Theme: uncertainty
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...
Dracula / Quest for Truth
Doubtless we are on the track of the missing boxes. If we find them all in that house, then our work is near the end. But if there be some missing, we...
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...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Natures Tension
The horizon grew wider and clearer at the same time. Suddenly, just as on the day before, Ned Land’s voice was heard: “The thing itself on the port qu...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Trust and Tension
There I found Conseil, who wished to know the result of my interview with the Captain. “My boy,” said I, “when I feigned to believe that his _Nautilus...
Dracula / Friendship and Reflection
But we live and learn, and in our present task we must take no chance, as my friend Quincey would say. Seward seemed to answer them both in a dreamy k...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Despair and Decision
Fogg was certainly ruined, his bet was lost, and he himself perhaps arrested and imprisoned! Ah, if Fix ever came within his reach, what a settling of...
Dracula / Perception and Myth
And that’s all I know for certing.” “Did any one else see anything?” “One of our gard’ners was a-comin’ ’ome about that time from a ’armony, when he s...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Echoes of Despair
help!” Our movements were suspended for an instant; we listened. It might be only a singing in the ear, but it seemed to me as if a cry answered the c...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Maritime Endeavors
As usual, the crew was small, five Danes doing the whole of the work. "Well, I should think about ten days," replied the skipper, "unless, indeed, we ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Legacy and Fate
I had begun to take comfort too soon, however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in which it had come upon my father.” The young man t...
Dracula / Guilt and Uncertainty
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...
The War of the Worlds / Sound of Conflict
He would probably have remained longer had it not been for the sound of guns that began about that hour in the south. As if in answer, the ironclad se...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Confusion and Control
Fix, it must be confessed, understood nothing of what was going on. The conquest of the “Henrietta,” the bribery of the crew, Fogg managing the boat l...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Inner Turmoil
I began in the newly aroused ardor of my soul to speak enthusiastically to the Professor. The whole state in which we existed was a mystery--and it wa...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Fortune Favors the Brave
IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE The project was a bold one, full of difficulty, perhaps impracticable. Fogg w...