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| 3ab09b2 | 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.. | Jules Verne | ||
| fd022dd | 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. | Jules Verne | ||
| 5e48a72 | 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. | Jules Verne | ||
| b40e4fb | 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.. | Jules Verne | ||
| fd5a399 | 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. | Jules Verne | ||
| e793466 | It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years. | Jules Verne | ||
| c7aa0f3 | Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily. | Jules Verne | ||
| 55811be | 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. | Jules Verne | ||
| 35e30f9 | I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical. | reality | Bruce Chatwin | |
| 9f585a8 | 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. | Jules Verne | ||
| 5a92629 | 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.. | Jules Verne | ||
| 9e66de4 | I discovered it, ventured into it, and before long, sir, you too will have passed through my Arabian tunnel! | Jules Verne | ||
| 09c98a1 | if the seas were cleaned of whales and seals. Then, infested with poulps, medusae, and cuttle-fish, they would become immense centres of infection, since | Jules Verne | ||
| bb67548 | Il mare e tutto. Copre i sette decimi del globo terrestre. Il suo respiro e puro e sano. E l'immenso deserto dove l'uomo non e mai solo, poiche sente fremere la vita accanto a se. Il mare non e altro che il veicolo di un'esistenza soprannaturale e prodigiosa; non e che movimento e amore, e l'infinito vivente... | Jules Verne | ||
| a7601ad | 11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues, | Jules Verne | ||
| 2770115 | Indian dancing-girls, clothed in rose-coloured gauze, looped up with gold and silver, danced airily, but with perfect modesty, to the sound of viols and the clanging of tambourines. | Jules Verne | ||
| ab9e69c | Curious anomaly, fantastic element!" said an ingenious naturalist, "in which the animal kingdom blossoms, and the vegetable does not!" | Jules Verne | ||
| da3ffed | THE DEEPEST PARTS OF THE ocean are totally unknown to us," admits Professor Aronnax early in this novel. "What goes on in those distant depths? What creatures inhabit, or could inhabit, those regions twelve or fifteen miles beneath the surface of the water? It's almost beyond conjecture." Jules Verne (1828-1905) published the French equivalents of these words in 1869, and little has changed since. 126 years later, a Time cover story on deep.. | Jules Verne | ||
| d632e33 | Enough. When science has spoken, it is for us to hold our peace. -Lidenbrock | Jules Verne | ||
| 36675e0 | Hurrah!" cried one voice (need it be said it was that of J. T. Maston). "Distance does not exist!" And overcome by the energy of his movements, he nearly fell from the platform to the ground. He just escaped a severe fall, which would have proved to him that distance was by no means an empty name." | Jules Verne | ||
| 094c5a0 | he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old. | Jules Verne | ||
| 26c7da0 | The latter seemed to be a victim to some emotion that he tried in vain to repress. | Jules Verne | ||
| a991056 | Was Phileas Fogg rich? Undoubtedly. But those who knew him best could not imagine how he had made his fortune, and Mr. Fogg was the last person to whom to apply for the information. He was not lavish, nor, on the contrary, avaricious; for, whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble, useful, or benevolent purpose, he supplied it quietly and sometimes anonymously. He was, in short, the least communicative of men. He talked very little.. | Jules Verne | ||
| 99f776f | Now we are seeing the disadvantage of not knowing every language," said Conseil "or is it the disadvantage of not having a universal language?" | Jules Verne | ||
| f4c2f71 | As for the Yankees, they had no other ambition than to take possession of this new continent of the sky, and to plant upon the summit of its highest elevation the star- spangled banner of the United States of America. | Jules Verne | ||
| d149dcc | Die Schonheiten dieser neuen Gegenden setzten mich uber die Massen in Erstaunen. Prachtvolle Gestaltungen, Lagen und Stellungen der Eisblocke. Hier sahen sie aus wie eine orientalische Stadt mit zahllosen Minaretts und Moscheen; dort wie eine durch Erdbeben zerfallene Stadt. Ansichten, die in den schief fallenden Sonnenstrahlen unaufhorlich wechselten oder inmitten der Schneesturme sich in graue Nebel verloren. Dann allerwarts polterndes Zu.. | eisberge eisdecke forscher meer minaretts moscheen naturkunde orient ozean schnee | Jules Verne | |
| 1069e70 | London time, and on regarding that of the countries he had passed through as quite false and unreliable. Now, on this day, though he had not changed the hands, he found that his watch exactly agreed with the ship's chronometers. His triumph was hilarious. He would have liked to know what Fix would say if he were aboard! "The rogue told me a lot of stories," repeated Passepartout, "about the meridians, the sun, and the moon! Moon, indeed! mo.. | Jules Verne | ||
| 75b1909 | Many come to seek fortunes who only find trouble and sorrow, and then they throw the blame on chance, and forget the true cause is their own idleness and vice and want of commonsense. Whoever is sober and industrious, honest and economical, gets on. | Jules Verne | ||
| 9b59447 | The once slave, though free, would not leave his master. He would have died for him. He was a man of about thirty, vigorous, active, clever, intelligent, gentle, and calm, sometimes naive, always merry, obliging, and honest. His name was Nebuchadnezzar, but he only answered to the familiar abbreviation of Neb. | Jules Verne | ||
| 7b16500 | His countenance had resumed its habitual imperturbability. | Jules Verne | ||
| 0cdd843 | Aouda fastened her great eyes, "clear as the sacred lakes of the Himalaya," upon him; but the intractable Fogg, as reserved as ever, did not seem at all inclined to throw himself into this lake." | Jules Verne | ||
| e69bb2e | you don't see, I dare say, Axel, but if you were to listen, you might hear. | Jules Verne | ||
| 11334f6 | I don't think a being endowed with will-power should ever despair,as long as his hear beats. | Jules Verne | ||
| 094dfeb | Allahabad, that is, the City of God, one of the most venerated in India, being built at the junction of the two sacred rivers, Ganges and Jumna, the waters of which attract pilgrims from every part of the peninsula. The Ganges, according to the legends of the Ramayana, rises in heaven, whence, owing to Brahma's agency, it descends to the earth. | Jules Verne | ||
| b21f099 | Could it have passed away in electric sheets, as is sometimes the case with regard to the typhoons of the Indian Ocean? | Jules Verne | ||
| d05370c | These are coral islands, slowly raised, but continuous, created by the daily work of polypi. Then this new island will be joined later on to the neighboring groups, and a fifth continent will stretch from New Zealand and New Caledonia, and from thence to the Marquesas. One day, when I was suggesting this theory to Captain Nemo, he replied coldly: "The earth does not want new continents, but new men." | Jules Verne | ||
| c7f920f | An English criminal, you know, is always better concealed in London than anywhere else. | Jules Verne | ||
| dd2ee1f | Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt. | Jules Verne | ||
| 4f72b92 | This done, they entered the grotto, of which the floor was strewn with bones, the guns were carefully loaded, in case of a sudden attack, they had supper, and then just before they lay down to rest, the heap of wood piled at the entrance was set fire to. Immediately, a regular explosion, or rather a series of reports, broke the silence! The noise was caused by the bamboos, which, as the flames reached them, exploded like fireworks. The nois.. | Jules Verne | ||
| 8c38254 | 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, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron--at least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil By.. | Jules Verne | ||
| 9c0a41a | Though, by a just turn-about of things here below, Great Britain has become a colony of the United States, the English are not yet reconciled to the situation. | Jules Verne | ||
| ffe52df | He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. | Jules Verne | ||
| 7b6eff2 | the molluscs, the crustaceans and le fishes, | Jules Verne | ||
| ecba658 | Suppose we save this woman." "Save the woman, Mr. Fogg!" "I have yet twelve hours to spare; I can devote them to that." "Why, you are a man of heart!" "Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly; "when I have the time." | Jules Verne |