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Then, during the Silurian period, the tops of mountains gradually appeared above the waves, islands emerged, disappeared beneath temporary floods, rose again, were fused to form continents, and finally the earth's geography settled into what we have today.
The magical vision disappeared.
Looming like a long reef, the Nautilus's hull disappeared little by little, but when night fell in the midst of the waters, the ship's beacon would surely facilitate our return on board, since its rays carried with perfect distinctness.
The magic of these solar colors disappeared little by little, with emerald and sapphire shades vanishing from our surroundings altogether.
I felt only a certain tightness in the joints of my fingers, and even this discomfort soon disappeared.
The tips of Crespo Island had disappeared during the night.
This said, Captain Nemo headed to the hatch and disappeared down the ladder.
Then the visions disappeared and left me in utter oblivion.
Soon Keeling Island disappeared below the horizon, and our course was set to the northwest, toward the tip of the Indian peninsula.
As if at a signal, every sail was abruptly lowered; arms folded, bodies contracted, shells turned over by changing their center of gravity, and the whole flotilla disappeared under the waves.
We followed him down a gentle slope and disappeared under the waves.
CHAPTER 4The Red SeaDURING THE DAY of January 29, the island of Ceylon disappeared below the horizon, and at a speed of twenty miles per hour, the Nautilus glided into the labyrinthine channels that separate the Maldive and Laccadive Islands.
Suddenly a hissing sound was audible, and the dugong disappeared.
I heard its teeth grind on sheet iron, and the dugong disappeared, taking our harpoon along with it.
I thought I hadn't heard him right, but I couldn't repeat my comment because the captain's head had already disappeared into its metal covering.
Abreast of latitude 60 degrees, every passageway had disappeared.
If the lower half of the sun's disk disappeared just as the chronometer said noon, we were right at the pole.
When the last tips of the Falkland Islands had disappeared below the horizon, the Nautilus submerged to a depth between twenty and twenty-five meters and went along the South American coast.
Then they tried to haul the monster on board, but its weight was so considerable that when they tugged on the rope, the animal parted company with its tail; and deprived of this adornment, it disappeared beneath the waters."
His ax disappeared between the two enormous mandibles, and the Canadian, miraculously saved, stood and plunged his harpoon all the way into the devilfish's triple heart.
Defeated, mutilated, battered to death, the monsters finally yielded to us and disappeared beneath the waves.
Every bird had disappeared except a few petrels, friends of the storms.
Seventy-four years ago to the day, at this very spot in latitude 47 degrees 24' and longitude 17 degrees 28', this ship sank after a heroic battle; its three masts gone, water in its hold, a third of its crew out of action, it preferred to go to the bottom with its 356 seamen rather than surrender; and with its flag nailed up on the afterdeck, it disappeared beneath the waves to shouts of 'Long live the Republic!'"
Then the dark mass disappeared, and with it a crew of corpses dragged under by fearsome eddies. . . .
The little lad, slipping through a hole in the hedge, disappeared; then he came back to the end of a courtyard to open the gate.
She thought "her ways too fine for their position"; the wood, the sugar, and the candles disappeared as "at a grand establishment," and the amount of firing in the kitchen would have been enough for twenty-five courses.
They started again, and with a more rapid movement; the Viscount, dragging her along disappeared with her to the end of the gallery, where panting, she almost fell, and for a moment rested her head upon his breast.
When they arrived in front of her garden, Madame Bovary opened the little gate, ran up the steps and disappeared.
Grease and tobacco stains followed along his broad chest the lines of the buttons, and grew more numerous the farther they were from his neckcloth, in which the massive folds of his red chin rested; this was dotted with yellow spots, that disappeared beneath the coarse hair of his greyish beard.
Then he opened his hand; their eyes met again, and he disappeared.
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