Theme: time
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Dusk at Baker Street
It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in Serpentine Avenue. It was ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Voyage to Yokohama
“Is your honour looking for a boat?” “Have you a boat ready to sail?” “Yes, your honour; a pilot-boat—No. 43—the best in the harbour.” “Does she go fa...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Sacrifice and Time
Fogg!” cried she, clasping his hands and covering them with tears. Fogg, “if we do not lose a moment.” Phileas Fogg, by this resolution, inevitably sa...
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 / 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...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Pursuit and Tension
“I shall do all I can to find him,” replied Phileas Fogg. While Fix, in a feverish, nervous state, repaired to the pilot-boat, the others directed the...
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...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Geographical Connections
Did you remark the postmarks of those letters?” “The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the third from London.” “From East London...
Dracula / Confronting the Unknown
Do not fear any of us, we are all devoted to this cause, and to-day shall see the end. The time is coming for action; to-day this Vampire is limit to ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Navigational Perils
It did not follow the routes of the Astrolabe and the Zelee exactly, for they proved fatal to Dumont d’Urville. It bore more northwards, coasted the I...
Dracula / Imminent Tension
Mate getting very impatient with them; feared some trouble ahead. * * * * * On 17 July, yesterday, one of the men, Olgaren, came to my cabin, and in a...
Dracula / Intimacy and Obligation
After supper I smoked, as on the last evening, and the Count stayed with me, chatting and asking questions on every conceivable subject, hour after ho...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Strategic Navigation
In going to Shanghai we should not be forced to sail wide of the Chinese coast, which would be a great advantage, as the currents run northward, and w...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Chaos and Isolation
There is a constant emission of light from the storm clouds; the electric matter is incessantly released; evidently the gaseous principles of the air ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Fate and Explosions
"We are bound to go through," responded the Professor, tapping me on the back. At midnight, our work as miners was completely finished; the charge of ...