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The engine-man had disappeared as well as the few daylight workers; and he took hold of the starting lever, manipulating it while Levaque and two other climbed up the metal scaffold which supported the pulleys.
The first arrivals, blinded by the daylight, stood there with quivering eyelids.
As he went back in the early daylight, he saw the sentinel still on the pit-bank.
The daylight was growing, and flakes of snow began to fly in the earthy sky.
In spite of the growing daylight, nothing stirred in the settlements; the colliers remained in silent rage beneath the military boot.
And over there, beneath the growing daylight, a band of men and women were coming from the settlement, gesticulating wildly with anger.
At the stable they were neighbours at the manger, and lived with lowered heads, breathing in each other's nostrils, exchanging a constant dream of daylight, visions of green grass, of white roads, of infinite yellow light.
It had been necessary in sinking the Voreux to establish two tubbings: that of the upper level, in the shifting sands and white clays bordering the chalky stratum, and fissured in every part, swollen with water like a sponge; then that of the lower level, immediately above the coal stratum, in a yellow sand as fine as flour, flowing with liquid fluidity; it was here that the Torrent was to be found, that subterranean sea so dreaded in the coal pits of the Nord, a sea with its storms and its shipwrecks, an unknown and unfathomable sea, rolling its dark floods more than three hundred metres beneath the daylight.
This torrent of flame carried away the captain and three workers, ascended the pit, and leapt up to the daylight in an eruption which split the rocks and the ruins around.
It was a sight of fearful agony, this old beast shattered and motionless, struggling at this depth, far from the daylight.
Let's wait for daylight, and then we'll play a different role."
We stayed on the alert until daylight, getting ready for action.
We had to wait for daylight to find some way of getting inside this underwater boat.
A luminous ceiling, decorated with delicate arabesques, distributed a soft, clear daylight over all the wonders gathered in this museum.
Suddenly, through two oblong openings, daylight appeared on both sides of the lounge.
Suddenly daylight appeared in the lounge.
Will anyone believe me if I assert that at this thirty-foot depth, I could see as if it was broad daylight?
In the broad electric daylight, an enormous black mass, quite motionless, hung suspended in the midst of the waters.
I was observing the state of the sea under these conditions, and even the largest fish were nothing more than ill-defined shadows, when the Nautilus was suddenly transferred into broad daylight.
On February 8, as early as the first hours of daylight, Mocha appeared before us: a town now in ruins, whose walls would collapse at the mere sound of a cannon, and which shelters a few leafy date trees here and there.
But instead of the broad daylight I was expecting, I found that I was surrounded by total darkness.
At its summit there gaped the circular opening through which I had detected that faint glimmer, obviously daylight.
Two months earlier we would have enjoyed perpetual daylight in this latitude; but night already fell for three or four hours, and later it would cast six months of shadow over these circumpolar regions.
The vessel lay a mile and a half off, and with the first glimmers of daylight, it resumed its cannonade.
One morning--whose date I'm unable to specify--I was slumbering near the first hours of daylight, a painful, sickly slumber.
Even in broad daylight I doubt that he would have noticed me, so completely was he immersed in his trance.
The daylight that came in by the chimney made velvet of the soot at the back of the fireplace, and touched with blue the cold cinders.
Black in the shade, dark blue in broad daylight, they had, as it were, depths of different colours, that, darker in the centre, grew paler towards the surface of the eye.
The daylight coming through the plain glass windows falls obliquely upon the pews ranged along the walls, which are adorned here and there with a straw mat bearing beneath it the words in large letters, "Mr.
The broad daylight from without streamed into the church in three enormous rays from the three opened portals.
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