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In the
depths
of their large beds the good people of Montsou were still sleeping, with their heads among the feathers.
All his rage of the afternoon, that furious battle in the
depths
of his silent solitude, had now turned to an immense fatigue.
The closed horizon would not open, and the impossible ideal was turning to poison in the
depths
of this skull which had been crushed by grief.
A light rustling, a sob, seemed to him to have come out of the
depths
of the earth.
He was just then on duty; he had not left his engine for a single day since the strike began, no longer talking, more and more absorbed by a fixed idea, which seemed to be shining like steel in the
depths
of his pale eyes.
He seemed to know his road in this subterranean town which he had inhabited for eleven years, and his eyes saw clearly in the
depths
of the eternal night in which he had lived.
They had nothing beneath them now but the sensation of that sea, swelling out its silent tide from the
depths
of the galleries.
There was a tranquil faith in the
depths
of her eyes.
In those newspapers short of copy, you saw the reappearance of every gigantic imaginary creature, from "Moby Dick," that dreadful white whale from the High Arctic regions, to the stupendous kraken whose tentacles could entwine a 500-ton craft and drag it into the ocean
depths.
In France I had published a two-volume work, in quarto, entitled The Mysteries of the Great Ocean
Depths.
What goes on in those distant
depths?
With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration?
The author of a two-volume work, in quarto, on The Mysteries of the Great Ocean
Depths
has no excuse for not setting sail with Commander Farragut.
Seated on the afterdeck, Ned Land and I chatted about one thing and another, staring at that mysterious sea whose
depths
to this day are beyond the reach of human eyes.
"All right then, my fine harpooner, if vertebrates several hundred meters long and proportionate in bulk live at such depths, their surface areas make up millions of square centimeters, and the pressure they undergo must be assessed in billions of kilograms.
I struggled against being dragged into the depths. . . .
Was it in motion, or stationary on the surface of the ocean, or sinking into the
depths?
Little by little, I heard those aforesaid cusswords welling up in the
depths
of his gullet, and I saw his movements turn threatening again.
As for our neglect, our isolation in the
depths
of this cell, I was afraid to guess at how long it might last.
For who would dare chase him to the
depths
of the sea when he thwarted all attacks on the surface?
I've cared for you when, with a single word, I could plunge you back into the ocean
depths!
Among the books that make up my favorite reading, you'll find the work you've published on the great ocean
depths.
I'm going to make another underwater tour of the world-- perhaps my last, who knows?--and I'll review everything I've studied in the
depths
of these seas that I've crossed so often, and you can be my fellow student.
There I saw the complete works of Humboldt, the complete Arago, as well as works by Foucault, Henri Sainte-Claire Deville, Chasles, Milne-Edwards, Quatrefages, John Tyndall, Faraday, Berthelot, Father Secchi, Petermann, Commander Maury, Louis Agassiz, etc., plus the transactions of France's Academy of Sciences, bulletins from the various geographical societies, etc., and in a prime location, those two volumes on the great ocean
depths
that had perhaps earned me this comparatively charitable welcome from Captain Nemo.
In fact, by establishing a circuit between two wires immersed to different depths, I'd be able to obtain electricity through the diverging temperatures they experience; but I preferred to use a more practical procedure."
I've had it divided into twenty-four hours like Italian clocks, since neither day nor night, sun nor moon, exist for me, but only this artificial light that I import into the
depths
of the seas!
How do you reach the lower depths, where you meet an increasing resistance that's assessed in hundreds of atmospheres?
So I can descend to considerable
depths.
Accordingly, when I have a mind to visit the ocean
depths
two or three vertical leagues beneath the surface, I use maneuvers that are more time-consuming but no less infallible."
If we accept the hypotheses of the microbiologist Ehrenberg-- who believes that these underwater
depths
are lit up by phosphorescent organisms--nature has certainly saved one of her most prodigious sights for residents of the sea, and I could judge for myself from the thousandfold play of the light.
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