Jules Verne Eight hundred leagues on the Amazon Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
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3003 2, 9| waterproof suit of India rubber, and his feet are attached 3004 2, 10| he probed the plants and rubbish accumulated along its foot. 3005 1, 9| under such circumstances a rudder is of no use. Long oars 3006 1, 10| than this village with its ruddy-colored banks, its unfinished church, 3007 2, 4| on his little body; his ruffled hair, which would not have 3008 2, 6| Dacosta. “My son! You have ruined me!”~ 3009 2, 1| 1850, of which only the ruins remain. The population of 3010 1, 7| comfortable according to all the rules of my art. I am a barber, 3011 2, 10| he was unaccustomed. The rumbling grew louder in his ears, 3012 1, 2| said he, “when I am after runaway slaves across the jungle 3013 1, 20| murderer?” exclaimed Benito, rushing toward Joam Garral.~By a 3014 1, 12| necessity for my hand to rust; and, besides, a few handfuls 3015 1, 7| trees there grated like a rusty weathercock the “alma de 3016 1, 7| edged beccaficos; and “sabias,” black as crows; all united 3017 1, 3| construction of a mill to crush the sacchariferous stalks destined to be used 3018 2, 6| himself. The defender of a sacred cause, his coolness was 3019 1, 7| now I am going to ask a sacrifice from you so that you shall 3020 1, 6| It was in this jangada, safer than any other vessel of 3021 1, 1| locks of some of our iron safes—in either case the protection 3022 1, 2| sapajous, gray-coated monos, sagouins which seem to wear a mask 3023 1, 2| the Upper Amazon—graceful sahuis, horned sapajous, gray-coated 3024 1, 18| doubtless nothing to fear in sailing here, but on a huge raft 3025 2, 8| natural barrier, well known to sailors as the Bar of Frias, which 3026 2, 14| would try the patience of a saint!”~But the short burst of 3027 1, 9| cargo for lucrative and easy sale in the provinces of Para.~ 3028 1, 9| flavor superior to that of salmon, to which it is often compared; “ 3029 1, 7| in fact a creeper of the salses family, one of the cipos 3030 1, 9| as sturgeons, which when salted are used in great quantities 3031 1, 11| sounded in their turn, and the salutation was completed in the series 3032 2, 8| themselves in this work of salvation. Benito, Manoel, Araujo 3033 1, 11| in umbrellas, groups of “sandis,” from which is extracted 3034 2, 20| the south-west; and then Santarem, a wealthy town of not less 3035 1, 2| graceful sahuis, horned sapajous, gray-coated monos, sagouins 3036 1, 14| Maracanatena, and Cururu Sapo. Many times they passed 3037 1, 6| escaped the woodman’s ax; “sapucaias,” one hundred and fifty 3038 1, 9| certain essential oils; sassafras, from which is extracted 3039 1, 5| an emersion of the first satellite of Jupiter—which allowed 3040 1, 8| made of weather-boarding, saturated with boiling resin, and 3041 1, 11| rice, swimming in a sharp sauce made of vinegar and “malagueta;” 3042 1, 12| are very fond of it, these savages, both the men and the women! 3043 1, 9| isolated groups across the savannahs or the woods, and the jangada 3044 1, 14| phenomenon on which the savants are not agreed.”~“Perhaps,” 3045 2, 3| he could not succeed in saving him. The verdict of the 3046 1, 6| into the upper branches, sawing off the heavier boughs and 3047 1, 15| borders of which a legend says that Indians with tails 3048 1, 2| remembrance of all that scaffolding on which his future hopes 3049 1, 6| constructed on a larger scale, of broader design, and 3050 1, 7| of edentates, with their scaly shells of patterns of mosaic.~ 3051 1, 20| but Fragoso, comprehending scarce half the gravity of the 3052 1, 11| cuirassed with large scales with scarlet borders, whose flesh was 3053 1, 3| invisible beneath a network of scarlet-flowered bromelias and passion-flowers.~ 3054 1, 17| tells me that with this scheming fellow there may be danger 3055 1, 16| police, the judges, the schoolmaster, and troops under the command 3056 1, 16| but a few of those little schooners which are used in the coasting-trade 3057 1, 3| Nothing in literature, in the sciences, in the arts, was a stranger 3058 1, 7| with their many-colored scintillations.~“What wonders!” repeated 3059 1, 7| red; “tisauras” with long scissors-like tails, looking like detached 3060 2, 6| at a spot where, slightly scooped away, it overhung the river. 3061 1, 8| young fellows had given free scope to their taste and imagination.~ 3062 1, 1| face was tanned with the scorching air of the tropics. He had 3063 2, 8| will see caymans by the score. Had Torres’ body fallen 3064 2, 10| waters. At the same time scores of crustaceans scampered 3065 1, 20| a glance of the deepest scorn.~But at the words Manoel 3066 1, 3| clothed, and much as they scorned their indigenous fellow-citizens, 3067 1, 20| reply to his demands by a scornful silence?~Yes! Probably so. 3068 1, 5| in Switzerland, Lombardy, Scotland, or Canada.”~“A river which, 3069 1, 19| is to get the diamonds in scoundrel-fashion—that is, by theft; and—stop! 3070 2, 3| soon recovered himself, and scrupulously considered the duties which 3071 1, 1| cost him something.” And, scrutinizing the paper with greedy eyes, “ 3072 2, 19| reparation. Mortally wounded in a scuffle with some negroes on the 3073 1, 2| pursuit, and the monkey scuttled off with renewed vigor.~ 3074 2, 4| entered the room, and handed a sealed packet to the magistrate.~ 3075 1, 1| America and go beyond the seas, and then how can I touch 3076 2, 15| throughout as being quite secondary for him. And of this document 3077 2, 16| Iquitos.~With the utmost secrecy Araujo at once set about 3078 1, 1| stick substance which is the secretion of certain of the hymenoptera, 3079 2, 15| saying anything to anybody, secretly left the jangada, arrived 3080 1, 3| Upper Amazon, some of whose secrets remained after so many centuries 3081 2, 10| writhe on the sand like the sections of a divided worm, and his 3082 1, 20| his men, who advanced to secure Joam Garral.~“But speak, 3083 2, 12| he was a master. He, the seeker after numerical combinations, 3084 2, 12| of no use. I had better select one of these paragraphs, 3085 2, 5| of Torres is doubtless to selel you the document—if the 3086 2, 17| the father—retained his self-command. It was he who comforted 3087 1, 3| known how, by sobriety, self-denial, suitable living, and constant 3088 2, 10| By a supreme instinct of self-preservation Benito uttered a cry. His 3089 2, 13| himself, who was as capable of selling a false thing as a true 3090 1, 19| Tijuco it is customary to send off in one delivery the 3091 2, 20| cathedral and of Nostra Senora de Merced, and the flotilla 3092 2, 2| formerly created such a sensation? Ought they not to fear 3093 1, 4| love with him. Each was sensible of the other’s worth, and 3094 1, 7| twisted round a gigantic sensitive mimosa, whose leaves, light 3095 2, 15| excite the network of his “sensorium,” and after all, to find 3096 1, 20| death, and you know, in sentences for crimes of that nature, 3097 1, 12| forever destitute of its sentinel, nor are four small mortars 3098 1, 12| colors does not rise above a sentry-box, forever destitute of its 3099 1, 3| non, and of which the bed separates Peru from the republic of 3100 1, 14| it is rather the color of sepia which pervades the whole.”~“ 3101 1, 3| work was only found in the seringals at harvest time—that is 3102 1, 17| into the alburnum of the seringueiras; below the wound small pots 3103 1, 11| replied Minha, with a pleasant seriousness, “you do not know, among 3104 1, 11| air. “What a magnificent sermon are these forests of the 3105 2, 20| and before the village of Serpa, which, successively transported 3106 1, 18| against the “sucurijus” serpents, which, coiled round the 3107 1, 12| of the place, a sort of serving-bar to the inn.~The loja belonged 3108 1, 9| there were a number of settlements on the river—towns, villages, 3109 2, 20| roofs of the huts of the settlers on both banks from Obidos 3110 1, 6| details to look after for settling in the other country in 3111 1, 18| the coasts of Oporto and Setubal. Besides, this was, in a 3112 2, 19| gkyuumfv ijdqdpzjq~out, moi seul, qui signe de mon vrai nom, 3113 1, 3| missionaries. Up to the seventeenth year of the century the 3114 1, 3| of the Amazon, near the seventy-fourth meridian, on that portion 3115 1, 7| cut of his hunting-knife severed the cipo.~The man slipped 3116 1, 17| After winding beneath the shade of ficuses, tahuaris, nipa 3117 1, 10| build, of tall stature, with shaggy hair, and had their noses 3118 2, 5| guilty man?” asked Jarriquez, shaken in his indifference.~“I 3119 1, 12| towers, no chignons, no shams! These head were not enfeebled 3120 1, 3| himself, and with equal shares.~But there was more that 3121 1, 2| a grin, which showed his sharp-edged teeth, white as ivory, and 3122 1, 3| and her features, a little sharpened but still beautiful, retained 3123 1, 2| you.”~“Ah!” said Torres sharply, “your father is thinking 3124 1, 7| curl and cut your hair, to shave you, and to make you comfortable 3125 1, 10| islands.~Many natives, with shaved heads, tattooed cheeks and 3126 2, 20| returned to a new life, which shed its happiness on all who 3127 1, 9| here found their customary sheds. They differed from the 3128 1, 9| forgetting a whole flock of sheep, kept in a special stable 3129 1, 15| disturbed the quiet. A little sheet-lightning was observable on the horizon, 3130 1, 7| edentates, with their scaly shells of patterns of mosaic.~And 3131 1, 9| Several hundred bottles of sherry, port, and letubal recalled 3132 1, 17| preconceived plan. When I see the shifty, dogged look of Torres, 3133 1, 11| the mother had lost her shildren; she had buried them with 3134 1, 7| nestors with blue wings like shimmering watered silk, leilu butterflies 3135 1, 15| One would think it was shingle rolling on the beach of 3136 1, 15| avoiding the shallows, shirking the eddies, and maintaining 3137 1, 3| fellow-citizens, wore only a simple shirt, light cotton trousers, 3138 1, 10| which had to be rounded, the shoals which had to be avoided, 3139 1, 15| a skeptic, and he often shocked the straightforward people 3140 1, 7| and in the midst of the shoots and branchlets of the grenadilla 3141 1, 6| humid soil which perhaps its shots had never before caressed.~ 3142 1, 15| but during the torrential showers the Garral family had to 3143 2, 19| If, in spite of all the shrewdness of his analytical talents, 3144 1, 17| around.~“Fragoso! Fragoso!” shrieked Lina, kneeling on the edge 3145 1, 7| in a deafening concert of shrieks and whistles. The long beak 3146 1, 7| Lina was alone sufficiently shrill to ring out with its joyous 3147 1, 20| throw you overboard.”~Torres shrugged his shoulders.~“No threats,” 3148 2, 15| time, he would not have shrunk from plunging into the millions 3149 1, 8| Throughout on the shelves and side-tables were little odds and ends, 3150 1, 10| capitally; breakfast, dinner, siesta, walks, all took place as 3151 2, 4| having passed through the sieve of inquest, inquiry, and 3152 1, 19| being sorted in a dozen sieves with holes of different 3153 2, 20| of the river banks afford sifficient room for as many others 3154 1, 2| failing to repress a huge sigh of relief.~“Whom ought I 3155 2, 20| long exile. Thousands of sight-seers—or more correctly speaking, 3156 2, 19| Fragoso, and which was the signature of the document, had afforded 3157 2, 19| ijdqdpzjq~out, moi seul, qui signe de mon vrai nom, Ortega. 3158 2, 20| for the same slight but significant nodding of the head accompanied 3159 2, 4| his head to Dacosta, which signified as clearly as possible, “ 3160 2, 12| Now let us say that it signifies a or o.”~After this was 3161 1, 20| By a gesture his father silenced him.~“I will only ask you 3162 1, 19| Yaquita and her daughter silently followed, and all felt an 3163 1, 11| recognizable in the undecided silhouettes the trunks, or rather columns, 3164 1, 7| s can be no other than a silly one,” said Benito, shaking 3165 1, 11| candirus,” a kind of small silurus, of which many are microscopic, 3166 2, 20| the beach.~The village of Silves, built on the left of the 3167 1, 7| could not be found in their simplicity in the more civilized provinces 3168 2, 17| go! He said nothing. The sincerest pity was depicted on his 3169 2, 17| had penned with so much sincerity, would have been sent to 3170 2, 13| extends from my occiput to my sinciput.”~“But, sir,” asked Manoel, 3171 1, 19| replied Joam Garral, in a singularly calm voice.~“So be it,” 3172 1, 10| easterly shore of the island of Sinicure; but the pilot, well served 3173 2, 9| fills them, and the body sinks to the bottom.~On the other 3174 1, 10| greater; but owing to the sinuosities of the river and its abrupt 3175 1, 17| whose scientific name is siphonia elastica.~It is said that, 3176 1, 2| out to me.”~“In that case, sirs,” replied Torres, “I am 3177 1, 3| those who raise them! A few “sitios,” or manioc and coffee plantations, 3178 1, 12| advance.~It was in 1824, sixteen years after the foundation 3179 2, 13| fifty-ninth, and two hundred and sixtieth letters of the paragraph 3180 2, 13| million two hundred and sixty-eight thousand and eight hundred 3181 1, 10| imagination—Sixty-fourth Island or Sixty-fifth Island, any more than Sixth 3182 2, 10| he was at a depth of some sixty-five or seventy feet. He was 3183 2, 12| have done our subtraction, sixty-four vowels and two hundred and 3184 1, 10| nothing to the imagination—Sixty-fourth Island or Sixty-fifth Island, 3185 1, 7| oncidiums more tangled than a skein of worsted between a kitten’ 3186 2, 10| cayman, already reduced to a skeleton, and which the current of 3187 1, 15| observations were those of a skeptic, and he often shocked the 3188 1, 6| be used for some work of skill, either in carpentry or 3189 1, 8| things easily with their skilled and patient hands.~The trees 3190 2, 8| applied to a man who was more skillful or more conversant with 3191 2, 10| But first he wanted to skirt the bank and carefully explore 3192 1, 14| as to give them an oblong skull, which was then the fashion. 3193 1, 14| ancient deformity in the skulls of the chaplet-makers.~Every 3194 2, 19| jangada had its moorings slackened off and began to move with 3195 2, 2| They had to work the raft slantingly across the current of the 3196 1, 3| child to Iquitos in the slave-trading times, she had never quitted 3197 2, 10| of eel, with a blackish, slimy skin, furnished along the 3198 1, 7| cord, had formed into a slipknot, and the shakings came from 3199 2, 20| giant raft, and seemed lke sloops beside some might man-of-war.~ 3200 1, 10| coming from the eastern slopes of Cotopaxi, hurried fiercely 3201 1, 16| fine ladies in their fine slothes!”~“Lina will go mad!” exclaimed 3202 2, 16| tributary, avoiding the slowly-filling streets of the town, and 3203 2, 10| to advance with extreme slowness.~Benito descended very gently, 3204 2, 14| giving his head a thorough sluicing with cold water:~“Let us 3205 1, 6| their superiors in agility, slung themselves into the upper 3206 1, 17| conversation. Torres looked slyly at the two young men, but 3207 1, 11| country decimated by the smallpox. Of several guides who offered 3208 1, 17| and said:~“What a queer smell! Am I wrong? Do you not 3209 1, 18| fright, and her eyes and smiles thanked all those who had 3210 1, 10| the house.~The young girl smilingly ran off.~“You will have 3211 1, 15| value. When the meat is smoke-dried it keeps for a long time, 3212 2, 18| from his clenched hand, smoothed it out on the table, sat 3213 2, 3| still have asked for time to smother the remembrances of the 3214 1, 5| Lister-Maw, in 1834 and 1835 Smyth, in 1844 the French lieutenant 3215 1, 17| the risk of having his arm snapped off by the two jaws, had 3216 1, 7| you talk of your riches!”~“Sneer away, little brother!” replied 3217 1, 1| began to feel the want of a snooze. Two or three hours’ rest 3218 1, 14| grizzly hair; with his pointed snout, which is plunged into the 3219 1, 15| these were the two pointed snouts and four pinions of the 3220 1, 6| the yellow, purple, and snowy white of the parasitic plants.~ 3221 2, 12| spectacles were on his nose, his snuff-box on the table. He took a 3222 1, 3| quickly, he had known how, by sobriety, self-denial, suitable living, 3223 1, 2| doubt the most eccentric. Of sociable disposition, and not very 3224 2, 16| bars had slipped out of its socket, and formed a hook over 3225 1, 7| like living emeralds set in sockets of gold, and legions of 3226 1, 8| bamboo easy-chairs, cane sofas, carved wood shelves, everything 3227 1, 8| brocades and damasks and softest and richest materials of 3228 1, 12| all remarkable for their softness and their quality, but the 3229 1, 1| productive and widespread of the solanaceae.~This native tobacco had 3230 1, 4| the fields, the fazender sold on the spot. He had not 3231 2, 19| gkfndrxu ju gi~l’assassinat des soldats qui escortaient le convoi, 3232 1, 17| grayish-yellow tinge and solidifies. The layers formed in succession 3233 1, 8| beams, which assured the solidity of the whole. “Piaçaba” 3234 1, 5| it takes the name of the Solimaës, or Solimoens, from the 3235 1, 5| name of the Indian tribe Solimao, of which survivors are 3236 2, 19| accomplices. Hence it was that the solitary soldier who survived the 3237 2, 12| numerical combinations, the solver of amusing problems, the 3238 2, 14| which was sure to be found somewhre, that of Dacosta.~He could 3239 1, 7| ears, for the cries and the songs of these thousands of birds 3240 1, 5| the Curicicurus and the Sorimaos. On the Putumayo, if a few 3241 1, 11| history of a Frenchwoman whose sorrows rendered these banks memorable 3242 1, 19| their size, after being sorted in a dozen sieves with holes 3243 2, 12| endeavor, saw the impatiently sought-for sense of the logogryph coming 3244 1, 1| heard nothing of all these sounds, which form, as it were, 3245 1, 11| Indian cook. The traditional soup of fragrant herbs; cake, 3246 1, 5| almost deserted, and near the sources of the Japur there remained 3247 2, 20| waters descending from the south-west; and then Santarem, a wealthy 3248 2, 17| without.~Joam started up; the souvenire of the past vanished like 3249 1, 6| cleared, plowed, planted, and sown, and the following year 3250 2, 14| Then in counting up the spaced in alphabetical order, he 3251 1, 7| the breaks were tolerably spacious, they saw several pairs 3252 2, 1| which was discovered by the Spaniard Favella in 1645, rises in 3253 1, 7| kind of light fawn-colored sparrow-hawk. If he proudly hooted, displaying 3254 1, 7| wagged their little heads, speckled all over with their purple 3255 1, 9| assist at the interesting spectacle.~They were all keenly on 3256 2, 11| which had seized upon the spectators f this scene. Benito could 3257 1, 7| here to exchange loving speeches, I imagine. Just forget 3258 1, 10| were so many obstacles to speedy navigation.~The mouth of 3259 2, 8| of excitement during this spell of work, when the harrows, 3260 1, 4| the town in which she will spend most of her life.”~Joam 3261 2, 4| European justice—thorough sphinxes by taste as well as by profession— 3262 1, 11| and “malagueta;” a dish of spiced herbs, and cold cake sprinkled 3263 1, 11| kind of fan made of the spines of palm-trees, six inches 3264 1, 9| another personage was its spiritual director; this was Padre 3265 1, 17| that he seems to have some spiteful secret intention in watching 3266 1, 17| and the scales flew to splinters but the ball did not penetrate.~ 3267 1, 10| which causes the Napo to split into two streams before 3268 2, 14| Jarriquez, with his head nearly splitting, arose and paced his office, 3269 1, 3| gentle creatures, a little spoiled, perhaps, to whom a good 3270 1, 7| register a master-stroke in sporting annals, if within range 3271 1, 15| blowings indicated that the spouting animals were vigorously 3272 2, 19| xhxq rym vkloh hh oto zvdk spp suvjhd.~“The real author 3273 1, 18| fascinate his prey before he sprang on it.~Manoel talked mostly 3274 1, 11| reflections and spurts of spray, which the refracted light 3275 1, 6| out, over which the coming spring would still spread its verdant 3276 1, 3| the river. But one day the springs in their territory all dried 3277 1, 11| disappears like a water sprite as soon as you approach 3278 1, 11| colored reflections and spurts of spray, which the refracted 3279 1, 6| joists, beams, and slightly squared trunks, which were taken 3280 1, 12| before a circle of braves and squaws will have formed around 3281 2, 12| this quarrel ended with a stab from a knife, which entered 3282 1, 11| alone, and behind her the stages of the route were marked 3283 1, 7| sudden full of game. Swift stags and graceful roebucks scampered 3284 1, 3| the name of cottages. A stairway made of crossed trunks of 3285 1, 15| or attaching them to a stake by a cord just long enough 3286 1, 3| crush the sacchariferous stalks destined to be used hereafter 3287 1, 16| streets, which contained more stalls than shops; they strolled 3288 2, 16| jangada, and even the two stalwart negroes were not let into 3289 1, 2| seized him. He swore, he stamped, he threatened the guariba. 3290 1, 11| single diamond of the pole star, on the south the four brilliants 3291 2, 18| the document with a fixed stare.~“The last letters!” he 3292 1, 11| even during this period the stars shone with unequaled purity. 3293 2, 1| straggling weeds and flowers of startling hues, and here and there 3294 1, 8| never covered by a more startlingly tropical attire. What whimsical 3295 2, 17| the reception which the starving fugitive had met with from 3296 1, 5| ill-informed travelers have stated to the contrary) that the 3297 1, 5| only 8 degrees.~After such statements we are safe in affirming 3298 1, 17| took along the jangada more steadily, and on the 18th of August 3299 2, 14| end by driving me mad! But steady! Be calm! Don’t let our 3300 1, 19| Well, the story is about stealing diamonds, and a handful 3301 1, 6| have preferred some rapid steamboat.~But though the means of 3302 2, 18| not even stop to raise his steed. Evidently he had asked 3303 2, 17| his window, and of grating steel as it cut through iron, 3304 2, 10| cliff, which was here very steep, and at the very spot where 3305 1, 2| the guariba passed like a steeplechaser. Big roots hidden beneath 3306 1, 15| address of the pilot to steer through the archipelago, 3307 2, 2| could not enter without stemming a rather powerful current, 3308 1, 7| compared by Agassiz to long sticks of coral flecked with green. 3309 2, 2| reddish-brown, and palisaded with stiff-stalked reeds called “froxas,” of 3310 2, 10| dim, his limbs began to stiffen.~But before he quite lost 3311 1, 2| withdrew the case from his stiffened hand.~“Doubtless that, sir, 3312 1, 16| fashionable, who were nearly stifled in their European clothes; 3313 1, 16| tired with walking about its stifling streets which were not nearly 3314 1, 11| inclination to brave their stings.~“They say that all the 3315 2, 6| length he was obliged to stoop beneath the arm which threatened 3316 2, 6| without. And then, slightly stooping, and planted firmly on his 3317 1, 16| moored for the night.~The stoppage was made in sight of the 3318 2, 20| cottage of the negroes, the store-rooms which held the valuable 3319 1, 9| forests.~There, in vast storerooms, under the direction of 3320 1, 10| Lower Amazon, and their stores were empty.~The jangada 3321 1, 15| but it came from a distant storm which did not reach the 3322 1, 20| astonish him. He had expected a stormy discussion and prayers and 3323 1, 1| finger on the sheet of good stout paper which was covered 3324 1, 2| size. The suppleness and stoutness of his limbs proclaimed 3325 1, 7| stored up as in an enormous stove.~And on the bromelias, grass 3326 2, 1| vacant spaces covered with straggling weeds and flowers of startling 3327 2, 10| to the sand, the corpse straightened itself up, the head swayed 3328 1, 3| in his features, of which straightforwardness was the leading characteristic. 3329 1, 10| receives the water by a large strait. In the middle of the stream 3330 1, 8| which were lying on the strand.~And an easy task it was. 3331 2, 7| metal case, which it so strangely kept, and the chase had 3332 1, 8| the whole. “Piaçaba” ropes strapped them together as firmly 3333 1, 5| of Europe are but petty streamlets.”~“And in its course five 3334 2, 4| worthily fulfilled. He laid stress only on one circumstance— 3335 1, 16| and ended by maintaining a strict reserve toward the barber.~ 3336 2, 15| defender that he had hoped to strive for his rehabilitation? 3337 2, 1| manner of people are they who stroll on to the fashionable promenade 3338 2, 2| weapons.~A few citizens were strolling about the bank. A feeling 3339 2, 13| impossible. In truth, a stronger man than I might have been 3340 2, 6| again.~Torres, who was the strongest, struck a side blow with 3341 1, 16| and the juice of a bulbous strychnos, not to mention the paste 3342 1, 3| was a stranger to him. He studied as if the fortune of his 3343 1, 11| merchants, trading in cotton stuffs, salt fish, and sarsaparilla.~ 3344 1, 2| lay often in the way. He stumbled over them and again started 3345 1, 15| It was only necessary to stun the animal, who rarely defends 3346 1, 7| nonsense!” cried Benito. “Stupid idea that I had! Be engaged, 3347 1, 20| Yaquita and Minha, struck with stupor, stopped without any power 3348 1, 9| when worked with a hundred sturdy arms. It was from the sides, 3349 1, 9| red scales, as large as sturgeons, which when salted are used 3350 1, 3| Yaquita had not been able to subdue.~Respected by all, placed 3351 2, 10| still.~Suddenly, in the subdued light which surrounded him, 3352 1, 15| Brazil afforded him numerous subjects to talk about. The man had 3353 1, 11| do not understand all its sublime beauties. We are going down 3354 2, 9| weight, and eventually entire submersion, for the water makes its 3355 1, 16| which the movements are subordinated to the will. But the heart 3356 2, 19| condemned in his place! He knew subsequently that the innocent man had 3357 1, 6| gradually and gradually subside until the month of October.~ 3358 1, 1| boots which formed the most substantial part of his attire, and 3359 1, 20| immediate execution, by his substitute. Judge Ribeiro was struck 3360 2, 12| after we have done our subtraction, sixty-four vowels and two 3361 2, 4| until the nomination of the successor of the late justice.~This 3362 1, 3| where others had prematurely succumbed. His hair, which he wore 3363 1, 15| horrible vampires which suck the blood of the cattle, 3364 1, 18| with neither gymnotus nor sucuriju, and the passage across 3365 2, 10| diver, who only fought to suffer, without any power of defending 3366 2, 3| continuous source of his sufferings, of which he had kept the 3367 2, 14| adventurer. But, as had been suggested by Judge Jarriquez, why 3368 1, 15| the legions of monkeys, sulphur-white in color, with cinnabar-red 3369 1, 3| forty-eight years. In that sultry cliimate, which wears men 3370 1, 8| russet silk, produced by the “sumauma,” hung from the windows. 3371 2, 1| occasional white-barked sumaumeira shooting up, and spreading 3372 2, 19| this last paragraph, which summarized the whole of the document, 3373 2, 7| The pilot Araujo was then summoned and informed of what they 3374 1, 1| which fixes the price. It sums up the entire document. 3375 1, 2| which saved his life.~A sunbeam shooting between the branches 3376 1, 7| FOLLOWING A LIANA~IT WAS a Sunday, the 26th of May, and the 3377 2, 10| body of Torres. One of the suns rays shot down to it through 3378 1, 15| operation commences with sunset and finishes with the dawn.~ 3379 2, 14| and worked away almost superhumanly.~To arrive at the number 3380 1, 8| sixty broad, and thus had a superificies of sixty thousand square 3381 1, 15| capacity of police, have to superintend the collection of the dues. 3382 1, 10| assisted by Benito and Manoel, superintended the unmooring.~At the command 3383 1, 6| monkeys who were hardly their superiors in agility, slung themselves 3384 2, 6| will doubtless come back to supper.”~“Do you know what road 3385 1, 2| was of large size. The suppleness and stoutness of his limbs 3386 1, 9| reckoned on for additional supplies, excellent hunters as they 3387 1, 6| each pointed stem of which supports a horizontal parasol; and “ 3388 2, 14| the end of the first day. Suppressed frenzy consumed him, and 3389 1, 15| experience served him more surely, and it was wonderful to 3390 1, 12| was for a long time the surest and most rapid vehicle of 3391 2, 4| Vicente Jarriquez. He was a surly little fellow, whom forty 3392 1, 1| equal the bull in size, can surpass him in noise.~Torres heard 3393 2, 4| with their expression of surprising acuteness; his prominent 3394 2, 17| guilt! Of my own free will I surrendered myself to my country’s judges, 3395 2, 7| occurrence, the mob soon surrenders itself to its cruel instincts, 3396 2, 7| in their blind folly, to surround the prison and roar forth 3397 1, 11| fish were taken—“pacos,” “surubis,” “gamitanas,” of exquisite 3398 2, 19| the solitary soldier who survived the massacre had reported 3399 1, 5| tribe Solimao, of which survivors are still found in the neighboring 3400 2, 11| whose evidence could not be suspected at any future time:~“Just 3401 1, 1| for so many years, hardly suspects that he has made my fortune!”~ 3402 2, 10| blank, he would have to suspend his researches.~Experience 3403 1, 9| constructions and swung the hammock suspended in the interior, and the 3404 2, 15| Dacosta was well adapted to sustain her in this ordeal. That 3405 2, 19| rym vkloh hh oto zvdk spp suvjhd.~“The real author of the 3406 1, 15| almost insensible to the swell of the Amazon, but during 3407 1, 6| a couple of yards at the swelling, which is found at a few 3408 2, 18| purchase of this horse, which, swifter far than any pirogue on 3409 1, 18| the water glided long and swiftly-swimming snakes, among them the formidable 3410 1, 7| above the ravine like a swing, and plunged again beneath 3411 1, 7| had already stepped on the swinging floor of this vegetable 3412 1, 5| cannot be met with even in Switzerland, Lombardy, Scotland, or 3413 2, 20| not, and the crowd became swo great, did not the ledges 3414 1, 2| possessed no firearm. His sword-knife and hoe were useless unless 3415 1, 2| then anger seized him. He swore, he stamped, he threatened 3416 2, 19| did not want to lose one syllable of what was about to be 3417 2, 15| combinations of which the ten symbols of numeration are capable. 3418 2, 20| for as many others of the sympathizing crowd as were desirous of 3419 2, 18| pity which betrayed the sympathy of the excited crowd. A 3420 2, 12| form in one of the numerous systems used in cryptography.~But 3421 1, 12| days in the height of the syzygies raises the waters of the 3422 1, 14| advantageously replace many of the table-waters used in Europe. They drew 3423 1, 9| paulliniasorbilis,” a genuine tablet of chocolate so far as its 3424 1, 16| rapidly without having to tack.~So the lateen sail was 3425 1, 17| beneath the shade of ficuses, tahuaris, nipa palms, and cecropias, 3426 1, 7| range there should come a “tamandoa assa,” a kind of large and 3427 1, 9| to be called crawfish; “tambagus,” the finest fish in the 3428 2, 12| African town on the banks of Tanganyika? What has that got to do 3429 1, 1| decided gait, his face was tanned with the scorching air of 3430 2, 20| saw another tributary, the Tapajos, with its greenish-gray 3431 1, 5| Iquitos; others by way of the Tapajoz, the Madeira, the Rio Negro, 3432 2, 20| nestled beneath its verdant tapestry of flowers and foliage, 3433 1, 9| ways, even in the form of tapioca, according to the fancy 3434 1, 7| when he came across some tapirs, called “antas” in Brazil, 3435 2, 4| his fingers unceasingly tapping the table in front of him, 3436 2, 20| which are frequented by Tapuyas, the Indians of the Lower 3437 1, 11| islands of Cabello-Cocha, Tarapote, and Cacao. Many stoppages 3438 1, 5| Huaraco, in the department of Tarma, and that it starts from 3439 1, 11| one of an encampment of Tartar horsemen. The Brazilian 3440 1, 15| manufacture of “manteigna de tartaruga,” or turtle butter, which 3441 1, 5| Anglo-Saxon race Australians and Tasmanians have vanished. Before the 3442 1, 3| their characters and their tastes proved no barrier to their 3443 2, 4| his past life should have taught him to dread, and herein 3444 2, 6| on the right track.~In a tavern in Holy Ghost Street, from 3445 2, 6| Fragoso.~“Yes,” answered the tavern-keeper.~“Is he here now?”~“No. 3446 2, 6| tradesmen in their shops, the tavern-keepers in their cabarets, and even 3447 2, 6| instance to the keepers of the taverns and lojas where the adventurer 3448 1, 10| waters overflowing from a tazza.~Then the pilot, so as to 3449 2, 17| the next moment Manoel, tearing down the remaining bars, 3450 2, 2| but her mother’s face was tearless, and she had that look of 3451 1, 5| mouth of the Jurua. The Teffé is almost deserted, and 3452 1, 11| which are unknown in the temperate zones. A light breeze freshened 3453 2, 18| swiftly succeeded to the tempest which raged within him. 3454 1, 7| marvelous insects were they tempted to pluck as though they 3455 2, 1| shops for the most part tenanted by Portuguese traders.~And 3456 1, 4| in hers, and pressed them tenderly.~“Joam,” she said, “it is 3457 2, 12| escapes me, if the whole tenor of my life does not plead 3458 2, 14| overheated boiler under the tension of its vapor.~It was perfectly 3459 1, 5| Manoel, “like the thousand tentacles of some gigantic polyp, 3460 2, 19| the voyage was intended to terminate with the double marriage 3461 1, 18| Duplicates of grandeur, terminated above and below by a vast 3462 1, 11| who were sent to measure a terrestrial degree on the equator, they 3463 1, 17| hand, and struck such a terrific blow that its edge sunk 3464 1, 19| at ninety leagues from Terro de Frio.”~“At a stroke their 3465 1, 7| white-headed eagle, the terror of the whole winged population 3466 2, 1| however, when put to the test, was disproved, and with 3467 1, 5| Abbé Durand has likewise testified that if the temperature 3468 2, 7| is dead, and he could not testify in any way to the innocence 3469 1, 4| mission were sufficient testimony to a ceremony which no officer 3470 1, 5| 1637 the Portuguese Pedro Texeira ascended the Amazon to Napo, 3471 1, 3| forty miserable huts, whose thatched roofs only just render them 3472 1, 11| like the panoramas of the theaters which unroll from one wing 3473 1, 3| was one of the family. She thee-ed and thou-ed both daughter 3474 1, 12| his wife to come and have theirs on board the jangada.~The 3475 1, 5| practice harmonize with theory, Brazil entered into negotiations 3476 1, 15| again. In ten minutes or thereabouts the animals would certainly 3477 | thereby 3478 1, 16| church dedicated to St. Theresa, which was a cathedral by 3479 2, 12| off to headquarters, and therewith he thought he had finished 3480 2, 10| Sometimes profound obscurity thickened around him, and then he 3481 1, 19| beneath he blows of the thieves, and was doubtless dragged 3482 2, 16| and in the midst of these thinly-peopled provinces, even if pursuit 3483 1, 12| enfeebled by cuttings nor thinned by fallings-off, but were 3484 1, 7| afraid, the liana is getting thinner; we shall get the better 3485 2, 14| estimated at eight hundred and thirty-four contos, or about 2,500,000 3486 1, 12| Garral had decided to pass thirty-six hours here, so as to give 3487 1, 3| family. She thee-ed and thou-ed both daughter and mother. 3488 1, 4| being fought under that thoughtful brow. Yaquita got anxious, 3489 1, 4| Yaquita, and he remained thoughtfully looking at her.~Yaquita 3490 1, 12| the same description of threadbare witticisms, the same amusing 3491 1, 20| shrugged his shoulders.~“No threats,” he said; “they are of 3492 1, 6| chestnuts, which yield the three-cornered nuts; “murichis,” unexcelled 3493 2, 20| its little houses, whose thresholds stand on the yellow carpet 3494 2, 17| by the manly words, which thrilled them to the core of their 3495 1, 17| to the very bottom of his throat, at the risk of having his 3496 2, 10| peculiar animation. Convulsive throbs made the movement of the 3497 2, 14| The population no longer thronged to the prison of Manaos 3498 2, 14| seventy-six times!”~And a violent thump with his fist on the document 3499 2, 10| liquid depths. It was like a thunder-clap, the reverberations of which 3500 1, 20| only one whom this fearful thunderbolt, which had fallen so unexpectedly 3501 1, 11| Jesuit missionaries. The Ticuma Indians, who inhabit the 3502 1, 12| children, with their mothers of Ticuna blood, affording very poor 3503 1, 12| half in Portuguese, half in Ticunian, favored them with his customary