The latter seemed to be a victim to some emotion that he tried in vain to repress.
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 tw...
Some of these tusks have been found buried in the bodies of whales, which the unicorn always attacks with success.
Sir, replied the commander, I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
Sir Francis, recognising the statue, whispered, The goddess Kali; the goddess of love and death.
Poh! doctor, one has only just to follow things along as they happen, and he can always work his way out of a scrape! The safest plan, you see, is to take matters as they come.
Pero, ¿qué había ganado con esa excursión? ¿Qué había traído de su viaje? Nada, se dirá. Nada, enhorabuena, a no ser una linda mujer, que, por inverosímil que parezca, le hizo el más feliz de los hom...
Our principle is, that books, instead of growing mouldy behind an iron grating, should be worn out under the eyes of many readers.
Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
Mientras el corazón lata y la carne palpite, no me explico por qué un ser dotado de voluntad se deje dominar por la desesperación.
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.
Los viajeros, encarcelados en un nuevo satélite, si bien es verdad que no habían alcanzado su objetivo, formaban al menos parte del mundo lunar; gravitaban alrededor del astro de la noche, y por prime...
Kâlagani evidently knew this thinly-peopled region perfectly, and guided us across it most admirably. On the 29th September our train began to ascend the northern slope of the Vindyas, in order to rea...
In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own th...
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
— Isola in vendita per contanti, più le spese, al miglior offerente! — andava ripetendo a perdifiato Dean Felporg, banditore dell'auction, in cui venivano dibattute le condizioni di questa bizzarra ve...
These words of wisdom, so rarely understood: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill towards men.