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Fifteen days later and 2,000 leagues farther, the Helvetia from the Compagnie Nationale and the Shannon from the Royal Mail line, running on opposite tacks in that part of the Atlantic lying between the United States and Europe, respectively signaled each other that the monster had been sighted in latitude 42 degrees 15' north and longitude 60 degrees 35' west of the meridian of Greenwich.
I had read and reread every American and European newspaper without being any
farther
along.
I stared; I stared until I nearly went blind from a worn-out retina, while Conseil, as stoic as ever, kept repeating to me in a calm tone:"If master's eyes would kindly stop bulging, master will see farther!"
By noon we were no
farther
along than at eight o'clock in the morning.
When it plied more heavily traveled seas, we often saw wrecked hulls rotting in midwater, and
farther
down, cannons, shells, anchors, chains, and a thousand other iron objects rusting away.
"Indeed," the captain replied with a smile, "and in this respect, the moderns aren't much
farther
along than the ancients.
I wanted to see if the Nautilus's heading was actually taking us closer to the coast or spiriting us
farther
away.
In fact, there beneath my eyes was a town in ruins, demolished, overwhelmed, laid low, its roofs caved in, its temples pulled down, its arches dislocated, its columns stretching over the earth; in these ruins you could still detect the solid proportions of a sort of Tuscan architecture;
farther
off, the remains of a gigantic aqueduct; here, the caked heights of an acropolis along with the fluid forms of a Parthenon; there, the remnants of a wharf, as if some bygone port had long ago harbored merchant vessels and triple-tiered war galleys on the shores of some lost ocean; still
farther
off, long rows of collapsing walls, deserted thoroughfares, a whole Pompeii buried under the waters, which Captain Nemo had resurrected before my eyes!
The
farther
down south we went, the more these floating islands grew in numbers and prominence.
"Ultimately, when he can't go any farther, he'll stop."
Here and there stood sharp peaks, lean spires that rose as high as 200 feet;
farther
off, a succession of steeply cut cliffs sporting a grayish tint, huge mirrors that reflected the sparse rays of a sun half drowned in mist.
You've made it to the Ice Bank, which is already far enough, but you won't get any farther, neither your Captain Nemo or his Nautilus.
Ordinarily, when someone can't go any farther, he still has the option of returning in his tracks.
I promise you, not only will the Nautilus float clear, it will go
farther
still!
""Farther
south?"
Never before has my Nautilus cruised so far into these southernmost seas, but I repeat: it will go
farther
still."
Half a mile
farther
on, the ground was completely riddled with penguin nests, egg-laying burrows from which numerous birds emerged.
The Nautilus didn't stay idle, and cruising along the coast, it advanced some ten miles
farther
south amid the half light left by the sun as it skimmed the edge of the horizon.
Two miles
farther
on, we were stopped by a promontory that screened the bay from southerly winds.
By July 23 the Great Eastern was lying no
farther
than 800 kilometers from Newfoundland when it received telegraphed news from Ireland of an armistice signed between Prussia and Austria after the Battle of Sadova.
We arrived there on May 28, and the Nautilus lay no
farther
than 150 kilometers from Ireland.
A mile
farther
on they had to stop to mend with some string the traces that had broken.
The room on the ground-floor, the only one in the dwelling, had at its
farther
end, against the wall, a large bed without curtains, while a kneading-trough took up the side by the window, one pane of which was mended with a piece of blue paper.
To him she stood outside those fleshly attributes from which he had nothing to obtain, and in his heart she rose ever, and became
farther
removed from him after the magnificent manner of an apotheosis that is taking wing.
Here it is the vine, elsewhere the apple tree for cider, there colza,
farther
on cheeses and flax.
Monsieur Derozerays from time to time softly closed his eyelids, and
farther
on the chemist, with his son Napoleon between his knees, put his hand behind his ear in order not to lose a syllable.
Then some hundred paces
farther
on she again stopped, and through her veil, that fell sideways from her man's hat over her hips, her face appeared in a bluish transparency as if she were floating under azure waves.
He drew her
farther
on to a small pool where duckweeds made a greenness on the water.
But the reflections of the paintings, broken by the marble rim, were continued
farther
on upon the flag-stones, like a many-coloured carpet.
Once in the middle of the day, in the open country, just as the sun beat most fiercely against the old plated lanterns, a bared hand passed beneath the small blinds of yellow canvas, and threw out some scraps of paper that scattered in the wind, and
farther
off lighted like white butterflies on a field of red clover all in bloom.
Then a hundred steps
farther
on, breathless, almost falling, she stopped.
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