Ben Zoof, whose ideas of discipline were extremely rigid, at once suggested that the colony should be put under the surveillance of the police, that the cardinal points should be placed under restrain...
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...
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...
Are we rising again? No. On the contrary. Are we descending? Worse than that, captain! we are falling! For Heaven's sake heave out the ballast! There! the last sack is empty! Does the balloon rise? No...
An indisputable event, my gallant Ned. Accordingly, people have proposed naming this devil fish Bouguer's Squid.And how long was it? the Canadian asked. Didn't it measure about six metres? said Consei...
A wicked man is distrustful, and fear is commonly found in those who are able to inspire it.
A true Englishman never jokes when he has a stake depending on the matter.
Cred, domnule judecător, că tinerii ăștia nu sunt în toate mințile.- Așa e, bătrână Kate, așa e, aprobă John Proth, luându-și din nou pașnica stropitoare. Dar ce-i de mirare? Oare cei care se căsătore...
No tardaron en rivalizar dignamente en el arte de la guerra con sus colegas del antiguo continente, alcanzando victorias, lo mismo que éstos, a fuerza de prodigar balas, millones y hombres. 1.
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
He knew that in this world account must be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never rubbed against anybody. As
Passepartout was astounded, and, though ready to attempt anything to get over Medicine Creek, thought the experiment proposed a little too American.
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,
Mr. Fogg accordingly tasted the dish, but, despite its spiced sauce, found it far from palatable. He rang for the landlord, and, on his appearance, said, fixing his clear eyes upon him, Is this rabbit...
Learned, clear-headed, and practical, he fulfilled in all emergencies those three conditions which united ought to insure human success--activity of mind and body, impetuous wishes, and powerful will....
It is never worth while to do anything by halves.
In the sixteenth century neither the barometer nor the manometer had been invented—how, then, could Saknussemm have been able to discover when he did reach the centre of the earth?
In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
I went back to reading Sirr's book, but I leafed through it mechanically. Between the lines I kept seeing fearsome, wide–open jaws.