Theme: survival
Around the World in Eighty Days / Cultural Tension
The murmur soon became more distinct; it now seemed like a distant concert of human voices accompanied by brass instruments. The Parsee jumped to the ...
The War of the Worlds / Survival Under Siege
A man, knee-deep near the towing path, shouted inaudibly to me and pointed. Looking back, I saw the other Martians advancing with gigantic strides dow...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Primal Confrontation
The gorilla placed himself on the defensive, and clutching a bone some seven or eight feet in length, a perfect club, aimed a deadly blow at the hideo...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Exploration and Risk
We are about to pay a visit to the very bottom of the crater. Others have done it and did not perish from that course. "That, however, is not the whol...
The War of the Worlds / Survival and Conflict
And I would sit in the darkness unable to keep my mind off him by reason of his importunities. He ate more than I did, and it was in vain I pointed ou...
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 ...
The War of the Worlds / Echoes of Despair
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 ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Survival and Community
I was hungry, so hungry, that by way of dessert I finished up with a basin of thick oaten porridge. As soon as the meal was over, the children disappe...
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...
The War of the Worlds / Decay and Ambition
The pit was still in darkness; the mighty engines, so great and wonderful in their power and complexity, so unearthly in their tortuous forms, rose we...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Shadows on the Bridge
The bridge was covered with black, agitated shadows. The poor creatures were crowding the ratlines, clinging to the masts, struggling under the water.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Exploration and Survival
"Once we reach the exact centre of this sphere, either we shall find a new road by which to ascend to the surface, or we shall simply turn round and g...
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...
The War of the Worlds / Urban Panic
There is no safety from the Black Smoke but in instant flight.” That was all, but it was enough. The whole population of the great six-million city wa...
Dracula / Grotesque Survival
He looked very sad at this, so I said that he must clear out some of them, at all events. He cheerfully acquiesced in this, and I gave him the same ti...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Depth and Dependence
“Let us remain together until we are out of this block.” “As you please, sir,” Conseil replied. I often looked at the instruments hanging from the par...
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 / 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...
The War of the Worlds / Visceral Recognition
Nearer, I distinguished the green slime of ditches mixing with the pale drab of dried clay and shiny, coaly patches. His black hair fell over his eyes...
The War of the Worlds / Collective Panic
Sparks and burning twigs began to fall into the road, and single leaves like puffs of flame. There were shrieks and shouts, and suddenly a mounted pol...
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...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Desperate Quenching
Our thirst was so intense that to quench it we would have dug below the bed of old Ocean itself. Hans went quietly to work--a work which neither my un...
The War of the Worlds / Panic in Proximity
Then a hoarse murmur and a movement of feet—a splashing from the water. A man, too frightened to drop the portmanteau he carried on his shoulder, swun...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Pirate Tensions
The first of these pirates who lays a hand on me——” “Do not excite yourself, Ned,” I said to the harpooner, “and do not compromise us by useless viole...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Culinary Survival
no, bread, indeed.” “I do not say that fish is not good; we must not abuse it; but a piece of fresh venison, grilled on live coals, will agreeably var...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Survival in Isolation
On March 22, the _Nautilus_ was in the open polar seas. For five days we had lived on the reserve on board. And what was left of the respirable air mu...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Naval Tension
it moves; it is moving forwards, backwards; it is darting towards us!” A general cry rose from the frigate. “Silence!” said the Captain; “up with the ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Identity Transformation
He was the keeper of a low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings tr...
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...
The War of the Worlds / Shared Struggle
It would seem that a number of men or animals had rushed across the lawn. I began to see his face, blackened and haggard, as no doubt mine was also.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Threshold of Escape
For an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself through, and lay half-fai...
The War of the Worlds / Military Disruption
Patrols of soldiers—here no longer hussars, but grenadiers in white—were warning people to move now or to take refuge in their cellars as soon as the ...
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...
The War of the Worlds / Survival in Darkness
Here we happened on no dead, though the night was too dark for us to see into the side roads of the place. In Sheen my companion suddenly complained o...
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 / Resourceful Hunter
Hans the hunter is indeed an invaluable man!" It was impossible to deny this fact. As far as the nautical and other instruments were concerned, nothin...
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...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Hunting Adventures
The Canadian skinned and cleaned it properly, after having taken half a dozen cutlets, destined to furnish us with a grilled repast in the evening. Th...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Urban Deception
Then with a red head of hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as...
The War of the Worlds / Survival in Darkness
He had eaten no food since midday, he told me early in his narrative, and I found some mutton and bread in the pantry and brought it into the room. We...
Gulliver's Travels / Civilization vs Savagery
This is enough to say upon the subject of my diet, wherewith other travellers fill their books, as if the readers were personally concerned whether we...
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...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Colonial Desolation
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...
Gulliver's Travels / Resource Mobilization
I stored the boat with the carcases of a hundred oxen, and three hundred sheep, with bread and drink proportionable, and as much meat ready dressed as...
Gulliver's Travels / Societal Degradation
Hence it follows of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping...
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...
Frankenstein / Survival and Identity
Only one dog remained alive; but there was a human being within it whom the sailors were persuading to enter the vessel. He was not, as the other trav...
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...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Deception and Desire
but the truth; but he managed so well that the creature joined the honey-cakes in his bag.
Frankenstein / Journey of Despair
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...
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...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Unexpected Care
Soon however, about a quarter of an hour later I heard a voice above me, at one of the upper fireplaces. In an instant a basket was lowered with milk,...
The War of the Worlds / Urban Despair
My brother supposes they must have filled outside London, for at that time the furious terror of the people had rendered the central termini impossibl...