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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
It seemed perfectly motionless, and, consequently, the travellers knew that it must be animated by the same ascensional movement as themselves.
From All Around the Moon by Edward Roth
Nevertheless, while we were speaking we were still ascending; we passed the whole night going up, or to speak more scientifically, in an ascensional motion.
From A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
The balloon regained its ascensional force, but soon re-descended.
From A Voyage in a Balloon (1852) by Jules Verne
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
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