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Then, entering the car in which Schwab and Oliphant already were, he set the ascensional screws in motion.
From King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane by Herbert Strang
The rapid ascensional capability of the airship, as compared with that of the aeroplane, is a disadvantage, but on the other hand, the superior mobility and speed of the aeroplane would tell decisively for success.
From Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
Luckily, with a blow of the hatchet the mate severed the line, and the "Albatross," freed from her tug, sprang aloft six hundred feet under the impulse of her ascensional screws.
From Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne
The theory of the ascensional evolution of beings, which renders miracle useless, shows Nature to us in the course of constant transformation and perpetual travail.
From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier
The ascensional rudder or screw-propeller, 327 which was able to impart a speed of thirty miles an hour to the machine, was in the extension of the horizontal bar of the frame.
From The Bill-Toppers by J. André Castaigne
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