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"Thomas, the hero, was, in fact, the game-keeper of an Irish peer, whose eccentricities gave rise to the tale."

"Having reached the door, however, of the burgomaster's dwelling, the professor ventured to suggest that as the messenger had thought proper to disappear - no doubt frightened to death by the savage appearance of the burghers of Rotterdam - the pardon would be of little use, as no one but a man of the moon would undertake a voyage to so vast a distance."

"During the now brief interval of darkness a meteoric stone again passed in my vicinity, and the frequency of these phenomena began to occasion me much apprehension."

"But this was a question which, I am willing to confess, occasioned me no little trouble in its solution."

"He appeared extremely uneasy, looking anxiously around him, fluttering his wings, and making a loud cooing noise, but could not be persuaded to trust himself from the car."

"This would remove the chief obstacle in a journey to the moon."

"As I left the earth, the barometer stood at thirty inches, and the centigrade thermometer at nineteen degrees."

"It is not to be supposed, however, that the great Underduk suffered this impertinence on the part of the little old man to pass off with impunity."