Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.
Demain, cher Axel, je parlerai comme aujourd’hui.
Curious anomaly, fantastic element! said an ingenious naturalist, in which the animal kingdom blossoms, and the vegetable does not!
But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey?Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it m...
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After the example of his fellow-doctors, cured all the illnesses of his patients, except those of which they died--a habit unhappily acquired by all the members of all the faculties in whatever countr...
This done, they entered the grotto, of which the floor was strewn with bones, the guns were carefully loaded, in case of a sudden attack, they had supper, and then just before they lay down to rest, t...
The travellers crossed, beyond Milligaum, the fatal country so often stained with blood by the sectaries of the goddess Kali.
The devil! exclaimed Ned.
Now we are seeing the disadvantage of not knowing every language, said Conseil or is it the disadvantage of not having a universal language?
La distance est un vain mot, la distance n'existe pas!
La Méditerranée n’est qu’un lac, comparée aux vastes plaines liquides du Pacifique, mais c’est un lac capricieux, aux flots changeants, aujourd’hui propice et caressant pour la frêle tartane qui sembl...
Je ne sais pas si les mondes sont habités, et, comme je ne le sais pas, je vais y voir!
It was marvellous, a feast for the eyes, this complication of coloured tints, a perfect kaleidoscope of green, yellow, orange, violet, indigo, and blue; in one word, the whole palette of an enthusiast...
If savages had the ways of gentlemen, where would be the difference?
I am inclined to think that the people who landed on this coast were only here a very short time ago,
His tales took on the form of an epic poem, and I felt I was hearing some Canadian Homer reciting his Iliad of the High Arctic regions.
His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call repose in action, a quality of those who act rather than talk.
He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment.