“There is serious news this morning,” Lestrade observed. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is despaired of.” “An elderly man, I presume?” s...

Happily the temple walls were built of brick and wood, which could be penetrated with little difficulty; after one brick had been taken out, the rest ...

My uncle was careful to note every hour the indications of the compass, of the manometer, and of the thermometer, all which he afterwards published in...

From time to time they sped by some phantom-like tree, whose white skeleton twisted and rattled in the wind. Sometimes flocks of wild birds rose, or b...

My uncle had completely defeated me with his scientific arguments. Nevertheless, I had still one hope, and that was, when once we were at the bottom o...

Our thirst was so intense that to quench it we would have dug below the bed of old Ocean itself. Hans went quietly to work--a work which neither my un...

I soon fell asleep, and all I can conjecture is, while I slept, the page, thinking no danger could happen, went among the rocks to look for birds’ egg...

They have at least that advantage.” “The country,” said Darcy, “can in general supply but few subjects for such a study. In a country neighbourhood yo...

said, of one entire adamant, two hundred yards thick, might happen to crack by too great a shock, or burst by approaching too near the fires from the ...

The ground floor of the hotel was occupied by a large bar, a sort of restaurant freely open to all passers-by, who might partake of dried beef, oyster...