the inhabitants of the town, which was no more than a village when I came.
He thinks me unfit to be a priest, at the very moment when I imagined that the sacrifice of an income of fifty louis was going to give him the most exalted idea of my piety and my vocation.
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