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501 I, XVII | along the northern shore. A brisk breeze tended to increase
502 II, XII | proceed with incredible briskness.~Although Professor Rosette
503 I, XIII | from their native land— for Britain never abandons any of her
504 II, XVI | when he had ventured to broach the subject with the astronomer,
505 I, XXI | wine, some of which was broached to do honor to the occasion.
506 I, XVII | that they are being sent broadcast upon the sea.”~“I wonder
507 I, XIII | s room, where he and his brother-officer were continuing their game.
508 I, XVII | years of age, with rich brown hair and lustrous dark eyes,
509 II, III | time to time he knitted his brows, and looked around him with
510 II, XIX | avocation; the cattle were browsing quietly upon the pastures
511 I, VIII | business,” was the captain’s brusque rejoinder.~All discomfited
512 I, V | petrified sponge. “Confound the brute!” he exclaimed, “I might
513 I, VIII | the course of a few days buds, leaves, flowers, and fruit
514 I, XXI | countenance was a perpetual bugbear. He had given out in plain
515 I, XX | except to try and render the buildings alongside the gourbi impervious
516 II, XVII | an enormous girdle that bulged out to a very extraordinary
517 I, XIII | occasion must be honored by a bumper of port, and by a royal
518 I, VIII | visible in broad daylight. Buonaparte, when under the Directory,
519 I, V | conscious of an unusual buoyancy, which appeared to lift
520 II, IX | little that was left, and buoyed up by the hope that they
521 I, II | home. No cathedral—not even Burgos itself—could vie with the
522 II, XI | the wines of Bordeaux and Burgundy which they had just been
523 II, XII | of wine, which might be burned when required for cooking
524 I, XVII | front of a kind of cave or burrow that was half concealed
525 I, V | way through the oleander bushes that overhung the shore,
526 I, XIII | were tall and fair, with bushy whiskers and mustaches;
527 II, XI | of the year was full of bustle. The arrangements for the
528 I, XXI | endeavored to mingle with the busy group, who were hurrying
529 I, XIII | England can afford it.”~A buzz of approval burst involuntarily
530 I, IX | captain; “we will talk of that by-and-by. First, tell me what has
531 II, IV | himself to his task while the by-standers waited, with some difficulty
532 I, V | sustained little injury.~“By-the-by, what o’clock is it?” asked
533 I, XI | city of Dido, the ancient Byrsa—a Carthage, however, which
534 I, I | the distinctive letters M. C. W. T., the initials of
535 II, VI | keeping his hold upon the cabin-door, the Jew made up his mind
536 II, VI | and hastily mounted the cabin-ladder. The rest followed, but
537 II, XII | such luxuries as separate cabins or sleeping-chambers are
538 I, I | and retired to the Zulma Cafe for a game at piquet. Captain
539 II, IX | again.~“Come, come, old Caiaphas, do you hear? You are to
540 I, XXIV | minds that it was a mere cairn to which they had been hurrying.~
541 I, II | but provided material for cakes of world-wide renown. To
542 I, XVII | to the former position of Calabria, and jutting far beyond
543 I, XV | become of the granite and the calcareous deposits? How is it that
544 I, XIII | required to conform to what he calls “the humbug of society”;
545 I, XVIII| sandunga y cigarro,~Y una cana de Jerez,~Mi jamelgo y un
546 I, XV | the passage of the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, the Indian
547 II, X | of miles away; Sirius in Canis Major, 123 millions of millions;
548 I, XVI | Islands, and the gulfs of Cannes and Jouar, the Dobryna arrived
549 I, XI | being deserted, nor did a cannon-shot fired from the schooner
550 I, XI | tradition asserts that the canonized monarch came to die, a spot
551 I, XI | large silver lamp with a capacious reservoir of oil, in which
552 I, XVII | that Madalena was close to Caprera, to the north of Sardinia,
553 I, XIX | kind, shoes of all sizes, caps of various shape, tools,
554 I, XXIII| soleil: 110,000,000 1.!~Capte Nerina en passant.~Vivres
555 I, I | widow by whom he had been captivated, and whom he was anxious
556 I, XV | Malaga, Almeria, Cape Gata, Car-thagena. Cape Palos— all were gone.
557 I, I | pretensions. Here is my card.”~“And mine.”~This rapid
558 II, VII | themselves from the rebuke of carelessness, and submitted silently
559 I, XVII | Captain Servadac, as he caressed the child and conducted
560 I, XXIII| to a bird which she was caressing tenderly in her bosom.~“
561 II, V | light-hearted as ever, carolled out their favorite songs,
562 II, IV | the message brought by the carrier pigeon, the distance traveled
563 I, XV | it is made of, if only it carries France along with it.”~“
564 I, XII | succession of Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Sicilians, Romans, Vandals,
565 I, XI | vases, fragments of columns, carved bas-reliefs, statues, and
566 I, X | Surely some portion of the Casbah must still rise above the
567 II, V | snow had given place to the cascade of fiery lava, which, making
568 II, XVI | continued, into torrents or cascades. Light vapors gathered on
569 I, XIX | tobacco, pipes of wine, casks of brandy, barrels of dried
570 I, VIII | moon or satellite such as Cassini, Short, Montaigne of Limoges,
571 II, VI | Servadac, as Isaac, after casting a distrustful look around,
572 0, Int | fire maidens” of the ruined castle, surely with all these “
573 II, XIV | discomfiture, made some casual remark about things not
574 II, XIII | matter further, the captain casually remarked that he should
575 II, XIII | quarters. Up till this time no casualties had diminished their original
576 I, XXII | included in the astronomical catalogues, or one previously unknown,
577 II, XI | chill it seemed!~The fiery cataract no longer spread its glowing
578 II, V | without a single attack of catarrh.”~Lieutenant Procope proceeded
579 II, III | his inquiries in a more categorical form, Servadac, thinking
580 II, V | authoritatively, as if ex cathedra.” I need no instruction
581 I, II | that of his native home. No cathedral—not even Burgos itself—could
582 II, XVIII| Turkey, its right upon Mount Caucasus; Austria resembled a huge
583 II, XII | concurred with the captain. Many causes, he knew, besides the interruption
584 II, XI | ended. Captain Servadac had cautioned the party to collect themselves
585 II, XIV | he was consequently very cautious in all his replies.~It was
586 I, XIV | s by right of conquest; ceded to England by the Treaty
587 II, XI | unite us, better than by celebrating, in common with our fellow-creatures
588 I, XI | contained the office for the celebration of the 25th of August. A
589 II, XII | We are only living in the cellars instead of upon the ground
590 I, II | before the invasion of the Celts; and its very mill produced
591 II, XI | to return; and how can we cement the bond that ought to unite
592 I, XIX | so, that would raise the census of their new asteroid to
593 I, XX | stood, with a fixed gaze centered on a point towards the south. “
594 II, VII | francs, two francs, and fifty centimes measure thirty-seven, twenty-seven,
595 I, X | could only be because the centrifugal and centripetal forces that
596 I, X | because the centrifugal and centripetal forces that cause the planets
597 I, XIX | Jew’s ordinary life of a century, he would reach to the age
598 II, III | for the entire party to be ceremoniously introduced to him. Nothing
599 I, XIV | were interchanged and the ceremony brought to its due conclusion.
600 II, XIX | panic little short of the certified approach of the millennium.~“
601 II, XV | price of that important cession,” continued Major Oliphant, “
602 II, II | tenaciously to the professor’s chair, and again and again implored
603 II, I | algebraical symbols traced in chalk, which they were careful
604 I, I | while you are the zealous champion of Rossini?”~“I am quite
605 I, XXI | diverted into several new channels, where it could be available
606 0, Int | departure and return of his characters, the alpha and omega of
607 II, I | science-master at the Lycee Charle-magne.~After completing his year
608 II, VII | together.~“That’s just the charm of them, my good fellow,”
609 II, VIII | comparative forgetfulness of the charms of his comet; but no astronomical
610 I, XXIII| never failing either to chase away or to kill any others
611 I, XVI | however, the bottom of the chasm had never as yet been the
612 II, XI | party left the Hive, and chattering and singing as they went,
613 II, XIV | reprobate, the rascal has cheated us! His steelyard is wrong!
614 II, XIV | The steelyard lies! It cheats! it lies!” roared the irrepressible
615 II, IX | yet the population felt cheered even by the little that
616 II, XIII | distant yet, but the goal was cheeringly in view.~“I can’t believe
617 II, XI | desire; and the ringing cheers that followed the great
618 I, XIX | spices, a stock of huge Dutch cheeses, and a collection of almanacs
619 I, X | over the sites where Tenes, Cherchil, Koleah, and Sidi-Feruch
620 II, XV | name of France, was now the cherished wish of Servadac’s heart.~“
621 I, XIII | pawns well is “the soul of chess”; and, accordingly, not
622 I, XIII | they might have felt at the chess-men losing some portion of their
623 II, XV | forego the pleasures of the chessboard. The game that had been
624 I, XIX | sugar-loaves by hundreds, chests of tea, bags of coffee,
625 I, II | Mostaganem.~Decorations: Chevalier of the Legion of Honor,
626 I, XIX | emphatically; “the fellows are chicken-hearted enough already; only tell
627 II, XI | common hall.~How dreary! how chill it seemed!~The fiery cataract
628 I, XVII | nights continued lovely; the chilled condition of the atmosphere
629 II, XII | Ben Zoof. “Those who are chilly are welcome to go as much
630 II, XV | accomplish an enterprise that chimed in so exactly with his adventurous
631 II, XVI | you that my idea is not so chimerical as you imagine.” And, knitting
632 I, XXIII| that rose from the cabin chimney of the Hansa was the sole
633 II, VI | reached the deck when the chink of money was heard in the
634 II, XIV | hand into his pocket and chinking his money.~“Oh, we will
635 II, I | fragment of the earth had been chipped off by the collision of
636 I, XII | defined as though cut by a chisel, when suddenly the prismatic
637 II, XVII | get rid of you. Take your choice. Quick, or out you go!”~
638 I, VI | as though they had been chopped by a hatchet.~The sinuosities
639 I, VIII | captain had touched a tender chord. For a moment Ben Zoof stood
640 I, XXIII| nothing to prevent him, if he chose, from partaking gratuitously
641 II, X | of the birth and death of Christ; convey him further again,
642 II, XVIII| flooding the surrounding space.~Chronometer in hand, Lieutenant Procope
643 I, II | itself—could vie with the church at Montmartre. Its race-course
644 I, VIII | must be flocking to the churches! The end of the world approaching!
645 I, XVIII| continued:~ “Tu sandunga y cigarro,~Y una cana de Jerez,~Mi
646 I, XXII | igneous stones or red-hot cinders mingled with the smoke that
647 II, V | whether they were still circling round the sun, or whether
648 II, VII | been hoarded instead of circulated; accordingly, they are fit
649 II, III | commenced a verbose and somewhat circumlocutory address, of which the following
650 II, IV | have you or have you not circumnavigated Gallia?”~The lieutenant
651 I, XVI | nothing more than a few cirri, almost transparent, veiled
652 I, XXI | zero, and the water in the cistern was completely frozen. It
653 I, XVIII| Water was abundant, and the cisterns could hardly fail to be
654 I, XVI | landscape; its gardens of citrons and oranges rising tier
655 II, V | the galleries of the Hive, clambering over the rocks upon the
656 I, XIX | ordered him to desist from his clamor. Leaving the old man under
657 II, XI | despised.~Although Hakkabut clamored most vehemently about his
658 0, Int | it were, turned over and clapped down right side up again
659 II, VI | moment Ben Zoof’s hand was clasped tightly over his mouth. “
660 I, XV | have done; we shall not be classed with them.”~“Our lack of
661 I, XVI | their proper scientific classification, but neither Servadac, Timascheff,
662 II, XVIII| shores of Asia with the one claw, and the land of Greece
663 I, XIII | fashioned out of some specific clay, the properties of which
664 II, II | have named were carried clean away.”~They were all fairly
665 I, V | began to make a vigorous clearance of the ruins, beneath which
666 I, XX | distance.~It increased in clearness in the gathering shades
667 I, V | the exception of some deep clefts in its walls, had sustained
668 I, XVIII| guitar and by the measured click of castanets.~“Spaniards!”
669 II, XIV | no explanation; he only climbed up to his telescope, looking
670 I, XX | mouth of a great tunnel. Climbing up to this orifice, which
671 I, X | even out at sea, did they cling to their old traditions,
672 0, Int | how closely the author clings to facts between! How closely
673 I, VI | would allow; the horses were clogged and turned out to feed upon
674 I, XXIV | wooden roof lined with strong cloth; beneath this could be packed
675 I, V | should make a good pair of clowns.”~But the captain was inclined
676 I, I | pennant of the French Yacht Club, with the distinctive letters
677 II, XV | but, like the two American clubs that played their celebrated
678 I, XVIII| only natural that this clustered mass of birds, as representing
679 II, X | to mingle with the star clusters, some of which have been
680 II, XVIII| insolent cock, appeared to clutch the shores of Asia with
681 II, VI | handed over to the Jew, who clutched at the money with unmistakable
682 I, XIX | counted upon the cordial co-operation of them all for the common
683 II, X | the fragments, mutually coalescing, would form additional satellites
684 I, X | Algiers, like all the other coast-towns, had apparently been absorbed
685 I, XV | barren rock that she had coasted beyond the site of Malta.
686 I, XX | Dobryna’s progress while coasting the southern confines of
687 I, XVII | these deviations of the coastline, the Dobryna was steering
688 I, XVIII| craft, he cruised along the coasts of Algeria, Tunis, Egypt,
689 II, XIII | of them. Flitting about, coaxing one to eat, another to drink,
690 II, XVIII| Turkey, like an insolent cock, appeared to clutch the
691 II, IV | ever since I was born.”~“Cock-a-doodle-doo!” cried Ben Zoof, delighted
692 I, XIII | embrasure. The two officers, in cocked hats and full staff uniform,
693 II, XI | soon adopted measures of coercion that were far more effectual
694 II, XVI | hands, he was manifestly cogitating a new idea. “Yes, I think
695 I, XIX | My own opinion, captain, coincides entirely with yours.~I have
696 I, XIV | interposed Colonel Murphy, in the coldest and most measured tone,
697 II, XVI | the 12th the huge block collapsed en masse, so that on the
698 I, XXIV | calculations, were quickly collected; the wind, by a fortuitous
699 I, XIX | huge Dutch cheeses, and a collection of almanacs and miscellaneous
700 I, II | Since leaving the military college, Servadac, with the exception
701 II, XII | it was a volcano, not a colliery, that was the object of
702 I, XVIII| and he was a native of Cologne. Nearly the whole of his
703 I, XIII | quartered. The faculty of colonization seems to be indigenous to
704 I, III | blue crayons, a variety of colored lines, which could hardly
705 II, VIII | to describe them by their colors. The first was of a dull
706 I, VII | itself an evidence that the column of air above the earth’s
707 II, III | strengthened by the appearance of a coma, and subsequently confirmed,
708 II, I | but soon relapsed into his comatose condition. When next he
709 II, XIII | did their best not only to combat in themselves, but to counteract
710 II, XIV | hastened to the scene. The combatants were soon parted. “What
711 II, IV | accommodation of the new comer. Fortunately his desires
712 I, XVIII| followed was irresistibly comic. Four sturdy majos had dragged
713 II, V | The little professor, most comical of all, resembled nothing
714 I, XII | confident in the skill of their commander, and in the stability of
715 I, VII | set twelve times since the commencement of the new year, he persisted
716 I, XI | ashore, and lost no time in commencing their ascent of the steep
717 II, IV | repeating his satirical comments, when a stern order from
718 I, XVIII| every possible article of commerce, from a lucifer match to
719 I, XIV | grand resident lord high commissioner has not much to congratulate
720 I, XVII | Gallia upon its orbit, and committing the results of his reckonings
721 II, XVIII| the strange soil, with its commixture of tellurium and gold, gleamed
722 II, III | sheer fright; but, without communicating a word of his startling
723 II, VIII | seemed to be beguiled into comparative forgetfulness of the charms
724 I, XV | the south of the island. Compare these calculations with
725 II, VI | dimensions. In one corner of the compartment stood a small iron stove,
726 I, XXII | drawbacks, but it had some compensating advantages.~Telescopes in
727 I, II | beheld scenery which could compete with that of his native
728 II, XIX | count’s liberality, with a competency that ensured them from want,
729 II, III | through space to make him competent to determine, at least approximately,
730 I, III | all his energies to the compilation of his rondo, and supremely
731 II, VI | Servadac, without heeding his complainings, went on: “We are not going
732 II, X | colonists found that Saturn completes his revolution round the
733 II, I | Lycee Charle-magne.~After completing his year of elementary studies,
734 I, VII | replied the captain. “Your complexion isn’t the fairest in the
735 I, XXI | innumerable cells; and in compliment to the little Italian it
736 II, XVI | lieutenant. Count Timascheff complimented the lieutenant upon his
737 I, XXI | and vigor that earned many compliments from Negrete.~It was nine
738 I, I | his rear,~“did you ever compose any poetry?”~ “No, captain,”
739 I, XVII | agreed; and the animal, as if comprehending what was said, trotted on
740 I, XIX | eyes, and his lips became compressed with a grim significance.~
741 I, XIX | Gallian Sea, which apparently comprised about one-half of the Mediterranean,
742 I, XV | a fragment of the earth, comprising the Mediterranean and its
743 I, XIII | indulgences which might compromise the fit of their uniform.~
744 II, IX | utter hypocrite, he had no compunction in turning a business transaction
745 II, VII | interesting! But let us go on and compute the mass.”~“No, captain,
746 I, XII | sections and completely concealing the island of Jerba, which
747 I, XXIV | is impossible; but even conceding the possibility of your
748 0, Int | collision with the earth, we can conceive two scientifically possible
749 I, XXI | Fameux vous etes.”~ The concert was succeeded by a ball,
750 II, V | There was no time now for concerting measures offhand to prevent
751 I, I | Servadac was inflexible.~“No concession is possible,” he replied,
752 I, I | easily arranged; a few slight concessions on either side, and all
753 I, XIV | Timascheff’s efforts to conciliate the excited parties were
754 II, III | answered the professor, “I had conclusively demonstrated the path of
755 I, XXII | orderly routine.~A perfect concord ruled the little colony.
756 I, XVII | existence.”~“I entirely concur with you,” said Count Timascheff. “
757 I, XVII | better manners when they condescend to visit us.”~“Ay,” said
758 II, XVI | telescope.~It was no time for condolence.~A new marvel arrested every
759 II, I | on the other hand, might conduce to a mutual and permanent
760 I, XX | its nature, and capable of conducting heat.~“Follow me!” shouted
761 I, XXII | the form of a truncated cone, of which the topmost section
762 I, VIII | ancients were accustomed to confer upon it, and could scarcely
763 0, Int | solidity and weight which Verne confers upon his monster so as to
764 II, XV | be much surprised at the confession that was extorted from him,
765 II, XIII | but the long and drear confinement was beginning to tell upon
766 II, VII | would be so; your experience confirms that probability: you have
767 II, VI | half his property was to be confiscated, the Jew began to break
768 I, XXIII| everywhere near the scene of conflict in hopes of finding the
769 I, XIII | country, when required to conform to what he calls “the humbug
770 I, XV | the count.~To this strange conglomeration of French, English, Italian,
771 II, IV | population of Nina’s Hive were congratulating themselves upon being rid
772 II, XIV | quite as much a matter of congratulation as of regret that the volcano
773 I, XXIII| actually in Nina’s Hive. Congregating in the large hall, the half-famished
774 II, VIII | place in an astronomical congress on the earth, he would be
775 II, I | of geometrical figures, conic sections of every variety
776 I, VI | isthmus existed to form a connecting link with the territory
777 I, III | be supposed to have much connection with a topographical survey.
778 II, XIII | appropriated corner, either in conning his accounts, or in counting
779 I, XIV | s—England’s by right of conquest; ceded to England by the
780 I, V | is rising finely, like a conscript at the sound of the reveille.
781 I, XXIV | exposed for at least six consecutive days; and thirdly, your
782 I, III | Listen, lady, to my vows — O, consent to be my spouse; Constant
783 I, IX | earth’s convexity, and the consequent limitation of the range
784 II, XII | place of safety. Servadac considerately allowed the whole of the
785 I, XXI | south, and the repeated consignments of corn and cattle, soon
786 II, III | naked eye this constellation consists of only six stars, but through
787 II, X | sight, and it was his great consolation that hitherto his native
788 I, XVII | Captain Servadac tried to console himself with the reflection
789 II, XIV | for you.” And with this consoling remark, the orderly went
790 II, XVI | gloom of night, was shining conspicuously before them.~That satellite
791 I, XVII | across the province of Constantine, away to the oasis of Ziban;
792 II, II | professor’s bedside. He had constituted himself sick nurse, and
793 II, I | count, and the lieutenant, constituting themselves what might be
794 II, XIII | enough to eat. The Russians, constitutionally of more enduring temperament,
795 I, I | ambition at present was to construct a roundelay of which this
796 I, X | to charts that had been constructed for the old order of things;
797 I, VIII | where he could repeatedly consult it, and on the 15th he found
798 I, IX | silence was broken, they consulted as to what course was best
799 I, V | they were propelled would consume the time which they were
800 II, XVII | Island in the steam launch, consuming the last of their little
801 II, XIV | be strangled.”~“Rascal! consummate rascal! thief! villain!”
802 I, XVII | it, and it was found to contain the following message:~“
803 I, XXIV | Lieutenant Procope had leisure to contemplate some of the present perplexing
804 II, II | discovery of the comet was being contested or denied; but although
805 II, III | the heavens, in the region contiguous to the constellation Gemini.~
806 II, XVIII| brighter betokening the continents, the more somber indicating
807 II, X | absolutely indispensable.~One contingency there was, almost too terrible
808 II, XV | afforded Major Oliphant and his contingent ample protection from the
809 I, XII | the Dobryna followed the contour of the inhospitable coast,
810 I, V | Servadac was the extraordinary contraction of the horizon. Under ordinary
811 II, XIV | wrong! The observations contradicted the calculations; they were
812 I, XX | impervious to frost. To contribute to the supply of fuel, orders
813 I, XX | the force of attraction contributing such an increase to their
814 II, V | evident that some different contrivance would have to be resorted
815 II, XIV | the count would hold long conversations with Lieutenant Procope
816 I, II | not despair of ultimately converting the captain, and meanwhile
817 I, XVI | give in its sad and too convincing testimony that Antibes itself
818 II, XVI | rocked and trernbled with the convulsions of internal disturbance,
819 II, XI | operations of his meager cookery. Consequently all intercourse
820 I, XVI | temperature became gradually cooler, so that there was little
821 II, XV | Conceal it as they would, a coolness was undeniably stealing
822 I, XVIII| Servadac and his friends would cooperate with him in the raid upon “
823 II, XIII | was marked by so little cordiality. Not in the least that they
824 II, XVII | Servadac followed. The cords were cut. The balloon rose
825 II, XI | radiance” which the poet Corneille has described.~Immediately
826 II, XII | ventilated, with as few corners as possible, is considered
827 II, XI | of the volcano, with its corona of vapor, was entirely out
828 II, XVIII| trailing her ample skirts and coroneted with the cluster of her
829 II, XIII | I beg pardon,” said the corrected captain.~“Well then, never
830 II, XIII | Ben Zoof understood the correction.~“No,” continued the captain; “
831 II, I | blackboard. The handwriting corresponded with that of the papers
832 I, XXIII| tidings from the anonymous correspondent, whom he persisted in regarding
833 II, IV | of the Gallian year. It corresponds with the 133d day of the
834 I, III | ever opened his “Course of Cosmography.” Besides, he had other
835 I, VI | not so much as a ruined cottage was visible on the horizon,
836 II, XIII | suppose Professor Rosette couldn’t make his comet go straight
837 I, XXI | the toast “Success to his council,” to which Ben Zoof was
838 I, XIX | explanation, he said that he counted upon the cordial co-operation
839 I, XIII | island, apparently the very counterpart of what was now occupied
840 II, XIII | conning his accounts, or in counting his money. Altogether, with
841 I, I | peremptorily; “I have made another couplet.~ ‘Lovers should, whoe’er
842 II, XI | whenever he appeared.~Thus coursing rapidly over the icy plain,
843 II, XVII | for your conduct before a court of justice!”~“Where? On
844 I, XV | wax was removed and the cover opened, and the lieutenant
845 II, XI | longer spread its glowing covering over the mouth of the grotto.
846 I, XVII | title of “the poor man’s cow.” So far from being alarmed
847 I, XXIII| skating-rink; without a crack or flaw it extended far
848 II, XVII | like a child’s toy. It had cracked like a dry nut; and mightn’
849 II, III | crossed the earth without cracking it.”~“It is possible you
850 I, II | things, and around whose cradle have hovered the fairy godmothers
851 I, IV | united in one deafening crash; that the earth groaned
852 I, XXII | trace of the seas, chasms, craters, and mountains which have
853 I, III | draw, with red and blue crayons, a variety of colored lines,
854 II, VIII | philosophy that acknowledges the credibility of a habitable universe.~
855 I, X | his attainments were alike creditable to himself and to the liberal
856 I, XVIII| draw the life-blood of his creditors, if by such means he could
857 I, XXI | attempt to impose upon his credulity; but the frequent voyages
858 I, XXI | muttered the Jew, whose creed frequently assumed a very
859 II, XIII | monotony. Then seemed to creep over everyone a kind of
860 II, X | full, others like silver crescents, in quadrature, as well
861 I, IX | was suddenly caught on the crest of an enormous wave, and
862 II, II | Europe.”~The Jew was utterly crestfallen.~“You seem here,” continued
863 II, XIX | reply to this impertinent criticism of his labors, Rosette issued
864 II, I | his chief delight was to criticize the publications of other
865 0, Int | predecessor in this style. Some critics indeed have pointed to this
866 II, V | was of a temper far too cross-grained for them to venture to ask
867 I, VI | master’s permission, Ben Zoof crouched down in an angle of the
868 I, V | footpath, they went as a crow would fly across the country.
869 I, VIII | to the newspapers! What crowds must be flocking to the
870 I, II | of world-wide renown. To crown all, Montmartre boasted
871 II, XI | failed them! death, in the cruellest of all shapes, seemed staring
872 I, XVIII| work so light a craft, he cruised along the coasts of Algeria,
873 I, VII | have turned into Robinson Crusoe, and that I am your man
874 I, VII | example of all previous Crusoes, began to consider it advisable
875 I, XXII | strange concrete of metallic crystallization.~By ascending one day to
876 II, V | once congealed into little crystals upon their whiskers, beards,
877 II, V | resembled nothing so much as the cub of an Arctic bear.~It was
878 I, XXIII| succeed by means of a stout cudgel in driving them away.~“Tell
879 I, XVIII| by the title. He took the cue, and promptly ordered the
880 I, XII | fortunately, the waves did not culminate in breakers, but rather
881 II, X | severity of winter, in the cultivation or the preservation of their
882 II, XVII | Had the balloon been less cumbersome it would have been conveyed
883 I, XIII | piece remained. This was a cumbrous muzzle-loader of 9-inch
884 II, II | Zoof appeared with a great cup, hot and strong. After draining
885 I, III | was pleased to term the “cupboard of his stomach.” Captain
886 I, III | trunks that served instead of cupboards. The orderly performed his
887 I, VI | they made no attempt to curb their steeds, but even urged
888 I, VIII | know that ‘what can’t be cured must be endured.’”~The captain
889 II, V | to a hundred feet.~A thin curl of blue smoke issued from
890 I, II | and graceful, with dark curling hair and mustaches, well-formed
891 II, VI | exclaimed Isaac. “Paper has no currency in Gallia.”~“About as much
892 II, XVI | the Arctic Ocean, by warm currents of water, and on the night
893 I, II | successfully through the curriculum of his early career. He
894 I, III | sir, only the nightmare.”~“Curse the fellow, he has quite
895 I, XIII | it due to their rank to curtail any indulgences which might
896 I, XV | days and nights being thus curtailed. But how about the new orbit
897 I, XXII | convexity of our little world curtails our view? See, how circumscribed
898 I, XI | Must there not have been a custodian of the shrine?” they mutually
899 II, II | Shimei, you won’t find a customer here. You had better be
900 I, I | was an aide-de-camp of the Czar, had of course proposed
901 I, II | Cyr; two years at L’Ecole d’Application; two years in
902 I, III | complaints; neither of them was dainty in the matter either of
903 I, XII | covered the peninsula of Dakhul, which had separated the
904 II, XVI | sued and made to pay him damages; he asserted that he had
905 II, XVIII| marching like some stately dame towards the east, trailing
906 II, IV | neither were there any of the damp mists or dry fogs which
907 I, XXI | Ben Zoof, in his turn, danced a pas seul (often performed
908 I, XXI | exhibited some of their national dances, which gained considerable
909 I, XVIII| Spaniards had just begun dancing their national fandango,
910 I, XVI | up the despairing cry of Dante, “All hope abandon, ye who
911 II, XVIII| were broad white bands, darkened on the side averted from
912 I, VIII | What would become of your darling Montmartre then?”~The captain
913 I, XII | upon the deck, they would dart down and fight with eager
914 I, XVIII| for his equanimity, and darting forward, he seized his master’
915 II, I | had he established any data from which it would be possible
916 II, XII | evidently been of recent origin, dating probably only from the shock
917 II, XIII | still intense, but in the daytime the sun, here full upon
918 I, XXIII| counteract the tendency to de-spond by continual diversion;
919 II, XI | impetus of the shock might be deadened.~Christmas arrived, and
920 II, XV | his mercantile career, his dealings had all been carried on
921 I, V | head appeared above the debris. “The gourbi leveled to
922 I, XIX | of leagues from all his debtors.”~Isaac Hakkabut was about
923 I, XIX | till they have paid their debts? Your Excellency, they owe
924 I, V | on the whole prudent to decamp, disappeared across the
925 II, XV | system of false weight. That deceitful steelyard had been the mainspring
926 I, XX | and unless I am greatly deceived, I can hear a kind of reverberation
927 II, VII | that French coinage is all decimal, the franc being the standard
928 II, VII | into ten equal portions, or decimeters, each of course 3.93 inches
929 I, XVI | which the only part at all decipherable was the syllable “Vil.”~“
930 I, XV | was no maker’s name to be deciphered; but impressed very plainly
931 I, III | gestures, Servadac began to declaim:~“Listen, lady, to my vows —
932 II, III | in right ascension and in declination, and succeeded in working
933 0, Int | marking the beginning of a decline in the author’s power of
934 I, V | with the utmost speed. The decompression of the atmosphere made the
935 I, II | the staff at Mostaganem.~Decorations: Chevalier of the Legion
936 I, XIII | within the bounds of military decorum; and, turning to the right-about,
937 I, II | whom he was desirous of dedicating the rondo, the first four
938 I, VIII | approximated to the sun, a deduction in which he was confirmed
939 II, XVI | of horror.~“Yes. If the deductions of modern science be true,
940 I, II | sympathy that served to deepen his subordinate’s devotion.~
941 II, XII | the winter. We must try deeper down. I only hope the ventilation
942 II, I | made it a matter of the deepest concern to restore animation
943 0, Int | emotional aspect of the deeps under ground, the blackness,
944 I, XIII | 9-inch caliber, and, in default of the smaller ordnance
945 I, VI | those of a watch with a defective mainspring, and there was
946 I, I | in which I feel bound to defend Wagner, while you are the
947 I, XIII | without a most vigorous defense.~The men who were thus beguiling
948 II, III | looked around him with a defiant air, as though he could
949 I, XXII | regular scheme of life was definitely laid down. “My lord governor,”
950 II, VIII | the comet had already been deflected from its elliptical orbit,
951 II, XVIII| tight-fitting boot, was juggling deftly with the islands of Sicily,
952 II, XI | of elevation, so utterly defying all human power to arrest,
953 II, XIII | entire nature had become degenerate, and that, like tortoises,
954 I, XI | sea-bottom, and that the soil, degenerated, as it has been said, into
955 I, VI | population.”~The captain deigned no reply, but, muttering
956 I, XXIV | Formentera. Nothing could be more dejected than the aspect of that
957 I, XVI | Captain Servadac’s deep dejection was in strange contrast
958 II, XI | of his observatory.~The dejeuner over, there still remained
959 I, XIII | months—the players being so deliberate, and so fearful of taking
960 I, V | acre in extent. A soft and delicious herbage carpeted the soil,
961 I, XXII | which have been so minutely delineated in lunar charts, and it
962 II, I | On the discovery of each delinquency he would fume and rage in
963 II, III | delight amounted almost to delirium. Anyone else would have
964 I, XI | been. The maritime town of Dellis, built like Algiers, amphitheater-wise,
965 II, XIV | of interest, or without demanding far more than an adequate
966 I, XVIII| investigated and all proper demands should be paid. The man
967 II, III | patient and good-humored demeanor of his audience.~“But now,
968 I, VIII | had been close enough to demonstrate that beyond a doubt that
969 I, XVII | former coast-line of Italy, demonstrating that a new continent must
970 I, XVIII| any other, they did not demur, knowing that they had not
971 II, V | Procope and Timascheff demurely bowed their heads.~The professor
972 I, XXIV | philanthropic enterprise, and demurred considerably to the proposal;
973 II, XIX | experiences. In spite of the denial which astronomer after astronomer
974 II, IV | they approached the point denoting the aphelion and increasing
975 I, XIX | season would last; every hope depended upon the land again becoming
976 II, V | steelyard, or spring-balance, dependent upon mere tension or flexibility,
977 I, XV | the count, “is much to be deplored; it baffles our investigations
978 I, XVIII| were now exposed to the depredations of many thousands of birds;
979 I, XVIII| every shot told; and the depredators fell by dozens on either
980 II, XVI | orbit would undoubtedly be deranged, and if we survive the shock,
981 I, XVII | which they could hope to derive their future sustenance.
982 I, XI | the town from which it had derived its name, with the Arsenal,
983 I, II | vine-dresser of Medoc— a lineal descendant of the heroes of ancient
984 I, XXI | rusty stove-pipe, hoping to descry the passing trader with
985 I, II | entitled him to his soi-disant designation of “The Rampart of Montmartre.”
986 I, XXIV | fitted with a metal scull designed to assist in maintaining
987 II, VII | As he spoke the professor designedly kept his eyes fixed upon
988 II, X | might almost seem that the Designer of the universe, in permitting
989 II, IV | new comer. Fortunately his desires were very moderate; he seemed
990 I, XVI | compelled to take up the despairing cry of Dante, “All hope
991 II, XIX | ensured them from want, were despatched to their native shores.
992 II, XI | man whom he so cordially despised.~Although Hakkabut clamored
993 I, XXIV | success in reaching your destination, what service do you imagine
994 II, VII | to retire, when Servadac detained him.~“Permit me to ask you
995 II, I | better pleased than when he detected a flaw in their reckonings.~
996 II, VIII | been made available for the determination of terrestrial longitudes.”~“
997 I, XVI | neither cold nor fatigue deterred them, and they were resolved
998 I, XVIII| probably to the serious detriment, of the human population,
999 I, XIV | evidently experienced its devastating consequences.”~The Englishmen,
1000 I, XVII | Adapting her course to these deviations of the coastline, the Dobryna
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