The ship’s officers shared the views of their leader. They could be heard chatting, discussing, arguing, calculating the different chances of an encounter, and observing the vast expanse of the ocean.
The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which the...
THREE SECONDS before the arrival of J. B. Hobson’s letter, I no more dreamed of chasing the unicorn than of trying for the Northwest Passage. Three seconds after reading this letter from the honorable...
Sabía que era usted pintor, pero no poeta. -Es lo mismo -dijo la señorita Campbell-. El arte es una sola cosa bajo formas distintas.
People caught up in the excitement of mutiny could not maintain for long that union which allows great things to be accomplished. A ring leader of mutineers never has anything but an uncertain power i...
Pencroff, qui connaissait cinquante-deux manières d'accommoder les œufs, n'avait pas le choix en ce moment. Il dut se contenter de les introduire dans les cendres chaudes, et de les laisser durcir à p...
I discovered it, ventured into it, and before long, sir, you too will have passed through my Arabian tunnel!
I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory.
Here's a remarkable book! What a wonderful book! he was exclaiming. These ejaculations brought to my mind the fact that my uncle was liable to occasional fits of bibliomania; but no old book had any...
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
He was one of those intrepid observers who write under fire, reporting among bullets, and to whom every danger is welcome.
El desánimo se apoderó de todos y abrió una brecha a la incredulidad. Un nuevo sentimiento nos embargó a todos, un sentimiento que se componía de tres décimas de vergüenza y siete décimas de furor.
Cuando el doctor reflexionaba sobre la implacable antipatía de los hombres y la rivalidad de las nacionalidades, no se encogía de hombros, como hacen muchos, sino que no podía dejar de lamentar amarga...
Conseil: If that is the case, this dugong may well be the last of its race, and perhaps it would be better to spare it, in the interest of science.Ned Land: Perhaps it will be better to hunt it, in th...
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
But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but only describing a circumfrence,...
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...
Better to put things at the worst at first, replied the engineer, and reserve the best for a surprise.
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 partici...
At ten o’clock breakfast was served in the dining-room; and, seated at a table which was far less shaken than it would have been in a first-class railway carriage, we did ample justice to the culinary...