Excerpts from the Book 'Leagues Under The Sea':

... basically 'cast-iron' constitution that inhabit strata beyond the reach of our soundings, and which some development or other, an urge or a whim if you ...
... Ned replied. The common man may still believe in fabulous comets crossing outer space, or in prehistoric monsters living at the earth's core, ...
... It seemed as if we'd plunged into a pool of quicksilver. Near one o'clock in the morning, I was overcome with tremendous exhaustion. My limbs stiffened ...
... people are driven by extreme hunger? This grim possibility took on a dreadful intensity in my mind, and fired by my imagination, I felt an unreasoning ...
... order to steer this boat to port or starboard, in short, to make turns on a horizontal plane, I use an ordinary, wide-bladed rudder that's fastened ...
... by the finest zoophyte specimens, and right off, I was struck by an effect unique to this medium. By then it was ten o'clock in the morning. The sun's ...
... masting. But it had heeled sideways, filling completely, and it was listing to port even yet. A sorry sight, this carcass lost under the waves, ...
... affability. Much to my surprise, Captain Nemo gave me the permission I asked for, and he did so with grace and alacrity, not even exacting my promise ...
... Conseil said, or else they deserve to be called meteorites. A second well-polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil's hand, giving still ...
... the Mediterranean off the Barbary Coast or the shores of France and Italy. With its bright colors, it lived up to those poetic names of blood flower ...
... which the mother-of-pearl is deposited in thin, concentric layers over several years in succession. Can one find several pearls in the same ...
... the Red Sea. The Red Sea: that great lake so famous in biblical traditions, seldom replenished by rains, fed by no important rivers, continually drained ...
... of the Roman epicure Lucullus. But whenever the Nautilus drew near the surface, those denizens of the Mediterranean I could observe most productively ...
... barrels and disemboweled trunks in the midst of the dingy hulks of ships. Out of these trunks and kegs spilled ingots of gold and silver, cascades ...
... cetacean sank to deeper strata, rose with it when it returned to the surface, struck it head-on or slantwise, hacked at it or tore it, and from every direction ...
... Our submergence had been going on for an hour. The Nautilus slid downward on its slanting fins, still sinking. These deserted waters were wonderfully ...
... on, we were stopped by a promontory that screened the bay from southerly winds. It dropped straight down to the sea, and surf foamed against it. From ...
... friends, I said, our situation is serious, but I rely on your courage and energy. Sir, replied the Canadian, I am ready to do anything for the general ...
... depth of more than 1,918 fathoms, was on the precise spot where the rupture occurred which ruined the enterprise. It was within 638 miles of the coast of ...
... my eyes I would not think any longer. There was another half-hour to wait, another half-hour of a nightmare, which might drive me mad. At that moment ...