 Machine on its interminable voyage. We all saw the lever turn. I am absolutely certain there was no trickery. There was a breath of wind, and the lamp flame jumped. One of the candles on the mantel was blown out, and the little machine suddenly swung...  The Observatory - Strana 3211895Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Herbert George Wells - 1924 - 500 str.
...turn. I am absolutely certain there was no trickery. There was a breath of wind, and the lamp flame jumped. One of the candles on the mantel was blown...— vanished ! Save for the lamp the table was bare. Every one was silent for a minute. Then Filby said he was damned. The Psychologist recovered from his... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - 1924 - 504 str.
...turn. I am absolutely certain there was no trickery. There was a breath of wind, and the lamp flame jumped. One of the candles on the mantel was blown...— vanished ! Save for the lamp the table was bare. Every one was silent for a minute. Then Filby said he was damned. The Psychologist recovered from his... | |
 | 1970 - 760 str.
...future, and the other reversed the motion. The Time Traveller pressed the first lever and the model suddenly swung round, became indistinct, was seen...an eddy of faintly glittering brass and ivory, and then it was gone, vanished! The large machine was a copy of the model. Parts were of nickel, parts... | |
 | John Batchelor - 1985 - 470 str.
...demonstration and part conjuring trick. The actual disappearance of the model is minutely observed: 'One of the candles on the mantel was blown out, and...glittering brass and ivory; and it was gone — vanished' (ch. 2). The Time Traveller then leads his guests down a corridor to see the full-size machine, which... | |
 | Jack Kuhatschek - 1985 - 36 str.
...turn. I am absolutely certain there was no trickery. There was a breath of wind, and the lamp flame jumped. One of the candles on the mantel was blown out, and the machine suddenly swung round, became indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps, as an eddy... | |
 | Elazar Barkan, Ronald Bush - 1995 - 468 str.
...the body. As the Traveller's little experimental machine "swung round," set in motion on a table, it "became indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second...glittering brass and ivory; and it was gone — vanished!" (Complete Short Stories, p. 15). In Stoker's seemingly very different narrative, the case is the same:... | |
 | Tom De Haven - 2002 - 388 str.
...nothing, and when Gertrude was gone, she lay down on the floor under the boy's cot. Stx " 'The lamp flame jumped. One of the candles on the mantel was blown...— vanished! Save for the lamp, the table was bare. . . .'" Joette paused; then, seeing that Georgie had fallen asleep, she laid the purple ribbon across... | |
 | Laurence A. Rickels - 384 str.
...circle of friends and witnesses, the inventor turns the demo on, torn free, free of the time flow, and the "little machine suddenly swung round, became...indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps — and it was gone — vanished!" (199). In fact, the friends protest, this may be just too much,... | |
 | Robert Silverberg, Ben Bova - 2004 - 736 str.
...turn. I am absolutely certain there was no trickery. There was a breath of wind, and the lamp flame jumped. One of the candles on the mantel was blown...gone— vanished! Save for the lamp the table was bare. Every one was silent for a minute. Then Filby said he was damned. ting up, he went to the tobacco jar... | |
 | Lucie Armitt - 2005 - 248 str.
...attending a seance rather than a scientific demonstration: There was a breath of wind, and the lamp flame jumped. One of the candles on the mantel was blown...little machine suddenly swung round, became indistinct, [and] was seen as a ghost for a second . . .' (7'M, 8). Of course, the relationship between ghosts... | |
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