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"But it seems to me that in this semidarkness, amid this liquid that's so dense in comparison to the atmosphere, a gunshot couldn't carry far and would prove fatal only with difficulty!""On the contrary, sir, with this rifle every shot is fatal; and as soon as the animal is hit, no matter how lightly, it falls as if struck by lightning."
There our diving suits were removed, not without difficulty; and utterly exhausted, faint from lack of food and rest, I repaired to my stateroom, full of wonder at this startling excursion on the bottom of the sea.
Four men appeared and, not without difficulty, pushed the chest out of the lounge.
When the ships of that bold investigator arrived in the Sargasso Sea, they had great difficulty navigating in the midst of these weeds, which, much to their crews' dismay, slowed them down to a halt; and they wasted three long weeks crossing this sector.
Such was the region our Nautilus was visiting just then: a genuine prairie, a tightly woven carpet of algae, gulfweed, and bladder wrack so dense and compact a craft's stempost couldn't tear through it without difficulty.
"So, Professor Aronnax, you think the Nautilus won't be able to float clear?""Only with the greatest difficulty, captain, since the season is already too advanced for you to depend on an ice breakup."
"Our sole difficulty," Captain Nemo went on, "lies in our staying submerged for several days without renewing our air supply."
Charbovari"), then died away into single notes, growing quieter only with great difficulty, and now and again suddenly recommencing along the line of a form whence rose here and there, like a damp cracker going off, a stifled laugh.
When she had thus for a while struck the flint on her heart without getting a spark, incapable, moreover, of understanding what she did not experience as of believing anything that did not present itself in conventional forms, she persuaded herself without difficulty that Charles's passion was nothing very exorbitant.
The difficulty was the consent of his mother; nothing, however, seemed more reasonable.
He caused such confusion with this piece of business that one had great difficulty in getting to the small steps of the platform.
He had great difficulty in getting back to his seat, for his elbows were jerked at every step because of the glass he held in his hands, and he even spilt three-fourths on the shoulders of a Rouen lady in short sleeves, who feeling the cold liquid running down to her loins, uttered cries like a peacock, as if she were being assassinated.
And congratulating himself at having surmounted the difficulty, Leon watched her face out of the corner of his eyes.
She pointed out the difficulty of getting a purchaser.
Then he said stupidly, "You are exaggerating the difficulty.
But the chemist's shop was full of people; he had the greatest difficulty in getting rid of Monsieur Tuvache, who feared his spouse would get inflammation of the lungs, because she was in the habit of spitting on the ashes; then of Monsieur Binet, who sometimes experienced sudden attacks of great hunger; and of Madame Caron, who suffered from tinglings; of Lheureux, who had vertigo; of Lestiboudois, who had rheumatism; and of Madame Lefrancois, who had heartburn.
Julien did not notice a detail which would have greatly reassured him; Madame de Renal, who had been obliged to remove her hand from his, on rising to help her cousin to pick up a pot of flowers which the wind had overturned at their feet, had no sooner sat down again than she gave him back her hand almost without difficulty, and as though it had been an understood thing between them.
'Will such delicious moments,' he was wondering, 'last for ever?'His thoughts were absorbed in the difficulty of adopting a profession, he was deploring this great and distressing problem which puts an end to boyhood and spoils the opening years of manhood when one has no money.
The damage to be repaired was immense, the task one of great difficulty.
What an immense difficulty,' he went on, 'is this incessant hypocrisy!
The slightest help from without would have sufficed to restore his morale, the difficulty to be overcome was not great; but he was alone, as lonely as a vessel abandoned in mid-ocean.
'You relieve me of a difficulty; for the last ten minutes, I have been trying to think of a way of thanking you for the pleasant evening which you have given me, and certainly in a most unexpected manner.
Then, as Julien found some difficulty in translating the Bishop's conversation into Latin:'Speak French, and repeat to me Monseigneur's own words, without adding or omitting anything,' said the ex-Director of the Seminary, in his harsh tone and profoundly inelegant manner.
Then climbing from terrace to terrace, although all the gates were shut, he had no difficulty in arriving immediately beneath the window of Madame de Renal's bedroom, which, on the garden side, was no more than nine or ten feet above the ground.
Julien had great difficulty in recognising him, so civil did he find him.
Julien emerged from the difficulty with great simplicity; he had an unconscious grace.
The rumour passed without difficulty.
'How beautiful she would be on a throne!' he said to M. de Croisenois, and made no difficulty about allowing himself to be led to her.
'If, with his poverty, Julien had been noble, my love would be nothing more than a piece of vulgar folly, an unfortunate marriage; I should not object to that; it would lack that element which characterises great passion: the immensity of the difficulty to be overcome and the black uncertainty of events.'
The idea encountered in his heart a germ of love which it had no difficulty in destroying.
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