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3004 I, III | rest!”~Perseverance had its reward. Presently two lines, one
3005 II, X | Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, and Japetus—
3006 I, XII | Arabians, and the knights of Rhodes, should still be undestroyed.~
3007 II, I | be compared to one of the Rhumkorff’s bobbins of which the thread,
3008 I, III | would lend variety to his rhythm, it is impossible to determine;
3009 I, XXI | Tour tala rire,~Tour la Ribaud,~Ricandeau,~Sans repos,
3010 II, XVIII| conveyed, would be rent into ribbons, and every one of its passengers
3011 I, XXI | tala rire,~Tour la Ribaud,~Ricandeau,~Sans repos, repit, repit,
3012 II, VI | two or three stools and a rickety deal table, together with
3013 I, II | of the trench had been so riddled by shell that a portion
3014 I, XVII | whether the author of the riddles was dwelling upon some solitary
3015 I, II | sometimes he would enjoy a ride along the summit of the
3016 I, II | draughtsman, an excellent rider—having thoroughly mastered
3017 II, XII | unfortunate man. Regardless of the ridicule which his abject wretchedness
3018 I, XXI | by jeers and scorn, and, ridiculed by all the rest, he was
3019 II, XIX | obtained some degree of notice, ridiculing the whole debate under the
3020 I, VI | Quitting their encampment and riding on, the bewildered explorers
3021 I, II | famous “Uncle Tom” at the riding-school of St. Cyr— and in the records
3022 I, XII | observed, a supernatural rifting of the rock, nothing could
3023 I, XIII | decorum; and, turning to the right-about, they marched away, leaving
3024 II, XV | dominion. The Englishmen, rightly enough, had continued to
3025 I, XIV | unconscious of the stolid rigidity with which his advances
3026 II, VII | of each piece of money is rigorously determined by law, and that
3027 II, X | and that this remarkable ring-system is a remnant of the nebula
3028 II, I | mind, had contrived, as the ringleader of a set of like caliber
3029 I, XXI | repit, repos, ris pot, ripette!~Si vous attrapez mon refrain,~
3030 I, XXI | lirette, lira!~ Far la rira,~Tour tala rire,~Tour la
3031 I, XXI | Far la rira,~Tour tala rire,~Tour la Ribaud,~Ricandeau,~
3032 I, XXI | repos, repit, repit, repos, ris pot, ripette!~Si vous attrapez
3033 I, XI | the open breviary, the ritual of the ancient anniversary,
3034 I, V | previous positions. But the river-bank had become the shore of
3035 II, XVI | All eyes in a moment were riveted upon him, as, with his head
3036 II, XVII | winter; numbers of little rivulets intersected the pasture-land;
3037 I, VI | Mediterranean. On their road they failed to discern a
3038 I, XII | supply of water; and the wide roadsteads were unprotected and exposed
3039 I, V | high.~Ben Zoof burst into a roar of laughter. “Bravo!” he
3040 I, XX | water, it was a curtain of roaring flame that hung before the
3041 I, XIX | than that you should be robbed of it.”~With this Job’s
3042 II, IX | in particular, who were robbing him of his just profits,
3043 I, VII | that you have turned into Robinson Crusoe, and that I am your
3044 I, XXI | of lava fell into a small rock-bound basin that had no apparent
3045 II, XVI | them unawares. The volcano rocked and trernbled with the convulsions
3046 I, VI | remained, the travelers rode about twenty-one miles from
3047 I, XVIII| partially to comprehend the rollicking tenor of the Spanish patriotic
3048 I, XI | by Scipio Afri-canus or Roman Carthage by Hassan the Saracen.~
3049 I, XII | Carthaginians, Sicilians, Romans, Vandals, Greeks, Arabians,
3050 I, XVII | corresponding with the latitude of Rome, the sea took the form of
3051 I, XVIII| thousands; snipe, larks, rooks, and swallows; a countless
3052 I, III | atmosphere were suffused with a rosy glare. No well-defined fringe
3053 II, XVII | although the comet still rotated on its axis from east to
3054 II, III | first supposition, that the rotatory axis of the earth had been
3055 II, IX | receiving back the paper roubles deposited, all communication
3056 I, XXIV | reindeers to draw it.”~“Why not rough-shoe the two horses?”~“They would
3057 I, IX | and which, even in the roughest weather, would ensure the
3058 I, VIII | exhausted, and now that the roughness of the weather had so happily
3059 I, I | present was to construct a roundelay of which this should be
3060 II, I | enough, one might think, to rouse the very dead.~Meanwhile
3061 II, XII | combined with the downhill route to make the labor proceed
3062 I, XI | and Procope were quickly rowed ashore, and lost no time
3063 I, IX | surprise, long and well-defined rows of seaweed, which undoubtedly
3064 I, V | head protruded from the rubbish.~“Have you any notion what
3065 II, VI | to the value of several rubles. With a greediness that
3066 I, V | the surface of the sea was ruffled with an agitation that was
3067 I, XX | the sides. A continuous rumbling, that increased as they
3068 II, XII | could already hear the dull rumblings that indicated that they
3069 II, XVI | ingredients of which were rummaged out of the promiscuous stores
3070 I, X | indeed, the earth would rush onwards towards the sun,
3071 I, XXI | up till it looked like a rusty stove-pipe, hoping to descry
3072 I, V | rondo which had been so ruthlessly interrupted;~ “Constant
3073 I, XXIV | captain, he regarded as a sacred duty, and turning to Lieutenant
3074 I, XXIII| precious cargo, he preferred to sacrifice his own slender stock of
3075 I, XIII | accordingly, not one pawn had been sacrificed without a most vigorous
3076 II, X | comet, they knew, was far safer where it was; far better
3077 II, III | it is always deemed the safest mode of procedure to assume
3078 I, II | anomalies which the most sagacious of etymologists would find
3079 I, X | cruising over the site of the Sahel, the ridge that had separated
3080 I, XXIV | Americans had brought their sail-sledges, and had heard how in the
3081 I, XV | distance they had positively sailed from Gourbi Island towards
3082 II, I | researches without any official salary. He had really considerable
3083 II, XIV | his eagerness to effect sales, he had parted with all
3084 II, VIII | indifferent observer. Its salient points were illumined with
3085 II, XIII | to day with such gloomy sameness that it was little wonder
3086 II, XIV | just the very point, old Samuel; if you were anybody else,
3087 I, XVIII| most forcibly the story of Sancho Panza tossed in a blanket
3088 I, XI | combined to apprise him of the sanctity of the spot upon which he
3089 I, XVIII| the song continued:~ “Tu sandunga y cigarro,~Y una cana de
3090 I, XXI | Tour la Ribaud,~Ricandeau,~Sans repos, repit, repit, repos,
3091 I, VIII | products of the soil. The sap rose rapidly in the trees,
3092 I, XI | Roman Carthage by Hassan the Saracen.~In the evening, as the
3093 II, IV | the point of repeating his satirical comments, when a stern order
3094 II, I | these questions; but no satisfactory answer could be found. The
3095 I, VII | leave your eggs in the saucepan a good quarter of an hour.”~“
3096 I, XVI | but a solid boundary of savage rock? Who shall paint the
3097 I, XX | its rugged projections, scaling the irregularities of its
3098 I, VIII | would remain conscientiously scanning the surface of the Mediterranean,
3099 I, XIII | way, be compared to two scarecrows which, though perfectly
3100 I, XIII | the regimental tunic of scarlet and trousers of invisible
3101 I, II | than for gold, slightly scatter-brained, but warm-hearted, generous,
3102 I, XXIII| elaborate transformation scenes of a pantomime. Here, on
3103 II, XVII | always were a very clever scholar too. We remember that of
3104 I, VIII | recall the lessons of his school-days. He would plunge into the
3105 I, XIII | ascertained that she was a schooner-yacht, and making straight for
3106 II, I | Rosette, Servadac’s old science-master at the Lycee Charle-magne.~
3107 II, I | designated “the Academy of Sciences” of the colony, spent the
3108 0, Int | earth, we can conceive two scientifically possible results. If the
3109 II, VIII | itself was almost void of scintillation.~Rosette, in his absorbing
3110 I, XI | Carthage had been destroyed by Scipio Afri-canus or Roman Carthage
3111 I, XXII | Island, there would be a fine scope for hunting expeditions.
3112 I, VIII | vegetation should become scorched and burnt off from the face
3113 II, V | Pablo had no longing for the scorching plains of Andalusia, or
3114 I, V | At night-time, when they scour the country in herds, the
3115 I, XX | the captain and the count scoured the island in search of
3116 II, IV | Ben Zoof.~The professor scowled at him, and was manifestly
3117 II, VI | again, down the ladder, scrambled the little professor, and
3118 I, V | but not a sprain nor a scratch could he discover. “Where
3119 II, VI | concluded.~Palmyrin Rosette scratched his head in perplexity,
3120 II, II | I want to get there!” screeched the Jew; and in spite of
3121 II, XIV | rushing about like a madman, screeching and yelling ‘Eureka!’”~“
3122 I, XXIV | and unimpeded, the yawl scudded on with incredible speed.
3123 II, XIV | the two.~The sound of the scuffling, however, drew the attention
3124 I, XXIV | and fitted with a metal scull designed to assist in maintaining
3125 I, XI | in the Arabian style by sculptures of indifferent execution.
3126 I, XVIII| spoke, he pointed to some scythes, and sickles, and other
3127 I, XI | no trace of the sponges, sea-anemones, star-fish, sea-nettles,
3128 I, XXIII| attacked by half a dozen great sea-gulls, and only after receiving
3129 I, I | than sixty feet above the sea-level, and the azure waters of
3130 I, XII | albatross, the gull, the sea-mew, sought continual refuge
3131 I, XI | sea-anemones, star-fish, sea-nettles, hydrophytes, and shells
3132 II, XII | both to the Hive and to the sea-shore. A supply of fresh water
3133 I, XVIII| their utter ignorance of seamanship made them reluctantly come
3134 I, XVIII| sea-birds—widgeons, gulls, and seamews; beside a quantity of game—
3135 II, XVI | all hands were employed in seaming them together. It was hardly
3136 I, X | Servadac had been subject to seasickness he must have found himself
3137 I, III | betake himself to rest, but seating himself at his table, with
3138 I, IX | and well-defined rows of seaweed, which undoubtedly betokened
3139 I, XVIII| and prepared to deal in sec-ondhand wares, he had contrived
3140 II, XI | Jew, who made a point of secluding himself more obstinately
3141 II, XII | themselves entirely to the seclusion of their gloomy residence;
3142 II, XIII | advantageous investments, or securing a proper interest.~Neither
3143 I, XII | Lieutenant Procope, who had sedulously inserted the outline of
3144 II, XVII | information he was so anxiously seeking, the captain pretended to
3145 | seeming
3146 I, V | unusually agitated, and seethed and foamed as though they
3147 I, XVIII| by the merry drapers of Segovia.~Servadac, the count, Procope,
3148 II, XIV | And the little man would seize his head in both his hands,
3149 II, I | outbreaks of ill-temper seldom lasted long.~“We will certainly
3150 II, XVI | enough to give time for selecting a proper place for descent,
3151 II, VII | intelligence, that justified the selection of the orderly for this
3152 I, XIII | with true British pluck and self-control, they had done nothing more
3153 II, I | of humanity, motives of self-interest made it a matter of the
3154 0, Int | we can imagine our earth self-protective and possibly unharmed. If,
3155 II, VIII | the less imperative and self-willed master.~It was on the 1st
3156 II, XIII | than they had left her.~Selfish and morose, Hakkabut could
3157 II, X | times they would be like a semi-aureole of light. Very often, too,
3158 I, XX | landing-place. At length, a small semi-circular creek was discovered among
3159 II, X | bees, to retire to their semi-troglodyte existence in the cells of
3160 I, VIII | surpassing the heat of Senegal and other equatorial regions;
3161 I, VIII | otherwise engrossed. What sensational articles, he thought, must
3162 I, V | Ben Zoof had expressed his sensations in words, he would have
3163 II, III | explained the worthy soldier’s sensitiveness on all that concerned Montmartre.
3164 II, II | nothing in the incoherent sentences that served to throw any
3165 II, XIX | after him, and, as Ben Zoof sententiously remarked, “Perhaps old Jehoram
3166 II, XV | like a “Jack-in-the-box,” a sentinel started up before them with
3167 I, VIII | of the axis, are scarcely separable; its equatorial bands; its
3168 II, VIII | calculated to be at their minimum separation. No direct shock, however,
3169 II, IX | thing, is it?”~“I say, old Sepharvaim, what a flourishing trade
3170 I, X | s estates, the son of a serf who had been emancipated
3171 I, XVIII| instructions of a drill sergeant, on a point some fifteen
3172 II, XVI | perhaps, by taking them seriatim, be in a better position
3173 I, XI | Neither Cape Negro nor Cape Serrat was to be seen. The town
3174 I, XVIII| The man bowed his head in servile submission, and folded his
3175 I, XXIII| temperature, not unfrequently serving to bring about a series
3176 II, II | received; and, finally, how the settlement at Gourbi Island had been
3177 I, XVII | the count was incapable of settling; and they could only speculate
3178 I, XXI | in his turn, danced a pas seul (often performed in the
3179 II, IV | conspicuous as a star of the seventh magnitude, and would require
3180 I, VI | right bank of the Shelif, seventy-two miles; the southern boundary
3181 II, XI | which had resulted in the severance of thirty-six human beings
3182 I, XIV | the count, “has been most severely tried by the disaster. Engaged
3183 I, XV | advanced to the latitude of Seville before it sighted any land
3184 II, XVI | finished, and, carefully sewn and well varnished as it
3185 I, X | upon to do the work of the sextant, which had become utterly
3186 I, XI | marabouts, or temple-tombs, shaded by magnificent palms that
3187 I, XIX | meeting that the two men had shaken hands; on the other hand,
3188 I, XIX | the conversation. He went shambling along, half whimpering and
3189 I, XIX | all sizes, caps of various shape, tools, household utensils,
3190 II, XI | in the cruellest of all shapes, seemed staring them in
3191 I, XII | its lines, in rounding the sharpness of its angles, or in modifying
3192 I, XVII | immediately afterwards a solitary she-goat came bounding towards the
3193 II, XIV | know that well enough, old Shechem,” said Ben Zoof. The steelyard
3194 I, XII | Look out! sharp! watch the sheets!”~An involuntary cry broke
3195 I, XI | The sides of the ridge had shelved to so great an extent that,
3196 II, XVI | the mountain and along the shelving shore, only to be transformed,
3197 I, VIII | the morning star, or the shepherd’s star—has never failed
3198 II, IX | anyhow there would be the sheriff. By the God of Israel! he
3199 I, XXIII| their severity at various shiftings of the wind, Gallia’s winter
3200 II, II | proper price.”~“Well, old Shimei, you won’t find a customer
3201 II, I | round bald head, smooth and shiny as an ostrich’s egg, no
3202 I, X | been built in the famous shipbuilding yards in the Isle of Wight.
3203 I, XII | should survive the peril of shipwreck, and gain a footing upon
3204 II, XVII | consumed, the fragments of the shipwrecked vessels had to be used day
3205 I, II | indicating that they do not shirk their duty by frivolous
3206 I, XVIII| those lazy beggars that are shirking their work. Look here; look
3207 I, VIII | days more, and the earth, shivered into a myriad atoms, would
3208 I, XII | were there any of those shoals of rock that are ordinarily
3209 I, XIX | clothing of every kind, shoes of all sizes, caps of various
3210 II, XVII | entering the narrow zone of shooting-stars, and new discoveries might
3211 II, XIV | if not, I shall shut up shop.”~Hakkabut knew well enough
3212 I, XXI | tartan was unfurled, and the “shop-ship,” as Ben Zoof delighted
3213 I, XI | and thereupon all sail was shortened so as to keep the Dobryna
3214 I, VII | account, either for the shortening of the days, or for the
3215 I, XXI | relieved to find that they were shouts of delight, which the dryness
3216 II, XVI | experience has sufficiently shown us its advantages and its
3217 I, XIX | governor general comes; he is a shrewd fellow, and will tell you
3218 I, XXIV | entirely repudiated all idea of shrinking from what, quite as much
3219 II, I | themselves face to face with a shrivelled little man, about five feet
3220 II, XIX | clearing up the mysteries that shrouded the miracle, yet they were
3221 I, XVIII| there was none; trees and shrubs were few in number, and
3222 I, XIV | with the slightest possible shrug of the shoulders; “we have
3223 II, II | blurted out at last.~Servadac shrugged his shoulders in contempt
3224 I, XVII | well!” said the captain, shrugging his shoulders, “I dare say
3225 I, XVI | inquired the captain with a shudder.~“Fourier estimates that
3226 II, II | enveloped in an old overcoat, shuffled into the gallery. In a few
3227 I, XXIII| formerly they would have shunned. Scraps of food were thrown
3228 I, XXIV | total darkness. By opening a shutter they admitted what daylight
3229 I, XXIV | stood a miserable shed, its shutters tightly closed. No other
3230 I, XIV | interposed Major Oliphant, half shutting his eyes with an expression
3231 I, XVIII| the magnet, so was this Shylock attracted by the sight of
3232 I, XVII | Murillo’s angels, was peeping shyly through the branches. Apparently
3233 I, XXI | repos, ris pot, ripette!~Si vous attrapez mon refrain,~
3234 I, XII | Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Sicilians, Romans, Vandals, Greeks,
3235 II, II | had constituted himself sick nurse, and considered his
3236 I, XVIII| pointed to some scythes, and sickles, and other implements of
3237 I, X | Tenes, Cherchil, Koleah, and Sidi-Feruch once had been, but of these
3238 II, IX | Excellency,” said Hakkabut, sidling up with a hypocritical smile; “
3239 II, XIV | could detect the faintest of sighs.~“Good, Master Isaac; all
3240 II, III | watch for the assistant’s signal-light, but he did not forget that
3241 I, XIV | cove the Dobryna was duly signaled, and as soon as she was
3242 I, XVIII| distinguished.~The Dobryna signalized her arrival by firing her
3243 I, XIII | finished than it was formally signed and sealed with the seal
3244 I, XIX | became compressed with a grim significance.~None of the recent phenomena
3245 II, IV | terrestrial years.”~They signified their assent.~“And that
3246 I, XIV | intercourse. The colonel, signing to his guests to follow,
3247 II, XVII | but he was effectually silenced by Ben Zoof, who told him
3248 I, XX | ground.~The excavation of any silo being thus manifestly hopeless,
3249 I, XX | subterraneous pits similar to “silos,” such as are used as receptacles
3250 II, XII | office, as it would be no sinecure to clamber up the sides
3251 I, XXIV | their novel vehicle was singularly gentle, the oscillation
3252 I, VI | chopped by a hatchet.~The sinuosities of the coast line, alternately
3253 I, VII | shall be able to dip our sippets into the yolks easily enough.”~
3254 II, X | millions of miles away; Sirius in Canis Major, 123 millions
3255 II, XVI | equivalent to a shock in situ; and, another thing, we
3256 I, VI | their horses, and during the six-hours’ day accomplished a distance
3257 I, XXIII| would be accomplished within sixteen days. The lunar months,
3258 I, XV | reduced by about fifteen sixteenths of its length.~“If that
3259 II, III | and Biot, had had to wait sixty-one days for a similar purpose.
3260 II, IV | professor.~“I suppose sixty or sixty-two, as the case may be. The
3261 I, XIX | every kind, shoes of all sizes, caps of various shape,
3262 II, XV | he said, to a practical skater like himself. The whole
3263 I, XXIII| smoothness would rival a skating-rink; without a crack or flaw
3264 0, Int | the author’s works. The sketches of mines and miners, their
3265 I, XVI | time never fails to work. A skilled geologist would probably
3266 II, VI | conduct, and by a little skillful manipulation he soon succeeded
3267 II, XII | with gunpowder. However skillfully the operation might be carried
3268 I, XVIII| the hardened miser and skinflint. As iron is attracted by
3269 I, XVIII| ten years older. Small and skinny, with eyes bright and cunning,
3270 II, XI | come out like a party of skirmishers; let us go back in full
3271 I, XVI | the north, the schooner skirted its upper edge. A few more
3272 II, XVIII| east, trailing her ample skirts and coroneted with the cluster
3273 I, XXIV | started, and they resolved to slacken their speed. The sails were
3274 I, VI | mouth of the Shelif; then, slackening their speed, they proceeded
3275 II, XII | they found that the sides slanted at the angle of about 4
3276 I, XXI | the island cattle being slaughtered, as the extreme severity
3277 I, XXIV | CHAPTER XXIV~A SLEDGE-RIDE~Formentera was at once recognized
3278 II, XII | luxuries as separate cabins or sleeping-chambers are never thought of; one
3279 I, XXI | Russian sailors took up their sleeping-quarters in the adjacent galleries,
3280 I, XXIII| preferred to sacrifice his own slender stock of fuel.~Both the
3281 II, XII | perpendicularly, but seemed to slide along, from which he inferred
3282 I, II | five feet six inches high, slim and graceful, with dark
3283 I, XV | the lieutenant drew out a slip of ruled paper, evidently
3284 II, VI | seized him by the tail of his slouchy overcoat. “Some of your
3285 II, XVIII| from the sun, exhibiting a slow but unintermittent movement;
3286 II, I | fallen back into a torpid slumber. Ben Zoof continued, “His
3287 II, VII | smaller,” he added, looking slyly at the professor.~“Idiot!”
3288 I, XIII | soon made his appearance, smacking his lips, having, by a ready
3289 II, VII | the remark that, as the smallness of Gallia secured to its
3290 I, XXII | about to enjoy the peaceful smiles of “the queen of night”
3291 II, VI | small iron stove, in which smoldered a bare handful of coals;
3292 I, XXIII| formation of a surface that for smoothness would rival a skating-rink;
3293 I, XIV | half rose to his feet, but, smothering his resentment, took his
3294 II, III | I am right!” replied the snappish professor. Soon, however,
3295 0, Int | Yet further, the comet snatches for the convenience of its
3296 II, XVII | retaliation, had commenced sneering at the “prodigious” mountain
3297 I, XVIII| wild ducks in thousands; snipe, larks, rooks, and swallows;
3298 II, IV | astronomer bit his lip, snorted, and cast at him a withering
3299 I, XXIV | assuredly succumb to the snow-drifts that were continually being
3300 II, V | covered with countless snow-white prickles, were truly ludicrous.
3301 I, XII | suddenly the prismatic lamellae soaring in rugged confusion would
3302 II, XIII | induced to be present at these social gatherings. He was far too
3303 I, XXII | distance would do much to soften the general asperity, the
3304 I, XII | producing its wonted effect in softening the hardness of its lines,
3305 I, I | the Mediterranean, as they softly kissed the strand, were
3306 II, VIII | disc, glowed with a mingled softness and intensity upon Gallia,
3307 I, II | fairly entitled him to his soi-disant designation of “The Rampart
3308 I, XXIII| 000,000 1.!~Distance du soleil: 110,000,000 1.!~Capte Nerina
3309 I, XI | across Servadac’s mind. The solemn isolation of the island
3310 I, V | lost in thought, then said solemnly, “Ben Zoof, I must be dreaming.
3311 I, II | Montmartre, between the Solferino tower and the mill of La
3312 I, XVI | his urgent and repeated solicitations: “Come on! Quick! Come on!
3313 I, XIII | himself and his comrades, solicited a formal interview with
3314 II, XIV | business and expressing some solicitude about the state of the exchequer.~
3315 II, X | unknown cause, has become solidified. If at any time it should
3316 I, VI | twilight. “What can this be?” soliloquized the captain. “It cannot
3317 II, IX | credit to another. You are solvent—I mean honorable, and his
3318 II, XVIII| the continents, the more somber indicating the oceans that
3319 0, Int | through this remarkable somersault. These events all belong
3320 I, X | the count’s estates, the son of a serf who had been emancipated
3321 I, XVIII| miserable majos.”~Meanwhile the song continued:~ “Tu sandunga
3322 I, XVIII| the matter?” said Servadac soothingly.~“They are thieves! downright,
3323 II, XIII | missed her bright presence sorely. The months still glided
3324 II, XVII | promised Pablo and Nina all sorts of New Year’s gifts.~It
3325 I, VI | ignorant, which is often sounder than the sleep of the just.
3326 I, X | fathoms; and although the sounding was persevered with continuously
3327 I, V | thoughts, and the first sounds that escaped his lips were
3328 II, XV | all services from exterior sources.~“I thought, major, that
3329 I, VI | more leisurely pace to the southeast, along what had once been
3330 I, XV | coast of Provence, while the southernmost reached to about lat. 20
3331 I, XVII | which obliged her to turn southwards, until she reached what
3332 I, VI | been about six miles to the southwest; and Ben Zoof, who had mounted
3333 II, VIII | and light; the intervening spaces of the planet’s superficies,
3334 I, XIV | cove, which, though hardly spacious enough for a few fishing-smacks,
3335 I, VII | luster of the stars, which spangled the heavens in surpassing
3336 I, X | seen drifting by, nor one spar belonging to one of the
3337 II, V | the Hansa. The owner was sparing of his fuel, and it was
3338 I, VIII | justified the epithet of “sparkling” which the ancients were
3339 II, XVIII| car involuntarily clung spasmodically to its sides, and as the
3340 I, XVII | whilst the sea, as though spattered with burning hailstones,
3341 I, XIX | Servadac; “but whether he speaks French, Russian, Spanish,
3342 I, XIII | to sunrise; there was no specification of what the interval should
3343 II, XVI | the lieutenant, “we will specify the different ways in which
3344 I, XVII | curved horns, and was a specimen of that domestic breed which,
3345 I, XI | he was the victim of some spectral illusion, he observed it
3346 I, VII | the rain ceased as if by a spell; and Servadac, who for the
3347 I, XVI | mournfully.~“Orbe fracto, spes illoesa,” continued the
3348 I, XIX | salt, bags of pepper and spices, a stock of huge Dutch cheeses,
3349 I, II | a high order. “We don’t spin tops” is a favorite saying
3350 II, XVIII| Norway, with their bristling spine of mountains, seemed like
3351 I, II | was very much given to “spinning tops.” His good abilities,
3352 II, XI | stock of provisions, a small spirit-lamp sufficing to perform all
3353 I, XIV | ebullition of the captain’s spleen, the count went on to say: “
3354 I, XXIV | smaller than the remaining splinter of Gibraltar or Ceuta; otherwise,
3355 II, III | terrestrial sphere had been splintered off and carried into space,
3356 II, VI | instrument.~The Jew still spluttered, and moaned, and hesitated.~“
3357 I, XXIII| fiery shower. Hissing and spluttering as the hot lava came in
3358 II, V | you are too good to be spoiled, and when I am with you,
3359 I, V | than a piece of petrified sponge. “Confound the brute!” he
3360 I, XI | composition, bore no trace of the sponges, sea-anemones, star-fish,
3361 I, XIX | aloud; “it will be fine sport to watch the old Jew’s face,
3362 II, V | less pleasant than their sports.~Indulged and loved by all,
3363 I, V | distinguished by a black spotted skin, and a black line down
3364 I, III | vows — O, consent to be my spouse; Constant ever I will be,
3365 I, V | had sustained, but not a sprain nor a scratch could he discover. “
3366 I, XII | towards the south, there sprang up a sanguine hope on board
3367 II, V | resumed. “Upon a steelyard, or spring-balance, dependent upon mere tension
3368 II, XIII | their gloomy home.~This spring-time, if such it may be called,
3369 I, V | seemed as elastic as the springboard of an acrobat; they scarcely
3370 I, VIII | cereals; wheat and maize sprouted and ripened as if by magic,
3371 I, V | alarmed, for Ben Zoof had sprung to a height of forty feet
3372 II, XV | wildly about “columns” and “squares” and “charges.” The captain,
3373 I, I | as any others, captain, squeaked through a reed pipe.”~“Hold
3374 II, XIII | from Nina’s Hive. To have stabled them all in the cavern below
3375 I, XVIII| although a goodly number of stacks attested the industry of
3376 II, XII | safe footing.~“Rather a bad staircase!” said Ben Zoof, as they
3377 I, XXI | conveyed to their rocky stalls. These were saved for the
3378 II, IX | with the French government stamp.~“Ten kilogrammes of tobacco
3379 II, VI | Servadac, “but I do not want to stand talking out here in the
3380 I, XI | the sponges, sea-anemones, star-fish, sea-nettles, hydrophytes,
3381 II, VI | miser exclaimed, with a stare of astonishment, as if he
3382 I, XV | Dobryna once again to her starting-point, or, in other words, would
3383 I, XVII | accordingly, taking its statements as reliable, he deduced
3384 I, XI | columns, carved bas-reliefs, statues, and portions of broken
3385 I, XII | for not even the smallest stay-sail could have withstood the
3386 I, XII | performed their duties with steadiness and unquestioning obedience.~
3387 I, XIII | smoke betokened her to be a steamer; and very soon, by the aid
3388 I, VIII | frequented by the government steamers that watched the coast,
3389 I, XII | elsewhere there may be barren steeps, but none so rigid as not
3390 I, XVII | coastline, the Dobryna was steering northwards, and had barely
3391 I, XI | and portions of broken stelae, all piled promiscuously
3392 0, Int | through the planetary and stellar universe have given free
3393 I, XI | object, and she was now stemming the waters of what once
3394 I, XIX | captain and the lieutenant stepped into a small boat and were
3395 I, XXIII| of Sahara or the Russian steppes; the waters of the Gallian
3396 II, X | spheres. History is thus stereotyped in space; nothing once accomplished
3397 I, XII | the globe, there may be sterile rocks, but there are none
3398 I, XXIII| vigorously attacked by stones and sticks, and even occasionally by
3399 I, IX | enthusiastic vivacity, made a stiff bow, and in his Russian
3400 I, XIV | Englishman mutually exchanged the stiffest of bows.~“I have the pleasure
3401 II, XII | remained where they were, was a stimulus that made everyone put forth
3402 I, XX | Our fire is lighted! no stint of fuel! Nature provides
3403 I, XVII | luminaries, appeared literally stippled with light, whilst the sea,
3404 I, XVIII| ever upon the main chance, stipulated that at the end of their
3405 II, IV | congealed; no particle of it stirred; from zenith to horizon
3406 I, XIV | perfectly unconscious of the stolid rigidity with which his
3407 I, III | term the “cupboard of his stomach.” Captain Servadac turned
3408 II, VI | served as a bed; two or three stools and a rickety deal table,
3409 II, XIII | indefinite time in the original store-places, now colder than ever, the
3410 II, XIV | visits to the dark little storehouse, making inquiries as to
3411 I, XXII | entertained them with enchanting stories in the best Parisian French,
3412 I, XXI | till it looked like a rusty stove-pipe, hoping to descry the passing
3413 I, III | leaving his orderly to stow away the remains of the
3414 II, XVI | which had all been carefully stowed away in the Hive, were of
3415 I, XI | sudden ridge across the Straits of Libya. The sides of the
3416 I, XXIII| but a general sense of the strangeness of their situation could
3417 II, XIV | screamed Hakkabut. “I shall be strangled.”~“Rascal! consummate rascal!
3418 II, VI | master could refrain from strangling the old miser upon the spot;
3419 I, XIII | scarcely held on by the strap below his under lip, the
3420 II, IX | his voice trembling like a street beggar. “Don’t impose on
3421 I, XV | fact appeared very much to strengthen the presumption that, if
3422 II, III | and this opinion was soon strengthened by the appearance of a coma,
3423 I, XVII | the southern shore that stretches from the strait to the Gulf
3424 I, XXII | burning mountain is generally strewn.~Captain Servadac was of
3425 I, XVI | persevere. Fortunately, the deep striae or furrows in the surface
3426 I, XIII | The gun was maneuvered in strict accordance with the rules
3427 I, XVII | would fail them. Anyhow, the strictest economy was necessary, and
3428 I, V | overstepped Montmartre at a single stride. The earth seemed as elastic
3429 II, V | as he hustled with hasty strides into the gallery.~The rest
3430 II, VIII | said the orderly; “it strikes me that that telescope which
3431 I, III | explain the cause of this striking illumination on this 31st
3432 I, XVI | in area, quite a narrow strip. Upon it might have been
3433 0, Int | Eighty Days” and “Michael Strogoff” have been obliterated by
3434 II, XI | victim.~There was, however, a stronger will than Isaac Hakkabut’
3435 I, XII | the temperature; it was strongly corroborated by the reduction
3436 I, XXIII| to hear the news. In the struggle with the gulls the bag had
3437 I, VIII | of the new situation, and struggled into a kind of conviction
3438 II, XIV | ecstasy and rage seemed to be struggling for the predominance.~“Eureka!
3439 II, III | Mole-hill!” exclaimed Ben Zoof, stung to the quick. “I can tell
3440 I, XIV | his full height.~“Ah! how stupid! I forgot,” said Servadac,
3441 II, VI | Old Isaac stammered and stuttered, but at last confessed that
3442 II, VIII | into a satellite, or even a sub-satellite, of that mighty world; thirdly,
3443 I, XI | merely had there been a submersion of the land, but the impression
3444 I, VI | shall be, sir,” was the submissive rejoinder.~“And now,” continued
3445 I, II | that served to deepen his subordinate’s devotion.~On one occasion,
3446 I, XXI | to touch it.”~Finding the subordinates incorruptible, Isaac determined
3447 II, XVIII| comet’s aphelion; and having subscribed it with his signature, turned
3448 II, III | appearance of a coma, and subsequently confirmed, as the body approached
3449 II, X | present no symptom of the subsidence of the lava’s stream; the
3450 II, XII | volcanic heat should really be subsiding, or if some unexpected perturbation
3451 I, XIX | twenty-two, who would all have to subsist upon the natural products
3452 II, XIII | was still abundant.~Birds, subsisting only on scraps thrown out
3453 I, XVII | continent must have been formed, substituted as it were for the old peninsula,
3454 I, XX | evidently formed the universal substructure of the new asteroid. Means
3455 I, XX | downwards to the sea, completely subtending the aperture of the cave.
3456 I, XX | out for themselves some subterraneous pits similar to “silos,”
3457 I, VI | the site of the annex or suburb of Surkelmittoo. Here a
3458 I, XXI | without delay.~For three successive days the Dobryna, laden
3459 I, II | thoroughly mastered the successor to the famous “Uncle Tom”
3460 I, XXIV | trav-eler must assuredly succumb to the snow-drifts that
3461 II, XVIII| stretch, was manifestly being sucked into a vortex. Every passenger
3462 II, XVIII| would be a break in the suddenness of transfer from one atmosphere
3463 II, XVI | vowed that they should be sued and made to pay him damages;
3464 I, XV | involved the passage of the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, the
3465 I, XIII | well. An Englishman rarely suffers from ennui, and then only
3466 II, XI | provisions, a small spirit-lamp sufficing to perform all the operations
3467 I, III | strata of the atmosphere were suffused with a rosy glare. No well-defined
3468 I, XIX | preservation. In the hold were sugar-loaves by hundreds, chests of tea,
3469 II, VI | consternation at the bare suggestion.~Servadac knew well enough
3470 I, XVIII| slightest hesitation in summarily taking possession of her,
3471 II, III | of which the following summary presents the main features.~
3472 I, XIX | gourbi. The Spaniards were summoned and Isaac, although he could
3473 I, XVI | surviving remnant of some sumptuous mansion that once had stood
3474 II, III | the professor gave with sundry repetitions and digressions;
3475 I, V | motionless, buried under the sunken thatch.~It was two hours
3476 I, XX | Italian girl, nurtured in sunshine, ice was beginning to form
3477 II, XVII | December. Lieutenant Procope superintended his final arrangements.
3478 II, XVI | himself was entrusted the superintendence of the construction of the
3479 II, IX | to-day, I tell you. I am superintendent of the commissariat department.
3480 II, V | and took great care in superintending their daily lessons, which
3481 I, XII | as Procope observed, a supernatural rifting of the rock, nothing
3482 II, V | out that by the constant superposition of new deposits of ice,
3483 I, XVII | The Russian sailors, ever superstitious, seemed almost to regard
3484 II, XIX | the count, and under the supervision of their guardians, were
3485 II, II | do, please, let me in,” supplicated the Jew. “I want to speak
3486 II, I | a long hooked nose that supported a huge pair of spectacles
3487 II, XVII | any other condition for supporting life, and whether it was
3488 II, XVII | on the shore, and formed supports for the montgolfier, which
3489 I, III | compilation of his rondo, and supremely difficult he found the task.~“
3490 I, XXIV | can suggest a motive power surer and swifter than horses.”~“
3491 I, IV | next flooded with a foaming surge?~Whence came it that in
3492 I, VI | of the annex or suburb of Surkelmittoo. Here a large portion of
3493 II, VI | Forty,” said Rosette, surlily.~“Two hundred francs!” whined
3494 II, II | know, and all that we have surmised.” And as briefly as he could,
3495 I, VIII | tropics could in any way surpass his own much-loved home.~
3496 II, XVIII| upon its soft plumage, she surrendered it at once, and the message
3497 II, V | have no influence. If I suspend a weight equivalent to the
3498 II, XIV | confirmed the professor’s suspicions.~“There is nothing else
3499 I, V | occasionally dreamed that I was a swallow flying over the Montmartre,
3500 I, XVIII| snipe, larks, rooks, and swallows; a countless variety of
3501 I, XVIII| alighted gently on the sward.~Breathless and half exhausted
3502 I, XXIII| penetrate, and accordingly large swarms had left the island, and,
3503 II, XVIII| cluster of her little islets; Sweden and Norway, with their bristling
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