Theme: resilience
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...
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...
Gulliver's Travels / Perception and Reality
That upon coming nearer, and finding his error, he sent out his long-boat to discover what it was; that his men came back in a fright, swearing they h...
Gulliver's Travels / Isolation and Discovery
Three days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to the north-east coast of the island, I observed, about half a league off in the sea, somewhat ...
Frankenstein / Resilience Amidst Adversity
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...
Frankenstein / Revenge and Survival
How I have lived I hardly know; many times have I stretched my failing limbs upon the sandy plain and prayed for death. But revenge kept me alive; I d...
Gulliver's Travels / Recovery and Hospitality
However, upon waking, I found myself much recovered. It was now about eight o’clock at night, and the captain ordered supper immediately, thinking I h...
Gulliver's Travels / Struggle at Sea
The seamen threw me the end of the cord, which I fastened to a hole in the fore-part of the boat, and the other end to a man of war; but I found all m...
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...
Dracula / Confinement of Strength
It is a mercy that we have found out his strength and his danger in good time. With strength and determination like his, he might have done wild work ...
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...
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 / 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...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Vulnerability and Survival
Drink this.” I dashed some brandy into the water, and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. “And now, Doctor, perhaps you would kindl...
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 ...
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...
Gulliver's Travels / Power and Fragility
said, of one entire adamant, two hundred yards thick, might happen to crack by too great a shock, or burst by approaching too near the fires from the ...
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!"...
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...
The War of the Worlds / Human Folly and Resilience
All that’s happened so far is through our not having the sense to keep quiet—worrying them with guns and such foolery. And losing our heads, and rushi...
Gulliver's Travels / Struggle for Freedom
In this necessity I was forced to swim behind, and push the boat forward, as often as I could, with one of my hands; and the tide favouring me, I adva...
Frankenstein / Journey of Vengeance
I have traversed a vast portion of the earth and have endured all the hardships which travellers in deserts and barbarous countries are wont to meet. ...
Gulliver's Travels / Fear and Resistance
The enemy was so frightened when they saw me, that they leaped out of their ships, and swam to shore, where there could not be fewer than thirty thous...
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...
The War of the Worlds / Survival and Threat
I stopped to look at them, drawing a lesson from their stout resolve to live. And presently, turning suddenly, with an odd feeling of being watched, I...
The War of the Worlds / Collective Resilience
I heard answering shouts from the people in the water about me. I could have leaped out of the water with that momentary exultation.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Vitality and Frailty
His manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little bend of the knees...
Frankenstein / Emotional Resilience
Almost spent, as I was, by fatigue and the dreadful suspense I endured for several hours, this sudden certainty of life rushed like a flood of warm jo...
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...
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...
The War of the Worlds / Hope Amidst Despair
It grew upon my mind, once I could face the facts, that terrible as our position was, there was as yet no justification for absolute despair. Our chie...
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...
The War of the Worlds / Unexpected Alliance
Suddenly he stumbled and fell; his immediate pursuer went headlong, and he rose to his feet to find himself with a couple of antagonists again. He wou...
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...