You are at liberty to think as you like, and to complain to those who have the power to help you--if you can." "And that we have done, Mr.Robur." "Indeed!" "Was it so difficult when we were crossing the inhabited part of Europe to drop a letter overboard ?" "Did you do that ?" said Robur, in a paroxysm of rage.
"And if we have done it ?" "If you have done it--you deserve--" "What, sir ?" "To follow your letter overboard." "Throw us over, then.

We did do it." Robur stepped towards them.

At a gesture from him Tom Turner and some of the crew ran up.

The engineer was seriously tempted to put his threat into execution, and, fearful perhaps of yielding to it, he precipitately rushed into his cabin.
"Good!" exclaimed Phil Evans.
"And what he will dare not do," said Uncle Prudent, "I Will do! Yes, I Will do!" At the moment the population of Timbuktu were crowding onto the squares and roads and the terraces built like amphitheaters.

In the rich quarters of Sankere and Sarahama, as in the miserable huts at Raguidi, the priests from the minarets were thundering their loudest maledictions against the aerial monster.