Excerpts from the Book 'Michael Strogoff Or The Courier Of The Czar':

... of police appeared on the threshold. Enter, General, said the Czar briefly, and tell me all you know of Ivan Ogareff. He is an extremely dangerous ...
... men, trebled in time of war, and thirty thousand horsemen. It is a rich country, with varied animal, vegetable, and mineral products, and has been increased ...
... energy was evidently both prompt and persistent, and her calmness unalterable, even under circumstances in which a man would be likely to give way or ...
... risk of not being able to leave the town in the prescribed time, which would expose them to some brutal treatment from the governor's agents. Owing ...
... of those spangles in the bright flames issuing from the steamboat's funnel which had attracted his attention. Evidently, said Michael to himself, ...
... the iemschiks, who are apt to sleep at their posts. Not an hour was lost at the relays, not an hour on the road. The next day, the 20th of July, at ...
... Blount, who was not a man to be behind in danger, he dashed after Michael. In another instant the three were opposite the projecting rock which protected ...
... hung at his side, and in his hand he held a short-handled whip. Horses, he demanded, with the air of a man accustomed to command. I have no more disposable ...
... asked the astonished mujik. Silence! replied Michael, with his finger on his lips. At this moment a detachment debouched from the principal square ...
... my house is in flames. Was it an army or a detachment? An army, for, as far as eye can reach, our fields are laid waste. Commanded by the Emir? By ...
... of the weather, they would await Feofar's pleasure. The most docile and patient of them all was undoubtedly Michael Strogoff. He allowed himself ...
... alone, in whom such conduct would not have astonished me. Nicholas Korpanoff! Was that really his name? Are you sure of it, my daughter? Why should ...
... he. Search him! The letter with the imperial arms was found in Michael's bosom he had not had time to destroy it it was handed to Ogareff. The voice ...
... Michael was not to be looking at Ivan when his eyes were put out. Marfa Strogoff stood before him. My mother! cried he. Yes! yes! my ...
... though Michael Strogoff could not know the events which had occurred since his departure, he at least knew that he was several days in advance ...
... him more than could have been believed, and he who formerly was never half an hour without speaking, now fell into long reveries from which Nadia found ...
... well as to her companion. Then, lying on a bed of leaves, she soon fell into a deep sleep. To those who questioned him, Michael Strogoff said nothing ...
... who are fire-worshipers, throw liquid naphtha on the surface of the sea, which buoys it up, its density being inferior to that of water. Then at nightfall, ...
... to understand that he did not doubt his veracity. What day did this battle of Krasnoiarsk take place? he asked. On the 2d of September. And now ...
... his eyelids, and volatiliz-ing on the cornea, had saved his sight. The vapor formed by his tears interposing between the glowing saber and his eyeballs, ...