Theme: fate
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Fate of Explorers
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...
Frankenstein / Mortality and Coincidence
I could not help being struck by the strange coincidences that had taken place during this eventful night; but, knowing that I had been conversing wit...
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.
Frankenstein / Steeple of Isolation
At length the high white steeple of the town met my eyes. I alighted and was conducted to my solitary apartment to spend the evening as I pleased. The...
Dracula / Fate and Navigation
Well, on we went, and as the fog didn’t let up for five days I joost let the wind carry us; for if the Deil wanted to get somewheres--well, he would f...
Dracula / Sailors and Superstition
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...
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 / 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...
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...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Legacy and Fate
I had begun to take comfort too soon, however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in which it had come upon my father.” The young man t...
The War of the Worlds / Confronting Death
When it came, I saw that he was a sturdy man, cheaply but not shabbily dressed; his head was bent under his body, and he lay crumpled up close to the ...
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...
Frankenstein / Pursuit of Happiness
“What a place is this that you inhabit, my son!” said he, looking mournfully at the barred windows and wretched appearance of the room. “You travelled...