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| 6f86d7c | An indisputable event, my gallant Ned. Accordingly, people have proposed naming this devil fish Bouguer's Squid. And how long was it? the Canadian asked. Didn't it measure about six metres? said Conseil, who was stationed at the window and examining anew the crevices in the cliff. Precisely, I replied Wasn't its head, Conseil went on, crowned by eight tentacles that quivered in the water like a nest of snakes? Precisely. Weren't its eyes pr.. | Jules Verne | ||
| 68187b9 | 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. Yo.. | Jules Verne | ||
| 2233924 | El mas habil explicador de cosas inexplicables no entenderia lo que quieres decir Habla con mas claridad ?de que se trata? -Wang respondiendo a Kin-fo | Jules Verne | ||
| 6da21f4 | Continuons donc notre excursion, repris-je, mais ayons l'oeil aux aguets, quoique l'ile paraisse inhabitee, elle pourrait renfermer, cependant, quelques individus qui seraient moins difficiles que nous sur la nature du gibier! - He! He! Fit Ned Land, avec un mouvement de machoire tres significatif. - Eh bien! Ned! S'ecria Conseil. - Ma foi, riposta le canadien, je commence a comprendre les charmes de l'anthropophagie! - Ned! Ned! Que dites-.. | Jules Verne | ||
| 7d4a7d1 | Et ces sauvages ? me demanda Conseil. N'en deplaise a monsieur, ils ne me semblent pas tres mechants ! -- Ce sont pourtant des anthropophages, mon garcon. -- On peut etre anthropophage et brave homme, repondit Conseil, comme on peut etre gourmand et honnete. L'un n'exclut pas l'autre. -- Bon ! Conseil, je t'accorde que ce sont d'honnetes anthropophages, et qu'ils devorent honnetement leurs prisonniers. Cependant, comme je ne tiens pas a etr.. | Jules Verne | ||
| ebabf6f | Eh bien, monsieur le naturaliste, demanda le Canadien d'un ton legerement goguenard, et cette Mediterranee? - Nous flottons a sa surface, ami Ned. - Hein! Fit Conseil, cette nuit meme?... - Oui, cette nuit meme, en quelques minutes, nous avons franchi cet isthme infranchissable. - Je n'en crois rien, repondit le Canadien. - Et vous avez tort, maitre Land, repris-je. Cette cote basse qui s'arrondit vers le sud est la cote egyptienne. - A d'a.. | Jules Verne | ||
| 8691d67 | La Mediterranee n'est qu'un lac, comparee aux vastes plaines liquides du Pacifique, mais c'est un lac capricieux, aux flots changeants, aujourd'hui propice et caressant pour la frele tartane qui semble flotter entre le double outremer des eaux et du ciel, demain, rageur, tourmente, demonte par les vents, brisants les plus forts navires de ses lames courtes qui les frappent a coups precipites. | Jules Verne | ||
| d3a658c | Vier Tage lang, bis zum 3. Februar, befand sich der Nautilus im Meer von Oman, mit verschiedener Schnelligkeit und in verschiedener Tiefe. Es schien, als fahre er aufs Geratewohl, als habe er uber die Fahrt geschwankt; doch kam er nicht uber den Wendekreis des Krebses hinaus. Indem wir dieses Meer verliessen, bekamen wir einen Augenblick Mascat zu sehen, die bedeutendste Stadt im Land Oman. Ich bewunderte ihr seltsames Aussehen, mitten in e.. | arabien fantasie landschaft minarette moscheen oman unter-see | Jules Verne | |
| 7d7df70 | In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library. | hour hurry jules-verne library professor-hardwigg public-library reading travel | Jules Verne | |
| c22e5b5 | The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men! | Jules Verne | ||
| cec27bf | When he breakfasted or dined all the resources of the club--its kitchens and pantries, its buttery and dairy--aided to crowd his table with their most succulent stores; he was served by the gravest waiters, in dress coats, and shoes with swan-skin soles, who proffered the viands in special porcelain, and on the finest linen; club decanters, of a lost mould, contained his sherry, his port, and his cinnamon-spiced claret; while his beverages .. | Jules Verne | ||
| fbd5822 | A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager, | Jules Verne | ||
| 40a3b45 | 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) | Jules Verne | ||
| 9460d88 | But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind! | Jules Verne | ||
| 8de7647 | 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. | Jules Verne | ||
| ec6a81a | 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. | Jules Verne | ||
| 7c8b5f3 | Better have two strings to one's bow than none at all! | Jules Verne | ||
| a2b953d | c'est bon, l'oxygene ! Que monsieur ne craigne pas de respirer. Il y en a pour tout le monde. >> | Jules Verne | ||
| 95002d4 | 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 | Jules Verne | ||
| 68e8a75 | 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? | Jules Verne | ||
| b1069f1 | 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. | Jules Verne | ||
| 554ae39 | I went back to reading Sirr's book, but I leafed through it mechanically. Between the lines I kept seeing fearsome, wide-open jaws. | Jules Verne | ||
| 1420cfa | you must never make snap judgments about your fellow man. | Jules Verne | ||
| 01c1f96 | 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 | Jules Verne | ||
| f532daf | From the same cause, the idea of a floating hull of an enormous wreck was given up. | Jules Verne | ||
| 8833d2f | I am inclined to think that the people who landed on this coast were only here a very short time ago, | Jules Verne | ||
| 3f34cf9 | 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 .. | Jules Verne | ||
| a20c0c8 | These composers," Captain Nemo answered me, "are the contemporaries of Orpheus, because in the annals of the dead, all chronological differences fade; and" | Jules Verne | ||
| b6a38ff | 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. | Jules Verne | ||
| 74b04b7 | 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! | Jules Verne | ||
| 43aeeda | 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. | Jules Verne | ||
| 1252526 | 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." | Jules Verne | ||
| f86f278 | 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. | Jules Verne | ||
| e2fd66a | Our principle is, that books, instead of growing mouldy behind an iron grating, should be worn out under the eyes of many readers. | Jules Verne | ||
| 2dd69b4 | 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.. | Jules Verne | ||
| 964b7aa | 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? | Jules Verne | ||
| 160a1bc | It may be said here that the wise policy of the British Government severely punishes a disregard of the practices of the native religions. | Jules Verne | ||
| e2c294c | 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, | Jules Verne | ||
| b04c529 | As to classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the question. | Jules Verne | ||
| e393c84 | 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." | Jules Verne | ||
| f5ebae9 | The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes. | Jules Verne | ||
| 7459bd6 | 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. | Jules Verne | ||
| 7c9a8bd | 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. | Jules Verne | ||
| 43ddd9e | I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success. | Jules Verne |