"Perhaps we can walk on
the air ourselves," replied the girl.
As Adam lay a-dreaming beneath the Apple Tree, The Angel of
the Air he offered all
the Air in fee.
You also came through
the air, being carried by a cyclone.
There now remained only the question of air; for allowing for the consumption of air by Barbicane, his two companions, and two dogs which he proposed taking with him, it was necessary to renew
the air of the projectile.
He was ready to don the diving-dress himself, or try
the air apparatus, in order to reconnoiter the situation of his courageous friends.
A weight of four thousand pounds is represented by a displacement of
the air amounting to forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-seven cubic feet; or, in other words, forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-seven cubic feet of air weigh about four thousand pounds.
She caught herself with a quick beat of wings, fluttered about undecidedly for a space, then rose in
the air.
Once upon a time there lived a Fairy who had power over the earth, the sea, fire, and
the air; and this Fairy had four sons.
Every one knows that by the peculiar cunning of their gills, the finny tribes in general breathe
the air which at all times is combined with the element in which they swim, hence, a herring or a cod might live a century, and never once raise its head above the surface.
"Do you find that
the air here makes you drowsy?" Francine asked.
For
the air here outside was better than with the higher men.
"Well, if friend Nick can manufacture, from this mess of rubbish, a Thing that will fly through
the air and carry us to safety, then I will acknowledge him to be a better mechanic than I suspected."
All my will was concentrated on breathing--on breathing
the air in the hugest lung-full gulps I could, pumping the greatest amount of air into my lungs in the shortest possible time.
It was then they heard for the first time of the real scale of the Dornhof aeronautic park and the possibility of an attack coming upon them not only by sea, but by
the air. But it is curious that so discredited were the newspapers of that period that a large majority of New Yorkers, for example, did not believe the most copious and circumstantial accounts of the German air-fleet until it was actually in sight of New York.
She had been running and her hair was loose and blown and she was bright with
the air and pink-cheeked, though he could not see it.
