Part,  Chapter

2502 2,6|               heaved with sobs, as if overburdened! ~Was it remorse that overwhelmed
2503 3,3|                may at any time become overcharged. But at the first serious
2504 3,9|            around them, but the lava, overflowing the bed of Red Creek, threatened
2505 1,9|            two parts, profiting by an overhanging of the cliff which made
2506 3,4|            the brig. At low tide they overhauled the hold-at high tide they
2507 2,3|            The trees met like a bower overhead, and caused a half-darkness.
2508 3,2|    reconnoiter the number and perhaps overhear the intentions of the pirates. ~
2509 2,7|             from there it was easy to overlook the flock of sheep, which
2510 1,9|             summit of that peak which overlooks the country, and then we
2511 3,8|               but they had managed to overpower the unfortunate man, and-the
2512 3,8|            For some days the heat was overpowering, and the atmosphere, saturated
2513 3,9|           which could prevent it from overrunning the whole Far West. But
2514 1,9|               that even Top could not overtake them. Hunters and dog ran
2515 1,9|           rushed upon Herbert, almost overthrew him, and disappeared in
2516 2,8|          prisoners had been trying to overthrow the palisade, but of course
2517 2,1|             turned over when the tide overtook it, and then quietly returned
2518 3,1|              certain that the island, overtopped by Mount Franklin, could
2519 3,8|             an earthquake which would overturn the island? Now, I do not
2520 2,0|           Immense waves threatened to overwhelm the island, and certainly
2521 2,7|           place of the horse, ass, or ox? That was the question. ~"
2522 3,4|         regular Yorkshire or Kentucky oxen. The colonists divided their
2523 1,5|             pure and rich. It was the oxydulous iron, which is found in
2524 1,4|               at low tide, of a large oysterbed among the rocks, nearly
2525 3,1|               fresh air, charged with ozone, which could not fail to
2526 2,9|        engineer fixed a cylinder with paddles, which was joined on the
2527 1,2|           Ulysses Grant, he fought at Paducah, Belmont, Pittsburg Landing,
2528 1,2|              hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book
2529 2,2|             paper, 2 books with blank pages. ~"It must be allowed,"
2530 3,9|         reunited at Granite House. It pained the engineer to see his
2531 3,9|          engineer felt his heart sink painfully. He still hesitated to give
2532 3,4|              name of her port was not painted on her counter, there was
2533 1,8|             found a sort of marvelous palace, and Neb had taken off his
2534 1,9|               is here!" ~While in the palanquin, however, the engineer had
2535 1,4|              peppery taste, they were palatable without condiments of any
2536 2,2|             pleasure than that of the palate, and I am only too glad
2537 3,0|             Harding's face, which was paler than usual, expressed an
2538 2,1|            was twice unroofed and the paling blown down. All this required
2539 1,6|            for some of those precious palm-trees which are employed in so
2540 1,6|              wading birds and that of palmipeds. Sorry game, in truth, and
2541 1,2|              found from Mexico to the Pampas of Buenos Aires. Now, as
2542 2,9|          Pencroft called ribs was the pan of his vessel under water,
2543 2,9|             wooden roller. ~The first pane was thus manufactured, and
2544 2,6|            apes, seized with a sudden panic, from some unknown cause,
2545 2,5|              master!" A more touching pantomime than the finest discourse. ~
2546 1,8|             and fireplace, and in the pantry, several dozen of birds,
2547 3,7|             is, and it seems to you a paradise!" ~"Our project, captain,"
2548 1,1|            the thirtieth and fortieth parallels. Herbert much regretted
2549 1,4|               firs, whose opaque open parasol boughs spread wide around.
2550 3,7|            From on high I shall still participate in your enterprises, and
2551 3,3|             that we divide into three parties. The first of which shall
2552 1,5|               the channel left a ford passable at low tide. The hunters
2553 1,4|            and always had had quite a passion for the science. His father
2554 1,5|         interlaced with creepers, and pasted over with clay, offered
2555 3,3|               were wooded and rich in pasturage like that of the corral,
2556 2,7|               find fresh and abundant pasture. The road between Prospect
2557 2,8|            raid had to be made on the pastures frequented by the ruminants.
2558 2,9|              to a liquid, or rather a pasty state, Cyrus Harding collected
2559 1,4|               relieved by large green patches, caused by the presence
2560 1,7|              him towards him, and was patting his head, the dog rubbing
2561 1,7|              by the sand. ~Then, in a pause of the tumult, they again
2562 3,3|           strewn with masses of rock, paved with lava, and varied with
2563 3,5|               all the prisms, all the peaks, were flooded with the electric
2564 3,0|             in the State of Iowa. One pearl alone, the finest, was reserved
2565 1,5|         vestige of a mark. Not even a pebble recently displaced; not
2566 1,2|              a grinder!-~It was not a pebble-it was a leaden bullet. ~ ~ ~
2567 1,9|            medicinal properties, some pectoral, astringent, febrifuge,
2568 3,1|            that certain unaccountable peculiarities might be explained in this
2569 3,7|            marble and bronze on their pedestals; the magnificent organ,
2570 2,4|             brothers. ~And certainly, pedestrians, hindered at each step by
2571 3,7|            device, inscribed over the pediment of the museum-the motto
2572 1,4|                and with little wooden pegs, which he stuck into the
2573 2,6|              the jokers shall pay the penalty for the rest." ~So saying,
2574 2,5|            and unless Mr. Spilett and Pencroft-" ~"My boy!" said Cyrus Harding, "
2575 2,9|               service which delighted Pencroft-he never went to sleep without
2576 1,2|              their ideas. Herbert and Pencroft-the one young and the other
2577 1,0|            tragopans, ornamented by a pendant skin which hangs over their
2578 1,8|       projections formed like so many pendants. This cavern was a picturesque
2579 2,9|               hands, and, giving it a pendulous motion, he ended by lengthening
2580 3,9|               the wall of the cavern, penetrates by the central shaft into
2581 1,5|              landing some hundreds of penguins looked fearlessly at them.
2582 3,0|              who has become honest by penitence, and whose hand I am proud
2583 3,2|             convicts from the English penitentiaries. They numbered 500, under
2584 2,9|             the expense of his little pensioners by tweaking their tails;
2585 2,7|              say, a sort of irregular pentagon, having a perimeter of nearly
2586 3,3|               island was both largely peopled and strongly defended. ~
2587 2,3|             from whence comes Jamaica pepper; the common myrtle, from
2588 2,6|      cylindrical box, in shape like a pepper-pot, with a pointed roof, rose
2589 1,4|              and as they had a strong peppery taste, they were palatable
2590    | per
2591 1,4|          tide-and it could already be perceived-must drive it back with force
2592 2,5|           means of transport had been perfected. ~Nothing therefore which
2593 1,9|          warren. There the ground was perforated like a sieve. ~"Here are
2594 1,4|            that species of molluscous perforators which excavate holes in
2595 3,3|               this powerful being who performs such wonders, until he pleases
2596 1,3|              green wood, after having perfumed them with sweet-smelling
2597 3,4|            another point it is at its perigee, or nearest to the sun.
2598 3,9|            thought not so much of the peril which menaced themselves
2599 3,0|            the convicts constituted a permanent source of danger to the
2600 3,3|             find him until he himself permits us." ~"Shall we stay at
2601 2,1|               cyclones, which beat it perpetually as the whip does the top,
2602 2,6|             firm. The case was really perplexing. Pencroft stormed. There
2603 3,7|             surgeon. I am in terrible perplexity. You must aid me with your
2604 1,2|         century: "I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success."
2605 1,0|               would soon be seen. The persevering engineer resolved to continue
2606 2,6|       presentiment, doubtless, always persisted in saying that the fugitive
2607 2,3|               but it was difficult to persuade Pencroft that he had not
2608 3,6|              the people of India were persuaded that they might successfully
2609 2,6|              Tabor Island, and as all persuasion to induce him to improve
2610 2,2|               relish, for if he had a pet failing it was that of being
2611 1,2|            operations. The victory of Petersburg had been very dearly bought.
2612 1,9|           lastly, a "Visitor's room," petitioned for by Pencroft, and which
2613 1,7|           Spilett!" said the sailor: "Petrels delight in wind and rain." ~
2614 2,5|            with real sympathy all the phases of the cure undertaken by
2615 1,4|               were, among others, the phasianella, the terebratual, etc. But
2616 1,0|          gallinaceae belonging to the pheasant species. They were tragopans,
2617 1,2|                water-hens, red-beaks, philedons, furnished with a tongue
2618 1,1|           Herbert. ~"This is my idea: philosophers generally admit that some
2619 2,9|         talking chemistry and natural philosophy, numbers of kangaroos, capybaras,
2620 2,8|              Point, etc. ~Nor did the photographers forget to take the portraits
2621 2,9|               and Gideon Spilett took photographs of the superb scenery. ~
2622 3,5|            Herbert did not finish his phrase. The engineer, towards whom
2623 2,9|               be an accomplished man, physically as well as morally. Besides
2624 3,7|           which is now adopted by all physicians. Cold water has, moreover,
2625 3,0|           consequence of the profound physiological disturbance he had gone
2626 3,5|               were enlarged either by pick-axe or mine, and Granite House
2627 2,0|              necessary. They ran with pick-axes and iron-tipped poles in
2628 2,4|              in vinegar, makes a good pickle." ~"Better and better, Herbert!" ~"
2629 3,5|           substance, nitro-glycerine, picrate, or some other material
2630 1,3|       intrepid Harding, can be better pictured than described. It was too
2631 3,7|              one after the other, the pictures hanging from the splendid
2632 1,6|               and there, added to the picturesqueness of the country. Lake Grant
2633 1,8|       cathedral, here forming lateral piers, there elliptical arches,
2634 2,2|               Preserved and made into pies we shall have a welcome
2635 2,7|            the bridge and establish a pile-driver to act on the tops of these
2636 1,5|             been all there, under the piled-up rocks, before this clear,
2637 3,6|           Then, falling back amid the pillows of the divan,-~"After all,
2638 2,3|        esteemed cinnamon; the Eugenia Pimenta, from whence comes Jamaica
2639 1,5|     transformed into tools, crowbars, pincers, pickaxes, spades, etc.,
2640 2,8|           were large enough and never pinched the feet of the wearers. ~
2641 2,6|             mode of existence? Was he pining for his former savage life?
2642 1,7|          refrigerant mixture, several pints of an oily yellow mixture. ~
2643 2,3|         touched these trees, that the pioneer's knife had never severed
2644 1,4|              responded Herbert, whose pious heart was full of gratitude
2645 3,3|        unavailing, both irritated and piqued the engineer. The relative
2646 3,1|        refuge-the headquarters of the piracy of the Pacific? ~All these
2647 3,1|               successfully? Had these pirates-for the sailors of the brig
2648 3,2|             their colors, it was pure piratical bravado. It was in no way
2649 3,8|           violently propelled by some piston. It was evident that the
2650 1,2|             of the animals out of the pit. Looking at it in great
2651 1,2|               extremely simple; being pits dug in the ground, a platform
2652 3,2|    circumference, overlooked by Mount Pitt, which rises to a height
2653 1,2|           fought at Paducah, Belmont, Pittsburg Landing, at the siege of
2654 2,6|            The frame was to rest on a pivot supported with strong timbers,
2655 1,9|           Certainly, nothing could be plainer," replied Pencroft. ~"But,
2656 1,0|            saying a word, only a look plainly expressed his opinion that
2657 1,4|              perpendicularly with the plane of the horizon. ~ That done,
2658 2,9|          incomplete. They sawed, they planed, they filed, they turned;
2659 1,4|           Hemisphere, saw the radiant planet describe its diurnal arc
2660 2,2|             in the world, and several planispheres arranged upon Mercator's
2661 2,8|             nor ravage the newly-made plantation. The oyster-bed among the
2662 1,5|             redoubtable family of the plantigrades. It was only a koala, better
2663 2,8|            February was commenced the planting along the road to the corral,
2664 2,1|              between its carapace and plastron. They no longer saw its
2665 1,2|       latitude as the provinces of La Plata, it is not surprising that
2666 1,7|             of tools, an apparatus of platina, leaden chambers, unassailable
2667 1,1|              this explanation appears plausible." ~"We are listening, captain,"
2668 3,8|           exclaim,-~"Ah! the giant is playing at cup and ball; he is a
2669 1,3|       substances. The part which heat plays in these transformations
2670 1,6|            and its flavor is far from pleasant. But Top was not so particular
2671 1,2|             The time thus passed away pleasantly, these brave men not appearing
2672 3,9|          Pencroft, with an attempt at pleasantry. "The sea will extinguish
2673 1,9|          framed in green, which had a pleasing effect. ~The inhabitants
2674 3,4|            The colony now possessed a plow, to which the onagers were
2675 1,7|            for the next day, but they plucked a couple of grouse, which
2676 3,5|              of the volcano, with its plume of vapor, could be seen
2677 3,9|        nothing to our house, they may plunder the plateau, our plantations,
2678 3,0|              instinct of destruction,-plundering, burning, devastating everything,-
2679 3,5|          escaped them! Must they then plunge beneath the water and seek
2680 1,8|               little had hollowed it. Pluto and not Neptune had bored
2681 1,0|           wanting in these regions of Plutonic origin. It was half-past
2682 1,6|                not a tool, not even a pocket-knife; for while in the car they
2683 3,1|             locust-trees, on the long pods of which the onagers browsed
2684 3,6|               statesman versed in the policy of European courts. To the
2685 1,0|             only wanted whiteness and polish. They would not doubtless
2686 3,8|               ashes which covered the polished surface of the rock enabled
2687 2,1|             neither carders, combers, polishers, stretchers, twisters, mule-jenny,
2688 3,5|             in rubbing, greasing, and polishing them, and in cleaning the
2689 2,2|           neighbor, and the only one! Politeness requires us to go at least
2690 3,2|          possession of it, miscreants polluted its shores, and they must
2691 2,4|               for, according to Marco Polo, the Tartars have employed
2692 3,4|               great coasting-trade of Polynesia are usually laden with.
2693 1,3|            had not found any of these polypores or even any of the morels
2694 1,3|         certain mushroom of the genus polyporous. Properly prepared, it is
2695 1,8|              more than one, that some polypus or other gigantic cephalopod
2696 2,3|               produces the spice; the pomegranate-tree, which bears pomegranates;
2697 2,3|         pomegranate-tree, which bears pomegranates; the Eugeacia Cauliflora,
2698 1,9|             of Mendava, either on the Pomotous, or even, if it had a greater
2699 2,0|            Spilett did not cease from pondering over this new and inexplicable
2700 1,1|          swelling, could supply these ponds. They therefore naturally
2701 1,1|        covered it. In many places icy pools sparkled in the sun. Neither
2702 3,5|              two hemispheres-at Etna, Popocatepetl, at Orizabaand on the eve
2703 2,6|               high, with an admirably poportioned frame, a broad chest, head
2704 1,0|               grains, compared to the poppy-plant, which bears thirty-two
2705 2,7|               the birds which were to populate it. These were simply built
2706 2,4|                 Many specimens of the porcine race fled before them, and
2707 1,3|              points, by bringing in a porcupine, rather inferior eating,
2708 1,7|             substance, clay or sugar, porous enough to hold it, the dangerous
2709 3,8|           mass of rocks of basalt and porphyry which composed the northwest
2710 2,3|         vessel for a wreck and us for porpoises?" ~And Pencroft laughed
2711 1,2|               like their congeners at Port-Macquarie; but it was impossible to
2712 2,1|       obstacles, which would render a portage necessary, it would be easily
2713 1,3|            England under the name of "Portland sago"; they were also a
2714 2,8|      photographers forget to take the portraits of all the inhabitants of
2715 3,6|               a harbor. ~One of these ports was hollowed beneath Lincoln
2716 3,5|              to act? If it was he, he possesses a power which renders him
2717 2,3|              on Tabor Island is a man possessing a considerable knowledge
2718 1,2|             emulating each other, the possessions of the colony were soon
2719 3,7|            the judgment pronounced by posterity upon the events of this,
2720 3,4|        Spilett, while waiting for the postman to bring him his newspaper,
2721 2,7|             chest, and it was in this posture that in a hoarse voice,
2722 3,3|               effect of the evening's potations, threw themselves into the
2723 1,2|                the Wilderness, on the Potomac, everywhere and valiantly,
2724 2,9|               he at first put the old pottery-kiln to this new use. There were
2725 2,4|          which Herbert had killed, he pounced on it like a wild beast,
2726 2,2|              do you expect?" ~"Half a pound of tobacco," replied Pencroft
2727 3,0|         administered further doses of pounded bark, but the reporter expected
2728 2,8|              plates, bringing dishes, pouring out water, all with a gravity
2729 3,2|           fired into the midst of the powder-casks, and all would be over! ~"
2730 3,2|            not hesitate. To reach the powder-room, which is always situated
2731 1,8|      nitro-glycerine had indeed acted powerfully. The opening which it had
2732 1,3|               pieces of equal size. A practiced workman can make, without
2733 2,8|             often gained well-merited praises for its preparer, Neb. ~
2734 3,3|             volcano wants to play his pranks! Let him try, if he likes!
2735 2,7|               himself by work! How he prayed to be reformed by prayer!
2736 3,1|              extract of quinine, that pre-eminent antifebrile. ~This powder
2737 2,7|              entered, and without any preamble,-~"Gentlemen," said he, "
2738 1,0|             footing being exceedingly precarious required the greatest caution.
2739 2,7|       inquisitive eyes. However, as a precautionary measure, Pencroft did not
2740 2,8|             places in which to spawn, precede the males and make a great
2741 2,8|             but faithful to the great precept, they made a right use of
2742 1,3|           scrupulous observers of the precepts of the Bible, and their
2743 2,6|            and did not once leave the precincts of the plateau. He worked
2744 1,1|             cried out,-~"Well! we are preciously stupid!" ~"Why?" asked Gideon
2745 3,9|             were the Mediterranean to precipitate itself into Mount Etna." ~
2746 1,3|             the west by an abrupt and precipitous coast. ~Yes! the land was
2747 3,1|           bitterness of the substance precluded all doubt; it was certainly
2748 2,1|      commercial movement to which you predict a continual advance, does
2749 2,6|             justified Cyrus Harding's predictions. On the 3rd of December,
2750 1,6|         Pencroft, naturally, had some predilection for the retreat which he
2751 1,7|      acuteness of smell which are the preeminent qualities of coursing dogs.
2752 1,0|              an acid drink, which was preferable to cold water; they also
2753 2,9|           take part in it, but Ayrton preferring to remain on shore, it was
2754 1,1|             was above the waters at a prehistoric period." ~"As the Atlantis
2755 2,1|               his boat, commenced the preliminary operations, the subject
2756 3,7|            and preserving it from all premature dressing, a considerable
2757 2,8|          well-merited praises for its preparer, Neb. ~We must here mention
2758 3,1|              such docility to all the prescriptions ordered him! He longed so
2759 1,1|             aspects which a continent presents, and I should not be surprised
2760 3,4|             which the colony owed its preservation-nothing more could be seen of the
2761 3,2|            And then he thought of his preservers-those who had made him again a
2762 3,7|           wound in absolute rest, and preserving it from all premature dressing,
2763 3,1|              discover who it was that presided so effectually over the
2764 2,0|               hunting, or Neb, unless presiding over his fires, never left
2765 1,9|          replied the engineer, "but I presume it is some land in the Pacific.
2766 1,9|                laughing, "but I don't pretend to do anything else but
2767 3,3|             for him, if he so much as pretends to open it!" ~As may be
2768 3,1|            and not separate under any pretext whatever. ~It was also decided
2769 2,3|              more intermittent fevers prevail in the regions now covered
2770 2,3|              indescribable feeling of pride. ~"Very good, Herbert,"
2771 3,2|        himself that it was loaded and primed. Nothing more was needed
2772 2,3|       habitation in any part, not the print of a human foot on the shore
2773 2,2|               The same with the Bible printed in English, in quarto, remarkable
2774 2,8|              and before laying in the printing-frame upon the negatives, it was
2775 2,8|        hyposulfate of soda to fix the prints obtained, chloride of ammonium
2776 1,2|               all sides, as through a prism, fluttering about and producing
2777 3,4|          these things would have been prized! And now, even though the
2778 2,3|               would be lawfully their prizes. In the event of this, the
2779 2,8|             they made chase after the producers, the result of which was
2780 1,2|              certainly have been most productive. But Cyrus Harding considered
2781 3,7|            organs had been reached? A professional surgeon would have had difficulty
2782 1,4|              the lectures of the best professors in Boston, who were very
2783 3,6|                and without taking the proffered hand of the engineer,-~"
2784 1,2|             this exploration could be profitably undertaken. ~They therefore
2785 3,8|          storm had passed through the profundities of the globe. But no explosion
2786 3,7|             light penetrated into the profundity of the cavern. It being
2787 3,0|               his pulse quick; then a profuse perspiration broke out after
2788 1,8|             the shade, covered with a profusion of projections formed like
2789 2,0|          being seldom mistaken in his prognostications. The wind rose, and from
2790 2,1|          recitals, his views, and his prognostics. ~It chanced one day that
2791 1,0|             such are the arithmetical progressions of prolific nature; and
2792 3,9|        Jacamar Wood. Not only did the projectiles begin to rain around them,
2793 1,5|             his life been so nervous. Prometheus going to steal the fire
2794 1,7|         collecting his ideas with the promptitude usual to seamen. ~The reporter
2795 1,2|          muscles exhibited remarkable proofs of tenacity. A man of action
2796 1,1|          Spilett, "these theories are prophecies to me, and they will be
2797 1,4|            their homologous sides are proportional." ~"Well, my boy, I have
2798 2,0|              if the next crop gives a proportionate yield, we shall have four
2799 1,6|               to the sailor except by proposing to examine the cliff more
2800 2,2|               vessel, and, after many propositions had been discussed, the
2801 2,2|             very particular about the proprieties all at once!" ~"I am not
2802 2,8|           little colony was extremely prosperous. ~The tenants of the poultry-yard
2803 3,0|              Herbert remained utterly prostrate, his head weak and giddy.
2804 3,0|           exhaustion which completely prostrated him. Several times Gideon
2805 2,0|               besides, the north cape protects that of the south in a way
2806 3,6|     misanthrope longed to benefit his proteges still further. There yet
2807 1,9|             so simple, but he did not protest. All went out. The weather
2808 1,1|              again, forming a sort of protuberance which did not give any particular
2809 3,5|               shot. Pencroft only was prouder than he! Such a shot, the
2810 1,1|    terrestrial humanity? Now, may not provident nature, so as to give refuge
2811 3,4|              our good genius, himself provides us with the means of returning
2812 1,2|              the same latitude as the provinces of La Plata, it is not surprising
2813 1,3|             Their safety was at least provisionally insured. The islet and the
2814 2,9|         anchored in Port Balloon, was provisioned for a voyage which might
2815 1,5|           case any wild beasts should prowl in the neighborhood, the
2816 2,3|            forms of some wild animals prowling round the camp among the
2817 1,2|              elementary principles of prudence. Happily, they found there,
2818 3,6|               to the curiosity of the public. ~For a long time alter
2819 2,2|             publisher nor the date of publication. ~The same with the Bible
2820 2,2|               receipts to me, I shall publish them." ~"Whenever you like,
2821 2,9|            transformed into cakes and puddings. This was not quite real
2822 1,5|               metal, gives natural or puddled steel; the second, produced
2823 2,2|               away!" ~And Jup gravely puffed out clouds of smoke which
2824 1,6|              is better than that of a pullet. But it was difficult, for
2825 3,1|            and which supplied a sweet pulp of excellent flavor. There,
2826 2,4|           tiger, as formidable as the puma, which is the rival of the
2827 3,8|               and joinings, escaped a pungent vapor, which infected the
2828 2,7|           Heaven had not sufficiently punished this unhappy man, for he
2829 3,2|              threatened with terrible punishments, and were guarded by 150
2830 3,0|           portion was employed in the purchase of a vast territory in the
2831 3,7|               millions could not have purchased, and to wait there for that
2832 1,7|            they had nothing to do but purify this salt. ~These different
2833 1,2|          which grew a large number of purple osiers. Before the rainy
2834 3,2|             means of their boats they purposed to land on the beach! ~Cyrus
2835 3,6|            managed to escape from his pursuers. ~Civilization never recedes;
2836 1,4|               his hand while Herbert, pushing off the raft with a long
2837 2,9|              prismatic like steeples, pyramidal like obelisks, conical like
2838 2,3|               bring down one of these quadramani with a gunshot, and Pencroft
2839 2,6|        depredations of quadrumana and quadrapeds. ~On the 15th of November,
2840 2,7|             between the zebra and the quagga!" ~"Why not donkeys?" asked
2841 1,2|             They will be as tender as quails! Come along, Neb, come!
2842 2,1|           Where Harding's engineering qualifications now came into play was in
2843 2,9|            old Jup there is never any quarreling," often repeated Pencroft, "
2844 1,9|               the ground; workings of quarries and mines; machines for
2845 2,2|          Bible printed in English, in quarto, remarkable from a typographic
2846 1,7|            devote not less than seven quarts of nitro-glycerine to the
2847 1,3|               added a little lime and quartz. This paste made regular "
2848 2,4|            large size who had come to quench their thirst at the stream,
2849 3,9|      colonists would have no means of quenching their thirst. But, fortunately
2850 1,9|               There is Top already in quest." ~"We will hunt, then,"
2851 3,5|               human being is not more questionable for us, I agree that he
2852 3,8|       improbable stories. Herbert had questioned him on the subject of Ayrton,
2853 3,3|             The colonists were on the qui vive, and did not leave
2854 3,5|                holding the end of the quick-match, stood ready to fire. ~At
2855 3,0|              felt his pulse gradually quicken. ~It was five in the morning.
2856 1,3|              heat, made a very strong quicklime, greatly increased by slacking,
2857 3,4|           long in disappearing in the quicksands of the channel. ~It was
2858 1,7|             Pencroft could feel rapid quiverings under his head as it rested
2859 3,0|             be that the fever was not quotidian, but tertian, and that it
2860 2,8|              wheels of the cart. ~The rabbit-warren still continued to supply
2861 1,2|            war is as old as the human race-unhappily." ~"Faith, that's true,
2862 3,2|              took a revolver from the rack, and assured himself that
2863 1,7|             into particles like dust. Ragged masses of vapor drove along
2864 2,8|                The corral finished, a raid had to be made on the pastures
2865 1,0|                it was surrounded by a railing; and the grain was buried
2866 2,7|              some day we shall have a railroad from Granite House to Port
2867 2,8|           some day rolling along on a railway!" ~They then set to work,
2868 2,3|            with all the colors of the rainbow. Beyond that, the Mercy
2869 3,0|               fragments of the island rained down on every side. ~When
2870 1,0|                On this day, as it was raining in torrents, the settlers
2871 1,8|              greatly increased by the rains, and which filtered through
2872 3,6|               Prince Dakkar, son of a rajah of the then independent
2873 3,6|       vanquished, and the land of the rajahs of old fell again under
2874 3,7|             Captain Nemo had somewhat rallied from the prostration which
2875 3,1|              the ball is which I have rammed into my gun?" ~"No, Pencroft!" ~"
2876 2,6|             who had forgotten all his rancor against "the jokers." ~Then,
2877 1,3|            three thousand, which were ranged near each other, until the
2878 1,3|              wearied by the continued ranges of granite. Lastly, beyond
2879 1,2|         reckoned with. Gideon Spilett ranked among the first of those
2880 1,5|          corners of the passages were ransacked before they were obliged
2881 3,8|             admit, that it is perhaps rarer to see a dressing well done
2882 1,2|        kangaroos, rock kangaroos, and rat kangaroos, which are more
2883 2,9|               from the east, and hail rattled against the facade of Granite
2884 3,1|           time, the chains were heard rattling through the hawse-holes. ~
2885 1,1|            those which so frightfully ravaged Havana and Guadalupe, one
2886 3,3|                in the rugged northern ravines, among the streams of lava,
2887 1,6|                as well as Selkirk and Raynal shipwrecked on Juan Fernandez
2888 2,1|              having ended his survey, re-ascended, drew up the ladder, covered
2889 3,5|               south-western spur, and re-descend on that arid plateau terminated
2890 3,5|             torrents. The thunder was re-echoed among the rocks with a grand
2891 2,8|               Cyrus Harding's idea of re-employing that which had been already
2892 3,9|            the reporter, and Pencroft re-enter, guessed that their situation
2893 2,6|          ladder to the ground, and so re-establish the communication between
2894 1,6|            said Herbert, "and that it reaches the sea by some subterranean
2895 2,1|            Talking while they worked, reading when the hands remained
2896 2,7|            under the eye of a God who reads the depths of the heart,
2897 2,0|        reporter presenting him with a ready-filled pipe, and Herbert with a
2898 2,2|            science, in six volumes; 3 reams of white paper, 2 books
2899 3,8|       possibility of the Scotch yacht reappearing in those seas, and it was
2900 2,7|               but once harnessed they reared and could with difficulty
2901 2,1|               all this scaffolding of reasonings fell before a simple ball
2902 2,1|             hundred years." ~"That is reassuring for us, but a bad look-out
2903 3,8|           answered the reporter. "The reawakening of the volcano already dates
2904 3,6|             curling his lips. "Yes, a rebel, perhaps an outlaw against
2905 2,9|                and which the Southern rebellion was perhaps still staining
2906 3,6|              at length the sanguinary rebels were utterly defeated, and
2907 2,1|              impotent fury. The waves rebounded in dazzling foam, the beach
2908 3,4|         friend, that since we have to rebuild our vessel it will be best
2909 3,2|              him along and he rapidly receded from the shore. ~Half an
2910 3,6|         pursuers. ~Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever
2911 2,3|             being carried away by the receding tide; then Pencroft and
2912 3,6|               did not acknowledge the receipt of the despatch, as he was
2913 2,2|             that if you disclose your receipts to me, I shall publish them." ~"
2914 2,8|           with the corral. ~As to the receiver and manipulator, they were
2915 2,2|             For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth." ~ ~
2916 3,9|       immediately gave a most cordial reception. ~"Jup!" exclaimed Pencroft. ~ "
2917 2,1|        interested his auditors by his recitals, his views, and his prognostics. ~
2918 2,0|           Maria Stella" would come to reclaim the animal harpooned by
2919 3,5|             wretches might perhaps be reclaimed. Was it not their interest
2920 3,8|             me," said Ayrton, who had reclined so as to place his ear to
2921 3,6|        Chapter 16 ~At these words the reclining figure rose, and the electric
2922 3,1|               some time." ~"And if he recognizes her," added Pencroft, "it
2923 1,2|            later would have been past recognizing in Top's stomach. But fortunately
2924 1,2|               gale. ~Our readers will recollect what befell these five daring
2925 3,0|          would wait on opportunity to recommence the attack. ~It was, therefore,
2926 3,1|           give them an opportunity of recommencing their work of destruction.
2927 2,6|        himself, but on the engineer's recommendation, they respected the reserve
2928 2,1|           remembering Cyrus Harding's recommendations, did not go beyond a radius
2929 3,6|              these men were worthy to reconcile Captain Nemo with that humanity
2930 3,3|              the bows, ready to fire, reconnoitered the island. Their object
2931 3,0|           Everything would have to be reconstructed. ~Cyrus Harding's face,
2932 1,6|           fatigues, must first of all recruit their strength. ~The Chimneys
2933 2,4|             it would be impossible to rectify her course. Pencroft, uneasy
2934 2,3|             by the compass followed a rectilinear direction. From time to
2935 1,2|          ducks, pelicans, water-hens, red-beaks, philedons, furnished with
2936 2,9|       Yesterday the sun set in a very red-looking horizon, and now, this morning,
2937 1,1|            barking, these foxes, with reddish-gray hair, black tails terminating
2938 1,5|        question did not belong to the redoubtable family of the plantigrades.
2939 2,2|            This was formed of granite reeks, capriciously distributed,
2940 1,7|             signified "Wait!" then he reentered the passage. ~An instant
2941 3,6|          signal Neb should return and reestablish the communication between
2942 3,6|              Readers should therefore refer to the note already published
2943 2,8|            knowing way when Pencroft, referring to his joke of the first
2944 3,6|              of their country. ~(This refers to the resurrection of the
2945 1,2|           said the sailor. ~This word refining need not awake in the mind
2946 2,1|               suspended his work, was reflecting on this incident. ~"Fifteen
2947 2,7|             work! How he prayed to be reformed by prayer! For two years,
2948 2,5|            then, Cyrus, to succeed in reforming the man?" asked the reporter. ~"
2949 1,3|              making allowance for the refraction. This morning he noted,
2950 2,7|            for the onager, being less refractory than the zebra, is frequently
2951 1,9|                Then, feeling somewhat refreshed, Cyrus Harding crossed his
2952 3,7|       Nautilus." There they took some refreshment and returned to the saloon. ~
2953 1,7|              without even employing a refrigerant mixture, several pints of
2954 3,1|          transformed into an infamous refuge-the headquarters of the piracy
2955 3,2|        engineer, who felt sure that a refusal would have deeply wounded
2956 1,0|            The engineer, accordingly, regardless of fatigue, leaving Pencroft
2957 2,8|            and which would temper the regimen on which the settlers had
2958 3,1|              be to create everlasting regrets." ~It was therefore decided
2959 2,9|           supposed, no one thought of regretting the change. Top particularly
2960 2,5|                would be sufficient to reillumine that soul, a recollection
2961 2,2|               have been supposed that reinforcements were continually arriving
2962 2,6|             the settlers would end by reinstating themselves in their domicile
2963 2,0|               to make it disappear by reiterated washing, but could not accomplish
2964 2,1|               is something which will rejoice friend Pencroft's heart." ~
2965 2,2|            with him the sign of great rejoicing. ~At one moment he advanced
2966 1,2|             object, that of escaping, rejoining Grant's army, and fighting
2967 2,4|            his obscured intellect, to rekindle his dulled soul. The dwelling
2968 1,9|                the engineer had again relapsed into unconsciousness, which
2969 3,1|             to frequent and dangerous relapses, but the most assiduous
2970 3,8|             lake. Had this meteor any relation to the phenomena going on
2971 1,6|         powerful animal, after having released the dog, was fighting on
2972 1,9|             Pooh!" ~"Nor any means of relighting it!" ~"Nonsense!" ~"But
2973 1,3|            rest. These Americans were religious men, scrupulous observers
2974 3,3|              news of his friends, and relinquished all hope of ever seeing
2975 3,3|        Gentlemen," said Ayrton, as he reloaded his gun, "this is becoming
2976 2,2|               would have indeed great reluctance in letting two or three
2977 2,1|               All this required to be remade more solidly than before,
2978 2,1|             the engineer. ~During the remainder of the month of July there
2979 1,7|           companions. Let us keep our remarks to ourselves, and continue
2980 3,0|       Refreshing drinks were the only remedies at the colonists' disposal.
2981 2,1|              companions of the chase, remembering Cyrus Harding's recommendations,
2982 1,1|            the reporter, "which would remind us of America." ~"Yes, for
2983 2,9|              him company, and made no remonstrance. ~On the morning of the
2984 3,7|            was useless to contemplate removing him to Granite House, for
2985 1,2|       imagination of an artist of the Renaissance. As to the damage caused
2986 2,8|       substituting for it some easily renewable substance. ~To replace lead,
2987 3,8|            storms was attended by the renewal of volcanic symptoms. ~It
2988 3,4|             and topsides! These great rents appear rather to have been
2989 3,9|            wounds, half healed, might reopen on the way, did not give
2990 2,1|             merino, muslin, cashmere, rep, satin, alpaca, cloth, nor
2991 3,7|           last wishes, and I shall be repaid for all I have done for
2992 2,7|         settlers busied themselves in repairing the disorder caused by the
2993 3,0|           would have been more easily reparable than the ruins accumulated
2994 1,2|                prepared a magnificent repast-the two little peccaries, kangaroo
2995 2,0|            them off by firing at them repeatedly. ~The whale was a female,
2996 3,2|       shouldered, they stood ready to repel any attack. ~They had no
2997 3,3|           firm. The once convict, now repentant and pardoned, would rather
2998 1,0|      glittering Southern Cross, which replaces the Polar Star of the Northern
2999 1,1|     microscopic creatures the task of replacing this agent, of which the
3000 3,8|              goats were enclosed, and replenish the provision of forage
3001 3,9|          absorbed, because it was not replenished, while the stream of lava,