When it was found I could neither understand nor be understood, I was conducted by his order to an apartment in his palace (this prince being distingu...

Phileas Fogg, like a racehorse, was drawing near his last turning-point. The bonds were quoted, no longer at a hundred below par, but at twenty, at te...

“I would drown first.” Just then the moon appeared through the fringes of a thick cloud that the wind was driving to the east. She was five miles from...

He demanded damages for the “breakage” of the pyramid; and Phileas Fogg appeased him by giving him a handful of banknotes. Fogg and Aouda, followed by...

He made a wide curve to avoid me, as though he feared I might prove a fresh competitor. As the yelping died away down the silent road, the wailing sou...

And all being quiet throughout the afternoon, we started about five o’clock, as I should judge, along the blackened road to Sunbury. In Sunbury, and a...

We ran by Gibraltar wi’oot bein’ able to signal; an’ till we came to the Dardanelles and had to wait to get our permit to pass, we never were within h...

He is careful therefore to point the exact one which is the highway into the Interior of the Earth. He lets us know, for this purpose, that about the ...

I keep you, when I could, by a word, plunge you into the depths of the ocean. You came to surprise a secret which no man in the world must penetrate,—...

Nothing in human shape could have destroyed the fair child. The mere presence of the idea was an irresistible proof of the fact. I thought of pursuing...