Theme: communication
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Craters and Identity
Hans will tell you the name by which the people of Iceland call that on which we stand." My uncle turned to the imperturbable guide, who nodded, and s...
Pride and Prejudice / Urgency of Communication
“No; but it must be done soon.” Most earnestly did she then entreat him to lose no more time before he wrote. my dear father,” she cried, “come back a...
Wuthering Heights / Urgent Revelation
“You must read it immediately, because it wants an answer. Shall I break the seal?” “Yes,” she answered, without altering the direction of her eyes.
Pride and Prejudice / Deception and Influence
“They have both,” said she, “been deceived, I dare say, in some way or other, of which we can form no idea. Interested people have perhaps misrepresen...
The War of the Worlds / Alien Communication
And I assert that I watched them closely time after time, and that I have seen four, five, and (once) six of them sluggishly performing the most elabo...
Gulliver's Travels / Geometry of Hospitality
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...
Gulliver's Travels / Cultural Transition
By his assistance, I was able to hold a conversation with those who came to visit me; but this consisted only of their questions, and my answers. The ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Trust and Suspicion
“‘In my own bureau.’ “‘Well, I hope to goodness the house won’t be burgled during the night.’ said he. When I was a youngster I have opened it myself ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Urgency of Discovery
“May I see it?” “Certainly.” He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it inten...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Hierarchies
Collins; and as they walked down the garden, he was commissioning her with his best respects to all her family, not forgetting his thanks for the kind...
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. ...
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...
Gulliver's Travels / Resourcefulness and Dependency
Her mother and she contrived to fit up the baby’s cradle for me against night: the cradle was put into a small drawer of a cabinet, and the drawer pla...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Geographical Connections
Did you remark the postmarks of those letters?” “The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the third from London.” “From East London...
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 ...
Dracula / Maritime Uncertainty
The wind is high--I can hear it in the shrouds, and the bow throws back the foam.” It is evident that the _Czarina Catherine_ is still at sea, hasteni...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Dynamics Revealed
Darcy speaking to her.” “Ay, because she asked him at last how he liked Netherfield, and he could not help answering her; but she said he seemed very ...
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...
Gulliver's Travels / Despair and Ingenuity
I then fastened my handkerchief to a stick I usually carried, and thrusting it up the hole, waved it several times in the air, that if any boat or shi...
The War of the Worlds / Sound of Conflict
He would probably have remained longer had it not been for the sound of guns that began about that hour in the south. As if in answer, the ironclad se...
Pride and Prejudice / Letter Arrival
back with them” [_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]] Soon after their return, a letter was delivered to Miss Bennet; it came from Netherfield, and was...
Dracula / Secrets and Acknowledgments
I have copied out the words on my typewriter, and none other need now hear your heart beat, as I did.” “No one need ever know, shall ever know,” I sai...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Telegrams Impact
Now, by the merest chance, his wife received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his departure, to the effect that a small parcel of ...
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...
Dracula / Depths of Expression
I am speaking from the depths of my heart--of my very soul. You don’t know whom you wrong, or how; and I may not tell.