Oh!' cried Neb, 'suppose it's jam!''I hope not,' replied the reporter.
Now, if the question were to destroy a lion, a tiger, a cat, a hyena, I could understand it; but to deprive an antelope or a gazelle of life, to no other purpose than the gratification of your instinc...
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.
My uncle wasted a great deal of breath in giving him directions, but worthy Hans took not the slightest notice of his words.
My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.
Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing.
La distance est un vain mot, la distance n'existe pas!
It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.
I discovered it, ventured into it, and before long, sir, you too will have passed through my Arabian tunnel!
He lived alone, and, so to speak, outside of every social relation; and as he knew that in this world account must be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never rubbed against anybody.
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Dictionaries, manuals, grammars, study guides and topic notes, classical authors and the entire book trade in de Viris, Quintus-Curtius, Sallust, and Livy peacefully crumbled to dust on the shelves of...
Civilization is like air or water. Wherever there is a passage, be it only a fissure, it will penetrate and modify the conditions of a country.
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
Better to put things at the worst at first, replied the engineer, and reserve the best for a surprise.
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.
As for difficulties, replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, they were made to be overcome.
Ah! I cried, springing up. But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he...
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-sixt...
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.