I have an impression that many of the houses here were still occupied by scared inhabitants, too frightened even for flight. Here too the evidence of ...

His property was confiscated; his child became an orphan and a beggar. She continued with her foster parents and bloomed in their rude abode, fairer t...

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...

In a few minutes there was, so far as the soldier could see, not a living thing left upon the common, and every bush and tree upon it that was not alr...

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...

He doubted me when I took him from her kiss when she was dying. I know he has forgiven me because in some mistaken idea I have done things that preven...

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 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...

Six years had passed since then: _I_ was a wreck, but nought had changed in those savage and enduring scenes. I performed the first part of my journey...