The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.
In the way this strange gentleman was going on, he would leave the world without having done any good to himself or anybody else.
I am induced to think,” said Pencroft, “that this man was not wrecked on Tabor Island, but that in consequence of some crime he was left there.
I’ve been an itinerant singer, a circus-rider, when I used to vault like Leotard, and dance on a rope like Blondin. Then I got to be a professor of gymnastics, so as to make better use of my talents; and then I was a sergeant fireman at Paris, and assisted at many a big fire. But I quitted France five years ago, and, wishing to taste the sweets of domestic life, took service as a valet here in England.
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 the peninsula. The Ganges, according to the legends of the Ramayana, rises in heaven, whence, owing to Brahma’s agency, it descends to the earth.
Thus were formed those immense coalfields, which nevertheless, are not inexhaustible, and which three centuries at the present accelerated rate of consumption will exhaust unless the industrial world will devise a remedy.
Better have two strings to one’s bow than none at all!
Could it have passed away in electric sheets, as is sometimes the case with regard to the typhoons of the Indian Ocean?
If providence has created the stars and the planets, Man has called the cannon-ball into existence.
These are coral islands, slowly raised, but continuous, created by the daily work of polypi. Then this new island will be joined later on to the neighboring groups, and a fifth continent will stretch from New Zealand and New Caledonia, and from thence to the Marquesas. One day, when I was suggesting this theory to Captain Nemo, he replied coldly: “The earth does not want new continents, but new men.
Night came. The moon was entering her first quarter, and her insufficient light would soon die out in the mist on the horizon. Clouds were rising from the east, and already overcast a part of the heavens.
Your arguments at rotten at the foundation. You speak in the future, ′ We shall be there! We shall be here!′ I speak in the present,’We are here, and we must profit by it.
It is not our duty to explain facts, but to make the best possible use of them.
The man who was born to be hung will never be drowned!
If savages had the ways of gentlemen, where would be the difference?
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 instincts as a sportsman, seems hardly worth the trouble.
Poh! doctor, one has only just to follow things along as they happen, and he can always work his way out of a scrape! The safest plan, you see, is to take matters as they come.
What do you want?” he said to Passe-partout, whom he took for a native. “Do you need a servant, sir?” asked Passe-partout. “A servant!” echoed the Barnum, as he stroked his beard; “I have two, obedient and faithful, who have never left me, and serve me for nothing but nourishment; and here they are,” he added, as he extended his brawny arms, on which the great veins stood out like whipcord.
I went back to reading Sirr’s book, but I leafed through it mechanically. Between the lines I kept seeing fearsome, wide–open jaws.
The travellers crossed, beyond Milligaum, the fatal country so often stained with blood by the sectaries of the goddess Kali.