Part,  Chapter

3503 3,2|             it in an instant. ~Ayrton stole carefully along the between-decks,
3504 2,1|               being found dead, their stomachs pierced by the unbent bones. ~
3505 2,2|              it with! Well, perhaps a stone-" ~And the sailor, raising
3506 2,7|               he ate with relish some stonepine almonds and rhizome roots,
3507 2,3|           soon the boat grated on the stony bottom of the river, which
3508 3,5|             time one of the colonists stooped down and felt for the wire
3509 1,2|           that's worth the trouble of stooping for." ~Towards ten o'clock
3510 1,7|              roaring of the storm-" ~"Stop-listen-" said the reporter. ~Pencroft
3511 2,5|         doubled the Cape, we shall be stopped-" ~"By the Mercy! of course,"
3512 1,4|            the sailor thought that by stopping-up some of the openings with
3513 2,6|             or probably even into the store-room. And when they thought of
3514 3,4|               no want of space in the store-rooms of Granite House, but that
3515 2,6|               may do in the rooms and storehouse-" ~"Have patience," replied
3516 3,8|               him the most improbable stories. Herbert had questioned
3517 1,7|            how, in the roaring of the storm-" ~"Stop-listen-" said the
3518 2,0|              the mainmast by way of a storm-sail, he hove to, putting the
3519 2,6|           really perplexing. Pencroft stormed. There was a comic side
3520 2,0|              believe that even in the stormiest weather, the sea here must
3521 2,1|               we burn diamonds in our stoves in the shape of coal?" ~"
3522 3,4|               would not allow them to stow away the whole. It would
3523 3,4|         simple packages, of which the stowage, besides, was no longer
3524 1,5|            walking up and down on the strand, signalized the return of
3525 2,0|             the scene of action. ~The stranding had taken place on the beach
3526 1,1|               the lower shore of this strangely-formed land. ~At the narrowest
3527 3,5|             plateau terminated by the strangely-wild basalt cliff. From time
3528 2,2|              throats of the foxes and strangling them instantaneously. Jup
3529 3,7|              prevent the inflammatory strangulation of the injured parts, then
3530 1,2|              Richmond, and by dint of stratagem and shrewdness, after having
3531 1,6|                walking apart, but not straying far from each other, began
3532 2,9|               bark, which bore leaves streaked with little parallel veins. ~"
3533 3,3|               spreading in a thousand streamlets, that the soil of the Serpentine
3534 1,5|               well off, and were much strengthened by them. Oh! if only one
3535 2,1|          carders, combers, polishers, stretchers, twisters, mule-jenny, nor
3536 3,9|          Dakkar Grotto. ~"This cavern stretches under the island as far
3537 2,0|            keep them bent, and I will strew them on the snow, having
3538 1,2|            millions of years to cool, strewed the plain, very confused
3539 1,6|         themselves among the branches strewing their feathers, which covered
3540 3,3|       position in which they had been stricken by death in its most instantaneous
3541 3,9|            breathlessly regarded this strife of the two elements. ~What
3542 2,7|              the legs and tail white, striped with black on the head and
3543 2,2|              containing the stars and stripes of their glorious Union.
3544 2,5|             at once, the lad, who had strolled by the river, came running
3545 3,3|             hesitating. Even with his strongest telescopes he could not
3546 1,2|               which was the principal stronghold of the South, during the
3547 1,1|             my friend; of him who now struggles to defend the unity of the
3548 1,6|               it!" ~The sailor having strung the couroucous like larks
3549 1,2|             shores and on the islets, strutted wild ducks, pelicans, water-hens,
3550 1,4|           numerous birds were gravely strutting. They were divers, easily
3551 3,6|               recounted the past, and studied the present and future.
3552 3,0|            Herbert, who completed his studies under the superintendence
3553 1,9|             had a good opportunity of studying many specimens of the vegetable
3554 1,2|       bringing back a young partridge stuffed with truffles!" ~"What?"
3555 2,1|             in fact, the first woolen stuffs were manufactured by the
3556 3,2|            dimly lighted deck without stumbling over some half-sleeping
3557 2,2|            still held in his hand the stump of his broken cudgel, but
3558 2,9|              of surprise bordering on stupefaction. But, although they remained
3559 2,9|         distant geological sea. These stupendous masses would have terrified
3560 2,6|               of the gorilla, nor the stupidity of the baboon. It is to
3561 3,6|              that being whom they had styled the "genius of the island,"
3562 1,8|        picturesque mixture of all the styles of Byzantine, Roman, or
3563 3,7|             perhaps mortal! Now, what styptics, what antiphiogistics ought
3564 2,6|               obliged to use force to subdue him, nor draw his teeth,
3565 1,1|               the South would soon be subdued, and that the cause of the
3566 1,2|               on all sorts of curious subjects, of the unpublished, of
3567 3,9|            its cataracts of fire. The sublime horror of this spectacle
3568 2,9|            capricious in its terrible sublimity! Here, bridges were thrown
3569 2,7|            they were more sure of his submission. ~Then, before retiring
3570 2,5|          Immediately the unhappy man, submitting to a superior will, gradually
3571 3,4|              go, no matter where, and subscribe to some newspaper for me!
3572 3,5|            prevailed the thought of a subsequent return to Lincoln Island.
3573 3,6|              revealed he had rendered subservient the illimitable forces of
3574 2,2|          through, the fever gradually subsided, and Gideon Spilett, who
3575 3,9|              even gather the means of subsistence! ~"It is enough to break
3576 2,1|               channel under the rocky subsoil of the beach, which placed
3577 1,4|             fifty-three degrees being subtracted from ninety degrees-the
3578 3,9|              or later bring about the subversion of its foundation." ~"Nonsense!
3579 3,0|           been justly considered as a succedaneum for Peruvian bark, as has
3580 1,2|          united ought to insure human success-activity of mind and body, impetuous
3581 3,6|               Nemo, we, whom you have succored, shall ever mourn your loss." ~
3582 1,2|                but, not accustomed to succumb to difficulties, he resolved
3583 3,4|             two friends-for they were such-no longer prowled round the
3584 1,9|               quantity of lithodomes, sucked the sargassum, of which
3585 2,1|               Pencroft. "It was still sucking its mother when I found
3586 1,2|            each of the guests. ~These suckling-pigs were really delicious, and
3587 1,0|               gave them, for all of a sudden-"Sheep!" he shouted. ~All
3588 3,8|               able to surprise by the suddenness of their attack, yet not
3589 3,4|            this explanation would not suffice. ~"It has even been observed,"
3590 2,1|              to give utterance to the suggestions which this fact, at once
3591 1,9|           These rooms, or rather this suite of rooms, would not occupy
3592 3,6|            been there yet. Long grass suits reptiles best, and evidently
3593 3,2|          which Top was heard growling sullenly. ~The engineer, leaving
3594 1,7|            Harding lit the end of the sulphured fiber, and leaving the place,
3595 1,4|            pole, we shall only have a sum in proportion to do, which
3596 1,1|               island strange. It is a summary of all the aspects which
3597 3,3|              in these three words was summed up so much fatigue uselessly
3598 3,4|              must not forget that the summers here, on the contrary, are
3599 3,6|          short, yet he was obliged to summon up his whole remaining energy
3600 1,2|             age, strongly built, very sunburnt, and possessed of a pair
3601 2,3|                which glittered in the sunlight like winged rubies. ~"These
3602 1,2|              with bronzed wings, some superbly crested, others draped in
3603 3,6|             of those who observed him superficially he might have passed for
3604 3,0|       completed his studies under the superintendence of Cyrus Harding, and Gideon
3605 3,5|             him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures
3606 2,0|           incidents are, so to speak, supernatural-" ~"Supernatural!" exclaimed
3607 3,6|             Their ignorance and gross superstition made them the facile tools
3608 2,2|                saying,-"Captain, I am superstitious. Open at random and read
3609 3,1|                but no access of fever supervened. And then, the poor boy
3610 1,0|             so much importance. ~They supped capitally. The flesh of
3611 1,5|          fireplace and to prepare the supper-an easy task. Large flat stones
3612 3,5|           Granite House by means of a supplementary wire joined to the old one. ~
3613 2,8|              had till then subsisted. Supplies of wood and coal were also
3614 2,3|               true, Pencroft." ~"That supports what I said," returned the
3615 3,3|               himself sufficiently to suppress his emotion when he embraced
3616 3,7|              in his back and chest to suppurate easily, and absolute rest
3617 3,6|            without, the influence and supremacy in Asia of the United Kingdom
3618 1,6|             much work, and would be a surer retreat, for it would be
3619 1,8|          which the undulations of the surge must sometimes agitate in
3620 3,8|            companions that which most surgeons willingly admit, that it
3621 1,6|               then, as the sailor had surmised, several couple of grouse
3622 3,8|            they would be powerless to surmount. It appeared to him besides,
3623 1,1|               devastating tempest. It surpassed in disasters those which
3624 1,2|      representatives of the family of sus by the little appendage
3625 1,7|        Harding, therefore, thought of suspending a mass of iron, weighing
3626 3,9|         sailor, "and I repented of my suspicion a long time ago! But it
3627 2,0|             happen if a hungry animal swallows one of these baits? Why,
3628 2,4|        minutes, for the crayfish were swarming in the creek. A bag was
3629 2,8|            Herbert. ~They were indeed swarms of sea-birds, with dazzling
3630 3,2|             his energies, and waited, swearing to himself. ~Soon the last
3631 1,5|           Europe from that with which Sweden and Norway are so abundantly
3632 2,6|               they can wait at table, sweep rooms, brush clothes, clean
3633 1,2| unquestionable traces of its ravages. Sweeping over the islet, it had furiously
3634 1,9|                basil, savory, all the sweet-scented species of the labiated
3635 2,3|         allowed the "Bonadventure" to swerve even a point. The night
3636 1,7|           these two races crossed the swiftness of foot and the acuteness
3637 3,2|           said Herbert. ~"I am a good swimmer, Mr. Herbert." ~"I tell
3638 1,5|         conformation, being excellent swimmers, it is difficult to catch
3639 1,7|         distributed. They resembled a Switzerland modeled in sand, and only
3640 3,8|            seem that the lava, though swollen by the internal pressure,
3641 3,7|           wounds produced either by a sword-bayonet or shot. Assisted by Cyrus
3642 2,2|              and Top licked it with a sympathizing air. ~They employed the
3643 3,0|               weak and giddy. Another symptom alarmed the reporter to
3644 1,2|           become white and to be of a syrupy consistence. ~But there
3645 1,1|                the water and mountain systems ascertained. The disposition
3646 2,2|          kettles, 1 portable stove, 6 table-knives, ~Books:-1 Bible, 1 atlas,
3647 1,3|               appeared. It was a flat tableland like that above Cape Town
3648 1,2|            cold, and formed cakes and tablets. This was sugar of rather
3649 3,9|               some measure the somber taciturnity occasioned by the devastation
3650 1,1|             beak. Herbert called them tadorns. Top helped in the capture
3651 1,4|             twelve hundred miles from Tahiti and the islands of the archipelago
3652 1,3|      dockyards in Brooklyn, assistant tailor in the vessels of the state,
3653 2,8|               remarkable aptitude for tailoring. ~The cloth of which the
3654 2,0|              for they did not wish to taint the environs of Granite
3655 1,2|           were also of the species of Tajacu, recognizable by their deep
3656 1,3|         abilities. ~Gideon Spilett, a talented reporter, having learned
3657 3,4|    indefatigable, not indiscreet, not talkative, and he might have been
3658 1,0|       appeared to branch out like the talons of an immense claw set on
3659 2,3|               another in the midst of tangled brushwood and long grass.
3660 1,1|               the form of a yataghan, tapered away nearly four miles to
3661 1,6|             of amphibian to which the tapering head, with large eyes, and
3662 3,7|             hanging from the splendid tapestries of the partitions, the chef-d'
3663 3,3|               even went the length of tapping every rock. The search was
3664 2,2|             were covered with boiling tar, which was obtained in great
3665 2,3|              and covered with a thick tarpaulin. ~The half-closed door was
3666 1,3|              are absinthe, balm-mint, tarragon, etc., gathered several
3667 2,4|          according to Marco Polo, the Tartars have employed it for many
3668 1,0|              Harding. ~"Bread, cakes, tarts!" replied the sailor. "Come,
3669 1,2|         temperate zone of America and Tasmania, and no longer to those
3670 1,2|           water oily to the touch. He tasted it and found it rather sweet.
3671 2,2|               that this similarity of tastes of Jup and Pencroft served
3672 1,0|            under long silky hair of a tawny color. ~They were not ordinary
3673 1,7|             most listened to, and who teaches the best. ~When the heap
3674 1,2|              the wires with incessant telegrams, like those who speak when
3675 1,1|             establish railways, start telegraphs, and one fine day, when
3676 1,4|             be perceived. ~"Something tells me," cried Herbert, "that
3677 1,2|             his vigorous and sanguine temperament. Learned, clear-headed,
3678 1,8|               been transported into a temple! ~Cries of admiration issued
3679 2,1|           widened behind by the large temporal fossae hidden under the
3680 2,8|          through the magnet which was temporarily magnetized, and returned
3681 2,3|               an appearance likely to tempt vessels to touch there.
3682 2,7|              was ready to receive its tenant. It was built about twenty
3683 2,6|           well laid out and carefully tended, so that the arms of the
3684 3,8|            tokens, and the wind had a tendency to shift from one point
3685 1,2|           months old! They will be as tender as quails! Come along, Neb,
3686 3,6|               born to them, whom they tenderly loved. But domestic happiness
3687 2,5|           looked at him with infinite tenderness. Immediately the unhappy
3688 2,1|         coalrooms of steamers and the tenders of locomotives will, instead
3689 1,3|             have been compared to the tendons of animals. Pencroft thus
3690 3,7|               was now but the fragile tenement of a departing soul. All
3691 1,7|            explosive power is perhaps tenfold that of ordinary powder,
3692 3,5|        extended as possible, and this tension could only be obtained under
3693 3,7|             caused by bathing them in tepid water, and compressing their
3694 1,4|          others, the phasianella, the terebratual, etc. But what would be
3695 1,6|           struggle, and could not but terminate in the death of the dog!
3696 1,2|            what might possibly be the termination of the hazardous voyage
3697 3,0|          might have been an island on terra firma. ~There, under the
3698 1,6|        covered with trees disposed in terraces, intercepted the view. On
3699 3,4|              flat conformation of the territories bordering on the pole, and
3700 3,7|            death which had for him no terrors. ~"We can do nothing," said
3701 3,0|          fever was not quotidian, but tertian, and that it would return
3702 2,0|            very elastic, of a fibrous texture, and fringed at the edge
3703 1,5|            fire on the dry sand, what thanksgiving must they have rendered
3704 1,0|            But these prayers were now thanksgivings. The settlers in Lincoln
3705 1,5|        replied the engineer, "and for that-something which will please you-we
3706 3,0|             plateau had just been the theater. ~It was only during the
3707 1,8|             his hand slightly pressed theirs. ~A few words again escaped
3708 1,0|               were numerous traces of them-must necessarily belong to those
3709 2,5|         rather the stranger as he was thenceforth termed by his companions,
3710 1,1|               replied Spilett, "these theories are prophecies to me, and
3711 3,7|          wounds, the most efficacious therapeutic agent in grave cases, and
3712 3,5|              hollow in the rocks, and there-~"We must wait," said he. "
3713 2,6|         am-what I have done-why I was there-alone? And who told you that I
3714 2,6|              that I was not abandoned there-that I was not condemned to die
3715    | thereby
3716 1,2|              As soon as this began to thicken, Neb carefully removed it
3717 1,5|              to northwest, and in the thickest part. It was necessary to
3718 3,5|                 But what can make you think-" asked Pencroft. ~"He would
3719 2,8|              more recent time than he thinks." ~"Of course it must be
3720 1,1|              America traversed by the thirtieth and fortieth parallels.
3721 2,2|              flag, the sailor added a thirty-eighth, the star of "the State
3722 2,3|             Island, that is to say in thirty-six hours, which would give
3723 1,0|              poppy-plant, which bears thirty-two thousand seeds; to the tobacco-plant,
3724 3,1|               yellow and black, while this-" ~At that moment the breeze
3725 1,7|           sandy downs, bristling with thistles. There was no cliff, and
3726 1,0|               said, "His bonnet was a thocht ajee." It appeared formed
3727 1,3|            fixed with a strong acacia thorn which was found in the wood
3728    | Thou
3729 1,3|              Then, after some minutes thought-~"Herbert," he asked of the
3730 1,2|            was occupied with one sole thought-how he might get out of Richmond
3731 3,9|            were possessed by the same thought-to hasten to the corral and
3732 3,5|        regretted that Pencroft had so thoughtlessly put this question. And he
3733 1,6|              case if cold did not yet threaten them, the rainy season would
3734 1,8|            bark. Neither caresses nor threats could make him be silent. ~"
3735 2,7|            asked if he knew whether a three-masted English vessel, the 'Britannia,'
3736 1,5|            without saying anything. A threefold thought weighed on his mind.
3737 1,8|      endeavored to catch the faintest throb of the heart. ~Neb had raised
3738 1,8|             engineer, he also heard a throbbing, and even felt a slight
3739 2,9|              as its mother, and which throve capitally. In the corral,
3740 2,1|             it between his finger and thumb; then, turning to Pencroft,
3741 3,5|              lightning-flash and each thunder-clap diminished rapidly. The
3742 1,2|          House the sea could be heard thundering against the reefs. In some
3743 1,9|              scented the air, such as thyme, basil, savory, all the
3744 1,4|            some dead wood. The rising tide-and it could already be perceived-must
3745 3,6|            bound to each other by the ties of friendship. As if despite
3746 2,1|                when you have seen our tight-rigged little craft, when you have
3747 2,2|            Jup and Pencroft served to tighten the bonds of friendship
3748 1,9|            time. ~However, Neb having tightened his grasp on his stick,
3749 1,3|            used for making bricks and tiles, it was very useful for
3750 3,8|          grand expedition at the same time-" ~"As the search for our
3751 2,2|           fight uttering from time to time-a sharp hissing sound, which
3752 2,6|        humility. He appeared anxious, timorous, ashamed, and his eyes were
3753 2,4|               clothes; on the table a tin plate and a Bible, eaten
3754 1,9|             some substance similar to tinder-" ~"Well?" asked the sailor. ~"
3755 1,5|             you must have something-a tinder-box-anything that can possibly make fire!" ~"
3756 3,5|       sentence was cut short by a new tinkle of the bell. ~Harding went
3757 1,1|              in relief with different tints, green for the forests,
3758 1,9|               it was only held by the tip of its ear, uttered a vigorous
3759 2,2|               to time Top, walking on tip-toe, as one might say, came
3760 1,7|            crests of the billows were tipped with a wild light, and the
3761 1,8|          water some moisture from the titra's flesh which he had brought.
3762 2,9|           engineer, "to pass not only to-night but to-morrow in that bay,
3763 3,6|               her." ~"Gone off! where to-to Tabor Island?" replied Pencroft. "
3764 1,0|              ever I find one of those tobacco-seeds, which multiply by three
3765 3,1|             and, consequently, if not today, to-morrow at the latest,
3766 1,9|          having hard scanty hair; its toes, then strongly fixed in
3767 2,1|             island, for we will do so together-I fancy, I say, that you will
3768 2,9|         several articles both for the toilet and the kitchen, particularly
3769 3,7|              must perish with me. One token alone will remain with you
3770 3,0|           result from it. ~"If before tomorrow morning we have not given
3771 3,6|               in a boat of such small tonnage?" ~"We must, besides, be
3772 3,4|               manufactured goods, and tools-such as the ships which make
3773 3,9|         well-armed and accompanied by Top-" ~"My dear Spilett, and
3774 3,0|             news than that brought by Top-disastrous news: Ayrton disappeared,
3775 3,1|                under her topsails and top-gallant-sails. This was confirmed by Ayrton.
3776 3,3|          began to clear away, and the topmasts of the brig issued from
3777 1,1|          sailors call "a close-reefed topsail breeze," but the commotion
3778 3,4|               blowing up the deck and topsides! These great rents appear
3779 2,7|               everything in the rooms topsy-turvy, yet they had broken nothing.
3780 2,5|              sight the depths of that torpid intelligence. Sometimes
3781 3,3|             day Ayrton awoke from his torpor, and his companions cordially
3782 2,0|             subject them to a certain torrefaction on hot stones. This took
3783 1,7|              had Neb not returned? He tossed about on his sandy couch,
3784 1,1|          water. They viewed it in its tout-ensemble, nothing remained concealed
3785 2,9|             of all shapes, round like towers, prismatic like steeples,
3786 3,1|              den to which they may be tracked like tigers!" ~"No," replied
3787 1,2|               darted on the kangaroos tracks. Cyrus Harding called them
3788 2,5|             was composed, first, of a tract of low land, bordered in
3789 1,6|        exposed as the other is to the trade-winds, which in this hemisphere
3790 1,1|       consisted solely of the roasted tragopan, the engineer wished to
3791 3,0|       everywhere. The fields had been trampled over; the ears of wheat,
3792 1,3|             which heat plays in these transformations is known. Now fuel, wood
3793 3,7|             gave forth lighted up the translucent water, while the cavern
3794 3,5|              so as to assure the free transmission of the current. It appeared
3795 2,7|            can clear the plateau, and transplant wild plants to it." ~"And
3796 2,8|            wild plants which had been transplanted from the forest to Prospect
3797 2,3|              possible to cultivate by transplanting. There were cresses, horseradish,
3798 1,8|              his mind. However, after traveling for two hours, fatigue overcame
3799 1,4|             movement round the earth, traverses one degree in four minutes,
3800 1,6|               dog to venture into the treacherous water. ~"What's happening
3801 3,6|    consequently, cannot be accused of treachery." ~"The Frenchman who was
3802 1,2|            for his journal, a perfect treasury of knowledge on all sorts
3803 1,7|        manufactured this substance by treating the carbonate of potash,
3804 1,8|               new outlet was at least treble that which before passed
3805 3,1|               the island, such as the tree-fern, with its leaves spread
3806 3,1|          hundred feet. These were the tree-kings of New Zealand, as celebrated
3807 3,4|             ribs, the iron bolts, and treenalls which united them. From
3808 2,7|               for a moment. His voice trembled, but he continued,-~"The
3809 1,5|             do it," said he, "my hand trembles, the match has missed fire;
3810 3,0|       shiverings, horripilations, and tremblings. His pulse was weak and
3811 2,2|             all convalescents, he was tremendously hungry, and the reporter
3812 1,3|               rounded coast appeared, trending from the southwest to the
3813 3,1|             Chilean flag?-but that is tri-color. Brazilian?-it is green.
3814 3,1|            could reach. The feathered tribes of the island were all represented-grouse,
3815 3,3|             the absorption of several tributaries, were formed by all the
3816 2,1|         forest furnished a sufficient tribute of agoutis, capybaras, kangaroos,
3817 1,0|            also to shave, or at least trim their beards. Herbert had
3818 1,1|              explore the soil, in the triple point of view, of its mineral,
3819 2,7| unsuccessfully visited the islands of Tristan d'Acunha and Amsterdam,
3820 2,7|               cried the sailor with a triumphant air. ~In fact, the first
3821 1,2|             the turf. ~Neb reappeared triumphantly holding one of the rodents
3822 1,4|             had probably never before trod. Pencroft began directly
3823 3,6|              The sun was entering the tropic of Capricorn, and gave the
3824 1,4|              northern climates to the tropics. The young naturalist recognized
3825 3,8|         corral and set off at a round trot. ~Above the forest were
3826 2,8|              presence would have been troublesome at Granite House, and especially
3827 1,8|             thoughts were, even then, troubling his brain. This time he
3828 2,6|                a sort of large square trough, wide at the top, narrow
3829 2,1|                The wool was placed in troughs, and upon it fell in turns
3830 2,8|           they frequently caught fine trout, and a species of fish whose
3831 1,9|            handled the hammer and the trowel. No labor came amiss to
3832 1,3|           disappointment, when, after trudging nearly two miles, having
3833 1,2|          young partridge stuffed with truffles!" ~"What?" cried Pencroft. "
3834 1,6|               others. Suddenly a loud trumpet call resounded through the
3835 1,0|           first plateau formed by the truncating of the lower cone, the difficulties
3836 2,7|              a year, answered for his trustworthiness. Lord Glenarvan, therefore,
3837 1,5|            the proceeding employed by Tubalcain, and the first metallurgists
3838 2,9|             much and so well into the tube-taking care to twirl it round at
3839 1,3|            which was added the boiled tubercules of the "caladium macrorhizum,"
3840 2,8|                some of those precious tubers, which have at all times
3841 2,9|               without first coming to tuck up the worthy sailor in
3842 1,1|          tails terminating in a white tuft, had betrayed their origin.
3843 1,3|                etc., gathered several tufts, and, presenting them to
3844 1,6|             Pencroft then gave little tugs which moved the bait as
3845 1,8|              we must take care not to tumble into a hole." ~"Go, Top,
3846 3,3|              other side of the islet, tumbled into the boat which had
3847 2,9|       transparent. ~As to bottles and tumblers, that was only play. They
3848 1,5|               easily disappear in the tumbling about we have gone through.
3849 3,3|           colonists even visited dark tunnels, dating from the volcanic
3850 2,2|            sitting crosslegged like a Turk at the entrance to Granite
3851 1,2|           with the high grass called "tussac" in New Holland; but the
3852 2,8|           with which they often had a tussle. They also, during this
3853 3,3|            sailor's confidence in the tutelary deity of his island was
3854 2,9|              his little pensioners by tweaking their tails; but this was
3855 2,9|             stationary at a height of twenty-nine inches and nine-tenths,
3856 2,2|        hatchets, 3 planes, 2 adzes, 1 twibil or mattock, 6 chisels, 2
3857 2,3|           remarked the lardizabala, a twining shrub which, when bruised
3858 2,1|                polishers, stretchers, twisters, mule-jenny, nor self-acting
3859 2,1|         opening his mouth to show the two-and-thirty teeth with which it was
3860 2,5|            opening. I don't mean from two-legged thieves, but from those
3861 1,1|               case with regard to the typhoons of the Indian Ocean? ~But
3862 2,2|             quarto, remarkable from a typographic point of view, and which
3863 1,4|      geometrical plan represented the typographical sign "&," which signifies "
3864 2,3|          making a tolerable wine; the Ugui myrtle, which contains an
3865 2,3|          magnificent specimens of the ulmaceae tribe, the precious elm,
3866 1,3|           invariable meridian for his ulterior operations. ~The settlers
3867 3,3|       estimate the importance nor the ultimate result." ~Cyrus Harding
3868 2,0|           although there were neither umbrellas nor stays used at Granite
3869 1,8|           events with which Cyrus was unacquainted, the last fall of the balloon,
3870 3,9|               Harding's reasoning was unanswerable, and his companions understood
3871 2,6|              bank of the lake. He was unarmed, and till then had never
3872 1,7|             platina, leaden chambers, unassailable by the acid, and in which
3873 1,5|              of fire being positively unattainable, collected some more shell-fish,
3874 1,0|           would in part be altogether unattained. ~The engineer, accordingly,
3875 3,3|             rendered their own action unavailing, both irritated and piqued
3876 3,8|              and Herbert, except when unavoidably called off by other necessary
3877 3,6|           bottom of the abyss. He was unaware that the Frenchman and his
3878 1,8|            monster had been surprised unawares by the retreat of the water,
3879 2,1|               stomachs pierced by the unbent bones. ~An incident must
3880 2,4|            rate, although he had been unbound, he did not move. He was
3881 1,4|        hundred feet, but the mass was unbroken throughout, and even at
3882 2,6|            been, and that the wish to unburden himself stifles him. Do
3883 3,9|         southern and eastern sides an unceasing flow of lava poured forth,
3884 3,9|             The dog had no longer his unconcerned manner; he went backwards
3885 2,0|               there?" ~"Unless, being unconscious-" said Pencroft. ~"That is
3886 3,5|               iron. ~Thus they almost unconsciously descended this ravine, which
3887 2,1|              the Negro, looking still unconvinced. ~"Of wood," replied Pencroft, "
3888 2,1|             it almost seemed as if an under-current raised these monstrous billows
3889 1,6|             reached the river by some underground drain. Sometimes a stream
3890 3,6|           strength had been gradually undermined by illness, but his voice
3891 2,1|               then drove their sticks underneath the animal, and by their
3892 2,6|              his countenance suddenly underwent a transformation. His eyes
3893 3,2|               the revolver were still undischarged. Two were fired-one, aimed
3894 3,1|             doctor, however, remained undiscovered. ~"We will find him!" repeated
3895 2,2|                What is done cannot be undone," replied Cyrus Harding. "
3896 1,0|                till then, very little undulated, boggy at first, dry and
3897 2,0|       beautifully clear, and the sea, undulating under a soft breeze, was
3898 3,8|               into the boat. A slight undulation of the waves carried it
3899 1,8|               of the water, which the undulations of the surge must sometimes
3900 1,5|          remained motionless, looking uneasily at each other. Herbert was
3901 2,1|          orang, joining the dog, gave unequivocal signs of agitation, and,
3902 2,5|              among the rocks was left unexamined. Pencroft and Neb even rushed
3903 1,3|           head between his hands, and unfastening the collar which the animal
3904 3,8|             burned up, and had become unfit for respiration. At every
3905 3,8|               fact, eruptions are not unfrequently accompanied by earthquakes;
3906 3,1|             it was dangerous to leave unguarded. ~In the afterpart of the
3907 2,3|               the soil was absolutely unhealthy, and the sanitary condition
3908 1,0|             of a fowl, the female was uniformly brown, while the male was
3909 2,9|            coast is merely sand, very uninteresting to look at." ~"I shall not
3910 3,8|           lower portion of a ship and unites firmly the timbers of the
3911 1,1|               struggles to defend the unity of the American Republic!
3912 2,9|              the first time, and gave universal satisfaction. Henceforward
3913 2,2|       fastened the barrels was partly unlashed and used as a cable to unite
3914 3,3|     inexplicable ways, appeared to be unlimited; but also it knew how to
3915 2,9|               twelve and one o'clock. Unluckily, the tide will be turning
3916 2,8|             magnet immediately became unmagnetized. It was sufficient to place
3917 2,0|           well. ~Pencroft worked with unparalleled ardor, and only a sturdy
3918 2,8|            admirable patience was all unpicked by Gideon Spilett and Herbert,
3919 1,2|             happily they avoided this unpleasantness, and found their traps perfectly
3920 1,7|              gale as it beat upon the unprotected coast. ~Happily the pile
3921 2,1|          inland? It will not do to be unprovided." ~"Your idea is good, Pencroft,"
3922 1,2|              curious subjects, of the unpublished, of the unknown, and of
3923 3,6|      grave-somber even-devoured by an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, and
3924 1,3|        volcanic origin, for they were unquestionably the work of subterranean
3925 1,5|             learned, he who was their unquestioned chief, Cyrus Harding, was,
3926 2,4|              his shoulders at such an unreasonable supposition. At any rate
3927 1,2|              to him he approved of it unreservedly. What astonished him was,
3928 2,5|               to the open air, to the unrestrained liberty which he had enjoyed
3929 2,1|            The pigeon-house was twice unroofed and the paling blown down.
3930 2,0|             strong magnifier which he unscrewed from one of the telescopes. ~
3931 3,6|               less sagacious and more unscrupulous than he was, the people
3932 2,1|             be allowed to remain long unsettled." ~"No! a hundred times
3933 2,1|                replied Pencroft, with unshaken confidence, "we shall not
3934 2,7|             the Ocean. ~"After having unsuccessfully visited the islands of Tristan
3935 2,4|            brutishness! ~Shaggy hair, untrimmed beard descending to the
3936 3,5|               mystery was about to be unveiled. The colonists' fatigue
3937 3,3|                they, on the contrary, unwounded, had not missed a shot.
3938 3,3|               Spilett, "but once shut up-" ~"We must be guided by
3939 3,9|               smoking rocks, as if an upheaving of the soil had formed immense
3940 1,9|              continent?" This was his uppermost thought. ~"Well!" replied
3941 3,9|               complete. The deck, the upperworks, the interior woodwork and
3942 1,9|            with extreme care, and its uprights, formed of the twisted fibers
3943 3,7|         entrance is now closed by the uprising of the basaltic rocks, Captain
3944 1,7|            fury of the hurricane, the uproar of the tempest, the thunder,
3945 1,1|              were overthrown, forests uprooted, coasts devastated by the
3946 2,0|           would have been put to many uses. ~Now it happened that this
3947 3,8|              southern spring, was not ushered in by satisfactory tokens,
3948 1,6|            instrument whatever, not a utensil. From nothing they must
3949 3,5|                arms, tools, and spare utensils-in a word, all the stores of
3950 1,9|             during the winter months, utilizing the fertile parts of the
3951 3,9|             pushed forward with their utmost energy, and that this was
3952 2,1|              did not hesitate to give utterance to the suggestions which
3953 2,6|               But we must drive these vagabonds out somehow," cried the
3954 2,8|             was raised to the duty of valet. He had been dressed in
3955 2,6|              when they thought of the valuables which this storeroom contained,
3956 2,9|            vessel under water, and he valued it more than his own skin. ~"
3957 3,9|        immeasurable height, as if the valves of an immense boiler had
3958 2,5|            ball, and Top, who led the van, received orders to beat
3959 1,1|           balloon must to a certainty vanish beneath the waves. ~They
3960 1,2|               the sheet of white soon vanished. Notwithstanding the bad
3961 2,7|           Lady Glenarvan undertook to vanquish the resistance of the ruffian. ~"
3962 1,0|           sank in its diurnal course. Vapor-mist rather than clouds-began
3963 2,9|              domain. ~The weather was variable, but the barometer did not
3964 3,1|          convicts or wild beasts, two varieties of the animal kingdom, whose
3965 2,8|         cotton, having got rid of the varnish, resumed its natural softness
3966 1,2|               and a half, its breadth varying from thirty to forty feet.
3967 2,1|             This cleaning was done in vats filled with water, which
3968 1,9|           where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish. ~
3969 3,2|          foliage, bore witness to the vegetative power of the soil, more
3970 1,9|            had, but he showed it less vehemently. When the sailor was enthusiastic,
3971 3,8|              or twice, large shadows, veiling the sun, which described
3972 2,3|             the marks of the axe were velveted with moss, and the grass
3973 1,3|               is known that a spongy, velvety flesh is procured from a
3974 1,9|             of a large pond shaded by venerable pines. ~Neb, Herbert, and
3975 1,6|          reptile, and declared it not venomous, for it belonged to that
3976 3,2|               replied the sailor, who vented his anger in another way,
3977 3,8|            vigorously, and, by way of venting his feelings, did the work
3978 1,6|              showed black against the verdant grass which covered the
3979 2,9|             necessary observations to verify the position which he had
3980 2,7|             was there also that, by a veritable miracle, they found Captain
3981 3,6|              was unknown, a statesman versed in the policy of European
3982 2,3|              with their leaves placed vertically and not horizontally, so
3983 3,6|              this wonderful submarine vessel-" ~"The 'Nautilus'?" said
3984 3,4|           regard to the building of a vessel-a really urgent work, since
3985 2,1|             surface of the island. No vestiges of his handiwork showed
3986 3,8|             Harding, but he would not vex Pencroft by his absence. ~
3987 1,5|           Pencroft could not hide his vexation; he looked very anxious,
3988 2,7|           Chimneys, ran, fearing some vexatious incident. ~What did they
3989 1,6|               work, and it was really vexing that nature could not help
3990 3,8|          under the pressure of steam, vibrates like a sonorous plate. it
3991 3,8|             Do not you feel a certain vibration of the soil?" asked Cyrus
3992 2,0|            Pencroft had been the most vigilant and severe of custom-house
3993 3,6|           millions lost in the Bay of Vigo, in 1702, by the galleons
3994 1,4|           their ascent; thanks to the vigor of their muscles they reached
3995 1,1|               shelter some straggling village. But in general the islanders
3996 2,4|            young stalks, preserved in vinegar, makes a good pickle." ~"
3997 1,6|               mortal such as the deaf vipers with forked tails, which
3998 3,2|           said that a corner from the virgin forests of America or Africa
3999 1,2|             miles from the capital of Virginia, which was the principal
4000 2,6|              hand, holding it as in a vise, without heeding the beast'
4001 1,1|             space the ocean alone was visible-the island occupied the center
4002 1,0|            entered the field of their vision. The magnificent constellations