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.
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
Avant la fin du jour, je vis que nous avions affaire à un forgeron, à un pêcheur, à un chasseur, à un charpentier, et pas du tout à un ministre du Seigneur. Nous étions en semaine, il est vrai. Peut-ê...
Alluding to the extent of Florida, a mere peninsula confined between two seas, they pretended that it could never sustain the shock of the discharge, and that it would bust up at the very first shot.V...
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...
All were indiscriminately condemned to death; but one out of three only were really executed. Ten cannon were placed on the drilling-ground, a prisoner fastened to each of their mouths, and five times...
Adieu, sun! Disappear, thou radiant orb! rest beneath this open sea, and let a night of six months spread its shadows over my new domains!
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.
¡Cómo! ¿Creéis, Lady Elena, que no se puede ser feliz en una isla desierta?-No, no se puede. El hombre está formado para la sociedad, no para el aislamiento. La soledad no puede engendrar más que dese...
Señor, yo sólo he cumplido con mi deber y, además, no he de callar que los pasajeros tienen más derecho que yo a recibir su agradecimiento.
— Il grasso Taskinar!Il nome corse di bocca in bocca. Sì! il grasso Taskinar! Era conosciutissimo! La sua corpulenza aveva fornito l'argomento di più di un articolo ai giornali dell'Unione. Non so più...
— El orgullo — dijo el ermitaño a sus huéspedes — ha perdido a un ángel nacido para el bien. Es la piedra de toque en que se quiebran todos los destinos humanos. Al orgullo, principio de todos los vic...
« Et ces sauvages ? me demanda Conseil. N'en déplaise à monsieur, ils ne me semblent pas très méchants !-- Ce sont pourtant des anthropophages, mon garçon.-- On peut être anthropophage et brave homme,...
To catch it called for harpooning it—which was Ned Land’s business; to harpoon it called for sighting it—which was the crew’s business; and to sight it called for encountering it—which was a chancy bu...
Donc sur l’issue de notre entreprise, tout en marchant à l’assaut du Sneffels. La route devenait de plus en plus difficile ; le sol montait ; les éclats de roches s’ébranlaient, et il fallait la plu...
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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, mon...
Work, my boy! forget me for a few years; I'd only give you bad advice; don't mention our meeting to your uncle- it might do you harm; don't think about an old man who would be dead long since, were it...
With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the h...
Whence, it may be asked, had come that plaything of the tempest? From what part of the world did it rise? It surely could not have started during the storm.