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El radio trazado por mi mazo -dijo con aire doctoral, no sin hacer alguna mueca de dolor de vez en cuando- ha
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Este se levanto y saludo sonriendo a la hermosa y azorada muchacha que acababa de excusarse... El artista era el naufrago de Corryvrekan.
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era de aquellos <>.
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Buscaba obtener un efecto de las olas rompiendo en los escollos, y es posible que su bola, como la esponja de no se que pintor de la antiguedad, tirada contra su cuadro, habra producido el efecto que yo con mi pincel buscaba en vano reproducir.
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nosotros no hemos visto este rayo que tanto hemos buscado. -Hemos visto algo mejor -dijo en voz baja Helena-. Hemos visto la misma felicidad, la que la leyenda atribuye a la observacion de este fenomeno. Y ya que la hemos encontrado, mi querido Olivier, !no necesitamos nada mas, y podemos ceder a los que no lo conocen y quieren conocerlo, el famoso rayo verde!
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Striking an average of observations taken at different times-- rejecting those timid estimates that gave the object a length of 200 feet, and ignoring those exaggerated views that saw it as a mile wide and three long--you could still assert that this phenomenal creature greatly exceeded the dimensions of anything then known to ichthyologists, if it existed at all.
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Pencroff, qui connaissait cinquante-deux manieres d'accommoder les oeufs, n'avait pas le choix en ce moment. Il dut se contenter de les introduire dans les cendres chaudes, et de les laisser durcir a petit feu.
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Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes; but of mistakes which lead to the discovery of truth." "And"
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They were then crossing a region that was the scene of massacres and burnings, and where warlike conflicts between the barbarian sultans, contending for their power amid the most atrocious carnage, never cease.
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Enough. When science has spoken, it is for us to hold our peace." I"
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Now then, it did exist, this was an undeniable fact; and since the human mind dotes on objects of wonder, you can understand the worldwide excitement caused by this unearthly apparition. As
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Sabia que era usted pintor, pero no poeta. -Es lo mismo -dijo la senorita Campbell-. El arte es una sola cosa bajo formas distintas.
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Senor, yo solo he cumplido con mi deber y, ademas, no he de callar que los pasajeros tienen mas derecho que yo a recibir su agradecimiento.
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Saturne neuf cents fois plus gros, le volume de Jupiter
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la detinee les eloigna parfois, mais la sympathie les reunit toujours
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After Simla, I must mention Darjeeling, with its pretty white houses, overlooked by Mount Kinchinjinga, 312 miles to the north of Calcutta, 6,900 feet above the level of the sea, about the eighty-sixth degree of longitude, and the twenty-seventh degree of latitude--a charming situation, in the most beautiful country in the world. Other
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On the 22nd of September, Jansi was passed at a considerable distance. This city is the most important military station in the Bundelkund, and the spirit of revolt is strong in the lower classes of its population. The town is comparatively modern, and has a great trade in Indian muslins, and blue cotton cloths. There are no ancient remains in this place, but it is interesting to visit its citadel, whose walls the English artillery and proje..
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As I remarked before, the Asiatic elephant is smaller than the African, which is frequently twelve feet high, and its tusks are in proportion. In the island of Ceylon a certain number of animals are found deprived of these appendages, but "mucknas," which is the name given them, are rare on the mainland of India. Behind"
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El mar es todo! Cubre las siete decimas partes del globo terrestre. Su aliento es puro y sano. Es el inmenso desierto en el que el hombre no esta nunca solo, pues siente estremecerse la vida en torno suyo. El mar es el vehiculo de una sobrenatural y prodigiosa existencia; es movimiento y amor; es el infinito viviente, como ha dicho uno de sus poetas.
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It is very simple," said the Indian. "A direct line takes us from the Delhi railroad to that of Bombay. The junction is at Allahabad. Between Etawah and the frontier of Bundelkund, there is but one important river to cross, the Jumna; between that and the Vindhyas mountains there is another, the Bettwa."
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Since passing across the Upper Ganges fifteen days previous to this, a fertile country had opened before us, called the Doab, a district lying in the angle formed by the Ganges and the Jumna, which two rivers unite near Allahabad. My
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Both men and women of the race were extremely handsome; the former tall and strong, with fine features, curly hair, and a clear bronze complexion. They wore long tunics and turbans, and carried lances, bucklers, or round shields, and large swords slung across their shoulders, the latter, also very tall and well formed, were dressed in becoming bodices with full skirts, a loose mantle enveloping the whole form in graceful drapery. They wore ..
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Very likely," replied the seaman; " but, as we don't know, we must work all the same. Better to have two strings to one's bow than no string at all!"
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You have plenty of time; it's only twelve o'clock." Passepartout pulled out his big watch. "Twelve!" he exclaimed; "why, it's only eight minutes before ten." "Your watch is slow." "My watch? A family watch, monsieur, which has come down from my great-grandfather! It doesn't vary five minutes in the year. It's a perfect chronometer, look you." "I see how it is," said Fix. "You have kept London time, which is two hours behind that of Suez. ..
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But when the mind once allows a doubt to gain an entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future. And
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The best plan of all," said I, "would certainly be to carry one's house with one." "Oh you snail!" cried Banks. "My friend," replied I, "a snail who could leave his shell, and return to it at pleasure, would not be badly off. To travel in one's own house, a rolling house, will probably be the climax of inventions in the matter of journeying!" "Perhaps"
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the solar rays seemed to be extinguished by successive gradations, until its vague transparency became nothing more than drowned light
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His tales took on the form of an epic poem, and I felt I was hearing some Canadian Homer reciting his Iliad of the High Arctic regions.
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Nebraska,
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Avant la fin du jour, je vis que nous avions affaire a un forgeron, a un pecheur, a un chasseur, a un charpentier, et pas du tout a un ministre du Seigneur. Nous etions en semaine, il est vrai. Peut-etre se rattrapait-il le dimanche.
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Edgar Poe has said, always "to reckon with the unforeseen, the unexpected, the inconceivable, which have a very large share (in those affairs), and chance ought always to be a matter of strict calculation."
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no tardaron en rivalizar dignamente en el arte de la guerra con sus colegas del antiguo continente, alcanzando victorias, lo mismo que estos, a fuerza de prodigar balas, millones y hombres. 1.
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Well, my dear fellow," resumed Banks, "a daring climber like you ought to make some ascent in all this great chain." "Never!" exclaimed the captain. "Why not?" "I have renounced ascents!" "Since when?" "Since the day when, after having risked my life twenty times," answered Captain Hood, "I managed to reach the summit of Vrigel, in the kingdom of Bhootan. It was said that no human being had ever set foot on the top of that peak! T..
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My uncle" is the natives' usual name for the tiger, they believing that the soul of each of their ancestors is lodged for eternity in the body of some member of the cat tribe."
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Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club,
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And Pencroft returned to his work, not without uttering a sigh of regret, for every sailor is a born fisherman, and if the pleasure of fishing is in exact proportion to the size of the animal, one can judge how a whaler feels in sight of a whale.
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All were indiscriminately condemned to death; but one out of three only were really executed. Ten cannon were placed on the drilling-ground, a prisoner fastened to each of their mouths, and five times were the ten guns fired, covering the plain with mutilated remains, in the midst of air tainted with the smell of burning flesh. These men, as M. de Valbezen says in his book called "Nouvelles Etudes sur les Anglais et l'lnde," nearly all di..
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At the beginning of the year 1859 it was estimated that more than 120,000 native officers and soldiers had perished, and more than 200,000 civilian natives, who paid with their lives for their participation--often doubtful--in this insurrection. Terrible reprisals these; and perhaps, on that occasion, Mr. Gladstone had some reason on his side when he protested so energetically against them in Parliament. It was important, for the better u..
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A moving wall of oxen advanced, and our mighty elephant himself was brought to a standstill. There was nothing to regret in this enforced halt, however, for a most curious spectacle was presented to our observations. A drove of four or five thousand oxen encumbered the road, and, as our guide had supposed, they belonged to a caravan of Brinjarees. "These people," said Banks, "are the Zingaris of Hindostan. They are a people rather than ..
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the coast, irregular
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Thus the terrible insurrection was crushed. Tantia Topee, betrayed by his lieutenant Man-Singh, and condemned to death, was executed on the 15th of April, at Sipfee. This rebel, "this truly remarkable actor in the great drama of the Indian insurrection," says M. de Valbezen, "and one who gave proofs of a political genius full of resources and daring," died courageously on the scaffold. This"
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The English," says M. Grandidier, "have been fortunate in finding in this large and magnificent country a gentle, industrious, and civilized people, who for long have been accustomed to a yoke. But they must be careful; gentleness has its limits, and the yoke should not be allowed to bruise their necks, or they may one day rebel and cast it off." Footnote"
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We reached the left bank of the Jumna. This important stream forms the boundary of Rajasthan, the country of the Rajahs, dividing it from Hindostan, or the country of the Hindoos. We
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It was at Gwalior that the Ranee of Jansi, the devoted friend of Nana Sahib, defended herself heroically to the last.
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