Chapter

 1 I      |         anything out of it. In a word, he was a learned miser.~
 2 I      |  measures. I don’t wish to say a word against so respectable a
 3 I      |         I was always happy.~In a word, a man might live happily
 4 III    |        got it?”~I answered not a word, and for a very good reason.
 5 III    |          her, if there is such a word in the German language.
 6 III    |         the first letter of each word, then the second, the third,
 7 III    |        the second letter of each word, he dictated me the following:~
 8 IV     |         letters made the English word ‘ice’; the eighty-third
 9 IV     |         fourth line appeared the word “luco”, which means a sacred
10 IV     |        in the third line was the word “tabiled”, which looked
11 V      |        uncle worked on without a word, without lifting his head;
12 V      |         or later.~I might with a word have loosened the screw
13 V      |     crushing his brain; but that word I would not speak.~Yet I
14 VI     |         having uttered this last word, which dropped from me in
15 VI     |   volcanoes are called jokuls, a word which means glacier in Icelandic,
16 VI     |      What is the meaning of this word Scartaris, and what have
17 VI     |          of the earth.”~“Upon my word, this is a very clever hypothesis,”
18 IX     |        it, I don’t know a single word; after an examination I
19 X      |           I had understood every word of it, and I could hardly
20 XI     |          but he refused with one word:~“Efter,“ said he.~“After,”
21 XI     |      therefore knew not a single word of all that was said at
22 XII    |           translating the Danish word.~“No doubt we must wait
23 XIII   |          us, greeted us with the word “Sællvertu,“ which means “
24 XIII   |          my uncle repeated.~This word produced a repulsive effect.
25 XIV    |  speechless.~“You don’t doubt my word?” said my uncle. “Well,
26 XV     |        of alarm.~“What does that word mean?” I asked uneasily.~“
27 XVI    |         I followed him without a word.~In order to facilitate
28 XVI    |        all. My uncle spoke not a word to me. His gaze, ever directed
29 XIX    |  conversation. He answered not a word, and gave the signal for
30 XIX    | astonishment; but he spoke not a word, and went on.~Had he understood
31 XX     |        moved on almost without a word. Hans’ silence seemed to
32 XXIII  |        tongues. I did not know a word of Danish, yet instinctively
33 XXIII  |   instinctively I understood the word he had uttered.~“Water!
34 XXV    |          determined not to say a word that might cross my uncle’
35 XXVII  |       impracticable problem. One word described my position. Lost!~
36 XXVII  |          despair.~It was my only word of reproach, for I knew
37 XXVIII |       low murmured whispers. The word ‘forlorad‘ was several times
38 XXVIII |     seemed to be best heard. The word ‘forlorad‘ again returned;
39 XXVIII |       And ‘forlorad‘ is a Danish word.~Then I understood it all.
40 XXX    |          density of the air.~The word cavern does not convey any
41 XXXII  |           the way we made — in a word, every particular of our
42 XXXIV  |      twenty yards. The geyser, a word meaning ‘fury,’ rises majestically
43 XXXV   |          bleeding; to exchange a word is impossible.~The lightning
44 XXXV   |        to make each other hear a word. Our mouths open, our lips
45 XXXV   |         our lips move, but not a word can be heard. We cannot
46 XXXVIII|          to be done. The unlucky word would not come out. At the
47 XLV    |        day; and with that simple word he left us and sailed for