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The reorganization of work in the
galleries
gave considerable trouble.
They only kept their lamp and ran in single file--the men, the boys, the putter; the captain himself lost his head and shouted out appeals, more and more frightened at the silence in this endless desert of
galleries.
No doubt, the rapid rise of the water had forced the wretches to flee into the galleries, if, indeed, the flood had not already filled their mouths.
The mine drank down this river; the
galleries
would now be submerged for years.
The worst was that the old pit, now also inundated, no longer communicated with the Voreux; and above the level of the water only a few ends of
galleries
belonging to the first level were left free.
The pumping process would require years, and the best plan would be to visit these
galleries
and ascertain if any of them approached the submerged passages at the end of which the distressed miners were suspected to be.
For fear of meeting an obstacle, the engineer had had three descending
galleries
opened in the seam, converging to the point where the enclosed miners were supposed to be.
Everything flamed up and the air caught fire like powder, from one end of the
galleries
to the other.
After three long hours of effort and danger they reached the
galleries
once more, and the melancholy ascent of the victims took place.
The
galleries
of approach had fortunately not fallen after the fire-damp explosion; but the air was so heavy and so vitiated that more ventilators had to be installed.
Deneulin would show them over his yards and then they would return by Réquillart, where Négrel would tell them the exact state of things in the galleries, and if there was still hope.
And suddenly, when he felt this ice soaking his coat, he set out in a furious gallop, and was engulfed and lost at the end of one of the haulage
galleries.
On leaving the pit-eye he had wildly galloped along the dark
galleries.
But as he went deeper in, the
galleries
became narrower, the roofs lower, and the walls protruded.
At the end of the
galleries
the air, driven back, pressed together and crushed, exploding terribly amid split rocks and overthrown soil.
They had nothing beneath them now but the sensation of that sea, swelling out its silent tide from the depths of the
galleries.
To our right and left there were carved gloomy
galleries
where the eye lost its way.
But presently his whole attention was absorbed in twelve or fifteen pretty women who, seated opposite the dock, filled the three
galleries
above the bench and the jurybox.
At length the duke came out to take her down, and as they entered a spacious court two fair damsels came forward and threw over Don Quixote's shoulders a large mantle of the finest scarlet cloth, and at the same instant all the
galleries
of the court were lined with the men-servants and women-servants of the household, crying, "Welcome, flower and cream of knight-errantry!" while all or most of them flung pellets filled with scented water over Don Quixote and the duke and duchess; at all which Don Quixote was greatly astonished, and this was the first time that he thoroughly felt and believed himself to be a knight-errant in reality and not merely in fancy, now that he saw himself treated in the same way as he had read of such knights being treated in days of yore.
Great, rambling queer old places they are, with galleries, and passages, and staircases, wide enough and antiquated enough to furnish materials for a hundred ghost stories, supposing we should ever be reduced to the lamentable necessity of inventing any, and that the world should exist long enough to exhaust the innumerable veracious legends connected with old London Bridge, and its adjacent neighbourhood on the Surrey side.
A double tier of bedroom galleries, with old Clumsy balustrades, ran round two sides of the straggling area, and a double row of bells to correspond, sheltered from the weather by a little sloping roof, hung over the door leading to the bar and coffee-room.
I could snap it like a twig, only there are long
galleries
here with many doors--I don't think I could find my way along them; and even if I could, I know there are iron gates below which they keep locked and barred.
In the
galleries
themselves, and more especially on the stair- cases, there lingered a great number of people, who came there, some because their rooms were empty and lonesome, others because their rooms were full and hot; the greater part because they were restless and uncomfortable, and not possessed of the secret of exactly knowing what to do with themselves.
Finding all gentle remonstrance useless, Mr. Pickwick at length yielded a reluctant consent to his taking lodgings by the week, of a bald-headed cobbler, who rented a small slip room in one of the upper
galleries.
From this spot, Mr. Pickwick wandered along all the galleries, up and down all the staircases, and once again round the whole area of the yard.
"Down--for this reason: We are in a vast chamber, with endless
galleries.
And now, Watson, it only remains for us to find out by wire the identity of the cabman, No. 2704, and then we will drop into one of the Bond Street picture
galleries
and fill in the time until we are due at the hotel."
Sand, stones, twisted branches, wet clay, closed up the
galleries
open to the south winds.
They traversed these somber galleries, waving lighted torches; they examined the smallest excavations; they sounded the shallowest depths, but all was dark and silent.
The exterior of the lists was in part occupied by temporary galleries, spread with tapestry and carpets, and accommodated with cushions for the convenience of those ladies and nobles who were expected to attend the tournament.
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