Distance is but a relative expression, and must end by being reduced to zero.
The devil!” exclaimed Ned.
And in it all, where did the truth end and error begin?
I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, who when they do laugh, laugh raucously.
Like snails, we were fixed to our shells, and I declare it is easy to lead a snail’s life.
No one has ever seen anything like it; but the sight may cost us dear. And, if I must say all, I think we are seeing here things which God never intended man to see.
Ah! women and young girls, how incomprehensible are your feminine hearts!
Some of these tusks have been found buried in the bodies of whales, which the unicorn always attacks with success.
Most annoying circumstances have brought you into the presence of a man who has broken all the ties of humanity. You have come to trouble my existence.
I declare it is easy to lead a snail’s life.
Ah! sir, live – live in the bosom of the waters! There only is independence! There I recognise no masters! There I am free!
Now we are seeing the disadvantage of not knowing every language,” said Conseil “or is it the disadvantage of not having a universal language?
A wicked man is distrustful, and fear is commonly found in those who are able to inspire it.
If some volcano in the Alleghanies threatens North Carolina with a disaster similar to that of Martinique, buried beneath the outpourings of Mont Pelee, then these people must leave their homes.
Sir Francis, recognising the statue, whispered, “The goddess Kali; the goddess of love and death.
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. He might have taken for his motto that of William of Orange in the 17th century: “I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
Cheers for Edgar Poe!
It may be said here that the wise policy of the British Government severely punishes a disregard of the practices of the native religions.
His countenance had resumed its habitual imperturbability.
Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!