Part,  Chapter

1502 3,0|              wheat, which were nearly full-grown, lay on the ground. The
1503 2,3|                and the latter needing fulminating caps, a frequent use of
1504 2,9|            his turn, and it was great fun for him; but he blew so
1505 1,2|             and Pencroft, on whom the functions of cooks naturally devolved,
1506 1,1|                that is to say, a vast funnel which extended, widening,
1507 2,6|               but he did not think it funny at all. It was certain that
1508 2,1|                which will burn in the furnaces with enormous calorific
1509 1,2|           little they completed their furnishing; constructing the most solid
1510 1,1|               the lower valleys which furrowed the northern part of the
1511 1,7|             would burst by means of a fuse, and cause the explosion. ~
1512 1,5|              in iron, enclosed in its fusible veinstone, was perfectly
1513 1,5|          close, short hair, and their fusiform conformation, being excellent
1514 2,6|           orang, who defended himself gallantly, but was soon overpowered
1515 3,6|              of Vigo, in 1702, by the galleons of Spain, furnished him
1516 2,8|             the two cavaliers and Top galloped in a radius of half a mile
1517 2,7|           uttering short neighs, then galloping through the grass, and becoming
1518 3,3|              grass. Goats and musmons gambolled among the rocks. Here began
1519 3,2|             Sandwich Islands. All his gang had gone on board, and pirates
1520 3,3|             leafy screen, disclosed a gaping aperture in the granite. ~
1521 1,3|             the vessels of the state, gardener, cultivator, during his
1522 1,2|          water escaped by a monstrous gargoyle, shaped with all the imagination
1523 1,9|            cavern, which was like the garret of the new dwelling. ~This
1524 1,2|            into the square, which the gas-lamps, extinguished by the wind,
1525 3,2|             could not ward off made a gash in his shoulder. ~Ayrton
1526 3,7|              suffered any damage. The gates were closed, and the animals
1527 1,9|      Sargassum, produces, when dry, a gelatinous matter, rich and nutritious.
1528 3,5|           causing a regular shower of gems, and the boat was urged
1529 2,3|              which contains forty-six genera and thirteen hundred species!" ~
1530 1,2|              hammer and pickaxe, like generals who first act as common
1531 3,9|            allow the sulphurous gases generated in the interior of the volcano
1532 1,1|             vast continent, which new generations will inhabit and civilize
1533 3,7|               had one, for nature had generously lavished it. They had cold
1534 2,5|            been living in the time of genii, this incident would have
1535 1,2|              the New York Herald, are genuine powers, and their reporters
1536 2,4|               Do not let us leave our geography incomplete." ~"All right!"
1537 1,3|             heaped up on the left, no geologist would have hesitated to
1538 1,4|             rendered habitable. Their geometrical plan represented the typographical
1539 1,9|       Carolina, of South Carolina, of Georgia, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico,
1540 3,6|               express itself in their gestures and words. ~Captain Nemo
1541 1,8|           words,-~"Come, our engineer gets on capitally!" ~The nitro-glycerine
1542 3,1|         walking about on Prospect Hei ghts, and the beach. ~He derived,
1543 3,5|             Bay. It was like a little Gibraltar, and any vessel anchored
1544 1,2|            the siege of Corinth, Port Gibson, Black River, Chattanooga,
1545 3,0|          prostrate, his head weak and giddy. Another symptom alarmed
1546 1,1|          would do very well! And Cape Gideon-" ~"I should prefer borrowing
1547 3,6|               Nature with her richest gifts of intellect, accumulated
1548 2,2|        chisels, 2 files, 3 hammers, 3 gimlets, 2 augers, 10 bags of nails
1549 2,7|            French geographer, a young girl, and a young boy. These
1550 1,6|             pretty plumage, with long glancing tails, dispersed themselves
1551 2,9|               which was composed of a glandulous tissue, containing a quantity
1552 2,7|             and the 'Duncan,' leaving Glasgow, proceeded towards the Atlantic,
1553 2,9|       difficulty, was the pipe of the glass-maker, an iron tube, five or six
1554 1,7|         plants abounded on the shore, glass-wort, ficoides, and all those
1555 2,9|      time-that his breath dilated the glassy mass. Other quantities of
1556 3,5|              they crossed through the gleams of light. Harding was first-Ayrton
1557 3,2|               be seen where a man may glide between wind and water." ~"
1558 3,8|       obscured the sky, through which glimmered a few stars. ~"The change
1559 3,2|               fronting them, they saw glimmering a feeble light. Cyrus Harding
1560 1,8|             fantastic arches of which glimpses could be caught in the shade,
1561 3,6|              kissed his hand. ~A tear glistened in the eyes of the dying
1562 3,3|               the end of one of these gloomy caverns, extending several
1563 2,2|            stars and stripes of their glorious Union. The colors for it
1564 3,7|            are for her prosperity and glory. You are right. One's native
1565 2,6|                skin covered with soft glossy hair, in short, a fine specimen
1566 1,7|           fireplace, where the embers glowed beneath the ashes. ~Notwithstanding
1567 1,9|           fire, and this pig shall be gnawed to the bones!" ~Pencroft
1568 1,0|              supple spine, chamois or goat. Several were seen, but
1569 1,1|       directly, who also wished to be godfather to some part of his domain. ~
1570 1,0|            bounding over the rocks. ~"Good-bye, till we meet again," cried
1571 2,8|             made plans, and the rough good-humor of the sailor always amused
1572 2,0|              jumped up, and his great good-natured face grew pale when he saw
1573 1,4|               and the lad placed some good-sized pieces of wood, which they
1574 3,4|                utensils, manufactured goods, and tools-such as the ships
1575 3,3|          colonists entered a narrower gorge similar to the picturesque
1576 1,0|             brown, while the male was gorgeous in his red plumage, decorated
1577 2,2|           that of being somewhat of a gourmend, and Neb had never done
1578 2,7|               and their shape is more graceful!" ~"Donkeys or horses,"
1579 1,2|             the tail of which expands gracefully like a lyre. ~As to the
1580 2,2|               was to command her. The grade of captain was bestowed
1581 1,1|               years; others, from the gradual extinction of the fires
1582 1,0|               showed his companions a grain-a single grain-which from
1583 1,0|           companions a grain-a single grain-which from a hole in his pocket
1584 2,1|            whom they had left, of the grandeur of the American Republic,
1585 1,5|          which had succeeded with the grandson of Adam, and which still
1586 2,8|               the island, he employed granulated iron, which was easy to
1587 2,0|            round and branchy, bearing grape-like clusters of flowers and
1588 2,8|              that is to say, the hard graphite which is found in the retorts
1589 2,4|              had a gallant heart, and grasping the tiller he anxiously
1590 3,6|       personal advantage, he was ever grave-somber even-devoured by an unquenchable
1591 3,8|               island might entail the gravest consequences. ~"It seems
1592 2,8|           those of the ram, and their gray-colored fleece was mixed with long
1593 3,5|             the windows, saw the shot graze the rocks of Mandible Cape,
1594 3,5|             he had spent, in rubbing, greasing, and polishing them, and
1595 1,5|              trousers, waistcoat, and great-coat, and at last to Pencroft'
1596 2,1|            but a bad look-out for our great-grandchildren!" observed Pencroft. ~"They
1597 2,1|            Wild duck, snipe, teal and grebe abounded there, and it was
1598 1,0|               the fresh air, had cast greedy eyes. ~After leaving the
1599 1,3|               before the engineer had greeted on the summit of Mount Franklin. ~
1600 1,5|        himself about a small or great grievance. At any rate, there was
1601 2,6|               with a thousand hideous grimaces. ~"I knew that it was only
1602 2,8|               if he was just going to grin!" exclaimed Pencroft. ~And
1603 2,6|                said he, "and we shall grind our first harvest splendidly!" ~"
1604 2,9|             nothing was heard but the grinding of tools or the humming
1605 3,6|              side. Top uttered sullen groans which were rather ominous. ~
1606 3,6|          country. Their ignorance and gross superstition made them the
1607 2,0|              succession of incidents, grouped thus for the first time,
1608 2,4|            vast carpet of sand, or by grouping masses of rock, but a beautiful
1609 3,9|             barks. Now, as he did not growl, it was because danger was
1610 1,2|       storeroom, Top uttered singular growlings. He ran round and round
1611 2,1|            and continued to utter low growls at intervals during the
1612 2,9|             well. Herbert had already grown two inches in the year.
1613 1,0|              harvests." ~"Provided it grows!" cried the sailor. ~"It
1614 2,4|          their number prevented their growth. ~Since their departure,
1615 1,4|            try and find rather better grub than these shell-fish. Our
1616 3,8|       dockyard. when this happened he grumbled vigorously, and, by way
1617 2,0|             them, giving vent to deep grunts of satisfaction. ~A complete
1618 1,1|        frightfully ravaged Havana and Guadalupe, one on the 25th of October,
1619 1,2|              night, in spite of their guards, they might approach the
1620 2,3|          guava-tree, from whose fruit guava jelly is made; the clove-tree,
1621 2,3|              many useful members; the guava-tree, from whose fruit guava
1622 1,2|             Ducks and snipe, teal and guillemots were assembled in thousands.
1623 2,3|              sweet sort of manna; the Guinea Eucalyptus, the sap of which
1624 1,6|          should prefer a moor-cock or guinea-fowl," replied Pencroft, "still,
1625 1,1|               it; but for the rivers, gulfs, capes, and promontories,
1626 2,8|             that it does not make the gun-barrels dirty, and that its force
1627 2,8|              pyroxyle, that is to say gun-cotton, a substance in which cotton
1628 3,2|                round which was hung a gun-rack, furnished with weapons
1629 2,9|             which was greatly felt. A gunrack had been made for the firearms,
1630 2,3|              to be caught by a sudden gust while carrying too much
1631 1,2|        devouring his share with great gusto, when all at once a cry
1632 2,6|         Harding alone waited with his habitual patience, although his strong
1633 2,1|       seriously, "if Pencroft has not had-" ~"Look here, Neb," burst
1634 2,9|             drenched. On seeing these hailstones, some of which were the
1635 1,2|            squalls mingled with snow, hailstorms, gusts of wind, but these
1636 2,1|            was composed of very short hairs, and was in a good condition
1637 3,6|            that case, I wouldn't give half-a-dollar for our 'Bonadventure.'" ~
1638 3,5|               hour, and a distance of half-a-mile must have been cleared from
1639 3,9|               left the plateau nearly half-an-hour before, having devastated
1640 1,6|             reduced to the state of a half-burnt rag. This inflammable material
1641 2,3|               a thick tarpaulin. ~The half-closed door was pushed open by
1642 2,3|          bower overhead, and caused a half-darkness. They also heard the noise
1643 3,9|             of January the vessel was half-decked over. Up to this time no
1644 1,0|          upper cone, which masked the half-horizon of the west, and whose enormous
1645 1,6|          inventive Pencroft. ~A whole half-hour passed, but then, as the
1646 1,0|           thought of exploring in the half-light the large circular layer
1647 2,8|              only the unhappy man was half-mad." ~"Yes!" said Herbert, "
1648 3,3|              board the brig. Had this half-naked man, who had forced the
1649 1,1|           gulf, which looked like the half-open jaws of a formidable dog-fish. ~
1650 3,1|           harvest for the approaching half-season. With regard to rebuilding
1651 3,2|           without stumbling over some half-sleeping convict, who retorted by
1652 3,9|            would have announced it by half-uttered, sullen, angry barks. Now,
1653 2,3|               contained, besides "his halfpound of tobacco," a pair of strong
1654 1,8|               a sort of landing-place halfway up the long granite staircase.
1655 2,3|              water, while he held the halliard in his hand, ready to lower
1656 2,6|              sailor gave a prolonged "Halloo!" which was echoed again
1657 3,2|            The reporter and Pencroft, halting at any suspicious sound,
1658 1,1|             no use in doing things by halves." ~This ended the conversation.
1659 2,2|         enough from which to make the halyards, shrouds, and sheets, etc.
1660 2,2|             of dry seaweed, which was hammered in between the planks; then
1661 1,3|               preserved some capybara hams, by smoking them above a
1662 3,6|               Gideon Spilett took his hand-it was of a feverish heat.
1663 1,0|       scissors. ~The manufacture of a hand-saw cost infinite trouble, but
1664 3,3|              the necessity of meeting hand-to-hand, since the convicts have
1665 3,0|               which he now faithfully handed to the engineer. ~"Ayrton!
1666 2,1|            island. No vestiges of his handiwork showed that either at an
1667 1,3|            were easily fixed in solid handles. ~The production of these
1668 3,0|               and recognized that the handwriting was similar to that of the
1669 2,3|             is mustard." ~"Mustard be hanged!" returned the sailor; "
1670 1,0|               by a pendant skin which hangs over their throats, and
1671 2,2|                and appeared to be the happiest of quadrumana. It may readily
1672 2,6|                 Many days passed; but Harding-was it a sort of presentiment? -
1673 2,7|          happened. ~"After a thousand hardships, a thousand dangers, Lord
1674 1,9|              himself to rub them. The hardy sailor could not restrain
1675 2,0|            come to reclaim the animal harpooned by her, they resolved to
1676 3,2|                asked a tail man, in a harsh voice, who, standing in
1677 2,2|              astonishes me is that he hasn't spoken to us before, for
1678    | hast
1679 1,4|            will not give them time to hatch, unless it is in the shape
1680 2,8|             of birds' eggs. They were hatched by the sun, and their number
1681 1,1|          which so frightfully ravaged Havana and Guadalupe, one on the
1682 2,0|               snow, would cause great havoc on the plateau of Prospect
1683 3,6|           service is no longer at the hawse-hole. I repeat that some one
1684 3,1|            heard rattling through the hawse-holes. ~The vessel had just anchored
1685 3,0|           took our 'Bonadventure' and hazarded himself alone to go to Tabor
1686 3,5|               answered Pencroft, "but he-" ~The sailor's sentence
1687 2,3|             rays fell upon one or two headlands. ~"This is a much less important
1688 3,0|            House! The wall had fallen headlong and been then shattered
1689 3,8|             more direct action on the healing. The suppuration was much
1690 1,7|         listening again, "I thought I heard-" ~"What?" ~"The barking
1691 2,2|             his hurrahs diminished in heartiness, and, the inventory finished,
1692 3,1|        fertility. The settlers made a hearty meal, for their appetites
1693 1,5|             it should be subjected to heat-an indispensable condition
1694 3,6|         raising his long degraded and heathen country to a level with
1695 3,7|            inhabited country." ~"Good Heavens!" exclaimed Pencroft, "I
1696 1,1|              the net, making it still heavier, and the balloon only half
1697 3,5|              birds, influenced by the heaviness of the atmosphere, remained
1698 1,2|           beast!" exclaimed Pencroft, heaving out two bags of sand, and
1699 3,5|          island of Staffa, one of the Hebrides; such are the caves of Morgat,
1700 1,5|             strongly resembled both a hedgehog and an ant-eater. It was
1701 2,6|              it as in a vise, without heeding the beast's claws which
1702 3,1|             walking about on Prospect Hei ghts, and the beach. ~He
1703 3,4|            appeared prudent to him to heighten the palisade and to flank
1704 1,0|        animals which frequented these heights-and there were numerous traces
1705 2,7|           were finished, and Prospect Heights-that is to say, a sort of irregular
1706 3,7|               which was stationed the helmsman, when he navigated the "
1707 3,3|              Then there was a general helter-skelter. The ten others, not even
1708 3,5|               had occurred in the two hemispheres-at Etna, Popocatepetl, at Orizabaand
1709 2,9|               glass terminated by two hemispheric caps, which were easily
1710 2,8|               in the textile fiber of hemp and flax, in paper, the
1711 1,0|               aid of which the warren henceforth every day furnished its
1712 3,3|               ago, they put to sea in her-" ~"And?" said Pencroft,
1713 1,3|             caladium macrorhizum," an herbaceous plant of the arum family.
1714 1,4|               stick. ~Then addressing Herbert-"Do you know the first principles
1715 3,7|        thought it was his last sigh. ~Herberts back was covered with blood
1716 3,7|                 he said. "I shall die here-it is my wish; and therefore
1717    | hereafter
1718 1,6|            the balloon. The imaginary heroes of Daniel Defoe or of Wyss,
1719 3,8|            were evidently composed of heterogeneous substances. It was not alone
1720 1,3|                This was the "hibiscus heterophyllus," which furnishes fibers
1721 1,2|           walking, the sailor said, ~"Hey, Herbert! how capital it
1722 2,6|             the place with a thousand hideous grimaces. ~"I knew that
1723 1,9|         mountain which must be rather high-" ~"Well," replied the engineer, "
1724 2,4|                and from a height of a hillock on which Neb and Pencroft
1725 2,1|               Harding struck with the hilt of his cutlass sounded solid.
1726 3,1|           Ayrton's mind, and going to him-~"And you, Ayrton," he asked, "
1727 1,4|              are very numerous in the Himalayan zone, and which spread around
1728 1,1|         islands of Chimborazo, of the Himalayas, or of Mont Blanc, remains
1729 1,0|               and they passed without hindrance. In others, obstructed by
1730 2,7|               to rise it; between its hinge and the last cross-bar on
1731 1,8|           then went out with a slight hiss, which showed that it had
1732 3,9|            could depict it? The water hissed as it evaporated by contact
1733 3,7|               canoe which brought you hither; but, before leaving the '
1734 2,5|               once Pencroft shouted,-"Ho, splendid! capital!" ~"What
1735 3,4|              tide they overhauled the hold-at high tide they stowed away
1736 2,9|               far from all that a man holds dearest in the world, his
1737 1,3|                cultivator, during his holidays, etc., and like all seamen,
1738 1,2|          grass called "tussac" in New Holland; but the cocoanut, so abundant
1739 3,0|  horse-chestnut tree, the leaf of the holly, the snake-root, etc. It
1740 2,5|               said Pencroft, who felt home-sickness for Granite House. ~But
1741 1,4|               replied Herbert; "their homologous sides are proportional." ~"
1742 2,1|            address of its editor, the Honorable James Bennett! ~Gideon Spilett
1743 1,1|               great citizens who have honored it; but for the rivers,
1744 3,8|                Mount Franklin was now hooded by a somber cloud of sinister
1745 1,6|              the same moment bait and hook. Suddenly with a smart jerk,
1746 2,6|             and the moving stone, the hopper, a sort of large square
1747 1,6|              branches, moving prisms, hopping from one bough to another. ~
1748 2,0|              sides with eight hundred horny blades, very elastic, of
1749 3,9|              in the corral wearies me horribly, and I have never felt so
1750 1,8|              violence of the waves. A horrid presentiment flashed across
1751 3,0|               with slight shiverings, horripilations, and tremblings. His pulse
1752 2,7|               supply the place of the horse, ass, or ox? That was the
1753 3,0|               as has also that of the horse-chestnut tree, the leaf of the holly,
1754 2,3|    transplanting. There were cresses, horseradish, turnips, and lastly, little
1755 3,5|           committed some fresh act of hostility against us?" ~"Isn't what
1756 2,6|           that of the Australians and Hottentots. It was an orangoutang,
1757 2,8|       bustards, which belonged to the houbara species, characterized by
1758 3,4|           other place near to Granite House-for the islet only imperfectly
1759 2,6|               one had entered Granite House-there could be no more doubt about
1760 2,6|             intelligence. Employed in houses, they can wait at table,
1761 2,0|               way of a storm-sail, he hove to, putting the head of
1762 2,0|               flocks of birds already hovered. ~"What a monster!" cried
1763 3,4|            colony of Lincoln Island. ~However-and Cyrus Harding observed it
1764 2,9|             ahead it was necessary to hug the shore. ~It took the
1765 3,3|               braced up, and the brig hugging the wind, stood across the
1766 3,4|             of the brig but a useless hulk, bad weather came on, which
1767 2,6|             and fall to the ground. ~"Hullo!" cried the sailor, "this
1768 3,3|             we will do all that it is humanly possible to do, but I repeat
1769 2,7|             this went on, but Ayrton, humbled by solitude, always looking
1770 3,6|             his life equally with the humblest of the wretched and misguided
1771 3,2|            Ayrton quickly. ~Then more humbly,-~"Alas!" ~"No! no!" exclaimed
1772 1,2|               been both dangerous and humiliating; to be taken in their own
1773 2,6|            countenance expressed deep humility. He appeared anxious, timorous,
1774 2,9|              grinding of tools or the humming of the turning-lathe which
1775 1,9|              in his praise of what he humorously called, "his apartments
1776 3,8|               defend Granite House. ~"Humph!" said Pencroft, "these
1777 2,1|            them a hundred millions of hundredweights have not nearly exhausted
1778 2,0|           others. The access to these hunting-grounds was easy; besides, whether
1779 3,2|              the enclosure, drew back hurriedly, and seized Harding's hand. ~"
1780 3,0|            his unfortunate companions husbanded their provisions with the
1781 2,8|             for the unknown future by husbanding their ammunition and by
1782 3,4|              of cotton, implements of husbandry, carpenter's, joiner's,
1783 1,3|            nature, who, "having time, husbands her strength." They had
1784 3,1|              however, belonged to the hydiographical system to which the soil
1785 2,1|             be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute
1786 2,6|            more complete knowledge of hydrography than could be expected of
1787 2,8|               to render it sensitive, hyposulfate of soda to fix the prints
1788 2,6|               You are honest men! And I-" ~ ~
1789 1,1|              crossed the Mercy on the ice-bridge. ~At eight in the evening
1790 2,9|             like factory chimneys. An iceberg of the Polar seas could
1791 3,8|               the eruption of 1783 in Iceland for upwards of a year the
1792 1,2|            flowed were bristling with icicles. One might have said that
1793 1,1|            covered it. In many places icy pools sparkled in the sun.
1794 1,5|            feed on the leaves. Having identified the animal, which they did
1795 2,5|            help them to establish the identity of the stranger. ~The capture
1796 3,7|          sleep the sleep of eternity, if-" replied the captain. ~He
1797 3,9|            the central shalt into the igneous gulf, was at once converted
1798 3,6|               in their country. Their ignorance and gross superstition made
1799 3,1|               other vessel. These are ill-famed seas, and I have always
1800 2,1|                who wished to hide his ill-luck, "we won't speak about it." ~"
1801 3,6|              rendered subservient the illimitable forces of electricity, which,
1802 1,2|               begun as a volunteer at Illinois, under Ulysses Grant, he
1803 3,8|                was there no longer to illuminate the cavern with its electric
1804 3,5|            spread over the island and illumined the dark trees. The flashes
1805 3,0|              unknown protector,-whose image was stamped upon his mind;
1806 3,6|            noble Indian lady, who was imbued with an ambition not less
1807 3,2|              which had been fired, in imitation of men-of-war when they
1808 3,9|              whirled in the air to an immeasurable height, as if the valves
1809 2,8|          chloride of gold in which to immerse the paper, nothing was wanting.
1810 2,8|          pyroxyle, the cotton must be immersed in the fuming azotic acid
1811 3,9|              and informed them of the imminent danger which threatened
1812 1,2|               for them this solid and immovable retreat! Cyrus Harding had
1813 2,6|               life, perhaps, may well impair a man's reason!" ~"I am
1814 3,2|            time, rendered the channel impassable. The boat was not there!
1815 3,9|           fail. They therefore waited impatiently for the moment when Herbert
1816 3,8|        Harding and Ayrton, with these impediments, to make rapid progress.
1817 3,9|            instinct warned them of an impending catastrophe. A large number
1818 3,9|              its duration. But it was imperative that the ship should be
1819 1,6|             was flat and marshy, rose imperceptibly towards the interior. It
1820 1,9|              Pacific, they would have imperturbably replied,-~"Cyrus is here!" ~
1821 3,6|               interrupted the captain impetuously. ~"It is true," answered
1822 3,5|          America would afford a fresh impetus. Pencroft and Neb especially
1823 2,9|               the love of his country implanted in the heart of man, that
1824 3,3|             Ayrton was exposed to the importunities of his former accomplices.
1825 2,7|              their presence, and thus imposing on him the necessity of
1826 3,9|              talked of Neb and of the impossibility of communicating with him, "
1827 2,1|         spectacle of the ocean in its impotent fury. The waves rebounded
1828 3,3|            remained unhurt. ~Horrible imprecations burst from the boat, which
1829 1,1|           particular shape. They will impress themselves better on our
1830 1,2|        engineer only communicated his impressions to Gideon Spilett, for he
1831 1,2|              dreaming of many strange improbabilities. Accustomed to go far into
1832 2,9|         repeated Pencroft, "never any improper reply. What a servant, Neb,
1833 3,2|           give the alarm. ~"Do not be imprudent," said Harding to the reporter
1834 2,7|              of a large size that had imprudently ventured on the plateau,
1835 3,2|              for a long time perhaps, impunity and security. Evidently,
1836 1,5|           them with the hand from the impurities which soiled their surface.
1837 2,1|              supposition is certainly inadmissible," replied Harding, who,
1838 1,6|        Spilett had kept, doubtless by inadvertence, not a weapon, not a tool,
1839 3,7|           death, were perfectly calm. Inaudible words escaped at intervals
1840 2,6|               reason for delaying the inauguration of the mill, for the settlers
1841 3,6|            unknown worlds he gathered incalculable treasures. The millions
1842 3,1|            which were aroused by this incident-the most important which had
1843 2,8|               potash, obtained by the incineration of plants, in such a way
1844 1,2|             the maple, by making deep incisions in the tree. They contented
1845 2,7|             captain, he endeavored to incite the crew to mutiny and seize
1846 3,3|           intended search. Everything incited them to discover the answer
1847 1,2|              gusts of wind, but these inclemencies did not last. The ice melted,
1848 2,0|              not suffer much from the inclemency of the weather, and it was
1849 1,0|               sheltered them from the inclement weather. The Chimneys would
1850 3,5|               the ridge by a moderate incline sloped down to the level
1851 3,5|               ought we to respect the incognito of this generous being,
1852 2,6|              express himself in these incoherent sentences:-~"Why am I here?....
1853 3,4|             been able to judge of its incomparable power!" ~ ~
1854 3,2|             this chance to be lost by inconsiderately attempting to cross the
1855 1,5|            not sleep in the cave. The inconsolable, despairing Neb, notwithstanding
1856 2,8|        pyroxyle, although it has some inconveniences, that is to say, a great
1857 1,0|             which replaced the former inconvenient hurdle, and brought back
1858 2,8|            Spilett, "these things are incredible! Your rescue, the case stranded
1859 2,5|               all, except perhaps the incredulous Pencroft, soon shared both
1860 3,9|           aware that this would be to incur the risk of blowing up a
1861 2,5|             unfortunate man cannot be incurable, and despair has made him
1862 3,5|          could render them. Ayrton is indebted to him as much as we are,
1863 2,5|               observed in his look an indefinable trace of intelligence. ~
1864 3,3|     researches could not be prolonged indefinitely. The colonists were certainly
1865 3,6|            nations who fought for the independence of their country. ~(This
1866 3,6|            son of a rajah of the then independent territory of Bundelkund.
1867 2,3|         smiling, and Pencroft with an indescribable feeling of pride. ~"Very
1868 2,7|               living, as his document indicates, he is a prisoner among
1869 3,4|               Tabor Island a document indicating Ayrton's new residence. ~
1870 3,0|               perceive any suspicious indications. ~Besides, it might be supposed
1871 1,5|               country are wasted with indifference and are of no value, must
1872 2,2|             abounded in game. Certain indigenous plants were discovered,
1873 3,8|            eruption might directly or indirectly be the cause. ~"Yes, and
1874 3,4|           zealous, indefatigable, not indiscreet, not talkative, and he might
1875 3,6|               whose existence was now indisputable, and at the same time to
1876 3,5|            one of my eyes to see this individual face to face! It seems to
1877 1,2|              befell these five daring individuals who set out on their hazardous
1878 1,9|             man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably
1879 1,2|               was one of that race of indomitable English or American chroniclers,
1880 3,5|              works of art, marvels of industry-appeared before the eyes of the colonists,
1881 3,9|           flourishing. So much effort ineffectually expended, so much labor
1882 1,8|              of the country, with its inequalities of ground, its forests,
1883 2,8|               that is to say, a great inequality of effect, an excessive
1884 3,7|      zoophytes, chaplets of pearls of inestimable value; and, finally, his
1885 3,8|        escaped a pungent vapor, which infected the atmosphere of the cavern.
1886 2,4|            recesses of the islet! The inferences deduced by Pencroft were
1887 3,3|            the engineer. The relative inferiority which it proved was of a
1888 1,1|             the sea. It might even be inferred that such was the case,
1889 3,1|               Malay proas which still infest it? For what had she come
1890 1,1|              the marsh was fed by the infiltrations of the soil and it was really
1891 1,0|          directly to their aid, in an infinitesimal proportion it is true, but
1892 1,0|            whitish cinders made of an infinity of little feldspar crystals. ~
1893 2,8|               of effect, an excessive inflammability, since it takes fire at
1894 1,2|               elements. ~The balloon, inflated on the great square of Ri
1895 3,3|        abandon it. ~The ill-treatment inflicted on Ayrton was now redoubled.
1896 3,5|               Both animals and birds, influenced by the heaviness of the
1897 2,8|   unexpectedly, should not neglect to inform the inhabitants of Granite
1898 2,1|               for he knew how to turn ingeniously to profit the mechanical
1899 3,1|               Granite House, he could inhale the fresh air, charged with
1900 1,5|          blowing-machine, destined to inject the air into the midst of
1901 3,9|                be well understood how injurious this seclusion in the corral
1902 2,0|       occupations were resumed by the inmates of Granite House. ~However,
1903 2,5|             his companions slept like innocent marmots in the cave which
1904 1,5|           They also respected certain innocent-looking birds, whose wings were
1905 2,1|               found in the body of an inoffensive rodent! In fact, this bullet
1906 3,1|             nothing to be done but to inscribe Lincoln Island on the maps!" ~"
1907 2,0|              animal's side, read this inscription on it: ~ MARIA STELLA, VINEYARD ~ "
1908 1,7|              granite, a few of which, insecurely balanced, seemed to tremble
1909 3,4|              shot twenty barrels, the insides of which were lined with
1910 2,1|          notwithstanding its apparent insignificance, immediately took possession
1911 1,2|             peccaries, which Pencroft insisted on carving himself, and
1912 3,8|              Dakkar Grotto. I wish to inspect it. At any rate I will come
1913 1,4|               guess after so hasty an inspection what the future had in store
1914 2,5|              and possibly it does not inspire him with any wish to escape!" ~"
1915 1,3|               undertaking the work of installation in earnest it is not enough
1916 3,6|        fancied, it presented itself. ~Instigated by princes equally ambitious
1917 3,6|             still cherishing the hope instilled into him from his earliest
1918 2,0|               was lying?" ~"The dog's instinct-" observed Herbert. ~"Singular
1919 1,6|             had inspired them with an instinctive fear. Among others, Herbert
1920 3,1|             Pacific? ~All these ideas instinctively presented themselves to
1921 2,8|              and even extreme zeal in instructing his pupil, and the pupil
1922 2,8|            rider under the reporter's instruction, and they also harnessed
1923 1,2|             very insufficient. ~Their insufficiency was still more clearly shown
1924 2,8|            posts furnished with glass insulators, and intended to support
1925 2,6|            reached the last limits of insult. ~The sun had now completely
1926 2,0|               landing. They formed an insuperable barrier, recalling, but
1927 1,0|             restores this heat, which insures for the regions near the
1928 1,2|               but was stopped by some insurmountable obstacle. However, the siege
1929 1,2|           found their traps perfectly intact. No animal had fallen into
1930 3,7|               more feeble, but always intelligible,-~"You are right, sir,"
1931 2,7|          answered Harding, who always intentionally made use of this cordial
1932 2,8|             would call for the prompt interference of the colonists,-such as
1933 3,9|          their higher branches, whose interlacement favored its progress. It
1934 2,1|            one hand to facilitate the interlacing, the compression, and the
1935 3,7|                Our project, captain," interposed Cyrus Harding, "is to annex
1936 3,2|            does not mistrust you. You interpret his words wrongly." ~"Indeed,"
1937 2,7|               according to a previous interpretation of the document, they supposed
1938 3,9|             was, therefore, favorably interpreted at the corral, and it no
1939 2,2|              They employed the day in interring the dead, who were dragged
1940 2,7|               that the engineer would interrogate him on his past life. ~Harding
1941 2,7|             his auditors did not once interrupt:-~"On the 20th of December,
1942 3,8|            their work went on without interruption. It was, besides, of the
1943 1,9|             which were planted in the interstices of the rocks, and which
1944 2,1|               again with that strange intonation which had before perplexed
1945 3,2|            which were lodged the most intractable convicts from the English
1946 1,7|             Twice the sailor rose and intrenched himself at the opening of
1947 1,7|           dinner. It appeared best to introduce something solid into the
1948 3,4|              and on which there is no intumescence of the soil to oppose any
1949 1,8|           light entered by this hole, inundating the splendid cavern and
1950 1,2|             scene. Well built, he was inured to all climates, like a
1951 1,3|       experience, they had nothing to invent, still they had everything
1952 1,3|          itself to the observer in an inverted position, the star Alpha
1953 1,2|               while the Northern army invested it. The Governor of Richmond
1954 1,1|         myself be carried too far, in investigating the secrets of the future. ~"
1955 2,8|        establish a special apparatus, involving great labor. As to zinc,
1956 3,0|             territory in the State of Iowa. One pearl alone, the finest,
1957 1,1|             should not Australia, New Ireland, Australasia, united to
1958 2,7|         French, had been found in the Irish Sea, and picked up by the '
1959 2,3|              the name of gum-trees or iron-bark trees in Australia, belong
1960 3,5|               the cave. This boat was iron-plated. Two oars lay at the bottom. ~"
1961 1,7|             alumina, and sulphuret of iron-the latter in excess-it was
1962 2,7|             to shape the wood, nor of iron-work to make it firm, nor of
1963 3,5|               would have destroyed an ironclad as easily as a fishing-boat! ~
1964 2,7|           outrageous. They put him in irons. He was then taken to the
1965 2,2|             round off at the top. The ironwork of the mast, the rudder
1966 3,3|           larger one. We have all the ironwork-all the rigging of the brig
1967 3,5|         mistaken in the nature of the irradiation thrown from the glowing
1968 2,2|         distance was increased by the irregularity of the coast, was nearly
1969 3,9|          domain covered with forests, irrigated by watercourses, and enriched
1970 3,1|             appearing to particularly irritate Master Jup. The night passed
1971 2,0|               the colonists, but very irritating to their curiosity, was
1972 2,6|               fast changed into great irritation, and there certainly was
1973 1,0|              tides would make another irruption. Cyrus Harding had taken
1974 2,3|               wants nothing-unless it is-" ~"That will come, Pencroft,
1975 1,7|              are going to blow up the island-" ~"Blow up the island?"
1976 3,0|         representing the fauna of the island-all either crushed or drowned,
1977 1,2|              On the shores and on the islets, strutted wild ducks, pelicans,
1978 3,5|             new wire hanging from the isolator to the ground. ~"There it
1979 1,1|            calorific action, was just issuing from the ocean. The sea
1980 2,5|          returned Pencroft. ~"Why? is it-?" ~"It is all that remains
1981 3,4|             two ways of accomplishing it-either a ship must appear off Lincoln
1982 3,1|               Island, we shall defend it-shall we not?" ~"Yes, Cyrus,"
1983 3,7|             the chef-d'oeuvres of the Italian, Flemish, French, and Spanish
1984 1,6|              care which a disciple of Izaak Walton would have used.
1985 1,1|        grumble at work, my name's not Jack Pencroft, and if you like,
1986 2,8|              He had been dressed in a jacket, white linen breeches, and
1987 2,2|              cried Neb, "suppose it's jam! ~"I hope not," replied
1988 2,3|            Pimenta, from whence comes Jamaica pepper; the common myrtle,
1989 2,1|             its editor, the Honorable James Bennett! ~Gideon Spilett
1990 1,6|           hook. Suddenly with a smart jerk, Pencroft "struck" his line,
1991 1,6|         coming through the water. The jerks attracted the attention
1992 1,5|               Neb declared to be real jewels. But the metal was not yet
1993 3,4|               husbandry, carpenter's, joiner's, and blacksmith's tools,
1994 3,8|           scarcely visible clefts and joinings, escaped a pungent vapor,
1995 1,7|              in the granite cliff, it joins the sea, through cavities
1996 2,6|              like such jokes, and the joker had better look out for
1997 2,6|               Well, I don't like such jokes, and the joker had better
1998 2,6|             Herbert. ~The lad was not joking in saying this, for he knew
1999 2,4|               to them. Gideon Spilett jokingly asked whether these active
2000 3,9|            with so much care that any jolt should be avoided? It could
2001 2,7|         Balloon. ~Of course they were jolted over the somewhat rough