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They still went on, she now silent, he not recognizing the turnings and roads of the morning, and fancying that she was leading him deeper and deeper into the earth; and what specially troubled him was the cold, an increasing cold which he had felt on emerging from the cutting, and which caused him to shiver the more the nearer they approached the shaft.
He approached Pierron, who had gone on duty at six o'clock.
There was a stoppage for the manoeuvring of the cages, and the young girl approached their horse, caressed it with her hand, and talked about it to her companion.
They were beginning to unfasten him when Bataille, who had just been unharnessed, approached and stretched out his neck to smell this companion who lay on the earth.
As she approached the Company's Yards, a vast series of storehouses and workshops, Maheude decided to take Henri and Lénore by the hand, one on the right, the other on the left.
The groups approached each other, and were melted into one crowd; while bands of urchins, with unwiped noses and gaping mouths, dawdled along the pavements.
When Chaval and Catherine approached the Voreux they slackened their pace still more; they stopped twice beside the canal, three times along the pit-bank, very cheerful now and occupied with little tender games.
Maheu persisted with such energy that he refused, with a furious gesture, when another man approached to relieve him for a moment.
He was seized with curiosity, and approached the hole; the child had disappeared, and a faint gleam came from the second adder.
As the galleries sank towards the north, they approached Tartaret, penetrating to that interior fire which calcined the rocks above.
Their anxiety had increased since leaving the bottom; their ignorance as to what was going on above oppressed them more as they approached daylight.
It was four o'clock; the sun which approached the horizon, lengthened the shadows of this horde with their furious gestures over the frozen soil.
He approached mechanically and put out his hand.
The gallop of the gendarmes heavily approached; they came up in an indistinguishable sombre mass.
Do you understand?" But Catherine having approached, he recognized her also.
The pumping process would require years, and the best plan would be to visit these galleries and ascertain if any of them approached the submerged passages at the end of which the distressed miners were suspected to be.
A roaring sound came from afar; they could not understand this tempest which approached them, spattering foam.
At first they entered into long explanations; evidently they were being approached from Réquillart.
The frigate approached without making a sound, stopped two cable lengths from the animal and coasted.
I thanked Captain Nemo and approached the shelves of this library.
Then, his examination over, he approached the hatch and pronounced a phrase whose exact wording follows below.
A large bird with a wide wingspan, quite clearly visible, approached and hovered over us.
The captain approached, placed a finger over a position on the chart, and pronounced just one word:"Vanikoro."
I was mulling this over when the captain approached, cool and calm, forever in control of himself, looking neither alarmed nor annoyed.
The savages approached without running, but they favored us with a show of the greatest hostility.
Then the pallbearers approached.
When this was done, Captain Nemo and his men stood up; then they all approached the grave, sank again on bended knee, and extended their hands in a sign of final farewell. . . .
I approached this phenomenal mollusk.
The captain approached and stuck his dagger vertically between the shells to discourage any ideas about closing; then with his hands he raised the fringed, membrane-filled tunic that made up the animal's mantle.
The skiff approached cautiously to within three fathoms of the animal.
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