Theme: age
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...
The War of the Worlds / Power Dynamics
And even if there’s a delay, how can it alter the end? There’s the ants builds their cities, live their lives, have wars, revolutions, until the men w...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Cultural Influence
If she had, it must be someone from America because she had spent so short a time in this country that she could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Games
“You cannot be more than twenty, I am sure,--therefore you need not conceal your age.” “I am not one-and-twenty.” When the gentlemen had joined them, ...
The War of the Worlds / Fear and Avoidance
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...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Marriage and Regret
Lestrade of Scotland Yard.” “You were not yourself at fault at all, then?” “From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that the lady h...
Gulliver's Travels / Resource Mobilization
I stored the boat with the carcases of a hundred oxen, and three hundred sheep, with bread and drink proportionable, and as much meat ready dressed as...
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 / 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 / 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...
Pride and Prejudice / Marriage Aspirations
His being such a charming young man, and so rich, and living but three miles from them, were the first points of self-gratulation; and then it was suc...
Frankenstein / Survival and Identity
Only one dog remained alive; but there was a human being within it whom the sailors were persuading to enter the vessel. He was not, as the other trav...
Pride and Prejudice / Marriage and Agency
I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of...
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...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Greed and Deception
His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but there are women in whom the love of...