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Book, Chapter
3504 I, XVII | the coast making a wide sweep round to the former position
3505 II, XIII | the grim cavern like the sweet notes of a bird; her gay
3506 I, I | place Reveals your future sweetheart’s face.’”~“Bosh!” cried
3507 II, IX | that he had no intention of swerving from his decision.~“Merciful
3508 I, XXIV | a motive power surer and swifter than horses.”~“What do you
3509 II, VIII | telescope, and you shall swing for it!”~The orderly looked
3510 I, I | and after all, you know, a sword-cut need not be a very serious
3511 I, I | had of course proposed swords as the most appropriate
3512 I, XVIII| themselves near a grove of sycamores and eucalyptus massed in
3513 II, I | covered with algebraical symbols traced in chalk, which they
3514 I, XXII | an enormous block rising symmetrically to a height of nearly 3,
3515 I, VIII | part of the Mediterranean systematically frequented by the government
3516 II, X | of another, what various systems might he not have explored!
3517 I, XXIII| only four days to pass from syzygy to quadrature, and it was
3518 I, XVIII| more than the rest, was tacitly recognized as a sort of
3519 II, XVII | worst of tempers. Generally taciturn and morose, he was more
3520 I, XXIV | difficulty; a system of tacking might be carried out to
3521 II, III | round the sun. With as much tact and caution as he could,
3522 I, XVIII| Smiling at his orderly’s tactics, Servadac turned to Hakkabut,
3523 I, XI | lounging moodily against the taffrail. From the heaven above,
3524 II, XV | sooner the better, with our tails between our legs,” rejoined
3525 I, XXI | lira!~ Far la rira,~Tour tala rire,~Tour la Ribaud,~Ricandeau,~
3526 II, XV | regiment going into action, he talked wildly about “columns” and “
3527 II, III | rejoined Rosette, sharply; “who talks of getting back? We have
3528 I, XIII | of age; both of them were tall and fair, with bushy whiskers
3529 II, I | calculated the diminution of her tangential speed; but there was nothing
3530 II, XVI | acknowledge that nothing tangible had hitherto presented itself
3531 I, XXI | walls of the apartment were tapestried with the sails and adorned
3532 I, XIII | that succor was somewhat tardy in making its appearance.
3533 I, XII | either of one of the Maltese tartans or one of the Levantine
3534 I, XIX | quickly to their separate tasks. The captain and his friends,
3535 I, V | he had even forgotten to taste so much as a crust of bread,
3536 I, V | exclaimed, as soon as he had tasted it. “The sea has undoubtedly
3537 I, XIII | officers, with their similar tastes, ideas, and dispositions,
3538 I, VIII | senses. The fixed stars taught him nothing.~Far otherwise
3539 II, XVII | Zoof. The orderly had been taunting the astronomer with the
3540 I, XIX | sugar-loaves by hundreds, chests of tea, bags of coffee, hogsheads
3541 II, XIV | head in both his hands, and tear away at the scanty locks
3542 I, XVI | general hilarity. Silent and tearful, he stood upon an ice-bound
3543 II, XVIII| should survive themselves.~Tearing a leaf from his note-book,
3544 II, VII | this case, however, it was technical ignorance, rather than any
3545 I, VIII | he thought, must now be teeming to the newspapers! What
3546 I, V | will say when he receives a telegram informing him that his African
3547 II, XV | Colonel Murphy has just telegraphed his next move. Allow me
3548 I, XV | the total cessation of all telegraphic communication between her
3549 I, XIV | But do not the Italian telegraphs assist you?” continued the
3550 II, XII | friend, courage! Something tells me that this cessation of
3551 II, X | it was ill suited to the temperaments of any of themselves for
3552 I, VIII | regions; not a cloud ever tempered the intensity of the solar
3553 I, XI | utterly; its marabouts, or temple-tombs, shaded by magnificent palms
3554 II, I | seemed to adhere to the temples of his patient; but he now
3555 I, XX | reflection that he had been temporarily invested with the full powers
3556 0, Int | noted Paris newspaper “Le Temps.” Its success did not equal
3557 II, XVI | project. The scheme seems tenable; and I shall be ready to
3558 II, I | spectacles in spite of the tenacity with which they seemed to
3559 I, XXI | Island was now left to the tenancy of such birds and beasts
3560 II, XVII | the luxuriant foliage was tenanted by the birds which had flown
3561 I, X | all sons of the count’s tenants, and so tenaciously, even
3562 I, XXIII| which she was caressing tenderly in her bosom.~“A pigeon!”
3563 II, V | spring-balance, dependent upon mere tension or flexibility, the attraction
3564 I, IV | as though it were but a tenth part of its ordinary distance
3565 I, III | a grade better than the tents of the nomad Arabs, was
3566 I, III | in what he was pleased to term the “cupboard of his stomach.”
3567 II, IV | The interview would often terminate in a scene of considerable
3568 I, VI | shore which here abruptly terminated their new domain, not far
3569 I, X | of a city that had been terraced like the seats of an amphitheater.
3570 II, XIII | about our moon as those terrestrials“— and he curled his lip
3571 I, XII | storm), was drifting with terrific speed towards the menacing
3572 II, V | once with a steelyard and a tested kilogramme?”~The audience
3573 I, XIV | reckonings; and not only can I testify that Malta has disappeared,
3574 II, IV | eyes?” said the professor, testily. “If you will look you will
3575 I, XVI | its sad and too convincing testimony that Antibes itself had
3576 II, X | satellites— Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion,
3577 I, XVIII| French, marked by a strong Teutonic accent, “Oh, my lord governor,
3578 II, XVI | away in the Hive, were of a texture unusually close, and quite
3579 I, XVII | shake any more, she had thanked the great God, and had soon
3580 II, XII | object of exploration, and thankful enough they were to find
3581 | thee
3582 II, XIII | contemptuous emphasis—“know of theirs?”~“I beg pardon,” said the
3583 | thereupon
3584 I, XX | mercury and spirit in the thermometers would be congealed. Some
3585 II, V | this, as the crust of ice thickens, it forces everything upwards
3586 II, XI | envelop themselves in the thickest of clothing.~Full of spirits,
3587 II, X | as scarcely 100 miles in thickness, must have the appearance
3588 II, X | Rosette, with his burning thirst for astronomical research,
3589 I, II | and almost without means. Thirsting for glory rather than for
3590 II, II | the memorable night of the thirty-first of December; how they had
3591 I, XVIII| 5th of March, a period of thirty-five days (for it was leap year),
3592 II, VII | and fifty centimes measure thirty-seven, twenty-seven, and eighteen
3593 I, XXIV | nevertheless been increased by thirty-two millions of leagues. She
3594 II, IV | captain.~“Servadac, don’t be thoughtless!” cried Rosette, with all
3595 II, I | Rhumkorff’s bobbins of which the thread, several hundred yards in
3596 II, XVI | not hesitate to carry the threat into effect, was fain to
3597 I, VI | clouds, which seemed to threaten torrents of rain.~It happened
3598 II, XVII | the start at two o’clock, three-quarters of an hour, or, to speak
3599 I, XIII | eagerly they listened. Twice, thrice did the sound repeat itself.
3600 II, XV | soldiers appeared to have thriven well on what, no doubt,
3601 II, XIV | Jew, had seized him by the throat, and was shaking him till
3602 I, XVI | burning anxiety with which he throbbed to see beyond that cruel
3603 I, XIII | the south. The whole party throve remarkably well upon the
3604 II, XII | warm enough here.”~After throwing the gleams of torch-light
3605 II, VI | and, without more ado, he thrust the astonished Jew on one
3606 I, XIII | reverberation, like rolling thunder, that ordinarily follows
3607 I, XIV | Gibraltar! The word fell like a thunderclap upon their ears. Gibraltar!
3608 I, X | sincerely attached, by a tie of gratitude as well as
3609 II, XIV | the professor, fierce as a tiger, had rushed at the Jew,
3610 II, XV | anyone, but fasten it up tight in your knapsack.”~Ben Zoof
3611 II, XVIII| foot and leg encased in a tight-fitting boot, was juggling deftly
3612 I, X | excellent crew, consisting of Tiglew the engineer, four sailors
3613 I, XII | Hoist the jib, and right the tiller!”~Sudden and startling as
3614 II, XIII | I do not mean,” he began timidly, “to cast the least imputation
3615 II, VI | you want?” he inquired, timorously.~“I want a word with you,”
3616 I, XVII | secured in a preserved-meat tin, hermetically sealed, and
3617 I, V | sky had assumed a singular tint, and was soon covered with
3618 I, XXII | obvious that ours is a very tiny world, and that Gourbi Island
3619 I, XXI | virtuoso:~“Misti goth dar dar tire lyre! Flic! floc! flac!
3620 II, II | be at once.”~“He is too tired; he is worn out; he is fast
3621 II, X | Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, and Japetus—
3622 I, VI | and a bed at Orleansville to-night,” said Servadac, as, full
3623 II, XI | and Spain were drunk in toasting their respective countries,
3624 I, XX | scattered over the plain. But toil as they might at the accumulation
3625 II, XVI | scrupulously concealed any outward token of their inner feelings,
3626 II, XIX | was accompanied by genuine tokens of regard and goodwill.~
3627 II, VI | succeeded in getting up a tolerable fire.~The visitors having
3628 I, X | four sailors named Niegoch, Tolstoy, Etkef, and Panofka, and
3629 I, II | successor to the famous “Uncle Tom” at the riding-school of
3630 I, VI | accurate knowledge of its topography. His idea now was to draw
3631 I, XII | cliff, which seemed about to topple over and involve them in
3632 I, IX | carried nothing but her two topsails, brigantine and jib. After
3633 I, V | though heaven and earth be topsy-turvy, I must be at my post this
3634 II, XII | After throwing the gleams of torch-light in all directions, the explorers
3635 I, XXII | the same convulsion that tore us away from the earth have
3636 II, I | professor a life of perpetual torment. On the discovery of each
3637 II, I | again fallen back into a torpid slumber. Ben Zoof continued, “
3638 I, VIII | earth; its glacial and its torrid zones, which, on account
3639 II, XVIII| itself suggested a vigorous torso with Paris at its breast.~
3640 II, XIII | degenerate, and that, like tortoises, they could sleep and fast
3641 I, VI | I were to be put to the torture, I could not tell what has
3642 II, XVII | fortitude he endured the tortures of the experiment, and gazed
3643 II, XIV | quite sure that the needle touches the point?”~“Yes; look and
3644 | toward
3645 I, II | Montmartre, between the Solferino tower and the mill of La Galette,
3646 II, XVII | split in two like a child’s toy. It had cracked like a dry
3647 I, XVIII| de Jerez,~Mi jamelgo y un trabuco,~Que mas gloria puede haver?”~
3648 I, X | of ocean would reveal any traces of the Algerian metropolis.~“
3649 I, III | compasses and a sheet of tracing-paper, he began to draw, with
3650 I, XVI | farthest verge of the ice-bound track!”~He pushed onwards along
3651 II, XI | this way they described a trackway of singular regularity.
3652 I, XXI | hoping to descry the passing trader with which he might effect
3653 II, II | good bargains with European traders was at an end. Surely nothing,
3654 I, XVIII| being that of a merchant trading at all the ports of the
3655 I, XI | the very spot on which tradition asserts that the canonized
3656 I, X | they cling to their old traditions, that it mattered little
3657 I, XIV | London, in the middle of Trafalgar Square.”~It was now the
3658 II, XVIII| stately dame towards the east, trailing her ample skirts and coroneted
3659 I, VIII | collision of two railway trains.~The captain became exasperated. “
3660 II, V | Hansa lay bound in her icy trammels. A flight of steps, recently
3661 II, XI | entirely confined to business transactions, when occasion required
3662 I, XI | sea-bottom. As it altogether transcended the powers of those on board
3663 II, XVIII| break in the suddenness of transfer from one atmosphere to the
3664 0, Int | tale variously named and translated as “The Black Indies,” “
3665 II, VIII | of which he had a Russian translation, and some other books, proceeded
3666 I, XIII | and kept in readiness for transmission by the first ship that should~
3667 II, XVI | suddenly checked, will be transmuted into heat, and that heat
3668 I, XXII | added, “We seem to have been transplanted to a soil strange enough
3669 I, XVII | lieutenant started off in a transverse course, towards a point
3670 I, XXIV | that drear expanse, any trav-eler must assuredly succumb to
3671 II, V | speed as the earth, which traverses the ecliptic at a rate of
3672 II, XIV | steelyard was then produced; a tray was suspended to the hook,
3673 I, XIX | shall not be justified in treating him in German fashion. We
3674 II, XIX | he published a voluminous treatise, not only detailing his
3675 I, XIV | ceded to England by the Treaty of Utrecht. Three times,
3676 I, X | water; not one branch of a tree had been seen drifting by,
3677 I, II | SERVADAC (Hector), born at St. Trelody in the district of Lesparre,
3678 II, VI | mount the steps. The Jew trembled from head to foot. “But
3679 II, XIV | trifled with, and said, in a tremulous voice, “Yes, I will buy.”~
3680 I, XIX | property?” poor Isaac would ask tremulously.~“To be sure he will! He
3681 I, II | where the side-work of the trench had been so riddled by shell
3682 II, XVI | The volcano rocked and trernbled with the convulsions of
3683 II, VI | coals; in another was a trestle-board which served as a bed; two
3684 I, VI | although they had now become tributaries of the Mediterranean, still
3685 II, XVI | streams of water began to trickle down the declivities of
3686 II, XIV | orderly was not a man to be trifled with, and said, in a tremulous
3687 I, IX | and might have caused a trifling fall of the barometer, they
3688 I, VI | time been engaged upon a trigo-nometrical survey of the district,
3689 II, VII | world with about 246,000 trillions of francs.”~“It would make
3690 II, XII | remain undisturbed upon its tripod in the great hall of Nina’
3691 0, Int | since Verne, have told of trips through the planetary and
3692 II, XIX | was not welcomed with a triumphal reception.~They reached
3693 I, XX | themselves to this species of troglodyte existence.~In one respect
3694 I, II | his stock of anecdotes and trooper’s tales he was matchless.~
3695 I, XIII | with well-nigh two thousand troops, into an insignificant island
3696 I, III | which one of them was de trop; which of them, fate must
3697 I, XVI | Hyeres, the peninsula of St. Tropez, the Lerius Islands, and
3698 I, XVII | comprehending what was said, trotted on gently for about a hundred
3699 I, I | to his orderly, who was trotting silently close in his rear,~“
3700 II, XIX | needless to say that no one troubled himself to institute a search
3701 II, XII | like them, forget their troubles in a long winter’s sleep.~
3702 II, IV | would practically be very troublesome?”~“Not at all! not at all!
3703 I, III | other closely pressed to his trouser-seam.~“Stay where you are! don’
3704 I, XIII | regimental tunic of scarlet and trousers of invisible green, presented
3705 I, XXII | the sea, in the form of a truncated cone, of which the topmost
3706 I, XX | were totally unfitted to be trusted as to their stability when
3707 I, XVIII| Meanwhile the song continued:~ “Tu sandunga y cigarro,~Y una
3708 I, XXII | Servadac himself undertook the tuition of Pablo and Nina, Ben Zoof
3709 I, V | now become the shore of a tumultuous ocean, its azure waters
3710 I, XIII | punctiliously wearing the regimental tunic of scarlet and trousers
3711 I, XXI | junction of nearly twenty tunnels (similar to that which had
3712 I, III | covered with a thatch of turf and straw, known to the
3713 II, X | present home.~Even after the turning-point in their career, they knew
3714 II, XVI | comet, had been severed in twain; an enormous fragment had
3715 II, IV | of them cannot make up a twelfth part of Gallia’s year— cannot
3716 I, II | of quitting the army at twenty-eight years of age, but unexpectedly
3717 I, VII | up from the midst of the twigs and coal. The skillet was
3718 II, VI | hire it?”~The Jew’s eyes twinkled with a satisfaction that
3719 I, XIX | manifest attention, his lips twitching now and then as if suppressing
3720 II, VI | professor continued. “I want ten two-franc pieces, and twenty half-francs.”~“
3721 I, VII | astronomers have designated Mount Tycho. “It is not the moon,” he
3722 I, XVIII| hands, he presented all the typical characteristics of the German
3723 I, XVIII| cana de Jerez,~Mi jamelgo y un trabuco,~Que mas gloria
3724 I, XXI | the sea threatened to be un-navigable very soon, as ice was already
3725 II, X | have followed them in their un-tracked way.~But Gallia had a narrow
3726 I, XVIII| Tu sandunga y cigarro,~Y una cana de Jerez,~Mi jamelgo
3727 I, XXIII| inconceivable fury, it was unaccompanied by either snow or rain.
3728 I, XXI | the little Italian it was unanimously voted by the colony that
3729 II, XV | wind would make that quite unavailable. It was true that with the
3730 I, I | his farther efforts were unavailing, and when at six o’clock
3731 I, I | suffer the injury to be unavenged. Wagner is a fool. I shall
3732 II, XVI | last hour had taken them unawares. The volcano rocked and
3733 II, XI | felt that his mind had been unburdened from a great anxiety.~Captain
3734 I, XVI | only faint and somewhat uncertain shadows; but at night the
3735 II, X | continued its regular and unchanging discharge, and Servadac,
3736 II, IV | had been allowed to go on unchecked, it is impossible to say
3737 II, VII | I find them unworn and unchipped; indeed, they are almost
3738 II, XVII | he was more than usually uncivil whenever any one ventured
3739 I, II | successor to the famous “Uncle Tom” at the riding-school
3740 II, II | Ben Zoof, quickly.~Rosette unclosed his eyes and fixed them
3741 I, XXI | relieved of his presence; his uncomely figure and repulsive countenance
3742 II, XVII | though they would have been unconcerned to know that they were to
3743 I, VIII | you donkey! you speak as unconcernedly as though you were telling
3744 I, XXII | absolute stillness, will remain uncongealed at a temperature several
3745 II, XV | physiological fact, coincident but unconnected with celestial phenomena,
3746 I, XVI | RESIDUUM OF A CONTINENT~Almost unconsciously, the voyagers in the Dobryna
3747 II, XVII | again, as if his anger was uncontrollable.~“Not I,” said the professor.~“
3748 I, XIV | Captain Servadac, with the uncontrolled vivacity natural to a Frenchman,
3749 II, XV | represented that, however uncourteous might have been their former
3750 I, XII | he spoke, he reverently uncovered, an example in which he
3751 I, XIX | upon her. And when Isaac, undaunted by his jeers, persevered
3752 II, VI | you ask?”~Faltering and undecided still, the Jew went on. “
3753 II, IV | The old professor had an undefined consciousness that his former
3754 II, XV | they would, a coolness was undeniably stealing over an intimacy
3755 I, XV | of its substance should undergo so complete a change. There
3756 I, XXIII| as though the sun were undergoing a perpetual eclipse. It
3757 II, XVI | been upheaved was gradually undermined, like the icebergs of the
3758 I, VI | more unflinchingly from understanding the dynamic force by which
3759 I, XXI | of Israel!” he said in an undertone, “they have made no charge;
3760 I, IV | very moment the horizon underwent so strange and sudden a
3761 I, I | replied Servadac; “it is undesirable in every way for any names
3762 I, XII | Rhodes, should still be undestroyed.~But Malta, too, was gone;
3763 0, Int | cavern world, its secret, undiscoverable, unrelenting foe, the “Harfang,”
3764 I, XIX | perchance, upon some remote and undiscovered isle there might be the
3765 II, X | not have explored! what undreamed-of marvels might not have revealed
3766 I, XVI | the grace of its rich and undulating landscape; its gardens of
3767 I, X | rather be described as long undulations carrying the schooner (its
3768 II, XII | on still, and kept up an unending wail; but meanwhile he kept
3769 II, IV | twenty-four sections of unequal length, representing respectively
3770 I, XXIII| cold.~Accustomed to the uneven crystallizations of their
3771 I, XX | yard of ground was left unexplored, the horses clearing every
3772 I, XVI | that even in those vast unfathomable tracts, the temperature
3773 II, XVII | thoughts began to turn to his unfinished rondo; in his leisure moments,
3774 I, XX | shelter, but they were totally unfitted to be trusted as to their
3775 I, X | and explored with the most unflagging perseverance. Its depth
3776 I, VI | faced a cannon ball the more unflinchingly from understanding the dynamic
3777 II, III | away into sidereal regions. Unfolded lay the past and the present
3778 II, XVII | distance from the shore. If unfortunately, it should come down in
3779 I, X | the usual way partially unfurl themselves and rebound against
3780 I, XII | adamant as to be altogether unfurrowed by the filaments engendered
3781 I, XVIII| the harvest that remained ungathered was liable to the most imminent
3782 II, I | the Observatory, but his ungenial character was so well known
3783 0, Int | self-protective and possibly unharmed. If, on the other hand,
3784 I, XIX | superior officer.”~“Most unhesitatingly,” replied Servadac, “I accept
3785 I, XXIV | of rock relieved the bare uniformity of its surface.~“Are we
3786 II, XV | called affectionate, had been uniformly friendly and courteous.~
3787 I, XIII | to the wearing of their uniforms. They were proud of their
3788 I, XVI | world be shattered, hope is unimpaired.”~Servadac smiled faintly,
3789 II, XIX | representations of the professor; an unimportant minority declared themselves
3790 II, I | lips, but they were quite unintelligible. Presently he raised his
3791 II, XVIII| sun, exhibiting a slow but unintermittent movement; these were the
3792 I, VII | days he scanned the horizon unintermittently with his telescope. His
3793 II, XIII | planets.~Gradually, but uninterruptedly, life and spirits continued
3794 I, XVII | towards a point hitherto uninvestigated. That point was reached
3795 I, II | the Soudan. The bond of union thus effected could never
3796 II, III | it, the effect would be “unique,” and he was anxious to
3797 I, XV | there no chance of its ever uniting again with the globe, from
3798 I, XVIII| nose, a short yellow beard, unkempt hair, huge feet, and long
3799 II, XI | several days in the work of unloading the tartan. Well muffled
3800 II, VII | have the key which will unlock the problem of the whole
3801 I, XIII | the firing commenced.~Not unmindful of the warning he had received,
3802 II, VI | clutched at the money with unmistakable eagerness. The steelyard
3803 I, V | threatening gestures, when, to the unmitigated astonishment of himself
3804 II, XI | event, the prospect was not unmixed with alarm, and they would
3805 I, VI | not the man to remain long unnerved by any untoward event. It
3806 II, III | reason than his personal unpopularity. Furious at the slight,
3807 I, XVIII| tartan was easy enough. The unpracticed sailors had only to hoist
3808 I, XV | difficulty, and owned himself unprepared to give at once an adequate
3809 I, XVIII| winter the soil would remain unproductive, and no fresh fodder for
3810 II, III | quite unable to bear the unprovoked attack.~“Quiet, Ben Zoof!”
3811 I, XII | duties with steadiness and unquestioning obedience.~But neither skill,
3812 I, VIII | speculations in his endeavors to unravel the difficulties of the
3813 II, VI | day, I think, would not be unreasonable, considering—”~The count
3814 I, XI | into a metallic dust of unrecognized composition, bore no trace
3815 0, Int | secret, undiscoverable, unrelenting foe, the “Harfang,” bird
3816 I, II | ever possessed the most unreserved admiration for his birthplace;
3817 II, III | Here then, at last, was the unriddling of the enigma they had been
3818 I, XVI | that once had stood on this unrivaled site? Was it not the residue
3819 I, XXII | increasing cold, the sea, unruffled as it was by a breath of
3820 I, IX | CHAPTER IX~INQUIRIES UNSATISFIED~Fast as his legs could carry
3821 I, XX | advanced bravely along the unseen and winding path. The temperature
3822 I, XVII | Generous and altogether unselfish as this sentiment really
3823 II, X | disintegration, is still an unsettled question; but it might almost
3824 II, I | egg, no beard unless the unshorn growth of a week could be
3825 I, X | we have the problem still unsolved that the Mediterranean has
3826 0, Int | case the collision would be unspeakably disastrous— especially to
3827 II, XVIII| individual whose soul seemed unstirred by the approaching earth
3828 II, XVII | moments, rhymes suitable and unsuitable, possible and impossible,
3829 II, XII | effected from their now untenable position.~Restless and agitated,
3830 I, XIII | extinguished, so as to prevent an untimely explosion while the men
3831 I, VI | remain long unnerved by any untoward event. It was part of his
3832 I, XVI | set their foot upon this untried land. The bit of strand
3833 I, III | uttered. All at once, with unutterable violence, the captain and
3834 I, XI | a flat bottom,” was the unvaried announcement after each
3835 II, III | that someone was laying an unwarranted claim to its proprietorship,
3836 II, IV | resides in the cutting winds, unwholesome fogs, or terrible snow drifts,
3837 II, VII | my purpose. I find them unworn and unchipped; indeed, they
3838 I, XXI | adding that surely it was unworthy of a French officer to deceive
3839 I, VI | fields, and trees, half uprooted, overhung the water, remarkable
3840 II, IX | in the colony. His recent usurious transaction had whetted
3841 I, I | harbor, which enabled her to utilize all the rich products of
3842 I, XIV | England by the Treaty of Utrecht. Three times, indeed—in
3843 I, XII | with useless speed in the vacant air; and thus, although
3844 I, XVIII| Here they halted.~“Ah! the vagabonds! the rascals! the thieves!”
3845 II, VI | drawer which the Jew was vainly trying to close, he cried, “
3846 I, XII | Carthaginians, Sicilians, Romans, Vandals, Greeks, Arabians, and the
3847 II, I | terrestrial vision, would vanish forever in the outlying
3848 II, III | Nothing unwilling to humor the vanity of the eccentric little
3849 I, XVI | line of the department of Var, and after a fruitless search
3850 II, IV | again to be observed in variable climates, but continued
3851 II, IV | where he had carried on so varied and remunerative a traffic.
3852 II, XVI | made airtight by means of a varnish, the ingredients of which
3853 II, XVI | carefully sewn and well varnished as it had been, it was really
3854 I, XV | by Kepler’s laws, would vary according to her distance
3855 II, VIII | of astronomy describe as varying both in form and in extent.~
3856 I, XI | materials consisting mainly of vases, fragments of columns, carved
3857 I, XXI | deposited in one of the vaults; then, on the 15th, about
3858 I, V | happened, Ben Zoof?”~“I’ve a notion, captain, that
3859 I, XII | now. But the wind did not veer, and in a few minutes more
3860 I, VIII | superb. The wind, after veering to the west, had sunk to
3861 II, XIII | people seemed rather to vegetate than to live, and their
3862 I, XXIII| being extinguished by the vehemence of the current of air, the
3863 I, XXIV | The motion of their novel vehicle was singularly gentle, the
3864 I, I | continent, spread its dreary veil across land and sea.~After
3865 II, XV | purchaser instead of the vendor, his spirit had groaned
3866 II, VIII | said Procope, “the more venerable and advanced in formation
3867 I, XI | reverential obeisance to the venerated monument.~It was, in truth,
3868 II, IV | captain; “this is logic with a vengeance!”~The old professor had
3869 II, XII | apartment, well heated and ventilated, with as few corners as
3870 I, XXIII| seemed rather to act as a ventilator, which fanned the flame
3871 I, XXI | a hand. By opening fresh vents in the solid rock (which
3872 II, XV | in his dismal hole, never venturing, except when absolutely
3873 II, III | and at once commenced a verbose and somewhat circumlocutory
3874 I, XVI | and explore the farthest verge of the ice-bound track!”~
3875 II, VIII | As the month of September verged towards its close, Jupiter
3876 I, XIII | exhibited a manifest dislike, verging upon contempt, of everything
3877 II, III | Government, being desirous of verifying the measurement already
3878 I, VIII | Servadac had been more deeply versed in astronomy, he would perhaps
3879 I, I | a rondo, upon a model of versification all but obsolete. This rondo,
3880 I, XVIII| Shelif.~Such was Ben Zoof’s version of what had occurred, as
3881 I, VIII | cliff. To withstand the vertical beams of that noontide sun
3882 I, V | January is shining down vertically upon our heads.”~Ben Zoof,
3883 I, VIII | or Lucifer, Hesperus or Vesper, the evening star, the morning
3884 I, X | totally submerged. Unless some vestiges of these are found, I shall
3885 I, XXII | sudden thrill seemed to vibrate across the motionless waters
3886 II, XVIII| ran through every vein. A vibration quivered through the atmosphere.
3887 II, X | that its sole ostensible vice was represented by the greed
3888 II, III | was anxious to be in the vicinity.~The shock came, and with
3889 I, XVIII| wondered how his present vicissitudes would end, and he had felt
3890 II, XIII | relax its hold upon its victims. This partial revival was
3891 I, XVIII| that without delay.~The victualing of the little colony offered
3892 II, III | instruments, and two months’ victuals, was all the baggage he
3893 I, XXII | beyond the reach of vision. Viewed even from this height, whence
3894 II, VIII | the prospect before him of viewing the giant among planets,
3895 II, XII | our fault, our own lack of vigilance, if we are taken by surprise.”
3896 II, XII | permitted to keep a watch as vigilant as he pleased.~By the 10th
3897 I, XVI | the syllable “Vil.”~“Vil—Villa!” he cried out, in his excitement
3898 I, VI | expected to find the important village of Memounturroy; but of
3899 I, VI | first supposed; but four villages had entirely disappeared,
3900 II, XIV | consummate rascal! thief! villain!” the professor reiterated,
3901 I, II | of the sturdy wife of a vine-dresser of Medoc— a lineal descendant
3902 II, XI | excellent quality. Those of the vintages of France and Spain were
3903 I, XV | shores and Gibraltar was a virtual proof that England was beyond
3904 II, XVI | post, the Englishmen had virtually excluded themselves from
3905 I, XIII | was well that they made a virtue of necessity, and resigned
3906 I, XXI | finer style than by this virtuoso:~“Misti goth dar dar tire
3907 I, XVIII| Egypt, Turkey, and Greece, visiting, moreover, most of the harbors
3908 I, XVI | eyes across the boundless vista of the mysterious territory. “
3909 II, XV | Who goes there?”~“Friends. Vive la France!” cried the captain.~“
3910 I, VII | objects would have been vivid beyond all precedent.~But
3911 I, XXIII| Capte Nerina en passant.~Vivres vont manquer et . . .”~The
3912 II, VIII | Jupiter itself was almost void of scintillation.~Rosette,
3913 I, XVIII| and compelled him, nolens volens, to join in the dance; and
3914 I, XXI | caused to re-echo like a volley of musketry.~Reaching the
3915 II, XVII | far-off realms of space?~His volubility was brought to a sudden
3916 II, XIX | catalogue, he published a voluminous treatise, not only detailing
3917 II, III | Although I am not precisely a voluntary resident on your comet,
3918 I, XXIII| Nerina en passant.~Vivres vont manquer et . . .”~The rest
3919 I, XII | down and fight with eager voracity for the prize. Their extreme
3920 II, XVIII| manifestly being sucked into a vortex. Every passenger in the
3921 I, XXI | Italian it was unanimously voted by the colony that their
3922 II, II | obsequious epithets. Without vouchsafing any reply, the captain beckoned
3923 II, XVI | responsible for his loss; he vowed that they should be sued
3924 I, III | declaim:~“Listen, lady, to my vows — O, consent to be my spouse;
3925 I, XVI | Almost unconsciously, the voyagers in the Dobryna fell into
3926 I, I | distinctive letters M. C. W. T., the initials of Count
3927 II, XII | and kept up an unending wail; but meanwhile he kept a
3928 II, XVII | Servadac noticed that his waist was encompassed by an enormous
3929 I, XXII | small dimensions that a good walker might make a circuit of
3930 0, Int | some of these celestial wanderers seem to be, we can imagine
3931 I, XXIV | yawl; his books, his scanty wardrobe, his papers, his instruments,
3932 I, XVIII| prepared to deal in sec-ondhand wares, he had contrived to amass
3933 I, XXIII| By a systematic course of warfare the bulk of the birds were
3934 I, II | slightly scatter-brained, but warm-hearted, generous, and brave, he
3935 I, XXI | had migrated in search of warmer shores, had returned, proving
3936 II, X | be turned to account in warming some erection which they
3937 II, XIV | Coffee is nutritious; it warms the blood. How much do you
3938 II, VIII | proportions were large enough to warrant the apprehension that important
3939 II, XII | the life of rabbits in a warren, they were reduced to the
3940 II, XVI | become attached.”~“A great wart upon her face!” said Ben
3941 I, XII | Mediterranean, which had washed the shores alike of Europe,
3942 II, XV | celebrated game in 1846 between Washington and Baltimore, the two gallant
3943 II, XIII | good thing the old fellow wasn’t there to see,” observed
3944 I, VII | CHAPTER VII~BEN ZOOF WATCHES IN VAIN~In a few minutes
3945 II, XVIII| curled up and sleeping a watchful sleep; Spain, with Portugal
3946 I, VII | abashed, to résumé his watchman’s duty, which he performed
3947 I, XXIII| easily regain their proper water-line.~On his last visit to Gourbi
3948 II, V | the Dobryna’s and Hansa’s waterline, both vessels being now
3949 I, XI | After a long and somewhat wavering discussion, it was at length
3950 I, V | lentisks. Regarding the two wayfarers with manifest uneasiness,
3951 I, I | as the most appropriate weapons, and the duel was to take
3952 II, XV | in particular, was never wearied of telling him how on his
3953 II, XIII | March, April, May, passed wearily by; but day succeeded to
3954 II, XIII | seemed neither long nor wearisome. Having ascertained every
3955 II, IV | helping hand whenever she was weary with her exertions.~After
3956 I, XXI | and growling, but with his weather-eye open in the hope of catching
3957 II, IV | to find out what my comet weighs.”~“Would it not be of some
3958 II, XIX | return to Mostaganem was not welcomed with a triumphal reception.~
3959 I, XVII | received the heartiest of welcomes. The Russian sailors, ever
3960 II, IV | many polar navigators, well-clothed and properly fed, have been
3961 II, XV | semaphore to communicate their well-digested moves.~The major stood waiting
3962 I, II | curling hair and mustaches, well-formed hands and feet, and a clear
3963 I, XXII | new luminary was not the well-known Phoebe of terrestrial nights;
3964 I, XII | remained than to take a westerly course and to attempt to
3965 II, XII | Arctic regions. On board the whaling-vessels, and in the establishments
3966 II, XVIII| fastened to its neck. The bird wheeled round and round in a few
3967 | whereas
3968 I, VI | discover the why and the wherefore of everything that came
3969 | whereupon
3970 II, IX | usurious transaction had whetted his appetite. He would next
3971 I, XXI | want to go to Algiers,” whimpered Hakkabut.~“How often am
3972 I, XIX | went shambling along, half whimpering and not unfrequently invoking
3973 II, IX | already.”~“Cease your wretched whining!” cried Servadac. “I have
3974 II, IX | Ah yes, your Excellency,” whispered the Jew, his voice trembling
3975 II, V | blended into one dreary whiteness, to which the pale blue
3976 | whither
3977 I, XI | which floated a long lighted wick, the flame of which was
3978 II, XVI | and the car, composed of wicker-work that had formed partitions
3979 0, Int | Moreover several people from widely scattered places are carried
3980 I, XVIII| countless variety of sea-birds—widgeons, gulls, and seamews; beside
3981 I, X | shipbuilding yards in the Isle of Wight. Her sea going qualities
3982 II, I | scraps, presented a perfect wilderness of geometrical figures,
3983 II, XV | going into action, he talked wildly about “columns” and “squares”
3984 I, XX | bravely along the unseen and winding path. The temperature was
3985 I, V | chamois. Leaving the devious windings of the footpath, they went
3986 I, XXIV | have kept some distance to windward of the island; we can bear
3987 I, XII | affrighted cormorants had winged their flight towards the
3988 I, XXIII| temperature. Unlike the polar winters of the earth, which ordinarily
3989 II, XVIII| maintain it at that level. A wire-work stove, suspended below the
3990 I, XXIV | Procope submitted his own wishes to the count. The count
3991 I, XIX | with reluctance take his wistful gaze from his tartan, obeyed
3992 I, XVII | complete as possible before we withdraw.”~Servadac, although he
3993 II, XII | to help seems now to be withdrawn.”~“But only to test our
3994 II, XIV | flesh to lose he would have withered away to a shadow.~But this
3995 I, XXIII| seemed to promise best for withstanding the rigor of the winter.
3996 I, XII | smallest stay-sail could have withstood the violence of the storm),
3997 I, XXII | phenomena which we have lately witnessed. Why should not the moon
3998 II, XIV | collision with the earth, and wondering whether any measures could
3999 I, I | money you have spent; The wondrous mirror in this place Reveals
4000 I, VII | the time, according to his wont, a snatch of an old military
4001 I, XVIII| quails, partridges, and woodcocks. The sportsmen did their
4002 I, XXIV | proposed to erect a kind of wooden roof lined with strong cloth;
4003 II, I | telescopic planets, he had worked out the elements of the
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