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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Luminous Atmosphere
All this while we were advancing on our journey; and at length night came; but as I had remarked the evening before, the luminous state of the atmosph...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Eastern Wonders
I cannot express my astonishment at the beauties of these new regions. Here the grouping formed an oriental town, with innumerable mosques and minaret...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Exploration Doubt
Did Saknussemm ever fall in with this great sheet of water? I begin to fear that the rivulet we adopted for a guide has led us wrong." "In any case, w...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Cultural Tension
The murmur soon became more distinct; it now seemed like a distant concert of human voices accompanied by brass instruments. The Parsee jumped to the ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Innovations at Sea
When the apparatus is at work this gas becomes luminous, giving out a white and continuous light. Thus provided, I can breathe and I can see.” “Captai...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Revelation in Reverse
"Nothing if you read from left to right, but mark, if from right to left--" "Backwards!" cried my uncle, in wild amazement. "Oh most cunning Saknussem...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Vigilance at Sea
I leave you to judge how eyes were used on board the _Abraham Lincoln_. For my own part I was not behind the others, and left to no one my share of da...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Nature vs Humanity
But we cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.” Captain Nemo had chosen a s...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Primal Confrontation
The gorilla placed himself on the defensive, and clutching a bone some seven or eight feet in length, a perfect club, aimed a deadly blow at the hideo...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Sanity and Madness
Surely my brain had not been affected by my fall, and all that occurred during the last twenty-four hours was not the frenzied visions of madness? And...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Cautious Descent
Hans, whenever he met with one of these obstacles, advanced with a great show of precaution, sounding the soil with his long iron pole in order to dis...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Curiosity and Confinement
On each side a window opened into this unexplored abyss. The obscurity of the saloon showed to advantage the brightness outside, and we looked out as ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Man vs Nature
As we are totally incapable of steering our frail craft, we shall become the mere plaything of the storm, and it is acting the part of madmen if we, a...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Mormon Society Insight
They saw few or no churches, but the prophet’s mansion, the court-house, and the arsenal, blue-brick houses with verandas and porches, surrounded by g...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Exploration and Risk
We are about to pay a visit to the very bottom of the crater. Others have done it and did not perish from that course. "That, however, is not the whol...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Unprepared Voyage
We are utterly unprepared for a sea voyage; it is simply madness to think of performing a journey of five hundred leagues upon a wretched pile of beam...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Longing and Confinement
His past life is always present to him; everything that we are forbidden he regrets. Nothing; he is not learned like you, sir; and has not the same ta...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Knowledge and Perception
Anxious as I was, I was for a long time doomed to disappointment. Hans coolly drew it in, and with it a fish, which struggled violently to escape. "It...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Natural Bounty
Towards evening it approached the Falkland group, the rough summits of which I recognised the following day. On the shores our nets brought in beautif...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Frozen Frontiers
To the east one only existed somewhere about the eightieth degree of latitude, the Esk, upon the island of Jan Mayen, not far from the frozen regions ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Journeys Threshold
Allahabad was now only twelve miles to the north-east. They stopped under a clump of bananas, the fruit of which, as healthy as bread and as succulent...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Oceanic Encounter
It swam crossways in the direction of the _Nautilus_ with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather fee...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Cultural Significance
Passepartout noticed in the crowd a number of the natives who seemed very old and were dressed in yellow. On going into a barber’s to get shaved he le...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Cultural Intersections
The dishes, of bell metal, were placed on the table, and we took our places. Undoubtedly we had to do with civilised people, and, had it not been for ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Survival and Community
I was hungry, so hungry, that by way of dessert I finished up with a basin of thick oaten porridge. As soon as the meal was over, the children disappe...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Mysteries
Hour after hour passed without our coming to the termination of these floating weeds. If my astonishment increased, my patience was well-nigh exhauste...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Exploration and Discovery
I saw in the morning, some miles to the windward, the elevated summits of the island. These waters furnished our table with excellent fish, mackerel, ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Voyage to Yokohama
“Is your honour looking for a boat?” “Have you a boat ready to sail?” “Yes, your honour; a pilot-boat—No. 43—the best in the harbour.” “Does she go fa...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Journeys End
"Well," I said, "there can be no doubt now as to what we have to do. Water has utterly failed us; our journey is therefore at an end. Let us return." ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Antediluvian Fears
"A tremendous spurt of water rising out of the waves." "Some other marine monster," I cried, already alarmed. "Perhaps." "Then let us steer more to th...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Sacrifice and Time
Fogg!” cried she, clasping his hands and covering them with tears. Fogg, “if we do not lose a moment.” Phileas Fogg, by this resolution, inevitably sa...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Geographic Revelation
“Well, Sir Naturalist,” said the Canadian, in a slightly jovial tone, “and the Mediterranean?” “We are floating on its surface, friend Ned.” “What!” s...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Familial Comfort
And never had this delicious beverage been so welcome and refreshing. My uncle had sufficient regard for my state of health not to interrupt me in the...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Shadows on the Bridge
The bridge was covered with black, agitated shadows. The poor creatures were crowding the ratlines, clinging to the masts, struggling under the water.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Exploration and Survival
"Once we reach the exact centre of this sphere, either we shall find a new road by which to ascend to the surface, or we shall simply turn round and g...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Language and Meaning
Nothing intelligible came out, except that the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth made <i>ice</i> in English; the eighty-fourth, eighty-fifth, and e...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Unseen Threats
As we advanced, I heard a kind of pattering above my head.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Hunger and Imagination
The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. And...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Beauty and Isolation
But, beautiful as it was, I could only take a rapid glance at the basin whose superficial area is two million of square yards. Even Captain Nemo’s kno...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Caution in Exploration
On the other side, prudence bids us profit by the first opportunity to leave the _Nautilus_.” “Well, M. Aronnax, that is wisely said.” “Only one obser...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Maritime Reflection
I therefore seated myself at the end of a promontory, at the foot of which the waves broke in incessant rolls. I looked round a bay formed by projecti...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Exploration and Truth
long., had seen some iron bars and red stuffs used by the natives of these parts. Dumont d’Urville, much perplexed, and not knowing how to credit the ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Echoes of Solitude
Still it was a positive fact that someone was speaking. A dread fell upon my soul that it might be my own words brought back to me by a distant echo. ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Upward Struggles
For some time I have noticed that we are going upwards." "Upwards," cried my uncle, shrugging his shoulders, "how can that be?" "There can be no doubt...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Granite Majesty
At last, after about four hours, this marvellous excursion came to an end. A wall of superb rocks, in an imposing mass, rose before us, a heap of giga...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Journey Begins
The express train had left thirty-five minutes before. There were several rapid locomotives on hand; but the railway arrangements did not permit the s...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Ecosystems Reimagined
The soil was still of the same volcanic nature; everywhere were traces of lava, scoriae, and basalt; but the crater which had vomited them I could not...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Focus and Frustration
They grumbled and protested, and would certainly have thus attracted Phileas Fogg’s attention if he had not been completely absorbed in his game. Pass...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Liquid Comfort
That precious bottle of Hollands was in reality only half full; but, under the circumstances, it was nectar. It took some minutes for myself and my un...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Diverse Observations
I saw many kinds which I never before had a chance of observing. I shall notice chiefly ostracions peculiar to the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and that...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Courage and Despair
Would that we now stood on the summit of the crater." "Go back," said my uncle, speaking to himself, "and must it be so?" "Go back--yes, and without l...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Moment of Uncertainty
At this moment nothing is clear to me; I catch but a glimpse of light amidst all the darkness, and I must confine myself to writing as events shall di...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Interconnected Journeys
This was easy to do, since the steamer stopped at Singapore, whence there is a telegraphic wire to Hong Kong. He finally resolved, moreover, before ac...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Structural Resilience
I felt the steel plates tremble at the fastenings of the bolts; its bars bent, its partitions groaned; the windows of the saloon seemed to curve under...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Journey Begins
At six o'clock in the morning, when the eager and enthusiastic Professor gave the signal to embark, the victuals, the luggage, all our instruments, ou...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Human Ambition
Such a process, simple as it seemed, would most certainly not have entered our heads. Nothing could be more dangerous than to begin to work with picka...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Cultural Encounters
“Well, we are really in America,” thought Passepartout, “and the conductor is a gentleman of the first order!” So muttering, he followed his master. T...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Emotional Isolation
I prepared to execute my self-allotted task--not, it must be confessed, without considerable emotion. After a hearty repast, my uncle and the hunter-g...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Evolutionary Wonders
Higher up still, the first monkey ever seen on the face of the globe clambered, gamboling and playing up the granite hills. Still farther away, ran th...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Depth and Dependence
“Let us remain together until we are out of this block.” “As you please, sir,” Conseil replied. I often looked at the instruments hanging from the par...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Oceanic Dynamics
Indeed, the volume of water in the Mediterranean, incessantly added to by the waves of the Atlantic and by rivers falling into it, would each year rai...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Stealthy Departure
The crew had just finished loading the sodium, and the _Nautilus_ could have left that instant. Did he wish to wait until night, and leave the submari...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Submarine Dinner
The _Nautilus_, like a long rock, emerged from the waves two miles from the beach. Ned Land, without waiting, occupied himself about the important din...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Navigating Adversity
The wind was very unfavorable to a craft that was unable to sail close to the wind. We were continually reduced to pushing ourselves forward by means ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Depths of Discovery
We had attained a depth of 16,000 yards (four leagues), and the sides of the _Nautilus_ then bore a pressure of 1,600 atmospheres, that is to say, 3,2...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Pursuit and Tension
“I shall do all I can to find him,” replied Phileas Fogg. While Fix, in a feverish, nervous state, repaired to the pilot-boat, the others directed the...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Judicial Tension
Just as the clerk was calling the next case, he rose, and said, “I offer bail.” “You have that right,” returned the judge. Fix’s blood ran cold, but h...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Cultural Negotiation
His engagement with my uncle was by no means to cease with our arrival at Stapi; he was further to remain in his service during the whole time require...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Intimacy and Vulnerability
To my surprise, or rather to my stupefaction, he placed it to my lips. I looked at him, with, I am sure, quite an idiotic expression.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Secrets of the Deep
The chest was securely fastened, and the Captain wrote an address on the lid, in characters which must have belonged to Modern Greece. This done, Capt...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Cunning Strategy
Fogg’s plan appeared to him the simplest in the world. Instead of sailing directly from England to the United States, like a common villain, he had tr...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Existential Journey
Can it give heat to a dead body?” “Not that I know of.” “Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable an...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Scientific Inquiry
What would become of us?" "Don't be alarmed at the heat, my boy." "How so?" "Neither you nor anybody else know anything about the real state of the ea...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Arrival and Anticipation
Nearly the whole population of the town was on foot to see us land. The fact was, that scarcely any one of them but expected some goods by the periodi...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Greed and Value
Returning to the Indian, whose small, sharp eyes, glistening with avarice, betrayed that with him it was only a question of how great a price he could...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Temple Intrusion
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 ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Voyage of Discovery
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...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Survival in Nature
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...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Conflict of Knowledge
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...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Desperate Quenching
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...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Hotel Dynamics
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...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Natures Tension
The horizon grew wider and clearer at the same time. Suddenly, just as on the day before, Ned Land’s voice was heard: “The thing itself on the port qu...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Quest for Enlightenment
Our downward journey is quite checked." I held out my hand, and, after some little difficulty, succeeded in touching the wall. "The torch--the torch!"...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Psychological Turmoil
It was with the greatest difficulty that I succeeded in doing so. Hamburg, the house on the Konigstrasse, my dear cousin Gretchen--all that world whic...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Nemos Ascent
Captain Nemo went towards the peak, which he doubtless meant to be his observatory. It was a painful ascent over the sharp lava and the pumice-stones,...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Trust and Tension
There I found Conseil, who wished to know the result of my interview with the Captain. “My boy,” said I, “when I feigned to believe that his _Nautilus...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Pirate Tensions
The first of these pirates who lays a hand on me——” “Do not excite yourself, Ned,” I said to the harpooner, “and do not compromise us by useless viole...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Anticipation in Nature
About twelve o'clock in the day our guide Hans having prepared and baited a hook, cast his line into the subterranean waters. The bait he used was a s...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Technological Terror
Just then a bubbling began at the back of this strange thing (which was evidently propelled by a screw), and it began to move. We had only just time t...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Cultural Breach
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 ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Straits of Malacca
approached the Straits of Malacca, which gave access to the China seas.
Around the World in Eighty Days / Colonial Justice
Judge Obadiah had unfortunately caught Passepartout’s rash exclamation, which the poor fellow would have given the world to recall. “Inasmuch,” resume...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Journey Through Nature
The railway turned around the sides of the mountains, and did not attempt to violate nature by taking the shortest cut from one point to another. The ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Human and Nature
The estimable beast certainly deserved some consideration. Fogg choose to make him, Passepartout, a present of Kiouni, he would be very much embarrass...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Navigating Perilous Terrain
It is necessary, however, to take great precaution, in order to avoid the weight of falling waters, which would cause the raft to founder in an instan...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Generosity and Courage
But, before going, he had said to the soldiers, “My friends, I will divide five thousand dollars among you, if we save the prisoners.” It was then a l...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Colonial Tensions
it’s you, is it, Englishman?” cried the colonel; “it’s you who are going to play a spade!” “And who plays it,” replied Phileas Fogg coolly, throwing d...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Mormon Missionary Encounter
This personage, who had taken the train at Elko, was tall and dark, with black moustache, black stockings, a black silk hat, a black waistcoat, black ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Marine Exploration
At this moment the peak was clearly defined against the sky. The _Nautilus_, diving again under the water, approached the coast, which was only some f...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Scarecrow Guardianship
grinning scarecrows protected from the sparrows, pigeons, ravens, and other voracious birds.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Culinary Survival
no, bread, indeed.” “I do not say that fish is not good; we must not abuse it; but a piece of fresh venison, grilled on live coals, will agreeably var...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Crowd Anticipation
Opposite them, on the other side of the street, between a coal wharf and a petroleum warehouse, a large platform had been erected in the open air, tow...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Inner Conflict
Nevertheless, after the first few moments of terror were over, I was ashamed of my suspicions against a man who hitherto had behaved so admirably. Not...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Wreckage and Despair
The keel seemed to be in good order, and it had been wrecked at most some few hours. Three stumps of masts, broken off about two feet above the bridge...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Deception and Pursuit
Now that he was fully convinced, Fix had quite recovered his equanimity. He passes himself off as an odd stick who is going round the world in eighty ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Confrontation with Authority
Certainly my trouble and agitation would have betrayed me to Captain Nemo’s eyes. At every moment I expected to see him appear, and ask me why I wishe...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Survival in Isolation
On March 22, the _Nautilus_ was in the open polar seas. For five days we had lived on the reserve on board. And what was left of the respirable air mu...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Navigational Perils
It did not follow the routes of the Astrolabe and the Zelee exactly, for they proved fatal to Dumont d’Urville. It bore more northwards, coasted the I...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Despair and Decision
Fogg was certainly ruined, his bet was lost, and he himself perhaps arrested and imprisoned! Ah, if Fix ever came within his reach, what a settling of...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Naval Tension
it moves; it is moving forwards, backwards; it is darting towards us!” A general cry rose from the frigate. “Silence!” said the Captain; “up with the ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Anomaly
If my astonishment increased, my patience was well-nigh exhausted. What natural force could possibly have produced such abnormal and extraordinary pla...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Train Decoupling Incident
There, suspended by one hand between the baggage-car and the tender, with the other he loosened the safety chains; but, owing to the traction, he woul...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Perception Versus Reality
"Are you ill, Henry?" continued the Professor in an anxious tone. All now seems well," I added, looking around me with strangely puzzled eyes. "All ri...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Calm Amidst Chaos
But this man of nerve manifested neither impatience nor annoyance; it seemed as if the storm were a part of his programme, and had been foreseen. Aoud...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Philosophical Calm
But a learned man, a philosopher, is nothing if not a philosopher, when he keeps his ideas calm and collected; and certainly the Professor possessed t...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Ceylons Legacy
Then turning to me, said: “The Island of Ceylon, noted for its pearl-fisheries. Aronnax?” “Certainly, Captain.” “Well, the thing is easy.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Instruments of Depth
But these others, no doubt, answer to the particular requirements of the _Nautilus_. This dial with the movable needle is a manometer, is it not?” “It...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Paradox
"Providence appears to have designed the preservation in this vast and mysterious hothouse of antediluvian plants, to prove the sagacity of learned me...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Echoes of Despair
help!” Our movements were suspended for an instant; we listened. It might be only a singing in the ear, but it seemed to me as if a cry answered the c...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Descent into Darkness
The descent then commenced in the following order: Hans went first, my uncle followed, and I went last. Our progress was made in profound silence--a s...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Heroic Suffering
But at last the time came when my limbs refused to carry me longer. I contended heroically against the terrible tortures I endured, because I did not ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Exploration and Isolation
I thought that a mountainous region was succeeding the long plains; and accordingly, after a few evolutions of the _Nautilus_, I saw the southerly hor...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Chase and Escape
The harpoon regained, we followed in pursuit of the animal. The latter came now and then to the surface to breathe. Its wound had not weakened it, for...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Icelandic Resilience
It was utterly useless to show any signs of impatience. I could not help smiling to see him look so big on his little horse; his long legs now and the...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Natures Indifference
The buffaloes marched along with a tranquil gait, uttering now and then deafening bellowings. There was no use of interrupting them, for, having taken...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Resourceful Hunter
Hans the hunter is indeed an invaluable man!" It was impossible to deny this fact. As far as the nautical and other instruments were concerned, nothin...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Fate and Irony
Amongst other things, we happened to speak of the situation of the _Nautilus_, run aground in exactly the same spot in this strait where Dumont d’Urvi...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Maritime Endeavors
As usual, the crew was small, five Danes doing the whole of the work. "Well, I should think about ten days," replied the skipper, "unless, indeed, we ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Natures Contrasts
“Good!” said Conseil; “a concert of bulls!” “No; a concert of morses.” “They are fighting!” “They are either fighting or playing.” We now began to cli...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Guidance and Rejuvenation
It will, of course, naturally follow in our track, and will serve to guide and refresh us." "I think the idea a good one," I cried in reply, "and with...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Prudence vs Adventure
To fly is, therefore, the course to be suggested by ordinary prudence. But we have not come into that part of the world to be prudent. The nearer we c...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Exploration and Isolation
I had not seen Captain Nemo for a week, when, on the morning of the 27th, he came into the large drawing-room, always seeming as if he had seen you fi...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Temporal Clash
Am I, then, an inhabitant of the earth of the present day, destined to find myself face to face with a representative of this antediluvian family? I c...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Culinary Discomfort
The water was fresh and clear, but it was water, and did not suit Ned Land’s taste. Amongst the dishes which were brought to us, I recognised several ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Nautilus Revelation
The Captain showed me a sketch that gave the plan, section, and elevation of the _Nautilus_. Then he began his description in these words:— “Here, M. ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Continents and Men
These are coral islands, slowly raised, but continuous, created by the daily work of polypi. Then this new island will be joined later on to the neigh...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Exploration and Irony
sir,” said Captain Nemo, in an ironical tone, “you will always be the same. I affirm that not only can the _Nautilus_ disengage itself, but also that ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Journeying in a Dream
“Thanks, yes, the passport is all right.” “And you are looking about you?” “Yes; but we travel so fast that I seem to be journeying in a dream. So thi...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Illuminated Geology
It was a glorious sight to see how the electric light brought out the sparkles in the walls of the calcareous rocks, and the old red sandstone. One mi...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Bad Season Exploration
It was then the bad season in Australia, the July of that zone corresponding to our January in Europe, but the sea was beautiful and easily scanned ro...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Race Against Time
Is it uncommon for the best ocean steamers to be two or three days behind time? But a single delay would suffice to fatally break the chain of communi...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Temperature Gradients
Thus at Yakoust in Siberia, it has been remarked that the heat increases a degree every thirty-six feet. The difference evidently depends on the condu...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Strategic Navigation
In going to Shanghai we should not be forced to sail wide of the Chinese coast, which would be a great advantage, as the currents run northward, and w...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Resignation and Fate
In a mood of stolid and sullen resignation, I was about to take my accustomed place on the raft when my uncle placed his hand upon my shoulder. "There...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Hunting Adventures
The Canadian skinned and cleaned it properly, after having taken half a dozen cutlets, destined to furnish us with a grilled repast in the evening. Th...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Chaos and Isolation
There is a constant emission of light from the storm clouds; the electric matter is incessantly released; evidently the gaseous principles of the air ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Longing for the Past
Was he dreaming of those generations long since disappeared? Was it here this strange man came to steep himself in historical recollections, and live ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Colonial Contrasts
From hence I went to the house of the Governor--a mere hut in comparison with the Mansion House of Hamburg--but a palace alongside the other Icelandic...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Confusion and Control
Fix, it must be confessed, understood nothing of what was going on. The conquest of the “Henrietta,” the bribery of the crew, Fogg managing the boat l...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Inner Turmoil
My uncle, who for a short time had been withdrawn from his absorbing reveries by the novel incidents of this sea fight, fell back again apparently int...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Uncharted Territories
"Yes, you have no idea how many unknown mountains, glaciers, volcanoes there are which remain to be studied. Without moving from where we sit, I can s...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Moral Ambiguity
Fogg is no more a robber than I am a murderer.” Should he divulge Fix’s real errand to his master? Would it do to tell the part the detective was play...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Bounty
The rain has fallen in abundance, and filled the hollows of the granite. There is a rich supply of water, and we have no fear of suffering from thirst...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Detectives Dilemma
Fix saw them leave the carriage and push off in a boat for the steamer, and stamped his feet with disappointment. I’ll follow him to the end of the wo...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Railway Expectations
This is the 22nd, and we shall reach Calcutta in time.” There was nothing to say to so confident a response. It was but too true that the railway came...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Exploration and Knowledge
We began to hope that we should find some of those saurians which science has succeeded in reconstructing from bits of bone or cartilage. I took up th...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Colonial Desolation
The ground was covered by groups of the Indians, motionless in their drunken sleep; it seemed a battlefield strewn with the dead. In the background, a...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Travel and Wit
That was a good time.” “For the cats, my lord?” “Perhaps for the travellers as well!” After which Mr. Fogg, and his first destination was the headquar...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Desperate Choices
They then discussed the means of getting at the victim. The guide was familiar with the pagoda of Pillaji, in which, as he declared, the young woman w...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Embarrassment and Journey
Fogg choose to make him, Passepartout, a present of Kiouni, he would be very much embarrassed; and these thoughts did not cease worrying him for a lon...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Cultural Encounters
But he shrank from telling the story of his adventures, intimately connected as it was with that of his master; and, before doing so, he determined to...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Exploration Dialogue
It is my intention to try my luck with my fishing line and hook." "Certainly; make the experiment," said my uncle, pleased with my enthusiasm. "While ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Fate and Explosions
"We are bound to go through," responded the Professor, tapping me on the back. At midnight, our work as miners was completely finished; the charge of ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Observation and Discovery
Conseil and I remained to survey the shore, observing and studying until five o’clock. Then I went to bed, not, however, without invoking, like the In...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Oceanic Terrors
There rose high submarine cliffs covered with large weeds. It was about eleven o’clock when Ned Land drew my attention to a formidable pricking, like ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Obstacles of Progress
“Yes, but it’s on the other side of the river.” “And can’t we cross that in a boat?” asked the colonel. It is a rapid, and we shall have to make a cir...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Intuition and Survival
Several times I passed my hand across the rock hoping to find some trace of humidity--of the slightest percolation. It now became evident that the hun...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Inner Turmoil
I began in the newly aroused ardor of my soul to speak enthusiastically to the Professor. The whole state in which we existed was a mystery--and it wa...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Fortune Favors the Brave
IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE The project was a bold one, full of difficulty, perhaps impracticable. Fogg w...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Rationality and Fear
If, then, the steam remains in its normal or habitual state, if their energy does not increase, and if you add to this, the remark that the wind is no...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Naming the Unknown
sea voyage had at length commenced; and once more we were making for distant and unknown regions. Just as we were about to leave the little port where...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Colonial Encounters
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 ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Chase of the Cetacean
The _Abraham Lincoln_, propelled by her wonderful screw, went straight at the animal. The latter allowed it to come within half a cable’s length; then...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Depths of Knowledge
Then, addressing me as if to chase away some sorrowful thought: “M. Aronnax,” he asked, “do you know the depth of the ocean?” “I only know, Captain, w...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Gibraltar Currents
On the 18th of February, about three o’clock in the morning, we were at the entrance of the Straits of Gibraltar. There once existed two currents: an ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Volcanic Exploration
Nevertheless, it appeared quite clear to me, that we were not in the principal chimney of the volcano, but in an accessory conduit, where we felt the ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Colorless Existence
Upon their borders grew small treelike shrubs, such as are seen in the hot countries on our own inhabited globe. The one thing wanting in these plants...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Betting Culture
This article made a great deal of noise, and, being copied into all the papers, seriously depressed the advocates of the rash tourist. Everybody knows...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Marine Mysteries
“No,” replied the Canadian; “for this is whole, and the other had lost its tail.” “That is no reason,” I replied. “The arms and tails of these animals...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Deception and Desire
but the truth; but he managed so well that the creature joined the honey-cakes in his bag.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Transformation Through Discovery
"Are you convinced?" said my uncle, with a self-satisfied smile. "I am convinced," I cried, "that what I see is incredible." The fact was that my jour...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Despair and Isolation
Again I made the old ruins resound with my cries, and finally so exhausted myself that I fainted. How long I lay in a kind of trance or sleep I cannot...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Fatigue and Nature
What could be the cause of this--to what atmospheric agitation could be ascribed this draught? But this was a question which I did not care to discuss...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Natures Fury
At a less advanced season of the year the typhoon, according to a famous meteorologist, would have passed away like a luminous cascade of electric fla...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Traveling with Purpose
Fogg and his party reached the station, and they only had time to get into the cars. They had seen nothing of Omaha; but Passepartout confessed to him...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Reflections on Prehistory
All day my thoughts were bent upon these speculations, and my imagination scarcely regained a degree of calmness and power of reflection until after a...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Desolation and Pity
The country we had reached was already nearly a desert. Here and there could be seen an isolated farm, some solitary bur, or Icelandic house, built of...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Enchantment
But that which served as steps under our feet became in other places stalactites. The lava, very porous in certain places, took the form of little rou...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Existential Struggle
My clothes encumbered me; they seemed glued to my body, and paralysed my movements. My mouth filled with water; I struggled against being drawn down t...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Desperation at Sea
But on the 11th of April it rose suddenly, and land appeared at the mouth of the Amazon River, a vast estuary, the embouchure of which is so considera...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Linguistic Power
After some moments of silence, which not one of us dreamed of breaking, “Gentlemen,” said he, in a calm and penetrating voice, “I speak French, Englis...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Cultural Exchange
Batulcar, was to commence at three o’clock, and soon the deafening instruments of a Japanese orchestra resounded at the door. Passepartout, though he ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Unexpected Care
Soon however, about a quarter of an hour later I heard a voice above me, at one of the upper fireplaces. In an instant a basket was lowered with milk,...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Mapping Discovery
"But see, what is all this about Yocul, and Sneffels, and this Scartaris? I have never heard anything about them." "The very point to which I am comin...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Trust and Betrayal
But how shall I prevent his departure, if that should turn out to be my last resource?” Fix made up his mind that, if worst came to worst, he would ma...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Breath of Freedom
Moreover, the vivacity of the dense atmosphere reanimated my body by inflating my lungs with unaccustomed oxygen. It will be readily conceived that af...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Anxieties of Adventure
Fogg, I suppose, is anxious to catch the steamer for Yokohama?” “Terribly anxious.” “You believe in this journey around the world, then?” “Absolutely....
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Naming Identity
And the name of "Hansbach" ("Hans Brook") was at once agreed upon. Hans was not a bit more proud after hearing our determination than he was before. A...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Ceremonial Procession
The head of the procession soon appeared beneath the trees, a hundred paces away; and the strange figures who performed the religious ceremony were ea...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Fear and Instability
"What fear you now?" "What do I fear now!" I cried in fierce and angry tones. "Do you not see that the walls of the shaft are in motion?
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Enthusiasm and Restraint
"Forward--forward," I cried in a burst of genuine and hearty enthusiasm. I had already started in the direction of the somber and gloomy gallery when ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Marine Diversity
As to the fauna, it might be counted by thousands of crustacea of all sorts, lobsters, crabs, spider-crabs, chameleon shrimps, and a large number of s...