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A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager,
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I thanked God for having led me through the labyrinth of darkness to the only point at which the voices of my companions could reach me. (p. 122)
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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Reflechi! Est-ce que j'ai du temps a perdre? Je trouve l'occasion d'aller faire un tour dans la Lune, j'en profite, et voila tout. Il me semble que cela ne merite pas tant de reflexions.
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However strange his destiny may be, it is also sublime! I myself have understood that much. Did I not also live this unnatural life for ten months? Thus, to that question asked six thousand years ago by Ecclesiastes, 'That which is far off, and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?' only two men now have the right to answer: Captain Nemo and myself.
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Better have two strings to one's bow than none at all!
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c'est bon, l'oxygene ! Que monsieur ne craigne pas de respirer. Il y en a pour tout le monde. >>
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in the shape of innumerable stars. Thus was formed the Nebulae, of which astronomers have reckoned up nearly 5,000. Among these 5,000 nebulae there is one which has received the name of the Milky Way, and which contains eighteen
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But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men! Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?
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Instigated by princes equally ambitious and less sagacious and more unscrupulous than he was, the people of India were persuaded that they might successfully rise against their English rulers, who had brought them out of a state of anarchy and constant warfare and misery, and had established peace and prosperity in their country. Their ignorance and gross superstition made them the facile tools of their designing chiefs.
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I went back to reading Sirr's book, but I leafed through it mechanically. Between the lines I kept seeing fearsome, wide-open jaws.
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you must never make snap judgments about your fellow man.
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In this manner, in early days, were formed those vast and prodigious layers of coal, which an ever--increasing consumption must utterly use up in about three centuries more, if people do not find some more economic light than gas, and some cheaper motive power than steam. All
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From the same cause, the idea of a floating hull of an enormous wreck was given up.
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I am inclined to think that the people who landed on this coast were only here a very short time ago,
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The travellers crossed, beyond Milligaum, the fatal country so often stained with blood by the sectaries of the goddess Kali. Not far off rose Ellora, with its graceful pagodas, and the famous Aurungabad, capital of the ferocious Aureng-Zeb, now the chief town of one of the detached provinces of the kingdom of the Nizam. It was thereabouts that Feringhea, the Thuggee chief, king of the stranglers, held his sway. These ruffians, united by a ..
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These composers," Captain Nemo answered me, "are the contemporaries of Orpheus, because in the annals of the dead, all chronological differences fade; and"
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When he chose to take a walk it was with a regular step in the entrance hall with its mosaic flooring, or in the circular gallery with its dome supported by twenty red porphyry Ionic columns, and illumined by blue painted windows.
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atata vreme cat ii bate inima, atata vreme cat trupul ii este viu, nu admit ca o fiinta inzestrata cu vointa sa se lase cuprinsa de disperare!
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Beneath the lower point of the balloon swung a car, containing five passengers, scarcely visible in the midst of the thick vapor mingled with spray which hung over the surface of the ocean.
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Haven't I heard of men more dried up than he is, being brought all the way from Egypt in cases covered with pictures?" "You idiot!--those were mummies; they had been dead for ages."
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Ben Zoof, whose ideas of discipline were extremely rigid, at once suggested that the colony should be put under the surveillance of the police, that the cardinal points should be placed under restraint, and that the sun should be shot for breach of discipline.
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Our principle is, that books, instead of growing mouldy behind an iron grating, should be worn out under the eyes of many readers.
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THEY'D CHANGE THE AXIS OF THE EARTH! There are fortunes to be made in polar real estate! Just change the climate of both poles, warm them up, give them mild winters and pleasant summers, and watch the boom! At the same time, cool off the tropics, clear out the jungles, and there's billions more in it! That was the scheme of the famous Gun Club, the same space engineers who had fired the shot "From the Earth to the Moon." The story of how th..
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In the sixteenth century neither the barometer nor the manometer had been invented--how, then, could Saknussemm have been able to discover when he did reach the centre of the earth?
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It may be said here that the wise policy of the British Government severely punishes a disregard of the practices of the native religions.
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Now, the earth occupies one of the foci of the ellipse, and so at one point in its course is at its apogee, that is, at its farthest from the sun,
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As to classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the question.
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I am induced to think," said Pencroft, "that this man was not wrecked on Tabor Island, but that in consequence of some crime he was left there."
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The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.
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A man of action as well as a man of thought, all he did was without effort to one of his vigorous and sanguine temperament.
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I've been an itinerant singer, a circus-rider, when I used to vault like Leotard, and dance on a rope like Blondin. Then I got to be a professor of gymnastics, so as to make better use of my talents; and then I was a sergeant fireman at Paris, and assisted at many a big fire. But I quitted France five years ago, and, wishing to taste the sweets of domestic life, took service as a valet here in England.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Left London, Wednesday, October 2nd, at 8.45 p.m. "Reached Paris, Thursday, October 3rd, at 7.20 a.m. "Left Paris, Thursday, at 8.40 a.m. "Reached Turin by Mont Cenis, Friday, October 4th, at 6.35 a.m. "Left Turin, Friday, at 7.20 a.m. "Arrived at Brindisi, Saturday, October 5th, at 4 p.m. "Sailed on the Mongolia, Saturday, at 5 p.m. "Reached Suez, Wednesday, October 9th, at 11 a.m. "Total of hours spent, 158+; or, in days, six days and a h..
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Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o'clock in the evening of the 23rd of March, 1865.
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Then a door opened into a kitchen nine feet long, situated between the large store-rooms. There electricity, better than gas itself, did all the cooking.
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As for the orchestra,' Quinsonnas continued, 'it has fallen very low since his instrument no longer suffices to feed the instrumentalist! Talk about a trade that's not practical. Ah, if we could use the power wasted on the pedals of a piano for pumping water out of coal mines! If the air escaping from ophicleides could also be used to turn the Catacomb Company's windmills! If the trombone's alternating action could be applied to a mechanica..
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The latter, without a word, made a rush for him, grasped him by the throat, and, much to the amusement of a group of Americans, who immediately began to bet on him, administered to the detective a perfect volley of blows, which proved the great superiority of French over English pugilistic skill.
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It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.
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Isola in vendita per contanti, piu le spese, al miglior offerente! -- andava ripetendo a perdifiato Dean Felporg, banditore dell'auction, in cui venivano dibattute le condizioni di questa bizzarra vendita. -- Isola in vendita! Isola in vendita! -- ripeteva con voce ancora piu sonora l'annunciatore Gingrass, che andava e veniva in mezzo a una folla eccitatissima.
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Il grasso Taskinar! Il nome corse di bocca in bocca. Si! il grasso Taskinar! Era conosciutissimo! La sua corpulenza aveva fornito l'argomento di piu di un articolo ai giornali dell'Unione. Non so piu quale matematico aveva perfino dimostrato, con certi suoi calcoli trascendentali, che la sua massa era abbastanza grande da influenzare quella del nostro satellite e da turbare, in proporzione apprezzabile, gli elementi dell'orbita lunare.
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Il professore lascio la propria camera, armato di quel violino da tasca che si chiama pochette, per essere pronto ad ogni evento; sali lo scalone del palazzo, coi piedi in posizione accademica, come si addice a un maestro di ballo, busso all'uscio dello studio, entro, col corpo seminchinato, i gomiti inarcati, la bocca sorridente, e attese in terza posizione, dopo aver incrociato i piedi uno davanti all'altro, alla meta della loro lunghezza..
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I discovered it, ventured into it, and before long, sir, you too will have passed through my Arabian tunnel!
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