I spent the evening in reading, writing, and thinking. Then drowsiness overtook me, I stretched out on my eelgrass mattress, and I fell into a deep slumber
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers; to bet is in the English temperament. Not only the members of the Reform, but the general public...
El capitán Nemo me indicó con la mano ese prodigioso amontonamiento de madreperlas, una mina verdaderamente inagotable, pues la fuerza creadora de la naturaleza supera al instinto destructivo del homb...
Could it have passed away in electric sheets, as is sometimes the case with regard to the typhoons of the Indian Ocean?
Buscaba obtener un efecto de las olas rompiendo en los escollos, y es posible que su bola, como la esponja de no sé qué pintor de la antigüedad, tirada contra su cuadro, habrá producido el efecto que...
As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
As I lay on my back, I chanced to open my eyes and perceived a bright spot at the extremity of the tube, 3,000 feet long, transformed now into a gigantic telescope. (p. 83)
Aouda fastened her great eyes, clear as the sacred lakes of the Himalaya, upon him; but the intractable Fogg, as reserved as ever, did not seem at all inclined to throw himself into this lake.
And Pencroft returned to his work, not without uttering a sigh of regret, for every sailor is a born fisherman, and if the pleasure of fishing is in exact proportion to the size of the animal, one can...
Alors, monsieur le capitaine, dit sérieusement Conseil, si par hasard celui-ci était le dernier de sa race, ne conviendrait-il pas de l’épargner dans l’intérêt de la science ? - Peut-être, répliqua...
I don't think a being endowed with will-power should ever despair,as long as his hear beats.
Nosotros no hemos visto este rayo que tanto hemos buscado. -Hemos visto algo mejor -dijo en voz baja Helena-. Hemos visto la misma felicidad, la que la leyenda atribuye a la observación de este fenóm...
Era de aquellos «que no vuelven nunca la espalda ni a un amigo ni a un enemigo».
[ Redactor's Note: Journey to the Centre of the Earth is number V002 in the Taves and Michaluk numbering of the works of Jules Verne. First published in England by Griffith and Farran, 1871, this edit...
When I saw myself thus wholly cut off from human succour, incapable of attempting anything for my deliverance, I thought of heavenly succour. Memories of my childhood, of my mother...came back to me....
The next day, the 30th of March, after a hasty breakfast, which consisted solely of the roasted tragopan, the engineer wished to climb again to the summit of the volcano, so as more attentively to sur...
One friend is always sacrificed to the other in friendship.
Literature is dead, my boy' the uncle replied. 'Look at these empty rooms, and these books buried in their dust; no one reads anymore; I am the guardian of a cemetery here, and exhumation is forbidden...
It was at Gwalior that the Ranee of Jansi, the devoted friend of Nana Sahib, defended herself heroically to the last.
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.