This obstacle, which could not be turned, had to be crossed, so the cylinder was put to its utmost power, and the balloon rose to the height of six thousand feet, leaving between it and the volcano a space of more than three hundred fathoms.
By ten o'clock the volcano could be seen only as a red point on the horizon, and the balloon tranquilly pursued her course in a less elevated zone of the atmosphere.
She did not like it, but the impulse that made her turn it over was not one of displeasure but fear, because for a minute she fancied the paper was the Volcano.
I shall hope so," was all he said, but he meant more than she imagined, and the grave, kind look he gave her made her feel as if the words Weekly Volcano were printed in large type on her forehead.
Soon a torrent of vivid sparks fell around them -- then, at last, the volcano
was extinguished -- then all was dark and still -- the floating bark and heaving ocean.
of Orsono was spouting out volumes of smoke.
No, it was man alone who had produced these reddish vapors, these gigantic flames worthy of a volcano
itself, these tremendous vibrations resembling the shock of an earthquake, these reverberations rivaling those of hurricanes and storms; and it was his hand which precipitated into an abyss, dug by himself, a whole Niagara of molten metal!
The firm tower, that is Ahab; the volcano
, that is Ahab; the courageous, the undaunted, and victorious fowl, that, too, is Ahab; all are Ahab; and this round gold is but the image of the rounder globe, which, like a magician's glass, to each and every man in turn but mirrors back his own mysterious self.
The Vesuvius of today is a very poor affair compared to the mighty volcano
of Kilauea, in the Sandwich Islands, but I am glad I visited it.
She wanted to lean toward this burning, blazing man that was like a volcano spouting forth strength, robustness, and health.
In the background a volcano crater was silhouetted against the stars.