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3506 1, 22 | transfigured. His eyes flashed sullenly; his teeth were set; his 3507 2, 14 | December. At this period, the summer solstice of the northern 3508 1, 5 | scarcely fail to answer the summons and "appear." ~Two days 3509 1, 17 | the stern--"The Florida, Sunderland." ~ 3510 2, 9 | on again, long lines of sunken walls and broad, deserted 3511 2, 3 | that he knew not to what super-human beings he owed both fortune 3512 2, 16 | lieutenant of the Nautilus superintended us. The water seemed singularly 3513 2, 19 | still went at random; all supervision seemed abandoned. I thought 3514 1, 15 | it a suit of armour, both supple and resisting. This suit 3515 1, 10 | Yes, Professor, the sea supplies all my wants. Sometimes 3516 2, 7 | with the low island which supports it; and a few minutes later 3517 1, 7 | Conseil argued on this supposition, and laid his plans accordingly. 3518 1, 23 | hands, he tried in vain to suppress a sob. Then he added: "Our 3519 2, 12 | Captain, his eyes lit up with suppressed anger; and I feared that 3520 2, 3 | their hand, and is not steel surer than lead? Here is a strong 3521 2, 15 | crushed between the two glassy surfaces? I reflected on all the 3522 2, 4 | journey under the sea; you are surfeited with the incessantly varying 3523 1, 23 | am a doctor and resident surgeon to the hospital. I practised 3524 2, 19 | his temper became more surly. I knew what he must suffer, 3525 2, 12 | Because," I added, "if my surmises are correct, and if I have 3526 1, 13 | delicate hawks bills, of a surmullet served with puff paste ( 3527 2, 6 | Nicholas of Cape Matapan, surnamed Pesca. He is well known 3528 2, 7 | Straits of Gibraltar the surplus waters of the Mediterranean. 3529 2, 20 | with its 356 sailors to surrendering; and, nailing its colours 3530 1, 20 | forest, and for two hours we surveyed it in all directions. ~Chance 3531 2, 3 | found ourselves at last surveying the oyster-banks on which 3532 2, 23 | and that the Nautilus has survived where so many other vessels 3533 2, 19 | floating case. The last survivor of all of us on board the 3534 2, 2 | calling?" said Ned Land, "the swallowing of some mouthfuls of sea-water?" ~" 3535 1, 15 | luxuriant vegetation. This sward was of close texture, and 3536 1, 23 | he was wounded. His head, swathed in bandages covered with 3537 1, 18 | over which France exercises sway. These are coral islands, 3538 2, 1 | the glass I had raised to sweep the horizon, the mortal 3539 2, 10 | yielded several pounds of the sweetest honey, with which Ned Land 3540 2, 22 | walking. His breast was swelling with sobs; and I heard him 3541 2, 17 | Roque. But then the Nautilus swerved again, and sought the lowest 3542 1, 19 | corvettes touched; when, swerving again, and cutting straight 3543 1, 22 | fire that burns not the swift and elegant porpoise (the 3544 1, 7 | twenty feet. I am a good swimmer (though without pretending 3545 1, 12 | collision to fear, for it alone swims in deep water; no tempest 3546 2, 2 | bear in the mountains of Switzerland, what would you say? ~"Very 3547 1, 4 | monster did exist, and he had sworn to rid the seas of it. Either 3548 2, 1 | which runs from Ceylon to Sydney, touching at King George' 3549 1, 8 | adventures, articulating each syllable clearly, and without omitting 3550 2, 11 | contradicting my theories and systems; but the Captain contented 3551 1, 12 | other outside, joined by T-shaped irons, which render it very 3552 2, 11 | silence appear to him a tacit acceptance of our situation? 3553 2, 12 | disagreeable creature, more tadpole than fish, according to 3554 1, 18 | Societies and the graceful Tahiti, queen of the Pacific. I 3555 2, 9 | disappearance amongst the legendary tales. I had it there now before 3556 1, 7 | murmured he; "I saw--but do not talk--reserve all your strength!" ~ 3557 1, 8 | movement of the limbs. The taller of the two, evidently the 3558 1, 13 | drive the water from the tanks; the needle of the manometer 3559 1, 8 | beautiful teeth, with fine taper hands, indicative of a highly 3560 1, 19 | and a half inches long, tasting like dorys; and flying fire-fish 3561 1, 17 | to a vessel of which the tattered shrouds still hung from 3562 2, 12 | able to go once more into a tavern in his own country." ~Certainly 3563 2, 8 | leaving him I could not be taxed with ingratitude. No oath 3564 1, 7 | or a manhole, to use a technical expression; but the lines 3565 2, 1 | armed with eleven rows of teeth-- eyed sharks--their throat 3566 2, 4 | It was on the coast of Tehama, for there not only did 3567 1, 2 | slender fly had stopped a telegram on its passage and was making 3568 2, 20 | after transmitting about 400 telegrams, would not act any longer. 3569 1, 11 | electric thread connects us. I telegraph to it, and that is enough." ~" 3570 2, 20 | Newfoundland, when they telegraphed from Ireland the news of 3571 2, 12 | think that the Captain's temerity justified Ned Land's fears. 3572 1, 8 | indicative of a highly nervous temperament. This man was certainly 3573 2, 19 | its fish, and its proper temperatures. I mean the Gulf Stream. 3574 1, 10 | around, while the light was tempered and softened by exquisite 3575 2, 19 | current of the Gulf Stream. To tempt the sea in a frail boat 3576 2, 14 | we ought not to lay such temptation in this unreflecting fisherman' 3577 1, 23 | undulation of the waters. I was tempted to gather their fresh petals, 3578 2, 12 | not one whale; there are ten--there are twenty--it is 3579 2, 17 | thumb; and, having great tenacity, they are often used as 3580 2, 18 | 1861, to the north-east of Teneriffe, very nearly in the same 3581 1, 2 | Increase its size fivefold or tenfold, give it strength proportionate 3582 1, 4 | square inches, that is by tens of millions of pounds, we 3583 1, 14 | this box and join a sort of tent which holds the nose and 3584 1, 10 | everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. 3585 1, 6 | to use a more appropriate term, it "died out" like a large 3586 1, 10 | followed the shape of the room, terminating at the lower part in huge 3587 1, 16 | this halt would mark the termination of our walk; but I was mistaken, 3588 2, 4 | minarets, its fresh and verdant terraces. But it was only a vision! 3589 2, 19 | mast, rolled and pitched terribly. About five o'clock a torrent 3590 1, 2 | research in the disagreeable territory of Nebraska, in the United 3591 1, 22 | Captain Nemo went himself to test the temperature in the depths 3592 2, 2 | Conseil; and, amongst these testacea the earshell, the tridacnae, 3593 2, 9 | upon it the unexceptionable testimony of its catastrophe. The 3594 1, 10 | missing from this omnibus text here they have to do with 3595 2, 17 | were words of gratitude and thankfulness to my two companions. Ned 3596 1, 5 | China Seas. We were on the theatre of the last diversions of 3597 2, 6 | and Pliny, a new island, Theia (the divine), appeared in 3598 | thereby 3599 1, 22 | doubtful results, by means of thermometrical sounding-leads, the glasses 3600 2, 16 | lower surface of the iceberg thickened visibly. It was evident 3601 1, 21 | Stones and arrows fell thickly. ~Ned Land had not wished 3602 2, 6 | M. Aronnax." ~"Well, I think--I do not say I hope--I think 3603 2, 19 | rose. ~"Whatever Ned Land thinks of, attempts, or tries, 3604 1, 16 | monstrous sea-spider, about thirty-eight inches high, was watching 3605 1, 17 | South Atlantic, near the thirty-fifth parallel, and they gave 3606 1, 19 | Torres Straits are nearly thirty-four leagues wide; but they are 3607 1, 13 | wrested from the liquid thirty-seven million six hundred and 3608 2, 17 | Capricorn was crossed on the thirty-seventh meridian, and we passed 3609 2, 22 | northern regions. ~It is thither that the Nautilus, voluntarily 3610 1, 6 | cetacean. I examined it thoroughly. ~The reports of the Shannon 3611 | thou 3612 1, 22 | of jelly, provided with a threadlike tentacle, and of which as 3613 2, 13 | mistaken when he saw the thin threads of bluish water trickling 3614 2, 3 | hour no danger appeared to threaten him. ~I was beginning to 3615 1, 12 | part of myself. If danger threatens one of your vessels on the 3616 1, 4 | in the ocean, each square three-eighths of an inch of the surface 3617 1, 17 | depth would be about one and three-quarter leagues." ~"Well, Professor," 3618 1, 6 | wheel. ~"Nineteen miles and three-tenths, sir." ~"Clap on more steam." ~ 3619 1, 16 | made the nerves of a hunter thrill. A large bird of great breadth 3620 2, 14 | yellow line round their throats; they allowed themselves 3621 2, 2 | chopper, ripping them up, and throwing their heart into the sea!" ~" 3622 2, 14 | heard a long way off when he throws to a great height columns 3623 2, 17 | cables, thicker than one's thumb; and, having great tenacity, 3624 1, 22 | might touch without being thunderstricken, my admiration was unbounded, 3625 2, 19 | unfortunate circumstance thwarted the Canadian's plans. The 3626 2, 12 | commander, have broken every tie upon earth." ~"Perhaps so," 3627 2, 1 | like a mosaic; and large tiger-sharks nearly six yards long, the 3628 2, 18 | so considerable that the tightness of the cord separated the 3629 2, 5 | vertically, and caught to the tiller-rope, which ran to the back of 3630 1, 1 | observations made at divers times-- rejecting the timid estimate 3631 2, 10 | some chrysanthemums grew timidly at the foot of an aloe with 3632 1, 22 | Nemo arrived in the Sea of Timor, and recognised the island 3633 1, 18 | Captain Nemo showed me a tin-plate box, stamped with the French 3634 1, 21 | woolly hair, with a reddish tinge, showed off on their black 3635 2, 5 | the waters of which seemed tinted with red, an observation 3636 1, 16 | threatened us. It was a couple of tintoreas, terrible creatures, with 3637 1, 23 | like lustres, that were tipped with points of fire. ~At 3638 1, 20 | nut-coloured wings with purple tips, pale yellow at the back 3639 2, 9 | warn you, the way will be tiring. We shall have far to walk, 3640 2, 9 | clicking sound of pincers; titanic crabs, pointed like a gun 3641 2, 8 | they prematurely gave the title of Charles III. ~"Spain 3642 2, 19 | poets, the author of The Toilers of the Deep. ~I have said 3643 1, 10 | table, some articles for the toilet; the whole lighted by a 3644 2, 9 | gravitation could never have tolerated in terrestrial regions. ~ 3645 2, 21 | vessel sank more rapidly. Her topmast, laden with victims, now 3646 2, 9 | lower plain like an immense torch, even to the extreme limits 3647 2, 16 | miles an hour. It literally tore through the water. Where 3648 1, 9 | intentions towards us. Ned Land, tormented by the cravings of hunger, 3649 1, 6 | only approach it with a torpedo." ~"Undoubtedly," replied 3650 2, 16 | rarefied more and more. A moral torpor took hold of me. I was powerless, 3651 1, 8 | you suppose they eat here? Tortoise liver, filleted shark, and 3652 1, 7 | amphibious reptiles, such as tortoises or alligators. ~Well, no! 3653 1, 5 | Farragut would not take a tortuous passage, but doubled Cape 3654 1, 21 | and the Zelee, incessantly tossed about by the hurricane, 3655 2, 6 | movements of pitching and tossing that the Nautilus was leaving 3656 1, 10 | steward, nearly strangled, tottered out on a sign from his master. 3657 2, 17 | us to the vast ocean that touches the coasts of Asia and America 3658 2, 5 | distinctly saw a high mountain, towering between the two gulfs of 3659 2, 9 | which upheld them. Natural towers, large scarps, cut perpendicularly, 3660 2, 10 | To the conglomerate and trachyte succeeded black basalt, 3661 1, 18 | minutes before. I was busily tracing the route of the Nautilus 3662 2, 4 | gulf, in spite of contrary trade-winds. The captain and passengers 3663 2, 12 | inoffensive creature), your traders do a culpable action, Master 3664 2, 4 | Sesostris, if we may believe tradition. One thing is certain, that 3665 1, 5 | quantities of bacon were trailed in the wake of the ship, 3666 2, 11 | with their long tentacles trailing after them, and medusae, 3667 1, 6 | of steam that the express trains leave behind. All at once 3668 1, 16 | of the globe he might not trample upon. ~The return began. 3669 1, 2 | interest was in question, and transatlantic communications suffered, 3670 1, 22 | not know him. His face was transfigured. His eyes flashed sullenly; 3671 2, 4 | appellation of the Red Sea a translation of the Hebrew word `Edom'; 3672 2, 20 | favourable pressure for the transmission of the electric spark which 3673 1, 11 | levers and cog-wheels that transmit the movement to the axle 3674 2, 20 | 1857 and 1858; but, after transmitting about 400 telegrams, would 3675 1, 1 | extraordinary creature could transport itself from one place to 3676 1, 19 | sides, and striped with transverse bands, that disappear with 3677 2, 14 | if I do not hesitate to tread this South Pole, it is because, 3678 1, 2 | industrial and commercial papers treated the question chiefly from 3679 1, 16 | forest was composed of large tree-plants; and the moment we penetrated 3680 2, 9 | wonderfully intense. Rapid tremblings ran along the mountain caused 3681 2, 10 | fifteen feet long, with triangular sharp teeth, and whose transparency 3682 2, 13 | me that formerly numerous tribes of seals inhabited them; 3683 2, 13 | threads of bluish water trickling along the ice-fields; and 3684 2, 2 | testacea the earshell, the tridacnae, the turbots, in a word, 3685 2, 19 | thinks of, attempts, or tries, what does it matter to 3686 2, 18 | preserved in the museums of Trieste and Montpelier, that measure 3687 2, 20 | commanded by La Poype-Ver trieux, it fought boldly against 3688 1, 6 | Certainly, sir." ~"That will be trifling with the lives of my men." ~" 3689 2, 18 | his harpoon deep into the triple heart of the poulp. ~"I 3690 2, 4 | it was so wide that two triremes could go abreast. It was 3691 2, 14 | metamorphosed them, the male into a triton and the female into a mermaid. 3692 1, 21 | holding up the object of my triumph. ~"It is simply an olive 3693 1, 20 | suddenly bent down, uttered a triumphal cry, and came back to me 3694 2, 4 | and rebuffs; but he has triumphed, for he has the genius of 3695 2, 13 | which had never yet been trodden by a human creature? ~"No, 3696 1, 18 | commanded by Legoarant de Tromelin, to Vanikoro, which had 3697 1, 21 | splendours of the night in the tropics. My remembrances went to 3698 1, 21 | of bipeds, whose vicinity troubles me." ~"What bipeds?" ~"Savages." ~" 3699 2, 12 | and sawfish-- without you troubling them." ~The Captain was 3700 2, 16 | The heat developed by the troughs was such that cold water, 3701 1, 10 | loss of liberty. Besides, I trusted to the future to decide 3702 2, 1 | hundreds. They belonged to the tubercle kind which are peculiar 3703 1, 23 | membraneous and cylindrical tubes tremble beneath the undulation 3704 1, 15 | of isis, clusters of pure tuft-coral, prickly fungi, and anemones 3705 1, 16 | webbed feet and nails, and tufted tail. This precious animal, 3706 2, 7 | Sicily and the coast of Tunis. In the narrow space between 3707 1, 19 | of mackerel as large as a tunny, with bluish sides, and 3708 2, 2 | earshell, the tridacnae, the turbots, in a word, all those which 3709 2, 5 | counting-house of Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and India. I distinguished 3710 1, 21 | pearl-oysters, and a dozen little turtles that were reserved for the 3711 1, 2 | naturalists. The principal tusk has the hardness of steel. 3712 1, 8 | Land, who broke out for the twentieth time. "We speak to those 3713 2, 12 | there are ten--there are twenty--it is a whole troop! And 3714 2, 18 | long would have tentacles twenty-seven feet long. That would suffice 3715 2, 18 | long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair. One 3716 1, 6 | longer contented himself with twisting his beard--he gnawed it. ~ 3717 2, 21 | she was a large, armoured, two-decker ram. A thick black smoke 3718 2, 11 | 3,200 lb. to each square two-fifths of an inch of its surface. ~" 3719 2, 4 | pressing him regarding his ulterior projects. As soon as he 3720 1, 15 | into fine gradations of ultramarine, and faded into vague obscurity. 3721 2, 10 | marine crystal, a little umbelliferous plant very good to pickle, 3722 1, 15 | heads waved medusae whose umbrellas of opal or rose-pink, escalloped 3723 2, 12 | that those of Hullamoch and Umgallick, of the Aleutian Islands, 3724 1, 1 | Aleutian, Kulammak, and Umgullich islands, have never exceeded 3725 1, 2 | their rates of premium, were unanimous on this point. Public opinion 3726 1, 2 | floating island, and the unapproachable sandbank, supported by minds 3727 1, 5 | violent that a reaction was unavoidable. ~And truly, reaction soon 3728 1, 1 | between the believers and the unbelievers in the societies of the 3729 1, 22 | thunderstricken, my admiration was unbounded, and from the structure 3730 1, 9 | of carbonic acid, becomes unbreathable. ~It became necessary to 3731 1, 10 | man, "you must excuse the unceremonious way in which I receive you, 3732 1, 4 | friends now, united in that unchangeable friendship which is born 3733 1, 9 | Conseil was already trying to unclasp the harpooner's hand from 3734 1, 8 | imagination wandered into vague unconsciousness, and I soon fell into a 3735 2, 3 | like lightning, I saw the undaunted Captain hanging on to one 3736 2, 20 | gigantic sea-serpent. But I undeceived the worthy fellow, and by 3737 2, 10 | head, I seemed to catch an undecided gleam, a kind of twilight 3738 2, 22 | organ, a sad harmony to an undefinable chant, the wail of a soul 3739 1, 1 | that it DID exist was an undeniable fact; and, with that tendency 3740 2, 7 | admit the existence of an under-current, which empties into the 3741 2, 15 | replied. "When icebergs are undermined at their base by warmer 3742 2, 14 | kind of small duck, the underpart of whose body is black and 3743 1, 18 | appeased by some presents, and understanding that they had no reprisals 3744 2, 1 | which the vultures, the only undertakers of the country, had not 3745 2, 4 | before Jesus Christ, Necos undertook the works of an alimentary 3746 1, 23 | blood, lay on a pillow. I undid the bandages, and the wounded 3747 2, 1 | understood them; but he remained undisturbed and dumb. ~As he was taking 3748 1, 11 | means of screw pressure. I undo the bolts, and the little 3749 1, 5 | its first quarter. The sea undulated peaceably under the stern 3750 1, 1 | revived. ~Then burst forth the unending argument between the believers 3751 1, 10 | sir. But to renounce that unendurable worldly yoke which men believe 3752 1, 18 | volcanic islands emerged of unequal size, surrounded by a coral 3753 1, 23 | slight declivity ended in an uneven bottom, at fifteen fathoms 3754 2, 9 | eyes, bearing upon it the unexceptionable testimony of its catastrophe. 3755 2, 8 | procured an English wrench, to unfasten the bolts which attach it 3756 2, 6 | platform; and I knew they were unfastening the pinnace and launching 3757 2, 9 | fractures, deep grottos, and unfathomable holes, at the bottom of 3758 2, 16 | vitiated air on board, calm, unflinching, unmurmuring. ~On that day 3759 2, 4 | picturesque interlacings which unfolded themselves about sixty feet 3760 2, 8 | less than the thousands of unfortunates to whom so much riches well-distributed 3761 2, 22 | a sleep both painful and unhealthy, when I suddenly awoke. 3762 2, 11 | was distributed with such uniformity that not a shadow, not a 3763 1, 18 | island and brought back some unimportant trifles. The natives, adopting 3764 2, 7 | cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the 3765 1, 21 | leave the Strait of Torres uninjured." ~Having curtly pronounced 3766 1, 11 | It gives a uniform and unintermittent light, which the sun does 3767 1, 13 | quintillion as there are units in a billion. This mass 3768 1, 10 | surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another 3769 1, 1 | monster" who, justly or unjustly, was accused of their disappearance, 3770 2, 8 | must therefore hasten to unload the galleons before the 3771 2, 21 | The way of describing this unlooked-for scene, the history of the 3772 1, 22 | yards, the Nautilus was unmoved by its fury and reposed 3773 2, 16 | board, calm, unflinching, unmurmuring. ~On that day the ordinary 3774 2, 23 | lived ten months of this unnatural life? And to the question 3775 1, 20 | but not enough to eat you unnecessarily." ~"I would not trust you," 3776 2, 3 | it--one bearing upon the unparalleled courage of Captain Nemo, 3777 2, 8 | she was almost entirely unprovided with either soldiers or 3778 1, 10 | examining my shells, Professor? Unquestionably they must be interesting 3779 2, 9 | ocean? All these foolish and unreasonable ideas pursued me. And in 3780 2, 14 | such temptation in this unreflecting fisherman's way. Breakfast 3781 2, 20 | occurred. Several times in unrolling the cable they observed 3782 1, 16 | with teeth, from a very unscientific point of view, and more 3783 2, 18 | posted on the top ladderstep, unscrewed the bolts of the panels. 3784 2, 9 | himself. I followed him with unshaken confidence. He seemed to 3785 2, 9 | land; now I ventured on the unsteady trunk of a tree thrown across 3786 1, 1 | creature in question, the untiring rapidity of its movements, 3787 2, 21 | of Captain Nemo had been unveiled; and, if his identity had 3788 1, 5 | November arrived without the unveiling of this submarine mystery. ~ 3789 1, 22 | rolled at his feet. ~Had I unwittingly provoked this fit of anger? 3790 1, 18 | had not been able to tear up--iron stirrups, anchors, 3791 1, 16 | existence is in the water, which upholds and nourishes them. The 3792 1, 21 | life, what must have been uppermost in his last thoughts, do 3793 2, 22 | echo miles away! What an uproar was that of the waters broken 3794 2, 10 | an immense funnel turned upside down, the height being about 3795 1, 13 | by water is estimated at upwards of eighty millions of acres. 3796 2, 17 | large estuary formed by the Uraguay. Its direction was northwards, 3797 2, 12 | Never mind," said Ned Land urgently. ~"Here it is, then," said 3798 1, 7 | it is a bad look-out for us-- she no longer answers her 3799 2, 9 | such circumstances, the uselessness of the Ruhmkorff apparatus. ~ 3800 1, 8 | and in perfect taste. Each utensil--spoon, fork, knife, plate-- 3801 2, 4 | ancients well understood the utility of a communication between 3802 1, 22 | Captain's countenance. I was utterly at a loss to account for 3803 2, 21 | furnaces were heated to the uttermost. Sheaves of sparks and red 3804 2, 1 | Indeed, it was produced in vacuo, which insured both its 3805 2, 9 | case, it did light our way, vaguely, it is true, but I soon 3806 1, 15 | compressed air, which a valve, worked by a spring, allowed 3807 1, 6 | steam poured out of the valves. We heaved the log, and 3808 2, 20 | under the command of Admiral Van Stebel. On the 11th and 3809 2, 18 | of an hour. The monsters, vanquished and mutilated, left us at 3810 2, 19 | extreme extension of the vapours. The mixture of the storm 3811 2, 17 | seaweeds and gigantic fuci and varech, of which the open polar 3812 2, 1 | course was slower and more variable, often taking us into great 3813 1, 22 | apparatus grounded on the variations of the resistance of metals 3814 1, 13 | some banded spares, with variegated fins of blue and yellow; 3815 2, 2 | The price of these pearls varies according to their size?" 3816 2, 4 | coraline, discovered by Vasco da Gama in 1499, and one 3817 1, 13 | saw it lose itself in the vastness of the Pacific, and felt 3818 2, 6 | Carpathio Neptuni gurgite vates, Caeruleus Proteus," ~as 3819 1, 5 | deviations from her course, veering suddenly from one tack to 3820 1, 23 | forest of large mineral vegetations, enormous petrified trees, 3821 2, 17 | vessels. Another weed known as velp, with leaves four feet long, 3822 2, 21 | I loved, cherished, and venerated--country, wife, children, 3823 1, 8 | these proceedings, gave free vent to his indignation. ~"Confound 3824 1, 9 | out from that the mode of ventilating the boat. ~When I had inhaled 3825 1, 9 | it. Above the door was a ventilator, through which volumes of 3826 1, 6 | water were ejected from its vents, and rose to the height 3827 2, 4 | yourself those first navigators venturing in ships made of planks 3828 1, 2 | communications suffered, their veracity could not be doubted. But 3829 2, 22 | time to answer. Wishing to verify the course of the Nautilus, 3830 2, 3 | have a particular motive in verifying the actual state of this 3831 2, 18 | surface, and slaughter this vermin." ~"A difficult enterprise." ~" 3832 2, 12 | whale by the seven cervical vertebrae, and it has two more ribs 3833 1, 4 | belonging to the branch of vertebrata, like the whales, the cachalots, 3834 1, 16 | opened, and we entered the vestry. ~There our diving-dress 3835 2, 9 | mountain like an eruption of Vesuvius on another Terra del Greco. ~ 3836 1, 21 | his time in preparing the viands and meat that he had brought 3837 1, 21 | However, some warning vibrations began to be felt in the 3838 1, 21 | a troop of bipeds, whose vicinity troubles me." ~"What bipeds?" ~" 3839 1, 22 | of Money to port and the Victoria reefs to starboard, placed 3840 2, 12 | that the cachalots would be victorious, not only because they were 3841 2, 10 | struggle which ended in the victory of Neptune. But many ages 3842 1, 5 | Magellan, level with Cape Vierges. But Commander Farragut 3843 2, 1 | were the dead of the Indian villages, carried by the Ganges to 3844 2, 20 | it joined the squadron of Villaret Joyeuse, at Brest, being 3845 2, 8 | about twelve miles, Cape St. Vincent was dimly to be seen, forming 3846 2, 10 | lava, I saw some little violets still slightly perfumed, 3847 1, 14 | Nautron respoc lorni virch." ~What it meant I could 3848 2, 6 | reciting these lines from Virgil: ~"Est Carpathio Neptuni 3849 2, 2 | most beautiful are called virgin pearls, or paragons. They 3850 1, 2 | in the United States. In virtue of my office as Assistant 3851 1, 20 | Sometimes they catch them with a viscous birdlime that paralyses 3852 2, 16 | of the iceberg thickened visibly. It was evident that they 3853 1, 22 | me of my being. Then the visions disappeared, and left me 3854 1, 8 | intelligible than I had. Our visitors did not stir. They evidently 3855 1, 17 | was very sparing of his visits. I seldom saw him. The lieutenant 3856 2, 18 | monsters these poulps are! what vitality the Creator has given them! 3857 2, 6 | was composed of black and vitreous lava, mixed with fragments 3858 1, 6 | whale!" ~We were on the qui vive till daylight, and prepared 3859 2, 10 | lantern was lit, and its vividness dispelled the faint light. 3860 1, 3 | Marine, I felt that my true vocation, the sole end of my life, 3861 1, 21 | cries of rage and fearful vociferations resounded outside. ~The 3862 1, 15 | and other contrivances in vogue during the eighteenth century. ~ 3863 2, 11 | fear. In these large seas, void of islands, we could not 3864 2, 15 | describe the effect of the voltaic rays upon the great blocks 3865 2, 16 | time no one prolonged his voluntary task beyond the prescribed 3866 2, 14 | woman can give, their clear voluptuous eyes, their charming positions, 3867 1, 10 | globes half sunk in the volutes of the ceiling. I looked 3868 2, 9 | scoriae, a large crater was vomiting forth torrents of lava which 3869 2, 21 | creature, but a man who had vowed a deadly hatred against 3870 1, 8 | and flexible dialect, the vowels seeming to admit of very 3871 2, 20 | gutta-percha, and protected by a wadding of hemp, contained in a 3872 2, 9 | wars of ancient Greeks were waged. ~Thus, led by the strangest 3873 2, 22 | an undefinable chant, the wail of a soul longing to break 3874 1, 21 | that sustained a vegetable waistband. Some chiefs had ornamented 3875 1, 21 | entered the water up to their waists. I watched to see if their 3876 1, 17 | Look!" he continued, "it wakes under the caresses of the 3877 2, 10 | with the full intention of waking after a few hours' sleep; 3878 2, 2 | certain waters in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Saxony, Bohemia, 3879 1, 13 | this iron prison! We are walking--we are sailing--blindly." ~ 3880 1, 14 | in which we put on our walking-dress. ~ 3881 1, 19 | coralline polypi had already walled it up with their in destructible 3882 1, 10 | Captain, the delight of wandering about in the midst of such 3883 1, 7 | Conseil. ~Just then, by the waning light of the moon which 3884 2, 9 | merchant vessels and its war-galleys. Farther on again, long 3885 2, 3 | their high claws like some war-machine, watched us with fixed eyes, 3886 2, 15 | undermined at their base by warmer water or reiterated shocks 3887 1, 5 | was left unexplored. ~The warmest partisans of the enterprise 3888 2, 8 | my room, clothed myself warmly--sea boots, an otterskin 3889 1, 11 | means of it. It lights, warms it, and is the soul of my 3890 2, 9 | Most willingly." ~"I warn you, the way will be tiring. 3891 2, 8 | clock," said he. "I have warned Conseil. At that moment 3892 2, 3 | carpeted with all the thick warp of the submarine flora. 3893 2, 9 | against whom the first wars of ancient Greeks were waged. ~ 3894 2, 1 | under these conditions their waste was imperceptible. When 3895 1, 20 | were rambling along the water-courses, but they would not let 3896 2, 1 | way, made very acceptable water-game. Amongst large-winged birds, 3897 2, 8 | an immense circumference, watered by the largest rivers of 3898 1, 2 | beneath the surface of the waters--what is the organisation 3899 1, 15 | whilst above our heads waved medusae whose umbrellas 3900 2, 1 | A large extent of white wavelets often to be seen on the 3901 2, 8 | obtained the consent of the weak-minded Philip that the convoy, 3902 2, 2 | mother-of-pearl substance, which they wear on their fingers, their 3903 2, 1 | not a moment of ennui or weariness. ~For some days we saw a 3904 1, 2 | unicorn knew of the plots weaving around it. It had been so 3905 2, 13 | the brittle mass like a wedge, and split it with frightful 3906 2, 18 | cliffs covered with large weeds. It was about eleven o'clock 3907 1, 18 | seen Captain Nemo for a week, when, on the morning of 3908 1, 18 | France, where he was warmly welcomed by Charles X. ~But at the 3909 1, 4 | but, however strong or well-armed they may have been, neither 3910 2, 19 | clever engineer, "There is no well-constructed hull that cannot defy the 3911 2, 8 | unfortunates to whom so much riches well-distributed would have been profitable, 3912 2, 21 | stairs, but I stopped him. A well-known hissing noise told me that 3913 2, 19 | have said that Captain Nemo wept while watching the waves; 3914 1, 22 | January we doubled Cape Wessel, situation in 135° long. 3915 2, 3 | during the night up the western coast of Ceylon, was now 3916 2, 12 | ideas of fishing?" ~"Can a whale-fisher ever forget his old trade, 3917 2, 12 | have nothing to do with the whale-oil on board." ~"But, sir," 3918 2, 12 | jaw is furnished only with whalebone, it is supplied with twenty-five 3919 2, 12 | fell in with a troop of whales--an encounter which did not 3920 1, 3 | hermit-crab in the shell of a whelk," said Conseil. ~I left 3921 | Whereupon 3922 2, 4 | had not even instruments wherewith to take their bearings, 3923 2, 10 | to make it move, and the wherewithal to make the electricity-- 3924 1, 9 | steward will be welcome, whichever he brings." ~"Master Land, 3925 1, 9 | conveyed to us the beneficial whiff, and I was not long in finding 3926 1, 10 | stem, and drew the first whiffs with the delight of a lover 3927 2, 22 | arises from long-continued whirling round. ~We were in dread. 3928 2, 14 | vapour, which look like whirlwinds of smoke. These different 3929 1, 16 | its round eyes, and white whiskers like those of a cat, with 3930 2, 12 | whale in the ocean. Ned Land whistled "Yankee-doodle" between 3931 2, 20 | of their warning lights, whistles, and alarm bells! And the 3932 1, 6 | the morning a deafening whistling was heard, like that produced 3933 2, 12 | billows. For one hour this wholesale massacre continued, from 3934 1, 10 | them without fear. They are wholesome and nourishing. For a long 3935 2, 14 | lighting them but to put a wick in. ~"A little more," said 3936 2, 14 | previously furnished them with wicks!" ~About half a mile farther 3937 1, 3 | a captain who is pretty wide-awake." ~Our luggage was transported 3938 1, 5 | sailors. ~And they were opened widely. Both eyes and glasses, 3939 2, 11 | the saloon. Through the widely-opened panel, the liquid mass was 3940 2, 20 | fathoms. There the Gulf Stream widens. It loses some of its speed 3941 2, 21 | and venerated--country, wife, children, father, and mother. 3942 1, 21 | fearful cries and making the wildest contortions. ~Ten of his 3943 2, 8 | an ocean whose parallel winding shores embrace an immense 3944 1, 20 | and in all a variety of winged things most charming to 3945 2, 15 | basin, frozen during the six winter months, was absolutely inaccessible. 3946 2, 20 | Europe in these words of wisdom, so rarely understood: " 3947 2, 6 | Well, M. Aronnax, that is wisely said." ~"Only one observation-- 3948 1, 1 | 1 3/8 inches thick, had withdrawn itself by a backward motion. ~ 3949 1, 22 | My companions and I then witnessed a curious spectacle. The 3950 2, 21 | again imprisoned, unwilling witnesses of the dreadful drama that 3951 1, 22 | balista, the leaping mackerel, wolf-thorn-tails, and a hundred others which 3952 1, 20 | experiments--make them." ~"It won't take long," said the Canadian. ~ 3953 2, 3 | with a trembling hand. His wondering eyes showed that he knew 3954 2, 15 | the zenith glittered that wondrous Southern Cross-- the polar 3955 1, 20 | down a white pigeon and a wood-pigeon, which, cleverly plucked 3956 1, 13 | of blue and yellow; the woodcocks of the seas, some specimens 3957 1, 17 | to France. I only saw the woody mountains against the horizon, 3958 1, 21 | and white teeth. Their woolly hair, with a reddish tinge, 3959 2, 19 | there. Bending over his work-table, he had not heard me. Resolved 3960 1, 14 | In submarine works, the workman, clad in an impervious dress, 3961 1, 12 | island in the ocean. There my workmen, that is to say, the brave 3962 1, 12 | Professor, I had set up my workshops upon a desert island in 3963 1, 10 | renounce that unendurable worldly yoke which men believe to 3964 1, 2 | against inquiries made in both worlds. That a private gentleman 3965 2, 1 | sort of luminous little worm, gelatinous and without 3966 2, 16 | piles was thrown through the worms bathed in the liquid. In 3967 2, 12 | to our vessel like dogs worrying a wild boar in a copse. 3968 2, 4 | is quoted as one of the worst, and in the time of the 3969 2, 5 | said I; "the creature is wounded--look at the blood; but your 3970 2, 10 | attempts, he succeeded in wounding a magnificent bird. To say 3971 1, 15 | rivalled the softest carpet woven by the hand of man. But 3972 2, 4 | longer go ornamented with wreaths and gilt fillets to thank 3973 1, 18 | collected numerous relics of the wreck-- iron utensils, anchors, 3974 2, 8 | have procured an English wrench, to unfasten the bolts which 3975 1, 13 | present day. The solid had wrested from the liquid thirty-seven 3976 1, 21 | of a single one of these wretches." ~Upon that I was going 3977 2, 18 | formidable tentacle, that slid wriggling down the ladder. Just as 3978 1, 15 | on fine, even sand, not wrinkled, as on a flat shore, which 3979 1, 23 | furrowed with premature wrinkles, produced probably by misfortune 3980 2, 4 | Willingly." ~"This fanciful writer pretends that its name was 3981 1, 16 | horrible claws of the monster writhe in terrible convulsions. 3982 2, 6 | fastened, and the Captain wrote an address on the lid, in 3983 2, 21 | body thrown forward, he wrung the Canadian's shoulders. 3984 1, 20 | abrou" of the Malays, and yams of a superior quality. ~ 3985 2, 12 | ocean. Ned Land whistled "Yankee-doodle" between his teeth, thrust 3986 2, 16 | rose to a violent degree. Yawns dislocated my jaws. My lungs 3987 2, 19 | after destroying the town of Yeddo, in Japan, broke the same 3988 1, 17 | others, with bony jaws, and yellow-tinged gills, as good as bonitos; 3989 1, 13 | look upon the sea, slightly yellowed by the Japanese coast, and 3990 1, 4 | the hull of a vessel." ~"Yes--certainly--perhaps," replied 3991 1, 10 | address one question to you--one only." ~"Speak, sir." ~" 3992 1, 5 | American ship's crew shown more zeal or patience; its failure 3993 1, 3 | regular from principle, zealous from habit, evincing little 3994 2, 22 | or on the shores of Nova Zembla? Should we explore those 3995 1, 21 | France in the train of those zodiacal stars that would shine in 3996 1, 5 | Australia, the July of that zone corresponding to our January 3997 1, 2 | mineralogical, botanical, and zoological riches, when the accident 3998 1, 23 | precious specimens of the zoophyte. This coral was more valuable 3999 1, 13 | stretched myself on my couch of zostera, and slept profoundly, whilst