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501 IX | schooner, under her mizen, brigantine, topsail, and topgallant
502 XXXV | lightning flashes with intense brilliancy, and never seems to cease
503 XXII | About six o’clock this brilliant fete of illuminations underwent
504 X | satisfaction which were brimming over in every limb and every
505 XXXII | line. Hans draws it in and brings out a struggling fish.~“
506 XXXV | body is saturated; my hair bristles just as when you stand upon
507 I | into a corner, his rough broadbrim upon the table, and these
508 XLII | felt myself steeped in a broiling atmosphere. I could only
509 VIII | the twisted tails of four bronze dragons, nor the great windmill
510 XX | violent heat did at that time brood within the body of the spheroid.
511 XXXV | hither and thither, like broods of fiery serpents filling
512 XXXIX | we felt quite convinced. Brooks and waterfalls were tumbling
513 XIII | very last gulp of a thick broth made from buckwheat.~As
514 Pre | F. A. M.~The Vicarage,~Broughton-in-Furness~
515 XXXIX | to flowers — looked like brown-paper flowers, without colour
516 XIV | construction.~Basalt is a brownish rock of igneous origin.
517 XXIX | Your head, except for a few bruises, is all right; and it is
518 VII | touches with the feather brush.~But I had not taken into
519 XIII | dwarf birches as low as brushwood. Not an animal but a few
520 XXXIX | cavernous throats of the vast brutes.~So, then, the dream in
521 XXXV | sail stretches tight like a bubble ready to burst. The raft
522 XLIII | how the water boils and bubbles? Are you blind to the dense
523 VII | Finally the last strap was buckled; I came downstairs. All
524 XIII | a thick broth made from buckwheat.~As soon as the meal was
525 XIII | At six p.m. we reached Büdir, a village on the sea shore;
526 XXXIX | huge and unshapely as a buffalo’s, was half hidden in the
527 XXXVII | cannot steer; we shall be buffeted by the tempests, and we
528 XV | staircase, and we had attained a bulge in the mountain, a kind
529 I | off the perpendicular, and bulged out a little towards the
530 XXX | giganteum attains, according to Bulliard, a circumference of eight
531 XI | apparatus consists of a Bunsen pile worked with bichromate
532 XIX | courageously shouldered my burden again, and was rapidly following
533 XIV | in the transport of the burdens; but as soon as we had arrived
534 XII | Rejkiavik we arrived at the burgh of Gufunes, called Aolkirkja,
535 XL | knows where? —instead of burrowing under the deserts of Africa,
536 XXX | of luminous vapours, its bursts of electric light, and a
537 X | his genius, was obliged to bury in an incomprehensible cryptogram
538 IX | greater part of the population busied in drying, salting, and
539 XXXVIII| fact — Messrs. Falconer, Busk, Carpenter, and others —
540 IX | volcanic action. The Icelandic buts are made of earth and turf,
541 IX | vegetables of which (potatoes, cabbages, and lettuces), would have
542 XLV | collection of minerals in his cabinet, I noticed in a corner this
543 XIII | appearance of distorted, twisted cables, sometimes stretched in
544 XXX | hairs like those of the cactus.~“Wonderful, magnificent,
545 XVI | crater like a wild beast in a cage. I had neither the wish
546 V | for a very good reason. A caged lover’s feelings may easily
547 XLIV | east were the mountains of Calabria. And that threatening volcano
548 IX | the Protestant style, of calcined stones extracted out of
549 V | uncle Liedenbrock went on calculating and rubbing out his calculations.~
550 V | Umbra Scartaris Julii intra calendas descende,~Audax viator,
551 II | old quarto, bound in rough calf, a yellow, faded volume,
552 XI | hunter might exercise his calling without any inconvenient
553 I | as the German philosophy calls it, ‘subjective’; it was
554 XXXII | compound of horse, rhinoceros, camel, and hippopotamus. The colossal
555 Pre | the kind assistance of Mr. Cameron of H. M. Geological Survey,
556 XXXVIII| pre-adamite man against Peter Campet. I have perused a writing,
557 VIII | bridge, which spans the canal before the museum, nor that
558 IV | gesticulating, making shots with his cane, thrashing the long grass,
559 XLIII | alive from the mouth of a cannon, just before the trigger
560 XXIV | XXIV.~WELL SAID, OLD MOLE! CANST THOU WORK I’ THE GROUND
561 XXXIII | apparatus of extreme power, and capable of resisting the pressure
562 XLIII | craters, and there were some capacious enough to throw out a whole
563 XLV | Königstrasse in the double capacity of niece to my uncle and
564 XXX | their sharp spurs, formed capes and promontories, worn away
565 III | disorder; there are even capitals in the middle of words,
566 XLIV | here are no granite peaks capped with snow. Look, Axel, look!”~
567 XXIV | straight, now winding as capriciously in its inclines as in its
568 XXXV | shock of the tempest may capsize us in a moment?~“Let us
569 XXXIII | Twenty times we were near capsizing. Hissings of prodigious
570 XIX | inhabited by the Silures under Caractacus, or Caradoc. (Tr.)~If I
571 XIX | Silures under Caractacus, or Caradoc. (Tr.)~If I am right, I
572 XXXIII | serpent, armoured with the carapace and the paddles of a turtle;
573 XXXVII | world. I also saw immense carapaces more than fifteen feet in
574 IV | conversion of the tobacco into carbon, which was by slow degrees
575 XI | remains only a residuum of carbonic acid gas or of nitrogen.
576 XV | and presented layers of carbonized remains of vegetation alternating
577 XXXIX | bones. The rash Professor, careless of losing his way, hurried
578 XXIV | guiding us underground, and caressed with my hand the soft naiad,
579 XXXIX | strange outline of a rock, carne to throw me again into doubt.~
580 XXXVIII| Messrs. Falconer, Busk, Carpenter, and others — scientific
581 XVIII | Königsberg? No noise of cart wheels, no cries of basket
582 XXXII | out of a bit of bone or cartilage. I took up the telescope
583 XXXIX | the leaves torn away by cartloads went down the cavernous
584 XXXVIII| animals, sculptured and carved evidently by the hand of
585 XXIV | fault the Hansbach fell in a cascade, and lost some of its volume;
586 XVI | watching the thousand rills and cascades that came tumbling down
587 VI | known, for in none of these cases would the earth weigh what
588 XXXVIII| through the treatises of Cassanion, and all those memoirs,
589 XXXII | more powerful than the cassowary, and larger than the ostrich,
590 XXXIV | some cataract which will cast us down an abyss? This method
591 XVIII | Icelander climbed up like a cat, and in a few minutes the
592 XXXVIII| only one in this immense catacomb. We came upon other bodies
593 XX | occasioned such dreadful catastrophes.~Happily, our light was
594 XXVIII | distinctly. I succeeded in catching uncertain, strange, undistinguishable
595 XXXI | appetite. Hans was a good caterer for our little household;
596 XIX | majestic arcades of a gothic cathedral. Here the architects of
597 XXXI | bridges and the arcades of cathedrals, compared with this far
598 IX | urged by the breezes of the Cattegat.~The Valkyria was a splendid
599 XXXIX | contemporary with the huge cattle-driver? But no. This is not a relic
600 XXXVIII| belongs, it is evidently Caucasian. It is the white race, our
601 XIV | had heard of the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland, and Fingal’s
602 XIV | uncle and myself. Hans, as a cautious man, had added to our luggage
603 XIV | uncle, as prudently and as cautiously as possible, just under
604 XII | pedestrian, just as ashamed as a cavalry officer degraded to a foot
605 XXV | Ethiopian tribe who lived in caves and holes. ??????, a hole,
606 XXX | miles. But what were these cavities compared to that in which
607 IV | hollow specimens, in the cavity of each of which was a nest
608 III | rrilSa~Atsaar .nvcrc ieaabs~ccrmi eevtVl frAntv~dt,iac oseibo
609 XIV | the wind and rain are not ceasing and being replaced by a
610 XXX | like a clump of petrified cedars.~I hastened forward. I could
611 XIII | that projected from the ceilings.~We were introduced into
612 I | the learned Professor’s celebrity dawned in his earliest years. (
613 VII | downward.~“Down into the cellar?” cried the old servant.~“
614 XXX | soon as I came under those cellular vaults. For half an hour
615 VIII | museum, nor that immense cenotaph of Thorwaldsen’s, adorned
616 XII | looked like a six-legged centaur.~“Good horse! good horse!”
617 V | Audax viator, et terrestre centrum attinges.~Quod feci, Arne
618 XXXII | ganoids, of the family of the cephalaspidae; and a species of pterichthys.
619 XXXVI | generally denotes the near cessation of a storm. A few overhanging
620 XLIV | French: “Comment appellet-on cette montagne, mon enfant?”~Silence
621 XI | first-rate instrument maker, Chadburn, of Liverpool, that an aneroid
622 XLIV | the winds and the storms chained up, to be let loose at his
623 XII | the heavens.~Often these chains of barren rocks made a dip
624 V | his hands; he pushed the chairs out of their places, he
625 XVIII | and hanging like clustered chandeliers from the vaulted roof, seemed
626 IV | anger, cruel, sacred wood, changeable, mother, bow, and sea? The
627 XL | recent fissures grooving and channelling the granite roof. This roof
628 XLIV | with words. We seemed to be chanting in chorus!~What a journey
629 XII | have formed a frightful chaos.~In two hours from Rejkiavik
630 XII | to Saurboër ‘Annexia,’ a chapel of ease built on the south
631 XXXII | powers of vegetation that characterise these plants, which grow
632 XLIII | rattle of along train of chariots driven at full speed over
633 XII | ruinous huts seemed to solicit charity from passers-by; and on
634 XIII | cheerful, and did not throw any charm over the less and less attractive
635 XV | at a later period a wide chasm formed diagonally from south-west
636 VIII | a fine park the toylike chateau of Rosenberg, nor the beautiful
637 III | the lake. On the road we chatted hand in hand; I told her
638 XLIV | fiery serpents. As we went I chattered and asked all sorts of questions
639 XLI | which no human power could check.~Hours passed away. No change
640 XXXVIII| It exhibits no prominent cheekbones, no projecting jaws. It
641 XXIII | understand, and applaud and cheer him on, when I saw him lay
642 XXIX | morning, Axel,” he cried cheerily. “I feel sure you are better.”~“
643 XXXII | surface of the waters enormous chelonia, preadamite tortoises, resembling
644 XXXVII | mammalian; the tortoise is a chelonian, a reptile, distinct classes
645 XX | splotches of red; then came dark cherry-coloured marbles relieved by the
646 XXXI | brown coal or lignite, found chiefly in Iceland.”~“But surely,
647 XXVII | succour. The remembrance of my childhood, the recollection of my
648 XXX | farther underneath, though a chill fell upon me as soon as
649 V | eyes bedimmed, and voice choked with emotion, he read the
650 VIII | with the signature of W. Christiensen, consul at Hamburg and the
651 II | twelfth century! It is the chronicle of the Norwegian princes
652 XII | have struck, if Icelandic churches were rich enough to possess
653 XXXIII | around us gradually narrowing circles. I took up my rifle. But
654 VIII | around the spire, the spirals circling up into the sky.~“Let us
655 XV | five hours to clear; the circuitous route, the diagonal and
656 XV | was rising with a whirling circular motion like a waterspout;
657 XXXIII | these enormous beasts were clad?~We stood dumb with fear.
658 XIII | shore; and the guide there claiming his due, my uncle settled
659 XXXV | our guns, are clashing and clanking violently in their collisions
660 XXIII | Water! water!” I cried, clapping my hands and gesticulating
661 XXXV | the tools, our guns, are clashing and clanking violently in
662 XXXVII | chelonian, a reptile, distinct classes of the animal kingdom; therefore
663 V | was working at his great classification of minerals, he was forty-eight
664 XXXIX | distract the most ingenious classifier of terrestrial botany.~Suddenly
665 IV | nodules, which I had to classify: so I set to work; I sorted,
666 XXXIX | I perceived in the broad clearings left by fallen trees, decayed
667 XI | sequamur.”~“Therever fortune clears a way,~Thither our ready
668 Pre | interesting island, who cleave to their desert home with
669 XLIII | said my uncle between his clenched teeth, “you are afraid.
670 XXXIX | lap the foot of the steep cliff, leaving a passage no wider
671 XII | were rich enough to possess clocks. But they are like the parishioners
672 XVII | gentle incline, were drawing closer to each other, and it was
673 XXIII | where the torrent seemed closest. I sat near the wall, while
674 IX | one of those little double closets, where more delicate youths
675 II | hundred years. Why, Bozerian, Closs, or Purgold might have been
676 IX | jacket of black woollen cloth called in Scandinavian lands
677 XIII | we had ‘skye,’ a sort of clotted milk, with biscuits, and
678 XVI | June 25. If the sun was clouded for six days we must postpone
679 XXX | unmoved and firm, just like a clump of petrified cedars.~I hastened
680 XXXIX | mountains, a few isolated clumps of forest trees in the distance,
681 XIII | smoke — they were a perfect cluster of unwashed angels.~My uncle
682 XVIII | glass, and hanging like clustered chandeliers from the vaulted
683 XXX | stars, shining singly or in clusters, I felt that all these subdued
684 XLI | perhaps — I cannot tell. We clutched each other fast, to save
685 | Co
686 XX | were formed those immense coalfields, which nevertheless, are
687 XXXIX | s throats; its blade is coated with a rust neither a day,
688 XIX | in the place of the lava coating. The mass was composed of
689 IX | salting, and putting on board codfish, their chief export. The
690 XXX | terrestrial experience gave me no cognisance. For such novel sensations,
691 VIII | said my uncle with the coldest cruelty.~I had to follow,
692 VIII | uncle dragging me up by the collar.~“Look down!” he cried. “
693 VI | longer my nephew only, but my colleague. Pray go on.”~“Well, in
694 VII | Virlandaise was as calm and collected as was her wont. She kissed
695 IX | educated at this little college, and I should have been
696 I | honourably mentioned in colleges and learned societies. Humphry
697 XXXV | clanking violently in their collisions with each other; the nails
698 XXX | the grotto of Guachara, in Colombia, visited by Humboldt, had
699 XII | the shore just like the colossus of Rhodes.~“Confounded brute!”
700 XXXIV | which refracts the prismatic colours.~“Let us land,” said the
701 XXXIV | absorbing incidents of the combat had drawn away from his
702 XXXIII | with unabated ferocity. The combatants alternately approach and
703 XXXVII | fire, air, and water make a combined attack against me? Well,
704 XXX | damp shades, and it was a comfortable and pleasant change to arrive
705 III | the middle of words, and commas too, just as in Saknussemm’
706 XIV | He therefore resolved to commence the grand expedition at
707 XXX | vast sheet of water, the commencement of a lake or an ocean, spread
708 XVIII | precise moment the journey commences.”~So saying, my uncle took
709 XLV | interesting passages, which were commented upon, picked to pieces,
710 II | While rapidly making these comments my uncle kept opening and
711 XI | plumage of the male has no commercial value, the hunter does not
712 XXXVIII| generations of men and animals commingled in a common cemetery. Then
713 VI | particular crater, and he committed that fact to his document.
714 XXXIV | needs be of vast size. The commonest prudence would counsel immediate
715 XIX | again!~I abstained from communicating these fears to Professor
716 XX | by strata of sandstone or compact clays, and appeared crushed
717 IX | these roofs are meadows of comparative fertility. Thanks to the
718 XV | the bottom of the sea at a comparatively recent date. Possibly, it
719 VIII | seated face to face in our compartment. The whistle sounded, the
720 XI | meridian of Hamburg.~4. Two compasses, viz., a common compass
721 XXXIII | does that signify? I am not complaining that the rate is slow, but
722 XLV | with the mal de pays, a complaint for which we have not even
723 XVII | said my uncle, after having completed these preparations, “now
724 XLI | but a discovery came to complicate matters and make them worse.~
725 VI | all the substances that compose the body of this earth must
726 XI | made waterproof with a composition of indiarubber and naphtha,
727 II | sorrel, a fillet of veal with compote of prunes; for dessert,
728 XXXII | creature, which seemed a compound of horse, rhinoceros, camel,
729 XXXIII | if it had been violently compressed between two hard bodies.~
730 IX | gratitude by tremendous compressions of both his hands.~On the
731 XI | of electricity.~The tools comprised two pickaxes, two spades,
732 X | portion voraciously, for his compulsory fast on board had converted
733 XVII | scintillation, and which by my computation should be 46; Ursa minor.
734 XXXVI | circumstance,” I added, “that if my computations are right, and we are nine
735 XV | just as taciturn as their comrade the hunted, never spoke,
736 XVI | expressions. Hans and his comrades, seated upon loose lava
737 XXVIII | grounds. It arose from the concave form of the gallery and
738 X | of it, and I could hardly conceal my amusement at seeing my
739 XIII | repeating “Sællvertu,“ in every conceivable tone; those that could not
740 XXVII | fears, and I was enabled to concentrate upon my situation all the
741 V | beyond all calculation or conception.~So I felt reassured as
742 VI | exactly what to hold as truth concerning this grand question.”~“Very
743 XIII | want by shrill cries.~This concert was brought to a close by
744 XVII | resistance, and that the concussion gave a more abrupt and deadened
745 V | I even went so far as to condemn myself for my absurdity
746 IX | Esquimaux, since nature had condemned them to live only just outside
747 XXXV | sky. The piled-up vapours condense into water; and the air,
748 XXVIII | heart, for it was He who had conducted me through those vast solitudes
749 XXVIII | form of the gallery and the conducting power of the rock. There
750 XXVIII | of my voice just as wire conducts electricity.~But there was
751 VII | flows in your veins. He has confided to me his plans, his hopes,
752 XXVI | many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad,
753 XXXIX | Besides, this seemed to confirm the indications of the needle,
754 XVII | formations affords the strongest confirmation to the theories of Davy.
755 XXXIII | monsters engaged in deadly conflict. But it now seems to me
756 III | come into any one’s head to confuse the letters of a sentence
757 VI | science has never been able to confute.”~[1] The degrees of temperature
758 XXXIII | be! Yet the deep marks of conical teeth upon the iron pick
759 XXXI | birch, and other northern coniferae, mineralised by the action
760 XLIII | point. My overheated brain conjured up visions of white plains
761 XVI | passages we were obliged to connect ourselves with each other
762 XIII | stands the giant that I shall conquer.” After about four hours’
763 XXXIII | The probable rage of the conqueror inspires us with intense
764 II | for myself, which I did conscientiously.~“I have never known such
765 IX | Germans with pensive eyes, conscious of being far removed from
766 XVIII | A descent of seven hours consecutively is not made without considerable
767 Pre | with. a painful interest in consequence of the disastrous eruptions
768 IX | Usually the English and French conservators of fisheries moor in this
769 XXXV | higher currents, their dense consistency slowly yields. The gloom
770 XVI | state of utter speechless consternation. Here was crushing evidence.~
771 XXXII | it is resolved into its constituent atoms, subtilised, volatilised.
772 XLII | in the morning.~Man is so constituted that health is a purely
773 XI | duck, whose under plumage constitutes the chief wealth of the
774 XXXIV | immovable obstinacy.~Still I am constrained to confess that hitherto
775 VIII | the heading of the Danish consulate with the signature of W.
776 XLII | empty bags.”~“Well, let us consume it then,” I cried.~My uncle
777 XVIII | supply of water was half consumed. My uncle reckoned upon
778 XLIII | annihilated in this dreadful consummation.~“My uncle,” I cried, “we
779 XLI | forgot my present dangers, to contemplate the threatening future.
780 IV | thistles, and disturbing the contemplative storks in their peaceful
781 XXXVII | a matter of rivalry and contention between the museums of great
782 VI | was going to abandon the contest. Where should I have lost
783 XVI | magnificence, like a mere continuation of those flock-like summits.
784 XXXIV | water, and spurt it up so continuously?~At eight in the evening
785 XXI | of my throat, until then contracted, now relaxed again; and
786 XXXVIII| I was good enough not to contradict this startling assertion.~“
787 VII | adrift amongst a thousand contradictory hypotheses, but I could
788 XI | manners were a singular contrast with my uncle’s.~Nevertheless,
789 XXXVI | we had gone through, all contributed to give me a good appetite.~
790 XLI | or judgment, or skill, or contrivance. We were henceforth to be
791 VI | shiver ran through me. Yet I controlled myself; I even resolved
792 XXX | of astonishment, and my convalescence was promoted by this novel
793 XI | that he worked for his own convenience, and that nothing in this
794 XVII | lava block that projected conveniently, and threw the other half
795 XXXII | periods or ages of the world, conventionally called ‘days,’ long before
796 XI | dressed and joined him.~He was conversing in the Danish language with
797 IV | watching the process of the conversion of the tobacco into carbon,
798 X | compulsory fast on board had converted his stomach into a vast
799 XXXII | rocks soften; intense heat converts solid bodies into thick
800 XXIX | with me. This frightful conveyance had thus carried me into
801 XXXIII | snapping motion of his jaws conveys his ideas to me.~“Teeth!”
802 V | audacity, his joy, and his convictions were magnificent to behold.
803 VIII | narrow streets where some convicts, in trousers half yellow
804 I | plants of mignonette and convolvulus, he would go and give them
805 XL | shaken down by some shock or convulsion, or by one of those magnetic
806 VIII | restaurant,” kept by a cook of the name of Vincent,
807 I | likely the dinner is not half cooked, for it is not two yet.
808 VI | that the external crust cooled down first, whilst the heat
809 XXII | winding course threads of copper and manganese, with traces
810 XVII | articles in one bundle, corded them firmly, and sent them
811 XL | very centre of our planet’s core, and there again we shall
812 XIX | had to bow or heads under corniced elliptic arches in the romanesque
813 XXXVIII| might be so. But this dried corpse, with its parchment-like
814 Pre | deviations from the text or corrections in foot notes he is responsible
815 III | letter of our alphabet which corresponds with each of these Icelandic
816 XXII | other in a thousand flashing coruscations.~About six o’clock this
817 X | and Robert on the French corvette La Recherche, [1] and lately
818 XXV | And these twelve at a cost of 85 leagues diagonally?”~“
819 IX | they never smiled.~Their costume consisted of a coarse jacket
820 III | last he gave a preliminary cough, and with profound gravity,
821 XXXIV | commonest prudence would counsel immediate flight; but we
822 XL | he, the man of impulse, counselled patience and coolness.~“
823 XV | route, the diagonal and the counter marches, must have measured
824 XIII | which we were following the counter-scarp or lesser steep; often we
825 XXXIX | their belts to give the coup de grace. Its origin is
826 XII | glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted.
827 XIX | ill-humour.~Still I had courageously shouldered my burden again,
828 I | to honour the Liedenbrock courses, I should be sorry to conjecture
829 XIII | ice king certainly held court here, and gave us all night
830 IX | Liedenbrock.~My uncle was just as courteously received by the mayor, M.
831 XIII | that is, his uncles and cousins, who gave us hospitality;
832 XI | an express article of the covenant that his wages should be
833 I | who should by mistake have coveted much of his company.~He
834 XXII | hidden for ever from the covetous eyes of the human race!
835 XIII | miscellaneous fuel as briars, cow-dung, and fishbones. After this
836 VIII | it,” I said.~“Don’t be a coward; come up, sir”; said my
837 XII | himself, nothing but a few cows and sheep left to themselves.
838 XLI | every nook and corner, every crack and cranny in the raft.
839 XXXIX | decaying trunks. The boughs cracked, and the leaves torn away
840 XLIII | lapped the walls, which crackled and sputtered under the
841 XXXVII | curiosity impelled our steps; crackling and rattling, our feet were
842 XLV | 31 st of August, a small craft took us to Messina, where
843 XXX | hidden behind the steep crags?”~And as this unpleasant
844 XII | have my horse. I shall get cramped if I don’t have— a little
845 V | remember is, that I got severe cramps in my stomach, which hardly
846 XLI | corner, every crack and cranny in the raft. There was nothing.
847 XXXIX | serpents. I could hear the crashing noise of their long ivory
848 VIII | began to fail; soon I was crawling on my knees, then creeping
849 XXX | any name to these singular creations. Were they some of the two
850 VI | But it is likewise the creed adopted by other distinguished
851 XXXIX | it,” I added, examining a creek which I thought I recognised.~“
852 VIII | crawling on my knees, then creeping on my stomach; I closed
853 XIV | returned to the parsonage, very crestfallen. My uncle had beaten me
854 XVII | Pliocene, miocene, eocene, cretaceous, jurassic, triassic, permian,
855 XVI | iron-pointed pole, to discover any crevasses in it. At particularly dubious
856 XLIII | the raft, and creep into a crevice.”~“But the water — the rising
857 XLIII | the feeling of an unhappy criminal doomed to be blown away
858 XX | with white, others of rich crimson or yellow dashed with splotches
859 XXXIII | the alligators and the crocodiles, are but feeble reproductions
860 IV | over it. I lighted my long crooked pipe, with a painting on
861 VII | working himself up amidst a crowd of porters and messengers
862 I | success which might eventually crown his labours. Such little
863 IV | words as ice, sir, anger, cruel, sacred wood, changeable,
864 VIII | my uncle with the coldest cruelty.~I had to follow, clutching
865 IX | but just then they were cruising about the western coasts
866 XLII | what is left to the last crumb, and recruit our fading
867 XXXV | Suppose that solid roof should crumble down upon our heads! Other
868 V | nothing in this,” he answered, crumpling up the paper.~“No, nothing
869 XXXIII | smallest of them would have crunched our raft, crew and all,
870 XIX | quietly, “it is the shell of a crustacean, of an extinct species called
871 XXXVIII| the body of Asterius, ten cubits long, of which Pausanias
872 XII | among the inhabited and cultivated portions of Iceland. What,
873 XXXV | changes. The heavily voluted cumulus clouds lower gloomily and
874 VII | may take place which will cure my uncle of his desire to
875 XV | interest the mineralogical curiosities which lay about me as in
876 XIII | and I was able at last to curl myself up in my mossy bed.~
877 XIV | puffs and jets of steam curling up into the air, called
878 III | naturally select that which was currently adopted by the choice spirits
879 XIII | had saluted him with the customary “Sællvertu.”~“Spetelsk,“
880 XXXIX | mastodons.~Immanis pecoris custos, immanior ipse. [1]~[1] “
881 XXXVII | great cities. A thousand Cuviers could never have reconstructed
882 XXXIX | palmacites, firs, yews, cypress trees, thujas, representatives
883 XXX | from side to side in the damp shades, and it was a comfortable
884 IX | consisted of five men, all Danes.~“How long will the passage
885 XXVII | slowly unfolding down the darkening walls. I scarcely dared
886 XVII | it was beginning to grow darker.~Still we kept descending.
887 XXVII | earth, in the midst of the darkest night, light never abdicates
888 XXXV | Ceaseless fiery arrows dart in and out amongst the flying
889 XXXII | pterodactyle (wing-fingered) darts in irregular zigzags to
890 XXXV | clouds of spray which it dashes from side to side in its
891 XIV | into which the waves came dashing with foam and spray. A few
892 XXIV | however, was not to be daunted, and he clapped his hands
893 XXXVIII| out of a sandpit in the Dauphiné, in 1613. In the eighteenth
894 XVI | sublime aspects of nature. My dazzled eyes were bathed in the
895 XVII | concussion gave a more abrupt and deadened sound.~As I had taken care
896 XX | walking I observed a singular deadening of the reflection of our
897 XXVII | die the most dreadful of deaths. And, strange to say, the
898 XIV | this question, and I did debate it. I could not sleep for
899 XLV | these questions were being debated with great animation, my
900 XIV | we be?~It was worth while debating this question, and I did
901 XXII | such a fearful state of debility it was madness to think
902 XIX | upon a dust composed of the debris of plants and shells. In
903 XXXIX | tusks boring into the old decaying trunks. The boughs cracked,
904 XLV | minds except that abominable deceitful compass, which we had mislaid
905 III | Michael, if you should dare to deceive me —”~The dictation commenced.
906 XXXIV | islet resembles, with a most deceiving likeness, an enormous cetacean,
907 XXXVI | we shall come back like decent folks the way we came. I
908 IV | until he has succeeded in deciphering an undecipherable scrawl.”~“
909 VI | rather sullenly. “This is my decision,” replied Professor Liedenbrock,
910 IV | no! it shall not be,” I declared energetically; “and as it
911 XXXIII | ought to be,” the Professor declares. “We are losing time, and
912 II | the Greek, and irregular declensions of nouns proper like the
913 XXXVI | mean Axel Island. Don’t decline the honour of having given
914 XXIV | should have indignantly declined.~Most fortunately, all we
915 XIX | uneasily like a man that declines to be convinced. I tried
916 XIII | usage; but on our gracefully declining, she insisted no longer,
917 XLIV | Beneath, down a pretty steep declivity, ran streams of lava for
918 XLIII | brought about by the chemical decomposition of its component parts,
919 VI | the interplanetary spaces decreased perpetually? and is it not
920 VII | six precisely,” my uncle decreed “we start.”~At ten o’clock
921 XI | to be:~“Et quacumque viam dedent fortuna sequamur.”~“Therever
922 XXXVIII| I will go further in my deductions, and I will affirm that
923 XXXVIII| and became the most ardent defendants in what the English called
924 XLV | discussed, attacked, and defended with equal enthusiasm and
925 XIII | loathing at the sight of a huge deformed head, the skin shining and
926 XIII | up his arms and seemed to defy it, and to declare, “There
927 XXXVII | upon the fierce Achilles defying the lightning. But I thought
928 XXX | are the molar teeth of the deinotherium; this femur must have belonged
929 IX | subject to considerable delays?”~“No, M. Liedenbrock, don’
930 V | Sneffels Joculis craterem quem delibat~Umbra Scartaris Julii intra
931 XXVI | himself with incomprehensible deliberation; and, thanks to him, we
932 VII | abysses. I was a prey to delirium. I felt myself grasped by
933 XLII | there are some chances of deliverance, and it is these that I
934 IX | the presence he was in. He delivered him his letters from Copenhagen,
935 I | at the Johannæum, and was delivering a series of lectures on
936 I | certainly in his public delivery; this is a want much to
937 XXXV | globe has burst, and we are deluged with tongues of fire!~Then
938 XXVIII | as of words.~“This is a delusion,” I thought.~But it was
939 Pre | the popular taste, which demands that these should be presented
940 XXXVIII| curious of these specimens to demolish the incredulity of sceptics.~
941 XXXVIII| this discovery, proved to demonstration the genuineness of the bone
942 XXXIII | monstrous beast in its remote den, and if we are not attacked
943 XXXVIII| Eminent geologists have denied his existence, others no
944 XXXVI | violence which generally denotes the near cessation of a
945 XXXVI | splendid fellow.”~There was no denying it. We had all our instruments.
946 XXXVIII| near Abbeville, in the department of Somme, found a human
947 IX | vessel you can place no dependence. She was taking to Rejkiavik
948 Pre | thousand persons were partly dependent for the means of subsistence.
949 I | this is a want much to be deplored in a speaker. The fact is,
950 VII | messengers who were all depositing various loads in the passage.
951 XVI | seemed raised and the centre depressed. It seemed as if one of
952 XXXV | battle strife that almost deprives us of our senses of hearing
953 XXXIV | arm to the south, saying:~“Dere nere!”~“Down there?” repeated
954 XLV | sundry pieces of intelligence derived from Iceland, tended to
955 V | Scartaris Julii intra calendas descende,~Audax viator, et terrestre
956 XVIII | inclines. It was the facifs descensus Averni of Virgil. The compass,
957 XXX | celebrated caverns from the descriptions of travellers, but had never
958 XIII | time to time we seemed to descry a human figure that fled
959 Pre | Extraordinaires” of M. Jules Verne deserve to be made widely known
960 XXXI | for assuredly it better deserved this name than any other
961 XLV | lifetime the glory he had deservedly won; and he may even boast
962 XXXVIII| of frightful length, this desiccated mummy startled us by appearing
963 XXIII | us and the object of our desires.~Without reflection, without
964 XIII | I can say is, that I was desperately hungry, and that at dessert
965 XLV | is not a privilege to be despised.~Hamburg gave a grand fete
966 XXV | not run straight to our destination? Besides, there is a precedent.
967 XLIII | under Iceland again? Were we destined to be thrown up out of Hecla,
968 XLIV | Besides, in our state of destitution and famine we were not likely
969 XXXVI | the raft should not have destroyed everything on board. On
970 IX | circle! In vain did I try to detect a smile upon their lips;
971 XLIII | continuous explosions, loud detonations, a general shaking of the
972 III | either, Axel,” he added.~“The deuce!” said I to myself; “then
973 XIX | above. The system is well developed in the region of Shropshire,
974 XXXII | vegetable kingdom alone was developing on its surface?~Evening
975 XL | the surface obliged us to deviate from our straight course.
976 Pre | hopes that what trifling deviations from the text or corrections
977 XIV | and leave us to our own devices. This was to be clearly
978 XX | the industrial world will devise a remedy.~These reflections
979 XV | Iceland, which is entirely devoid of alluvial soil, is wholly
980 VII | it is a grand thing to devote yourself to science! What
981 XXXVI | with almost superhuman devotion, had been at work all the
982 XLII | do you any more good to devour it with your eyes than with
983 VII | My uncle was at table, devouring his breakfast. I stared
984 VI | whenever he caused a fine dew of rain to fall upon its
985 XXXVIII| handled it with the skill of a dexterous showman.~“You see,” he said, “
986 XI | row of phials containing dextrine, alcoholic ether, liquid
987 X | simplicity; but it looked like a diabolical grin.~[1] Recherche was
988 VI | nonsense! But I kept my dialectic battery in reserve for a
989 II | languages and twelve thousand dialects which are spoken on the
990 XXII | seemed to be moving through a diamond, within which the quickly
991 III | in a trice.~“Now I will dictate to you every letter of our
992 III | dare to deceive me —”~The dictation commenced. I did my best.
993 XLIV | good German:~“Was heiszt diesen Berg, mein Knablein? Sage
994 XIII | me to decide whether this diet is wholesome or not; all
995 XXXII | order as the sturgeon, but differed from that fish in many essential
996 XVIII | reached every 36 feet. This difference depends upon the heat-conducting
997 XXXII | attentively, and his opinion differs from mine.~The head of this
998 XXXIX | drew back my uncle.~The diffused light revealed the smallest
999 XXXIX | conditions of a universal diffusion of light. We were like Hoffmann’
1000 XXVII | It is still subtle and diffusive, but whatever little there
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