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She was sitting by Edward, and in taking his tea from Mrs. Dashwood, his hand passed so directly before her, as to make a ring, with a plait of hair in the centre, very conspicuous on one of his fingers.
In other words, the natural resources of Topaz constituted no such claim for it as a "great railroad
centre"
as he would have liked any one to suppose who heard him talk.
Rustler had a value to the road as a mining centre; he didn't pretend to dispute that.
What the Three C.'s wanted for the end of their division and their last stop before the climb over the Pass was a place like Topaz, designed for them by nature, built in the
centre
of a plain, which the railroad could traverse at a level for five miles before attacking the hills.
Then he returned to his place in the centre, and took up his interrupted song.
The coin fell beside them, a fresh one this time, marked squarely in the
centre.
The King drew off a few yards, and watched him Avhere he stood alone in the
centre
of the plain, waiting.
The formless, four-faced god Iswara, standing in the
centre
of the temple, was smeared and discolored with stains of melted butter, and the black smoke of exhausted incense.
Tarvin settled himself comfortably in his saddle, and drew up in the
centre
of the court-yard, where he was wont to confer with the Maharajah.
Suppose I asked you to give up the
centre
and meaning of your life?
In the
centre
of the court-yard, as naked as the lunatic who had once lived there, sat an ash-smeared, long-haired, eagle-taloned, half-mad, wandering native priest, and waved above his head his buckhorn staff, sharp as a lance at one end, while he chanted in a loud, monotonous voice some song that drove the men and women to work more quickly.
My uncle at once fastened upon this as the
centre
of interest, and he laboured at that blot, until by the help of his microscope he ended by making out the following Runic characters which he read without difficulty.
Which bad Latin may be translated thus:"Descend, bold traveller, into the crater of the jokul of Sneffels, which the shadow of Scartaris touches before the kalends of July, and you will attain the
centre
of the earth; which I have done, Arne Saknussemm."
Penetrate to the
centre
of the earth!
It is a mountain five thousand feet high, one of the most remarkable in the world, if its crater leads down to the
centre
of the earth."
It was therefore necessary to point out which of these leads to the
centre
of the globe.
That learned philosopher did get to the bottom of Sneffels, he has seen the shadow of Scartaris touch the edge of the crater before the kalends of July; he may even have heard the legendary stories told in his day about that crater reaching to the
centre
of the world; but as for reaching it himself, as for performing the journey, and returning, if he ever went, I say no--he never, never did that."
"Yes; it is perfectly well known that the internal temperature rises one degree for every 70 feet in depth; now, admitting this proportion to be constant, and the radius of the earth being fifteen hundred leagues, there must be a temperature of 360,032 degrees at the
centre
of the earth.
"Yet it is evident that the surface of the globe has been subject to the action of fire," I replied, "and it is quite reasonable to suppose that the external crust cooled down first, whilst the heat took refuge down to the centre."
May we not even expect light from the atmosphere, the pressure of which may render it luminous as we approach the centre?"
"But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the
centre
of the earth."
Was I to believe him in earnest in his intention to penetrate to the
centre
of this massive globe?
Perhaps you would keep us company to the
centre
of the globe, to find the solution of your eternal doubts."
A GUIDE FOUND TO THE
CENTRE
OF THE EARTHIn the evening I took a short walk on the beach and returned at night to my plank-bed, where I slept soundly all night.
"So he is to go with us as far as--""As far as the
centre
of the earth, Axel."
As for a passage leading to the
centre
of the globe, it is mere rubbish!
My uncle paid without a remark: a man who is starting for the
centre
of the earth need not be particular about a few rix dollars.
Such was the succession of phenomena which produced Iceland, all arising from the action of internal fire; and to suppose that the mass within did not still exist in a state of liquid incandescence was absurd; and nothing could surpass the absurdity of fancying that it was possible to reach the earth's
centre.
By an optical law which obtains at all great heights, the shores seemed raised and the
centre
depressed.
But, no; I saw him, with arms outstretched and legs straddling wide apart, erect before a granite rock that stood in the
centre
of the crater, just like a pedestal made ready to receive a statue of Pluto.
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