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In each case, not only are the ‘e’s’ slurred and the ‘r’s’ tailless, but you will observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well.” Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and pick...

“It is just, O God!” he would say, over and over again. There was poverty, sorrow; the poor were trodden in the dust, and I held my peace. I preached acceptable folly—my God, what folly!—when I should have stood up, though I died for it, and called upon them t...

This unexpected capture enabled us to renew our stock of provisions in a very satisfactory way. We were now convinced that this subterranean sea contained only fish known to us as fossil specimens--and fish and reptiles alike were all the more perfect the fart...

Anxious as I was, I was for a long time doomed to disappointment. Hans coolly drew it in, and with it a fish, which struggled violently to escape. "It is a sturgeon!" I cried, "certainly a small sturgeon." The Professor examined the fish carefully, noting ever...

It’s saving our knowledge and adding to it is the thing. We must make great safe places down deep, and get all the books we can; not novels and poetry swipes, but ideas, science books. We must go to the British Museum and pick all those books through. And the ...

Mina woke me early, about the same time as yesterday, and asked me to bring Dr. I thought that it was another occasion for hypnotism, and without question went for the Professor.

"Providence appears to have designed the preservation in this vast and mysterious hothouse of antediluvian plants, to prove the sagacity of learned men in figuring them so marvelously on paper." "Well said, my boy--very well said; it is indeed a mighty hothous...

We began to hope that we should find some of those saurians which science has succeeded in reconstructing from bits of bone or cartilage. I took up the telescope and carefully examined the horizon--looked over the whole sea; it was utterly and entirely deserte...

If, then, the steam remains in its normal or habitual state, if their energy does not increase, and if you add to this, the remark that the wind is not replaced by heavy atmospheric pressure and dead calm, you may be quite sure that there is no fear of any imm...

On the 18th of February, about three o’clock in the morning, we were at the entrance of the Straits of Gibraltar. There once existed two currents: an upper one, long since recognised, which conveys the waters of the ocean into the basin of the Mediterranean; a...