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There was besides a light india-rubber boat, insubmersible, which could carry eight men on the surface of a river, a lake, or a calm sea.
Robur the Conqueror 2003
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“Of course; an excellent vessel, light and insubmersible, that serves either as a fishing or as a pleasure boat.”
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Roadstead with an insubmersible dike built upon the rocky shoals, which would begin at Cape Heve (which it would consolidate) and end opposite the entrance to the port at 1,600 meters from the jetties.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Various
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"Of course; an excellent vessel, light and insubmersible, that serves either as a fishing or as a pleasure boat."
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866
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There was besides a light india-rubber boat, insubmersible, which could carry eight men on the surface of a river, a lake, or a calm sea.
Robur the Conqueror Jules Verne 1866
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a solid insubmersible foundation, would really be the most comfortable and wonderful conveyance that could possibly be imagined.
The Fur Country 1874
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