Jules Verne In search of the Castaways Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
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3504 1, 15| were flying swiftly along, rending the air with their piercing 3505 3, 5| those plastic elements that renew the muscles. Until the Maories 3506 2, 11| from the way he set about repairing the forepart of the wagon. 3507 2, 4| them faithful allies in repelling the attacks of evil-disposed 3508 3, 12| decree may seem, I will not repine. But death here, means not 3509 3, 5| carnivorous appetite of replacing the bodily waste, by the 3510 2, 1| besides, we can easily replenish our stock of coal at Cape 3511 1, 24| and Wilson and Mulrady replenished the fire.~No sign of decrease 3512 2, 2| form of the earth, only represent 9,480 miles. From the American 3513 3, 10| adorned with wooden statues, representing with perfect exactness the 3514 3, 17| interfere, and could only repress it with difficulty.~But 3515 2, 3| still was, seemed almost a reproduction of Teneriffe.~“And consequently 3516 3, 5| One day a missionary was reproving a cannibal for the horrible 3517 1, 19| Birds, quadrupeds, and reptiles were resting motionless 3518 2, 18| of a mile off.~Glenarvan, repulsing McNabbs, was already on 3519 2, 14| poultry yards. It was a repulsive-looking animal, a foot and a half 3520 2, 19| pronounced even superior to its reputation had it equaled the sheep 3521 2, 12| Compendium,” a work in great repute in England, and more in 3522 2, 13| dark foliage above. The requisite precautions were taken for 3523 3, 19| pride.~“But how shall we requite Lord and Lady Glenarvan?” 3524 2, 15| have at hand all means of research. He thought it would certainly 3525 2, 1| the basis of our future researches. But still I should like 3526 2, 11| convicts in the neighborhood, reserving that piece of information 3527 1, 23| part of the plain a deep reservoir. Glenarvan’s first care, 3528 1, 11| naturalized through twenty years’ residence in the country. He made 3529 2, 13| foamy streaks of an odorous resin, rose one hundred and fifty 3530 3, 15| this by the quantity of resinous gum that lay in heaps at 3531 2, 3| fact which made Paganel resolve not to attempt to bathe 3532 3, 1| turns on the poop, making it resound with iron-heeled boots, 3533 2, 13| municipality.”~“Shall we find a respectable hotel there?” asked Glenarvan.~“ 3534 3, 20| is the one that is most respected by the waves, and the one 3535 3, 10| continued Glenarvan, bowing respectfully toward Lady Helena and Mary 3536 3, 17| It is important that our respective situations should be clearly 3537 1, 16| considered that, in many respects, he greatly resembled an 3538 1, 12| on the gums and lips, and respiration became hurried and difficult. 3539 1, 23| pica-flor, humming-birds of most resplendent colors. When they flew away 3540 1, 23| be incurring too great a responsibility for me to reply hic et nunc. 3541 1, 7| McNabbs, gravely. “We are not responsible for his heedless mistakes. 3542 2, 10| required to conduct such a restive, stubborn lot to their destination, 3543 3, 2| syllables. Glenarvan was restless; he went in and out, while 3544 1, 7| his vocabulary. He paced restlessly up and down; sometimes stopping 3545 3, 13| hunger and thirst would restore them their prey. It was 3546 2, 8| Ayrton,” said Glenarvan; “it rests with yourself to call it 3547 2, 11| surveyor-general, “our inquiries have resulted in the conclusion that the 3548 1, 13| and nearly inanimate, only retaining their hold of the rocks 3549 1, 3| childish imagination evidently retraced all the scenes of his father’ 3550 3, 9| natives, that they were a retreating party of the tribe who had 3551 3, 2| then he resumed his mental retrospect of the navigators who made 3552 2, 14| small German state. The Reuiss-Schleitz, or Saxe-Coburg Gotha, would 3553 2, 1| first few moments the joy of reunion completely filled the hearts. 3554 1, 5| protection of Providence. The Rev. Mr. Morton conducted the 3555 3, 17| believe he had nothing to reveal. His opinion was shared, 3556 3, 19| of Captain Grant by the revelations of Ayrton, and it caused 3557 3, 19| confidence. “We will love and revere them, and we will tell them 3558 3, 19| and giving way to long reveries, interrupted occasionally 3559 2, 9| and with the top of the reversed triangle which forms New 3560 1, 13| wakefulness. His thoughts reverted involuntarily to those frightened 3561 2, 16| miles from here, we might revictual our expedition, and find 3562 3, 17| DUNCAN had once before been revictualed before she commenced her 3563 3, 1| which they were never to revisit.~And then, failing the BRITANNIA, 3564 2, 18| of the encampment. They revisited the track, which was still 3565 1, 18| and set off, shouting “Au revoir!“ to their companions.~“ 3566 3, 7| countries on the verge of revolution. The English newspapers 3567 3, 2| designation. Paganel was always revolving the meaning of the document. 3568 2, 19| Glenarvan said, a sudden revulsion of feeling lifting him from 3569 2, 15| that was wanted. Glenarvan rewarded him with a handful of silver 3570 3, 8| singular birds. But in spite of rewards offered to the natives, 3571 1, 20| most dangerous figure in rhetoric that I know. Mind you avoid 3572 2, 10| sudden, one fine day, without rhyme or reason, a detachment 3573 3, 11| deceased with a plaintive rhythm and doleful cadence. The 3574 1, 26| and his friends were no richer than himself.~He was quite 3575 2, 15| to retreat. The wagon was riddled in several places, and few 3576 3, 16| forecastle gun had gone off, riddling the quiet calm of the waves 3577 2, 19| high branches, seemed to ridicule the poor unfortunates. However, 3578 1, 7| agreeably. Still, it is a very ridiculous plight for a man to be in, 3579 3, 13| of cats and the guns of riflemen!”~And they turned, and once 3580 3, 10| the earth cracks in great rifts like a cake, too quickly 3581 3, 6| wind was in their favor, rigged up the royal-yard in the 3582 3, 11| to pay the penalty of the righteous indignation that nerved 3583 2, 12| trained by them in all the rigid principles of the Methodist 3584 3, 11| unburied. This custom was rigorously observed. Till February 3585 1, 1| slender, and round the thick rim there was still an end of 3586 1, 25| stirred on the tree, not a ripple disturbed the surface of 3587 2, 12| was too much for Paganel’s risible faculties. He burst out 3588 2, 19| indescribable fury. It would be risking life to battle with them. 3589 1, 15| Patagonian who might have almost rivaled the Emperor Maximii, and 3590 2, 7| would not allow political rivalries to interfere with international 3591 1, 11| in the mountains, and the rivulets in the plains, which they 3592 1, 16| in one of the tribes that roamed the country between the 3593 2, 5| Hence! What care these roarers for the name of king? To 3594 3, 14| became more distinct. Dull roarings of flame and the whistling 3595 2, 19| article of diet. Olbinett roasted it, and it would have been 3596 2, 17| with anger, “on purpose to rob and assassinate us.”~“For 3597 2, 18| to venture alone into a robber-haunted waste. And now, may God 3598 2, 13| left open. The numerous robberies committed after the accident, 3599 1, 25| enveloped the OMBU like a robe of Nessus. Terror seized 3600 1, 13| clouds of reddish vapor and rockets of lava, all combined, presented 3601 1, 18| there rose by the hundred roebucks and guanacos, like those 3602 2, 8| for his com-petency. The role of conductor was therefore 3603 1, 17| does in the Campagna of Rome.”~“Crimes!” returned the 3604 1, 23| roots, twisted branches, roofs torn off, destroyed RANCHOS, 3605 1, 5| not forget to fit up the rooms of Lord and Lady Glenarvan 3606 3, 13| advancing a foot. Their dogs, rooted to the spot like themselves, 3607 1, 12| deep crevasses. They had no ropes, but arms linked in arms 3608 1, 17| away in 1833 by General Rosas, tall in stature, with arched 3609 1, 1| for they appear to have rotted with the damp, and are sticking 3610 1, 12| exertion, and a great deal of roundabout climbing, the little party 3611 1, 9| this moment the DUNCAN was rounding the peninsula of Brunswick 3612 1, 14| McNabbs undertook the task of rousing Lord Glenarvan from his 3613 2, 15| one but the squatters and rovers. He answered all the questions 3614 3, 15| when he suddenly stopped rowing.~He saw three canoes coming 3615 3, 6| their favor, rigged up the royal-yard in the middle of the raft 3616 3, 6| mast, the topmasts, and the royals were sawn and split, the 3617 3, 6| fixed behind to act as a rudder in case the wind was sufficient 3618 2, 4| BRITANNIA, dismasted and rudderless, had been unable to contend, 3619 1, 17| petty ills of life could not ruffle the Major’s equanimity; 3620 3, 8| pines. They had plenty of rugs which make good beds. Glenarvan 3621 3, 11| the fish of a river, or ruin the early crop of sweet 3622 3, 10| to Kai-Koumou. They both ruled the Waikato tribes, and 3623 3, 7| the election of a Maori ruler. The object was to make 3624 1, 6| well to relax the strict rules of etiquette a little. I 3625 3, 2| the idea; it became his ruling thought. After Patagonia, 3626 1, 13| themselves speak. The internal rumblings, the crash of the avalanches, 3627 3, 4| trip?~While John was thus ruminating and longing for a little 3628 1, 15| brought up, after a long rummage, from the depths of one 3629 1, 6| but it was not till he had rummaged through the ninth pocket 3630 3, 7| their lands. It was also rumored that the principal chief 3631 2, 6| a great hiding place for runaway convicts. Its appearance 3632 1, 26| opposite side. For such a fast runner there were no impediments. 3633 2, 15| mere streams full of little rushes, and half covered up with 3634 2, 12| least disconcerted.~“Spain, Russia, Austria, Prussia, France,” 3635 1, 26| Paganel called out.~“Quien sabe?“ (Who knows?) replied Thalcave, 3636 1, 11| and the ALFORJAS, double sacks of gay colored linen, containing 3637 3, 11| history has no lack of such sacrifices.~This woman came on the 3638 1, 4| Indians of South America. Why sadden the poor children, and damp 3639 3, 13| Glenarvan’s thoughts into their saddest channel; for desperate as 3640 1, 10| Helena, while a shade of sadness beclouded her eyes.~“My 3641 2, 5| the funnel, but from the safety-valves of the boiler; the alarm 3642 1, 24| an old Dervish. The old sage told him that happiness 3643 1, 8| distance for such a quick sailer as the DUNCAN.~Next day, 3644 1, 8| and here by M. Charles Sainte-Claire Deville, a geologist.”~“ 3645 1, 17| stinted themselves for their sakes, still their ration was 3646 1, 8| the Islands. She passed Sal, a complete tomb of sand 3647 3, 1| she carry?”~“Everything salable and purchasable. What else?”~“ 3648 1, 26| possible, hoping to reach Lake Salado, on the shores of the ocean, 3649 1, 26| pieces of broken glass, were salinous lagoons, which increased 3650 2, 10| slices of salt beef, smoked salmon, oat cakes, and barley meal 3651 2, 8| pleasure of seeing you in my SALONS.”~“Assuredly, madam, I should 3652 1, 20| which they usually infest as SALTEADORES, or bandits.”~“And what 3653 3, 8| day. It was like a flying salute addressed to the way-worn 3654 2, 11| in the morning when the salvage party was organized, under 3655 2, 8| can one wish better? The Samaratians understood that, and never 3656 1, 16| loud in admiration of this sample of the Pampas breed, and 3657 1, 18| throws itself into Lake San Lucas about thirty-one miles 3658 3, 13| was about to invade the sanctity of the “oudoupa,” when he 3659 3, 13| malefactors used to flee to the sanctuaries in the middle ages.”~“God 3660 3, 6| still. It had landed on a sand-bank, twenty-five fathoms from 3661 3, 8| exception of the attack of the sand-flies, called by the natives, “ 3662 2, 5| cables’ lengths from the sandbanks. The tide was high, and 3663 1, 26| fatigue, and ran up the sandhills with surprising agility. 3664 3, 5| seaward, would roll it on the sands, break it up into splinters, 3665 2, 12| and New Caledonia, the Sandwich Islands, the Mendana, the 3666 3, 20| Glenarvan. John Mangles sang Mary’s praises in such terms, 3667 1, 13| been twice destroyed, and Santiago four times laid in ruins 3668 2, 4| named Australia de Espiritu Santo. Some authors imagine that 3669 3, 5| demands of an appetite rarely satiated; subsequently the priests 3670 2, 14| about in the branches— the “satin bird,” with its silky plumage, 3671 2, 15| the expedition remained satisfactory; horses and cattle did their 3672 1, 10| grips to go some way towards satisfying his desire.~All went on 3673 1, 25| formidable animals of the Saurian order. By the glare of the 3674 1, 25| delivered from the voracious SAURIANS, stationed themselves on 3675 3, 9| their flax mantles. Three savage-looking dogs lay at their feet. 3676 3, 6| topmasts, and the royals were sawn and split, the principal 3677 3, 5| Shy-lock, a Scotch bandit, Sawney Bean, was executed for the 3678 2, 19| Mangles had not discovered a sawyer’s hut, deserted and dilapidated 3679 2, 14| The Reuiss-Schleitz, or Saxe-Coburg Gotha, would have gone inside 3680 2, 2| disagreeable compounds of Saxon stiffness and African blackness.~ 3681 1, 10| entered the lists with Tom Sayers himself.~Glenarvan displayed 3682 1, 23| and twenty yards. All this scaffolding rested on three great boughs 3683 3, 13| Olbinett narrowly missed being scalded, for just as he had scooped 3684 1, 13| stopped to gaze about them and scan the horizon on all sides. 3685 3, 4| over the blank horizon. He scanned it eagerly during every 3686 2, 19| supper would have been very scant, if McNabbs had not killed 3687 3, 11| ill-usage; they had been scantily fed, and incessantly occupied 3688 1, 25| Glenarvan, and at others, the scared eyes of the terrified Robert, 3689 1, 25| of the night was already scarified with sharp bright lines, 3690 3, 8| incredulous Major the bloody scars on the breast. But he was 3691 3, 5| it up into splinters, and scatter them on the shore. John 3692 2, 11| characteristic of Australian scenery. Mount Simpson and Mount 3693 1, 12| heads near the ground, as if scenting the track. They marched 3694 1, 7| the Rhine at the Falls of Schaffhausen.~“Monsieur Jacques Paganel,” 3695 1, 24| rejoined McNabbs. “But go on, Scheherazade, and tell us the story.”~“ 3696 3, 14| volcano might devour the bold schemers, who offered it a crater. 3697 1, 7| pursue the track of the Schlaginweit Brothers; and Colonels Waugh 3698 2, 12| frequent enough in Australian schools. The little savages are 3699 2, 15| discoursed still more de omni re scibili.~A day so well commenced 3700 3, 8| charged by the Academy of Sciences to bring back a specimen 3701 1, 24| be regretted or not, in a scientific point of view, there is 3702 1, 24| ferocity is non-existent, scientifically speaking,” replied the learned 3703 2, 12| provoked a smile in light, scoffing auditors, but they were 3704 2, 10| oat cakes, and barley meal scones; tea ad libitum, and whisky 3705 1, 4| Anglo-Saxons, and to give scope for personal development, 3706 1, 16| sun’s rays were extremely scorching, and when evening came, 3707 3, 9| tattooer, had five times scored his countenance. He was 3708 1, 25| companions would escape scot free, except for a few vigorous 3709 3, 17| crew.~The good and gentle Scotchwoman stayed alone with the convict 3710 1, 5| marvelously described by Walter Scott, remains intact amid the 3711 3, 15| his map the name of the Scottish nobleman.~It would be idle 3712 3, 20| at all to be pitied, that scoundrel, Ayrton!” he exclaimed, 3713 1, 11| of Glenarvan had already scoured that part of the coast, 3714 2, 8| himself in front, and Olbinett scrambled in among the luggage. The 3715 1, 1| her husband, beginning to scrape away the hard substances 3716 3, 12| sounded as if someone was scraping or hollowing out the ground 3717 1, 2| document, and by putting the scraps together we might gather 3718 3, 12| motioning them to stoop.~The scratching became more and more audible; 3719 1, 25| lake, but next minute he screamed out in the most violent 3720 3, 10| shimmer through the leafy screen of the bushes; on the southern 3721 3, 13| library.”~“And what text of scripture did they aim at us?”~“A 3722 3, 18| proposal, and yet I do not scruple to tell you that I know 3723 3, 18| may, Harry Grant had no scruples, and on the 8th of April, 3724 1, 19| saddle him with the most scrupulous care, without forgetting 3725 2, 15| ground, and, after a close scrutiny, he could distinctly see 3726 1, 26| sea rough. The clouds were scudding along from the west, and 3727 3, 12| it happened, but in the scuffle I got away; I jumped the 3728 2, 19| steer by means of a large scull; but, notwithstanding their 3729 2, 13| Australian continent with the scum of Europe.~A mile beyond 3730 3, 4| to escape quickly by the scuppers, might submerge the ship. 3731 3, 15| his ax. He was about to scuttle the boat and sink it with 3732 1, 24| les cotes de l’Australie. Se dirigeant a terre, deux 3733 1, 22| justly have been called a sea-horse— better than many of the 3734 2, 4| has been destroyed by the sea-water, and read ‘17 June’ or ‘ 3735 3, 7| ready-garnered store of dried sea-weed, which formed a convenient 3736 3, 1| Paganel. “He is a regular sea-wolf.”~“A downright bear!” added 3737 3, 1| hearts. They looked at the sea-worn rocks; they needed no words 3738 1, 10| investigation of the whole seaboard. But it was all in vain. 3739 3, 21| confiding to him, under the seal of secrecy, a certain peculiarity 3740 2, 3| s was only frequented by seal-fishers, and now and then a whaler, 3741 2, 5| that follows. The casks of seal-oil were forthwith hauled up, 3742 1, 7| shall I show my face at the SEANCES of the Society?”~“Come, 3743 1, 25| trees during a storm.”~“Most seasonable advice, certainly, in our 3744 2, 2| appeared covered with immense seaweeds, looking like a great pond 3745 3, 21| to him, under the seal of secrecy, a certain peculiarity which 3746 1, 10| commenced the same day, but as secretly as possible to prevent the 3747 3, 20| God, who reads the deepest secrets of the heart; but you will 3748 2, 8| particularly desirous of securing the assistance of Harry 3749 3, 15| scattered on the ground a white sediment like dazzling snow. The 3750 1, 22| tons, engulfed them in its seething waters.~When it had rolled 3751 1, 14| the depths of abysses. It seizes sheep, and kids, and young 3752 3, 19| course. They had yet to select the island for Ayrton’s 3753 2, 8| place may be ultimately selected. Consequently, we must not 3754 2, 14| no reason to repent the selection. At the end of three years 3755 3, 20| cheek in spite of all his self-command; while the good, simple 3756 3, 4| stupid sot had quite lost his self-control. He was taken by surprise 3757 1, 5| were to take part in this self-sacrificing voyage, left the yacht and 3758 3, 1| Auckland is situated on the self-same parallel— the thirty-seventh— 3759 2, 15| intensity.~The Major, who had no selfishness about him, was going to 3760 3, 7| prevent the natives from selling their land to the English 3761 1, 21| creation. It is formed of a semi-circular ridge of gneiss hills, covered 3762 Int | devoted himself to a popular semi-scientific book, now superseded by 3763 3, 15| corroding the edges of the semi-transparent steps of this gigantic staircase. 3764 2, 18| affairs.~“We must not think of sending another messenger to Melbourne,” 3765 1, 8| find fellow-countrymen at Senegal, and that is not far away 3766 1, 25| vapors above it. There was no sensation of light or sound. All was 3767 3, 5| without a show of reason, that sensuality, and especially hunger, 3768 1, 22| better here,” returned Wilson sententiously.~Toward noon they had crossed 3769 1, 25| uneasiness in the heart of every sentient being, even in the most 3770 1, 21| guarded by an Argentine sentinel, that they passed through 3771 3, 11| visible; only the watchful sentinels relieving guard at the door 3772 3, 11| procession to the place of sepulture.~The captives, still strictly 3773 Int | which was in its turn a sequel to “Twenty Thousand Leagues 3774 2, 6| master, after having been a serf in Europe, and as independent 3775 1, 6| emptiness with a mask of seriousness. He looked far from that. 3776 2, 17| tiger on the plain than a serpent in the grass. Let us beat 3777 3, 14| was impossible in their serpent-like progress down this sloping 3778 2, 15| went on again, the wagon serving, from time to time, as a 3779 2, 14| too, for these are regular setters.”~Paganel was just about 3780 2, 7| well of me,” said the Irish settler, when the narrative ended, “ 3781 1, 11| are made of—composed of seventy-eight parts of copper and twenty-two 3782 1, 18| make up our minds to go seventy-two miles south, as far as the 3783 2, 18| Snowy River. Mulrady, though severely wounded, had the strength 3784 3, 11| lifetime they had borne the severest privations, and been subjected 3785 1, 9| Philip, but the extreme severity of winter decimated the 3786 1, 15| the skins of the guanaco, sewed together with ostrich tendons, 3787 3, 11| without distinction of age, or sex, fell upon the senseless 3788 2, 13| himself on walking under shadeless trees, though all the time 3789 3, 4| Some faint outlines were shadowed in the mist, but at a considerable 3790 3, 14| Soon they perceived the shadowy outline of the wood showing 3791 3, 3| dangerous. It is a series of shallow fiords as irregular and 3792 2, 10| mile up the water seemed shallower, and it was here they determined 3793 3, 17| flush of remorse, but of shame at failure. On this yacht 3794 3, 11| husband’s hands, to escape a shameful life, a betrothed wife may 3795 2, 14| recognizable by its double shamrock.~The plain was furrowed 3796 2, 19| conveyance. Who knows whether we shan’t arrive in time to prevent 3797 1, 1| His head was large, and shaped like a double hammer at 3798 3, 8| valley. With their grotesque shapes, and their outlines lost 3799 3, 12| perceived by the increased sharpness of the sounds that only 3800 2, 11| twisted and blackened axles, shattered wagons, bent rails, charred 3801 2, 1| his cabin, and began to shave himself as coolly and composedly 3802 2, 4| Australian natives abhor shedding blood, and many a time they 3803 3, 10| Large doves with metallic sheen on their plumage, and a 3804 1, 11| This saddle is made of sheepskins, tanned on one side and 3805 1, 6| actually falling through sheer inanition.”~Olbinett heard 3806 1, 8| as much intelligence as a shell-fish. But that’s not in my line, 3807 2, 13| slightest sound. Not a single shepherd on horseback gathered his 3808 2, 7| captain’s friends, at which Sheriff Mcintyre was present. Robert, 3809 1, 6| present. Fetch me a glass of sherry and a biscuit while I am 3810 2, 12| its archipelago of South Shetland, its Georgia, Jamaica, Trinidad, 3811 2, 12| Islands, the Hebrides, the Shetlands, and the Orkneys.”~“Yes, 3812 1, 17| indicated a change of wind which shifted to the north. A south or 3813 3, 10| with pumice stones, which shimmer through the leafy screen 3814 1, 19| them for fireflies, which shine at night in many parts of 3815 1, 26| CURRA-MANTEL. Here and there, shining like pieces of broken glass, 3816 2, 19| sent to the syndicate of shipbrokers in Melbourne. The whole 3817 2, 7| was a paper signed by the shipowners and Captain Grant. Mary 3818 1, 1| sharp strokes, however, soon shivered it to fragments, many of 3819 1, 22| step.~In this drenching, shivering state, and worn out with 3820 1, 26| dangerous to approach than rocky shoals. The sand-banks irritate 3821 1, 24| rejoined the Major.~“It is shocking!” replied Paganel. “Why, 3822 2, 11| herds.”~The horse was soon shod. The blacksmith claimed 3823 2, 16| that you hadn’t had the shoeing of all our beasts when we 3824 3, 7| increased to 8,000. The men of Shongi and Heki, two powerful chiefs, 3825 3, 4| be able to go about under shortened sail, and badly trimmed 3826 1, 26| one— to come and go in a shorter space of time.~Glenarvan 3827 3, 12| pah, and hastened by the shortest paths in pursuit of the 3828 2, 14| watch did not lie down, but shouldered his rifle and walked up 3829 1, 9| are giants. Lemaire and Shouten declare that they are eleven 3830 2, 15| on till this tremendous shower was over, unless the travelers 3831 1, 13| peaks appeared on fire. Showers of red-hot stones, clouds 3832 2, 5| attempt succeeded. A mere shred of canvas though it was, 3833 2, 7| the hands of uncommonly shrewd people.”~But, doubtless, 3834 2, 16| courageous ladies did not shrink, if necessary, from walking 3835 2, 3| venture; the most daring shrinks back, the most courageous 3836 1, 25| watched branch after branch shrivel, and crack, and writhe in 3837 1, 18| curra-mammel; and JUMES, a bushy shrub, rich in soda. Here and 3838 2, 18| than the sailor would have shrunk back a little from setting 3839 3, 14| Glenarvan could not but shudder, in spite of his confidence, 3840 1, 14| dazzling rapidity, opening and shutting his formidable claws, and 3841 2, 7| in the hurricane like a shuttlecock. She had six feet of water 3842 3, 5| Shakespeare was dreaming out his Shy-lock, a Scotch bandit, Sawney 3843 2, 3| countries. In the steppes of Siberia, in the plains of Central 3844 3, 15| and if the sulphur beds of Sicily should ever be exhausted, 3845 1, 15| rough hugging did not hurt sick people; at any rate it did 3846 2, 18| could stand a pretty long siege, for they had plenty of 3847 3, 13| essentially volcanic. It is a sieve, whose interstices furnish 3848 2, 1| to sea, till the welcome signal-gun of the expedition was heard 3849 1, 15| which has an affirmative significance among all nations.~“That’ 3850 3, 10| and then, with a nod, he silenced the noisy horde. Glenarvan 3851 3, 15| analogous to those of the Silurian vegetation.~On every side 3852 1, 17| north, this wind being the simoom of the Pampas.~There was 3853 3, 20| his gratitude with such simplicity and nobleness, his manly 3854 2, 11| Australian scenery. Mount Simpson and Mount Terrengower marked 3855 3, 19| that they both exclaimed simultaneously, “My father! My father!”~ 3856 3, 18| you a fresh proof of my sincerity in this matter. I deal frankly 3857 2, 12| Calicut, Aden, Malacca, Singapore, Pegu, Colombo. The Lacca-dive 3858 1, 19| the finest of the flock. Singly, the AGUARA is not much 3859 2, 12| question put to him. But the singularity of the answers were not 3860 3, 18| speak, unconditionally, singularly touched his auditors, especially 3861 3, 9| brow, his fierce look, and sinister expression, gave him a formidable 3862 2, 1| here and there, like a bee sipping the sweets of compliments 3863 2, 18| suffered from acute fever. The Sisters of Charity, Lady Helena 3864 1, 26| impossible for a boat—a six-oared one— to come and go in a 3865 2, 1| after going as far as the sixty-seventh degree southern latitude, 3866 2, 9| South Wales.~It is scarcely sixty-two miles from Cape Bernouilli 3867 2, 16| its nest in these aerial skeletons; not a leaf trembled on 3868 3, 20| children had given him a brief sketch of the DUNCAN’S history.~ 3869 2, 14| and the young squatters sketched out a programme of the day’ 3870 1, 5| band of trusty fellows, skilled in their calling, devoted 3871 3, 1| qualification, he was said to be skillful enough in navigating these 3872 1, 18| a powerful hand, and so skillfully, that he caught the bird 3873 3, 4| be here on these coasts, skimming these very waves, playing 3874 2, 16| barked for ages, or rather skinned like the cork-oak at harvest 3875 1, 2| evidently part of the word SKIPPER, and that’s what they call 3876 3, 7| guerilla type; they form skirmishing parties, come down in small 3877 1, 18| conversation the horses had been slackening speed, and were only walking 3878 2, 10| as they went along, and slaked their thirst at the numerous 3879 2, 13| Consequently the sun’s rays slant down them to the earth, 3880 2, 13| as if through the open slants of a Venetian blind.~Glenarvan 3881 3, 9| Germans, and the Danube to the Slavs. In its course of 200 miles 3882 2, 12| surrounded the peaceful little sleeper. “Poor child!” said Mary 3883 1, 6| always smoking, even while he sleeps.”~The Major gave an assenting 3884 2, 11| recent injury, which the sleeve of an old woolen shirt could 3885 2, 10| The blue flowers of the slender-leaved flax, combined with the 3886 1, 13| good faggot just now than a slice of venison.”~“Well, Tom, 3887 3, 14| every passing cloud. They slid rather than walked down 3888 1, 17| twenty feet long, knives, slings, bolas, and lassos, and, 3889 1, 22| they encountered moving sloughs called PENTANOS, it was 3890 1, 13| little dozed off himself, and slumbered heavily for some hours.~ 3891 1, 26| dawn next morning, all the slumberers started to their feet and 3892 1, 17| fatigue of day. But their slumbers were invaded by a swarm 3893 1, 15| and his cousin exchanged sly glances, and McNabbs said, 3894 3, 4| was steering received a smart blow, and could not comprehend 3895 2, 17| forehead as if he would smash it in.~Glenarvan went out 3896 3, 4| of the skylight had been smashed to powder. The passengers 3897 1, 24| small fish, as delicate as smelts, called MOJARRAS, which 3898 2, 1| sweets of compliments and smiles. He wanted to embrace everyone 3899 1, 9| Miss Mary happy. He was smitten with quite a peculiar interest 3900 2, 10| hams, slices of salt beef, smoked salmon, oat cakes, and barley 3901 1, 6| it. He is an inveterate smoker, Miss Mary, I can tell you. 3902 2, 13| could not have come out smoother from the hands of a turner. 3903 3, 12| wood, and threw it into the smouldering fire, which immediately 3904 1, 5| young Robert, he would have smuggled himself in somewhere in 3905 2, 13| then, and I don’t care a snap for these escaped fellows. 3906 2, 19| from it, when Wilson’s oar snapped short off, and the raft, 3907 1, 19| am,” exclaimed Glenarvan, snatching the bridle out of his hands. “ 3908 3, 8| their companions, shot some snipe and partridge under the 3909 3, 8| with four toes, a long snipe-like beak, and a covering of 3910 1, 13| made up for the night.~Loud snores in every tune and key soon 3911 1, 22| neighing continually, and snorting with wide open nostrils. 3912 1, 7| spoke with superb animation, soaring away on the wings of imagination. 3913 2, 6| commonsense. Whoever is sober and industrious, honest 3914 3, 4| head. His sailors, hardly sobered, could not understand his 3915 3, 14| they could move it from its socket, the vapors and the lava 3916 3, 10| it was so, from their eye sockets being hollow and deprived 3917 1, 18| a bushy shrub, rich in soda. Here and there large spaces 3918 1, 18| quantities of chloride of sodium.~But when Thalcave spoke 3919 1, 26| Indian gazed at it with a softened eye, and said:~“Good and 3920 1, 15| to articulate, said:~“Vos sois um homen de bem.” (You are 3921 1, 8| will be a gainer by your sojourn in the Cape Verde Islands. 3922 2, 14| Sandy, “but also an English soldier named Buckley, who deserted 3923 1, 16| replied the native almost solemnly. “We will march east, and 3924 3, 21| too, that, notwithstanding solicitation and regrets, he never would 3925 1, 18| Thalcave’s companions had much solicitude on that score. Accordingly 3926 1, 23| was the OMBU, which grows solitarily on the Argentine plains. 3927 2, 11| problem; he was seeking to solve it, and to find the unknown; 3928 3, 13| no fire.~But Paganel soon solved the difficulty by recommending 3929 2, 12| proper behavior, and even his somber garb made him look like 3930 | Somehow 3931 1, 7| I have letters from Lord Somerset, the Governor-General, and 3932 2, 12| mingling with the low, sweet song of the wild magpie.~But 3933 1, 13| mingled with torrents of sooty flame. The surrounding peaks 3934 2, 11| the blacksmith about those sores which looked so painful. 3935 3, 20| BRITANNIA; potatoes, endive, sorrel, and other vegetables besides, 3936 1, 24| despair of success, and began sorrowfully to retrace his steps back 3937 3, 4| showed that this stupid sot had quite lost his self-control. 3938 2, 18| noise of the tempest, the sough of the wind, the rattling 3939 3, 15| dragged themselves along, soulless bodies, animated only by 3940 3, 15| forests. They were an abundant source of nourishing food to our 3941 1, 9| Isles and advance in a more southerly direction, till at length 3942 1, 3| political encroachments of Southerners. And yet he was not a man 3943 1, 22| a strange country. They sow horns, and they sprout up 3944 2, 14| Australia, as the field for sowing the paternal bank-notes, 3945 3, 20| several acres of land were sown with the seed off the BRITANNIA; 3946 2, 7| exact. All the while he spake, Mary held one of his hands 3947 1, 11| offspring of Indians and Spaniards, dashed across the plain 3948 1, 10| the shipwreck. A broken spar, or any fragment of the 3949 2, 16| only a listener, and very sparing of your words.”~“Since you 3950 1, 24| with anyone, was always sparring with Paganel. The geographer 3951 3, 20| a canoe made out of the spars of the ship, but 1,500 miles 3952 2, 11| mimosas was a stretch of sparsely timbered country, which 3953 3, 19| again into convulsions and spasms, which became so violent 3954 1, 3| Grant was devouring the speaker with his eyes, and hanging 3955 2, 10| others, the metroside-ros speciosa, fifteen feet high, with 3956 1, 25| produced by myriads of luminous specks which appeared buzzing confusedly 3957 3, 16| demonstrations. These were specters who had returned—not the 3958 1, 25| investing them with a weird, spectral aspect.~However, as yet, 3959 1, 20| for an instant, and then sped away with inconceivable 3960 2, 14| Paganel remained as if spellbound for a time; the voice ceased 3961 2, 14| of his amiable hosts, to spend the whole day at the station. 3962 3, 1| breath. My device is ‘Spiro spero,’ and it is the best motto 3963 2, 19| plains were bristling with SPINIFEX, a prickly plant, which 3964 3, 14| Pluto, and to disappear spiritually into the tomb of Kara-Tete. 3965 3, 1| is breath. My device is ‘Spiro spero,’ and it is the best 3966 3, 11| The drops of hot blood splashed over these festive monsters, 3967 1, 25| As the large drops fell splashing into the lake, fiery sparks 3968 3, 5| sands, break it up into splinters, and scatter them on the 3969 3, 6| the royals were sawn and split, the principal pieces of 3970 2, 10| this bird, and the Major’s spoil would have borne the honors 3971 2, 3| island and treated like a spoiled child by nature. You only 3972 2, 13| shoot, not even a knot, spoilt the regularity of their 3973 2, 8| four large wheels without spokes or felloes, or iron tires— 3974 1, 21| own country.~Thalcave was spokesman, and addressing the officer, 3975 1, 23| tinder is just like wet sponge.”~“We can dispense with 3976 1, 25| whole sap, which was of a spongy texture, supplied food for 3977 2, 15| phosphorescent light. The luminous spores of the cryptograms shone 3978 1, 1| sight of an enormous fish sporting in the wake of the ship. 3979 3, 14| the volcanic stones, all spouted forth in a torrent. Streams 3980 1, 6| length on deck, and lay sprawling at the foot of the mainmast.~ 3981 3, 7| barbarous murder of Captain Sprent. Several bloody engagements 3982 2, 15| kangaroos were leaping and springing like dancing jacks. But 3983 3, 14| not without having been sprinkled with water at 220 degrees. 3984 1, 22| They sow horns, and they sprout up like wheat. I wish I 3985 1, 19| took Robert’s horse and sprung into the saddle. Next minute 3986 3, 10| sharpened shells. The blood spurted out and blended with their 3987 3, 19| Mangles, who had caught up a spy-glass.~“True enough,” said Paganel, 3988 2, 17| has been on our track and spying on us, waiting for a favorable 3989 1, 1| most voracious of all the SQUALIDAE species.~The passengers 3990 3, 4| by the force of a sudden squall. Then they returned to the 3991 3, 15| vast extent of twenty miles square, the subterranean forces 3992 2, 11| whole town was laid out in squares, crossed with parallel streets 3993 3, 10| Wilson’s shoulders, and squeezed his head through a crevice 3994 2, 18| found the wound; it was a stab in the right side.~McNabbs 3995 2, 11| of the guard, quite cold, stabbed to the heart. The murderers 3996 2, 19| and gave the raft some stability. John and Wilson seized 3997 2, 14| visible—neither sheds, nor stables, nor cart-houses. All these 3998 1, 19| about the RAMADA like a stag, when he suddenly stopped 3999 1, 13| block of basalt. A stone stair led up to the door, the 4000 3, 15| semi-transparent steps of this gigantic staircase. They fed whole lakes with 4001 1, 3| shipwrecked men were at stake, and Lady Helena was too 4002 1, 20| shore magnificent flamingos stalked in regular order like soldiers 4003 1, 19| Thalcave.~The Indian had been stalking about the RAMADA like a