“Nelly, do you never dream queer dreams?” she said, suddenly, after some minutes’ reflection. I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me e...

Only, Ellen, promise you’ll not mention a syllable of his infamous conversation to my brother or Catherine. Whatever he may pretend, he wishes to prov...

All these foolish and unreasonable ideas pursued me. And in this condition of mind, over-excited by the succession of wonders continually passing befo...

The north and west were surely never meant to be left out of his diabolical scheme--let alone the City itself and the very heart of fashionable London...

Even now I cannot recollect without passion my reveries while the work was incomplete. I trod heaven in my thoughts, now exulting in my powers, now bu...

The _Times, Standard, Morning Post_, and _Daily News_, and twenty other highly respectable newspapers scouted Mr. Fogg’s project as madness; the _Dail...

What, then, must be the state of the less known and more distant parts of the island? After traveling fully half a Danish mile, we had met neither a f...

After eating we crept back to the scullery, and there I must have dozed again, for when presently I looked round I was alone. The thudding vibration c...

His own father did not long survive mine; and within half a year from these events Mr. Wickham wrote to inform me that, having finally resolved agains...

However, on the 26th, appeased by some presents, and understanding that they had no reprisals to fear, they led M. There, in three or four fathoms of ...