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Chapter
3501 XV | three Icelanders, just as taciturn as their comrade the hunted,
3502 XIII | the soup, and the national taciturnity resumed its empire even
3503 XV | these stony cliffs had to be tacked round, not without great
3504 IV | called me? And suppose he tackled me again with this logomachy,
3505 XXXIII | I looked at the hunter.~“Tänder,“ said he.~I could not understand
3506 X | heart: the company of such a talented man would have been very
3507 III | hand; I told her amusing tales at which she laughed heartilv.
3508 XI | broken limbs, a piece of tape of unbleached linen, bandages
3509 XXXII | crested toothed), a gigantic tapir, hides behind the rocks
3510 XIII | I would willingly have tarried here to recruit after my
3511 XXIII | stopping, and almost without tasting.~At last after a most delightful
3512 X | there is nothing but a few tattered books upon almost deserted
3513 XLV | to Martha’s ineradicable tattling, the news that the Professor
3514 XII | it. In any case, I will tax my intelligence to direct
3515 XIII | kindly received, and without taxing too much the goodness of
3516 XXXVI | preserved meat, biscuit, and tea made us an excellent meal,
3517 I | never troubled him much. His teaching was as the German philosophy
3518 VII | but could not restrain a tear in touching my cheek with
3519 XI | said my uncle, “there is no telling how far we may go.”~The
3520 I | sure sign of an irritable temperament, I think I shall have said
3521 XIV | evening I found out that temperance was not among the virtues
3522 XLII | electricity and magnetism, had tempered the laws of nature, giving
3523 XXXI | beneath which a wide and tempest-tossed ocean may flow at its ease?”~“
3524 XIV | like remains of an ancient temple, in ruins for ever fresh,
3525 XXI | have now but a few hours to tempt fortune. Let us start!”~
3526 XXXV | blue, and the size of a ten-inch shell, moved slowly about
3527 XLV | sufficiently understood may tend to modify in places the
3528 XLV | intelligence derived from Iceland, tended to shake the confidence
3529 XXIX | bring out the Professor’s tenderer qualities.~At this moment
3530 XLV | leave me again!”~I looked tenderly upon her, and she smiled
3531 XXIX | deeply touched with the tenderness of his manner as he uttered
3532 XXXIV | voyage resumes its uniform tenor, which I don’t care to break
3533 V | to be feared lest extreme tension should give rise to an explosion
3534 XXV | say?”~“Twenty-seven, six tenths (82° Fahr.).”~“Therefore
3535 XXV | spring the water was scarcely tepid, and we drank of it with
3536 XVIII | long vertical tube, which terminates at the mouth of the crater,
3537 IX | bay at a distant mountain terminating in a double peak, a pair
3538 VIII | suburb of Hamburg, is the terminus of the Kiel railway, which
3539 I | after a had planted in the terra-cotta pots outside his window
3540 IX | on the legendary castle terrace.~“Sublime madman!” I said, “
3541 XI | nest, but rather the smooth terraced rocks which slope to the
3542 XL | that of gunpowder.~I was terribly excited. Whilst Hans was
3543 XXVII | rapid confusion before my terrified memory. I could revive with
3544 XII | hardly cared to put it to the test by trusting myself to it
3545 XLV | believe nothing against the testimony of their own experience.
3546 XXXVIII| respecting the skeleton of Teutobochus, the invader of Gaul, dug
3547 XXIII | short time, refreshed and thankful, we all three fell into
3548 XXX | close array like the round, thatched roofs of a central African
3549 XVI | leagues from it; and during thaws the white bears, borne by
3550 XXXV | which has dropped over the theatre on which the battle of the
3551 XII | my intelligence to direct theirs.~But my uncle would not
3552 XXX | by this novel system of therapeutics; besides, the dense and
3553 XXV | to draw one rigid result therefrom.”~“What is it. Speak freely.!~“
3554 XI | dedent fortuna sequamur.”~“Therever fortune clears a way,~Thither
3555 XXXII | silver in a state of fusion. Therm. 89° Fahr.~At noon Hans
3556 XIV | Icelandic ‘reykir,’ issuing from thermal springs, and indicating
3557 XLIII | vapours and steam growing thicker and denser every minute?
3558 XXXIX | in the dense and distant thickets. I had thought I saw — no!
3559 XLIV | country knew anything about thieves, we were very likely to
3560 VI | peninsula looking like a thigh bone with the knee bone
3561 XI | my uncle; “but he little thinks of the marvellous part he
3562 XV | vegetation alternating with thinner layers of tufaceous pumice.~
3563 XXIV | wondering that I was no longer thirsty, and I was for asking for
3564 V | of at least a hundred and thirty-three figures, a number which
3565 IV | cutting the heads off the thistles, and disturbing the contemplative
3566 XXXVIII| have affirmed it. The St. Thomases of palæontology, if they
3567 VIII | that immense cenotaph of Thorwaldsen’s, adorned with horrible
3568 VI | globe, since not the twelve thousandth part of its radius is known;
3569 IV | making shots with his cane, thrashing the long grass, cutting
3570 XXII | green, ran in winding course threads of copper and manganese,
3571 XLI | flickered so much as to threaten to go out, it threw a fitful
3572 IV | put them together by twos, threes, fives or sixes, nothing
3573 XVI | with lapse of ages, this thrice-accursed name:~[At this point a Runic
3574 IV | working in my brain. My head throbbed with excitement, and I felt
3575 VIII | moorings were loosed and the throbbing steamer pursued her way
3576 | throughout
3577 XLI | Hans, with a vigorous thrust, sent us from the shore.
3578 VIII | concealed, where the guns are thrusting out their black throats
3579 XVII | I listened to the dull thuds of the descending bale.
3580 XXXIX | firs, yews, cypress trees, thujas, representatives of the
3581 XXXV | and out amongst the flying thunder-clouds; the vaporous mass soon
3582 XII | then? Well, let us go on.”~“Tidvatten,“ said the guide.~“What
3583 XXXV | firm. The sail stretches tight like a bubble ready to burst.
3584 XXXVIII| parchment-like skin drawn tightly over the bony frame, the
3585 IX | was manifest that the red tiles of the roof would be scattered
3586 XXXII | his vessel. He took the tiller, and unmoored; the sail
3587 XXV | uncle’s skin, and I took timely warning.~“Now look at your
3588 II | clock struck by the little timepiece over the fireplace.~At that
3589 VII | hearts! When you are not the timidest, you are the bravest of
3590 IX | About the middle of the tin-commercial street I found the public
3591 XXXIX | silver grey or light brown tint like that of fading and
3592 XX | relieved by the lighter tints of limestone.~The greater
3593 XXXV | of loose flowing hair is tipped with little luminous radiations.
3594 XIX | It may be easy, but it is tiring all the same.”~“What, when
3595 XXX | another, produced a prodigious titanic effect. Down their sides
3596 I | tungstates of manganese, and titanite of zirconium, why, the most
3597 XIV | parish the fourth part of the tithe, which does not come to
3598 II | interest.~“And what is the title of this marvellous work?”
3599 III | front of the second, the title-page, he noticed a sort of stain
3600 I | its expenses.~To all these titles to honour let me add that
3601 V | monsieur take any supper to-night?”~And poor Martha had to
3602 XXXVIII| abundant hair, and finger and toe nails of frightful length,
3603 XXIII | going to the Spa, or to Töplitz.”~“Well, it is delicious!”~“
3604 XVII | real journey. Hitherto our toil had overcome all difficulties,
3605 VIII | my uncle, after a hasty toilet, dragged me after him. The
3606 VIII | was well enough; but after toiling up a hundred and fifty steps
3607 XLIV | hunter shook his head in token of complete ignorance.~“
3608 XXXII | from our coverings made a tolerable sail. There was no want
3609 I | window panes.~My uncle was tolerably well off for a German professor.
3610 II | opening and shutting the old tome. I really could do no less
3611 VII | will say the same thing tomorrow.”~“To-morrow, dear Axel,
3612 XXXII | pachydermatous lophiodon (crested toothed), a gigantic tapir, hides
3613 IX | brigantine, topsail, and topgallant sail, loosed from her moorings
3614 XLIV | broken here and there by the topmast of a gallant ship appearing
3615 IX | under her mizen, brigantine, topsail, and topgallant sail, loosed
3616 XX | climates’ as yet, and a torrid heat, equal from pole to
3617 XXXII | enormous chelonia, preadamite tortoises, resembling floating islands.
3618 XXII | me. I resisted pain and torture, that I might not stop my
3619 XXI | excessive fatigue and the tortures of thirst.~At last, on Tuesday,
3620 XXXVIII| here, like myself, as a tourist on a visit and as a pioneer
3621 XII | was just the weather for tourists.~The pleasure of riding
3622 XXIII | and stuffed them in with tow, we only scalded our hands
3623 | toward
3624 XLIII | scoria, in the midst of a towering rush of smoke and flames;
3625 VIII | nor in a fine park the toylike chateau of Rosenberg, nor
3626 XXV | and replied carefully:~[1] tpwgln, a hole; dnw, to creep into.
3627 II | three, and along which were traced certain mysterious characters.~
3628 XXXII | found some amusement in tracing these endless waves, always
3629 XIV | volcanic products. This tract seemed crushed under a rain
3630 XI | the hunter, or rather the trader, comes and robs the nest,
3631 IX | Here live the merchants and traders, in wooden cabins made of
3632 XLII | distinguish the roar of the traffic of the great cities upon
3633 XXXVII | to the wall of rock. We trampled under our feet numberless
3634 XXXVII | rattling, our feet were trampling on the remains of prehistoric
3635 XI | evening we dined with Baron Tramps; the mayor of Rejkiavik,
3636 XI | self-possession, not indolence but tranquillity. It was felt at once that
3637 I | entitled, “A Treatise upon Transcendental Chemistry,” with plates;
3638 VIII | of Zealand. There we were transferred from the boat to another
3639 XXXI | the first stage of fossil transformation. Just look,” added my uncle,
3640 V | burst in upon him. He was transformed!~“Aha, clever Saknussemm!”
3641 XX | change in the beds, and the transitional characteristics became more
3642 XII | says tide,” said my uncle, translating the Danish word.~“No doubt
3643 Pre | means of carefully prepared translations. Witty and ingenious adaptations
3644 X | Icelandic soul, was blind to the transparent artifices of my uncle.~“
3645 XXXVIII| reports of the skeleton of Trapani, found in the fourteenth
3646 XII | island; there, rocks of the trappean and volcanic class, including
3647 XVII | drunkenness. There is nothing more treacherous than this attraction down
3648 XXXIII | writhes like a worm that you tread on. The water is splashed
3649 XIV | great alarm lest she should treat me to the Icelandic kiss;
3650 I | Liedenbrock, entitled, “A Treatise upon Transcendental Chemistry,”
3651 XXXVIII| I have gone through the treatises of Cassanion, and all those
3652 XXX | was under a new course of treatment with the aid of astonishment,
3653 XXXIX | shadow. On their banks grew tree-ferns similar to those we grow
3654 VII | know that her hand did not tremble in mine. We went on a hundred
3655 XVI | hear ominous noises or feel tremblings within the recesses of the
3656 XXXVIII| the English called this ‘trial of a jawbone.’ To the geologists
3657 XXIX | watched over me. But such trials were wanted to bring out
3658 XVII | eocene, cretaceous, jurassic, triassic, permian, carboniferous,
3659 III | write.”~I was seated in a trice.~“Now I will dictate to
3660 XXI | I said, whilst hot tears trickled down my face.~“Yes, my poor
3661 XXXVII | himself.~“Aha! will fate play tricks upon me? Will the elements
3662 VIII | trouble ourselves about mere trifles. .~“You must be on board
3663 XLIII | cannon, just before the trigger is pulled, and the flying
3664 V | quadrillions, nine hundred and two trillions, eight billions, a hundred
3665 XIX | extinct species called a trilobite. Nothing more.”~“But don’
3666 XX | Instead of rudimentary trilobites, I noticed remains of a
3667 XXV | to get accustomed to this troglodyte [l] life. I no longer thought
3668 X | king, the researches of Troïl the scientific mission of
3669 XX | pangs of thirst, our little troop again plunged into the winding
3670 XIII | forded two rivers full of trout and pike, called Alfa and
3671 XV | Everywhere around us we saw truncated cones, formerly so many
3672 XII | passengers and the four horses, trusted ourselves to a somewhat
3673 XII | to put it to the test by trusting myself to it on horseback
3674 XV | alternating with thinner layers of tufaceous pumice.~As a true nephew
3675 XII | separated the beds of reddish tuff. However much I might respect
3676 XII | including trachyte, basalt, and tuffs and agglomerates associated
3677 XXXV | From time to time a fleecy tuft of mist, with yet some gleaming
3678 XXX | promontory, appeared a high, tufted, dense forest. It was composed
3679 XIII | attractive landscapes. The last tufts of grass had disappeared
3680 I | cap over the left ear of a Tugendbund student; its lines wanted
3681 XXIV | our naiad then began to tumble before us with a hoarser
3682 XIX | he slid, he scrambled, he tumbled, with a persistency which
3683 XLIII | there were felt recurrent tunes of reaction.~How often this
3684 I | Fassaites, molybdenites, tungstates of manganese, and titanite
3685 XLIII | deep channels, like huge tunnels, out of which escaped dense
3686 XV | for a century; this vast turbary measured in certain ravines
3687 XXVII | s providence allayed the turbulence of my fears, and I was enabled
3688 XXXVI | But whether we are under Turkey or the Atlantic depends
3689 XXIV | in its inclines as in its turnings, but constantly preserving
3690 XXXIII | carapace and the paddles of a turtle; he is the dreadful enemy
3691 XXXIII | shakes his head negatively.~“Tva,“ says he.~“What two? Does
3692 II | Icelandic author of the twelfth century! It is the chronicle
3693 XII | exclaimed; “four miles out of twenty-eight. What a nice little walk!”~
3694 XVIII | descended, had stopped at twenty-nine inches.~“You see,” said
3695 XXV | does the thermometer say?”~“Twenty-seven, six tenths (82° Fahr.).”~“
3696 XI | land this would be about twenty-two miles, to be done, said
3697 XIII | great bay of Faxa, and the twin peaks of Snæfell rose white
3698 XXXII | mastodon (nipple-toothed) twists and untwists his trunk,
3699 VIII | along the harbour where the two-deckers and the frigate slept peaceably
3700 IV | When I put them together by twos, threes, fives or sixes,
3701 XXXVIII| to individuals of various types and different nations, were
3702 III | it accordingly, since our typography does not allow such a character.]~
3703 IV | coming into the mind of my tyrant, I will do it. By dint of
3704 XVIII | the mines of Kitz Bahl in Tyrol, and those of Wuttembourg
3705 XIV | and immediately a tall and ugly hag appeared from the hut.
3706 V | Joculis craterem quem delibat~Umbra Scartaris Julii intra calendas
3707 XXX | moderate height, formed like umbrellas, with exact geometrical
3708 XXXIII | struggle continues with unabated ferocity. The combatants
3709 XXX | hardly see anything. My eyes, unaccustomed to the light, quickly closed.
3710 XI | of gun cotton, which is unaffected by moisture, and the explosive
3711 XXXVIII| broke out into loud and unanimous applause. For of course
3712 XXII | riches are here buried at an unapproachable depth in the earth, hidden
3713 XXXII | with the anoplotherium (unarmed beast), a strange creature,
3714 I | last break out into the unasked-for shape of a round and most
3715 XLV | shake the confidence of the unbelievers.~Then my uncle became a
3716 XXXIX | But though at first I was unbelieving I had to yield to the evidence
3717 XXIV | mythological notions seemed to come unbidden.~As for my uncle, he was
3718 XI | limbs, a piece of tape of unbleached linen, bandages and compresses,
3719 XXII | schist, resting upon that unchangeable foundation, the granite.~
3720 XXXIII | Nothing new. Weather unchanged. The wind freshens. On awaking,
3721 XIII | own family, that is, his uncles and cousins, who gave us
3722 XXXIII | drops again, coils and uncoils, droops, lashes the waters
3723 XLII | lightest covering became uncomfortable and even painful.~“Are we
3724 XXI | with his usual phlegmatic unconcern. Yet he understood perfectly
3725 XXXIX | the globe, unknown to and unconnected with the inhabitants of
3726 XLII | an angry gesture.~Then an unconquerable terror seized upon me, from
3727 XXVIII | of the rock, and I became unconscious.~
3728 XIV | and other rather rude and uncultivated people; and that evening
3729 XLIII | that is threatening us.”~My undaunted uncle calmly shook his head.~“
3730 I | possible for a man of my undecided turn of mind to argue successfully
3731 IV | succeeded in deciphering an undecipherable scrawl.”~“Oh, my dear! must
3732 IV | excitement, and I felt an undefined uneasiness. I was possessed
3733 XXIII | disappointment, of which I soon under-. stood the cause, when plunging
3734 VIII | succession, I was obliged to undergo this anti-vertiginous exercise;
3735 V | wrestlings he must have undergone all through that unhappy
3736 XXVIII | weakness prevented me from understanding what the voices said. Yet
3737 XXI | Leave me, I tell you. I have undertaken this expedition. I will
3738 VII | Gräuben followed me. She undertook to pack up all things necessary
3739 IX | be confessed he was not undeserving of his punishment.~On the
3740 XLI | to my mind in a vague and undetermined form. I had difficulty in
3741 XXVIII | catching uncertain, strange, undistinguishable words. They came as if pronounced
3742 III | later date than the book, an undoubted proof of which I see in
3743 XLIV | he spoke, my uncle, half undressed, in rags, a perfect scarecrow,
3744 XIII | offered us her assistance in undressing, according to Icelandic
3745 IV | is rushing upwards with undue violence. I was a prey to
3746 XXXIV | least; it is the waves that undulate upon its sides. The column
3747 XXXVII | stage in the distance. They undulated away to the limits of the
3748 XXVIII | could hear its sounding undulations rolling far away into the
3749 XXXVIII| the history of the giant unearthed in the sixteenth century
3750 III | for instance the fifth, uneeief, or the last but one, oseibo.
3751 I | understood in time, and an unfair advantage was taken of it;
3752 XVII | down. But how were we to unfasten it, when arrived at the
3753 XL | Saknussemm.~The wind was unfavourable to a species of launch not
3754 XXXII | appearance of man, when the unfinished world was as yet unfitted
3755 XXXII | unfinished world was as yet unfitted for his support. Then mydream
3756 XX | ingenious apparatus. If unfortunately we had explored this gallery
3757 XXX | us?”~I thought him rather ungrateful.~But at that moment my attention
3758 VI | which dropped from me in an unguarded moment. The Professor bent
3759 XXVIII | propagation of sounds which remain unheard in the intermediate space.
3760 XII | Confounded brute!” cried the unhorsed horseman, suddenly degraded
3761 XLIV | the hot, bright rays, the uniformity broken here and there by
3762 XXVI | were invaluable to us. That unimpassioned Icelander devoted himself
3763 XXXVI | stock of powder had remained uninjured after having risked blowing
3764 XLIII | the stones, or a roar of unintermitting thunder.~Then the disordered
3765 XXXIX | and tangled growth of his unkempt hair. It most resembled
3766 | unlike
3767 XXXVII | his whole attitude denoted unlimited astonishment. Here he stood
3768 XXXVII | some restraint upon this unmeasured fanaticism.~“Just listen
3769 XVI | But Heaven never sends unmixed grief, and for Professor
3770 XXXII | He took the tiller, and unmoored; the sail was set, and we
3771 VII | that in another hour this unnatural excitement abated, my nerves
3772 V | it? I trembled, too, very unnecessarily, since the true key was
3773 XXXVI | a sudden change of wind unperceived by us, which had brought
3774 X | all clear, now it is all unravelled; and I see why Saknussemm,
3775 XXXIX | cliffs, the appearance of an unrecognised stream, or the strange outline
3776 XVII | which would not be able to unroll itself from its hold; when
3777 XXXV | this vast length of ocean unrolling before him to an indefinite
3778 I | shape of a round and most unscientific oath: then his fury would
3779 XXXIX | high. His head, huge and unshapely as a buffalo’s, was half
3780 VII | abated, my nerves became unstrung, and from the depths of
3781 XXX | where the still waters slept untouched by the boisterous winds.
3782 XXXII | nipple-toothed) twists and untwists his trunk, and brays and
3783 XIII | were a perfect cluster of unwashed angels.~My uncle and I treated
3784 XLII | That which I had been so unwilling to confess at last had to
3785 XV | The vast quantity of this unworked fuel would be sufficient
3786 XXXVII | his head balancing with an up-and-down motion, his whole attitude
3787 XXXVII | and convulsed by a violent upheaval of the lower strata. In
3788 XV | the imprisoned gases would upheave this ponderous cover and
3789 VI | be internal tides, which, upheaving the terrestrial crust, would
3790 XXXII | in the heavy air. In the uppermost regions of the air immense
3791 XV | consisted of trap rocks slowly upraised to the level of the sea
3792 XII | mountains; certain peaks, boldly uprising, passed through the grey
3793 XXXVII | appearance of the soil. It seemed upset, contorted, and convulsed
3794 I | to my own little retreat upstairs, when the street door creaked
3795 XXX | was in some distant planet Uranus or Neptune — and in the
3796 XLIV | exclaimed my uncle, shaking the urchin by the ears. “Come si noma
3797 XIII | The luckiest had only two urchins upon their knees.~But silence
3798 IX | passed lightly on her way urged by the breezes of the Cattegat.~
3799 V | embraces. But he became so urgent that I was at last compelled
3800 XVII | computation should be 46; Ursa minor. Then I fell fast
3801 XIII | according to Icelandic usage; but on our gracefully declining,
3802 XXXVI | is the aneroid, the most useful of all, and for which I
3803 Pre | little towards the increased usefulness of the work.~F. A. M.~The
3804 XXXVIII| weapons, tools, earthen utensils, bones of children and adults.
3805 I | with a sufficiently rapid utterance; not, to be sure, when he
3806 XVI | other, gesticulating, and uttering incoherent expressions.
3807 XXXII | My staring eyes are fixed vacantly upon him.~“Take care, Axel,
3808 XVII | The bewildering feeling of vacuity laid hold upon me. I felt
3809 XXXV | violent action to supply the vacuum left by the condensation
3810 XXXIX | and I cannot say into what vagaries my mind would not have carried
3811 XVI | my feet. I could see deep valleys intersecting each other
3812 XXII | seemed to see the Icelander vanishing from our sight with the
3813 XX | and constant moisture; a vapoury atmosphere surrounded the
3814 XVII | proof of that very soon.”~No variation, always the same conclusion.
3815 XIX | I said, pointing to the varied series of sandstones and
3816 XXXIII | the shark, more fearful in vastness than the whale? I could
3817 II | spiced sorrel, a fillet of veal with compote of prunes;
3818 III | dream, when my uncle with a vehement thump on the table dragged
3819 XXI | must return,” I exclaimed vehemently; “we must go back on our
3820 XV | were holding on; this dense veil, hung across the sun, threw
3821 XX | surrounded the earth, still veiling the direct rays of the sun.~
3822 XX | greyish agate fantastically veined with white, others of rich
3823 I | therefore happened that this venial fault of my uncle’s came
3824 V | alone; and as their usual vent was closed, it was to be
3825 XXXIV | It stands alone. No steam vents, no hot springs surround
3826 XXX | the discoveries of him who ventures into the deep abysses of
3827 V | at home if he thought on venturing on the expedition that,
3828 II | grammatical combinations and verbal modifications.”~“Like German.”
3829 VIII | What with walking on the verdant shores of the bay within
3830 XLIV | a perfect bower of rich verdure, amongst which I was able
3831 III | Redactor: In the original version the initial letter is an ‘
3832 XLIV | the harbour of which a few vessels of peculiar rig were gently
3833 VII | t doubt,” I said, not to vex him; “but, I ask, what need
3834 VI | CHAPTER VI.~EXCITING DISCUSSIONS ABOUT
3835 XI | likely to be:~“Et quacumque viam dedent fortuna sequamur.”~“
3836 V | calendas descende,~Audax viator, et terrestre centrum attinges.~
3837 Pre | of the work.~F. A. M.~The Vicarage,~Broughton-in-Furness~
3838 V | loosened the screw of the steel vice that was crushing his brain;
3839 XLIV | at the little port of San Vicenzo, where Hans claimed his
3840 XXXV | time to shrug his shoulders viciously.~“There’s a heavy storm
3841 XLIII | speculations. But I was the victim, not the master, of my own
3842 V | should Martha and I be victims of a position of things
3843 XXXVI | shore. Surely, Axel, it may vie in size with the Mediterranean
3844 VIII | every article with jealous vigilance, until all were safe on
3845 XXXII | hand of Hans seizing me vigorously. But for him, carried away
3846 XXXVIII| rushing on with renewed vigour, and with great animation:~“
3847 VII | CHAPTER VII.~A WOMAN’S COURAGE~Thus
3848 VIII | CHAPTER VIII.~SERIOUS PREPARATIONS FOR
3849 VIII | thick foliage, admiring the villas, each provided with a little
3850 VIII | by a cook of the name of Vincent, where we had an ample breakfast
3851 XI | liquid acetate of lead, vinegar, and ammonia drugs which
3852 XX | as my eyes behold these virgin stores, such they will be
3853 II | his eyes unless it had the virtue of being nowhere else to
3854 XIV | temperance was not among the virtues that distinguished my host.~
3855 IV | inevitable.~The old servant, visibly moved, returned to the kitchen,
3856 XXXIX | dream in which I had had a vision of the prehistoric world,
3857 IX | engaged on an episcopal visitation in the north. For the time
3858 VIII | disinterested travellers visiting Iceland out of harmless
3859 XIX | neither cold nor intrusive visits to fear. Travellers who
3860 V | lavish an expenditure of vital power, he sank back exhausted
3861 III | esrevel seecIde~sgtssmf vnteief niedrke~kt,samn atrateS
3862 XLIII | would be filled up, the void would be full of crushed
3863 XXXII | constituent atoms, subtilised, volatilised. Sublimed into imponderable
3864 XLV | embarked on the steamer Volturno, employed by the French
3865 VIII | s numerous packages, his voluminous impedimenta, were unloaded,
3866 XXXV | atmospheric changes. The heavily voluted cumulus clouds lower gloomily
3867 VIII | gangers, we arrived at the Vor Frelsers Kirk. There was
3868 XXXIII | the extinct races, more voracious than the shark, more fearful
3869 X | Liedenbrock devoured his portion voraciously, for his compulsory fast
3870 XXXIV | against the Professor, who vouchsafes no answer.~Suddenly Hans
3871 XXXVII | will of his own and made a vow to forget and deny himself.
3872 Pre | PREFACE~THE “Voyages Extraordinaires” of M. Jules
3873 III | result:~ Iyloau lolwrb ou,nGe vwmdrn eeyea!~ “Excellent!” said
3874 XXXII | for hours my patience was vying with my surprise.~What natural
3875 XXXV | elements is about to be waged.~I feel peculiar sensations,
3876 XXXI | sea one of those precious waifs.~The bit of wood, after
3877 XLII | throw aside our coats and waistcoats, the. lightest covering
3878 XVIII | ray of daylight came to wake us up. The thousand shining
3879 XIV | never awake again? And if he wakes up presently, where shall
3880 V | answered like a man suddenly waking.~“Uncle, that key!”~“What
3881 XX | passing through a section of Wales, of which an ancient people
3882 VIII | of a ship.~What delicious walks we should have had together,
3883 IX | Lilliputian table. A few sickly wallflowers were trying to enjoy the
3884 XXXVIII| native of the abyss, be yet a wanderer below on this desert strand?~
3885 XI | applicable to such uncertain wanderers as we were likely to be:~“
3886 V | breakfast was going to be wanting, just as supper had been
3887 VIII | by the red roofing of the warehouse, by the green banks of the
3888 XIII | After this little pinch of warmth the different groups retired
3889 XXV | skin, and I took timely warning.~“Now look at your aneroid.
3890 XXXIX | belong to some preadamite warrior?” I cried, “to some living
3891 VIII | Come, I tell you; don’t waste our time.”~I had to obey.
3892 XII | parishioners who have no watches and do without.~There our
3893 IV | brain got heated, my eyes watered over that sheet of paper;
3894 XXXIV | proceed from a very distant waterfall.~I remark upon this to my
3895 XI | of boots and shoes, made waterproof with a composition of indiarubber
3896 XXXIII | raft was heaved up on a watery mountain and pitched down
3897 XXIII | the matter?” he asked.~“Watten!“ replied the huntsman.~
3898 XLIII | upward upon the crest of a wave of eruption; beneath our
3899 VII | girl, standing at the door, waved their last farewell. Then
3900 XXXV | motionless in a sluggish, waveless sea. But if we have now
3901 VIII | immensity of space whirled and wavered, fluctuating beneath my
3902 XII | like a poor beggar by the wayside. These ruinous huts seemed
3903 XXXIX | said he, “had you this weapon with you?”~“I! No, certainly!
3904 VI | service, at a moment when, wearied out with the struggle, I
3905 XXXIII | and the ceaseless light wearies the eyes with its persistency
3906 V | impossibilities, and the weariness of spirit, the mental wrestlings
3907 XXXII | the shade of sphenophylla (wedge-leaved), asterophylla (star-leaved),
3908 XI | hatchet, a hammer, a dozen wedges and iron spikes, and a long
3909 XIII | rocks and a few meagre sea weeds, and the next day they would
3910 XIV | Gospel. To be sure, it was a week-day; perhaps on a Sunday he
3911 XXIV | here my uncle paid Hans his weekly wages, and it was settled
3912 XXXIII | the time came when sleep weighs down the weary eyelids,
3913 XXII | thoughts. None but some weighty motive could have induced
3914 XXXIX | the distance, presented a weird and wonderful aspect under
3915 XIII | and more hungry than cold. Welcome was the sight of the boër
3916 XVI | remarkable for their loud and well-defined sharpness.~In certain parts
3917 III | he went on, “was a very well-informed man; now since he was not
3918 XXXI | boat at all, but a good, well-made raft.”~“Why,” I said, “a
3919 XLI | Thursday, August 27, is a well-remembered date in our subterranean
3920 XXVIII | gallery. Could not find you. I wept for you, my poor boy. At
3921 IX | if we don’t meet a nor’-wester in passing the Faroes.”~“
3922 IX | sea dashed furiously. The Westman islets seemed to rise out
3923 XL | prepare a slow match of wetted powder encased in linen.~“
3924 IX | clothing, and a cargo of wheat. The crew consisted of five
3925 XXXIII | The reptiles rose; they wheeled around our little raft with
3926 XXXV | astonishing velocity, as if whipped round by the force of the
3927 XXXIII | disappear below, leaving a whirlpool eddying in the water. Several
3928 XXVIII | XXVIII.~THE RESCUE IN THE WHISPERING GALLERY~When I returned
3929 XXVIII | pronounced in low murmured whispers. The word ‘forlorad‘ was
3930 XXX | diffusiveness, its bright, clear whiteness, and its low temperature,
3931 XLI | whistling past me and made a whizzing in my ears, we were moving
3932 | Whoever
3933 XIII | decide whether this diet is wholesome or not; all I can say is,
3934 XLI | then went out entirely. The wick had burnt itself out. Black
3935 XXIII | continued our walk we should widen the distance between ourselves
3936 XLIII | the vertical gallery which widened as we went up. Right and
3937 XXXIX | elephant. In his hand he wielded with ease an enormous bough,
3938 XXVII | feel my way. I began to run wildly, hurrying through the inextricable
3939 XIX | Travellers who penetrate into the wilds of central Africa, and into
3940 I | standstill; he fought with wilful words that refused to pass
3941 XXI | to stay, if his master so willed it.~How I wished at this
3942 XVII | presently.”~My uncle was always willing to employ magnificent resources.
3943 VIII | between branches of alder and willow.~But, alas! Gräuben was
3944 XXXIV | rate, some leagues to the windward there must be some noisy
3945 XXXII | Higher yet, the pterodactyle (wing-fingered) darts in irregular zigzags
3946 XXX | antediluvian plants which the wisdom of philosophers has so sagaciously
3947 XXXVIII| my uncle was right, and wiser men than his nephew would
3948 IV | for what might happen?~The wisest course was to remain where
3949 XXI | uncle was doing to his own wishes in making so hazardous a
3950 XLII | touching the water, I had to withdraw my hand in haste.~“The water
3951 XXXVII | depressions or elevations gave witness to some tremendous power
3952 XXXVII | of the phenomena we had witnessed seemed satisfactory to me;
3953 VII | Our old servant was at her wits’ end.~“Come, Axel, come,
3954 Pre | carefully prepared translations. Witty and ingenious adaptations
3955 XXIII | his shoulder, and gently woke him. My uncle rose up.~“
3956 XXIV | sufferings. At first, I was wondering that I was no longer thirsty,
3957 XIX | an animal not unlike the woodlouse: then, joining my uncle,
3958 V | morning that indefatigable worker was still at his post. His
3959 XXXIII | whip, and writhes like a worm that you tread on. The water
3960 IX | faded turf, looking like a worn-out bit of carpet, or some appearance
3961 IX | great danger of the faithful worshippers.~On a neighbouring hill
3962 XIV | where shall we be?~It was worth while debating this question,
3963 XXXIII | plesiosaurus. The monster is wounded to death. I no longer see
3964 XXIX | left you. Hans rubbed your wounds with some ointment or other
3965 XXIX | haste. For greater safety I wrapped myself in a blanket, and
3966 XIII | laid aside our travelling wraps the voice of the host was
3967 XVI | by my uncle’s impetuous wrath.~I soon found out the cause,
3968 V | weariness of spirit, the mental wrestlings he must have undergone all
3969 IX | his cabin, rather pale and wretched-looking, but still full of enthusiasm,
3970 Pre | English youth. Certainly no writer before M. Jules Verne has
3971 XIII | the country ‘hraun’; the writhen surface presented the appearance
3972 XXXIII | like a gigantic whip, and writhes like a worm that you tread
3973 III | them together.~“These two writings are not by the same hand,”
3974 XVIII | Bahl in Tyrol, and those of Wuttembourg in Bohemia.~The temperature,
3975 X | CHAPTER X.~INTERESTING CONVERSATIONS
3976 XXX | open sea which drew from Xenophon’s ten thousand Greeks, after
3977 XI | CHAPTER XI.~A GUIDE FOUND TO THE CENTRE
3978 XII | CHAPTER XII.~A BARREN LAND~We had started
3979 XIII | CHAPTER XIII.~HOSPITALITY UNDER THE ARCTIC
3980 XIV | CHAPTER XIV.~BUT ARCTICS CAN BE INHOSPITABLE,
3981 XIX | CHAPTER XIX.~GEOLOGICAL STUDIES IN SITU~
3982 XL | CHAPTER XL.~PREPARATIONS FOR BLASTING
3983 XLI | CHAPTER XLI.~THE GREAT EXPLOSION AND
3984 XLII | CHAPTER XLII.~HEADLONG SPEED UPWARD THROUGH
3985 XLIII | CHAPTER XLIII.~SHOT OUT OF A VOLCANO AT
3986 XLIV | CHAPTER XLIV.~SUNNY LANDS IN THE BLUE
3987 XLV | CHAPTER XLV.~ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL~
3988 XV | CHAPTER XV.~SNÆFELL AT LAST~Snæfell
3989 XVI | CHAPTER XVI.~BOLDLY DOWN THE CRATER~
3990 XVII | CHAPTER XVII.~VERTICAL DESCENT~Now began
3991 XVIII | CHAPTER XVIII.~THE WONDERS OF TERRESTRIAL
3992 XX | CHAPTER XX.~THE FIRST SIGNS OF DISTRESS~
3993 XXI | CHAPTER XXI.~COMPASSION FUSES THE PROFESSOR’
3994 XXII | CHAPTER XXII.~TOTAL FAILURE OF WATER~
3995 XXIII | CHAPTER XXIII.~WATER DISCOVERED~For a
3996 XXIV | CHAPTER XXIV.~WELL SAID, OLD MOLE! CANST
3997 XXIX | CHAPTER XXIX.~THALATTA! THALATTA!~When
3998 XXV | CHAPTER XXV.~DE PROFUNDIS~I therefore
3999 XXVI | CHAPTER XXVI.~THE WORST PERIL OF ALL~
4000 XXVII | CHAPTER XXVII.~LOST IN THE BOWELS OF THE
4001 XXVIII | CHAPTER XXVIII.~THE RESCUE IN THE WHISPERING
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