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But all earthly things come to an end, all things must pass, even the hunger of people who haven't eaten for
fifteen
hours.
just now we're proceeding at the moderate pace of
fifteen
miles per hour."
It's
fifteen
minutes before noon.
This order consists of
fifteen
families, in other words, three-quarters of all known fish.
The compass still showed our heading as east-northeast, the pressure gauge indicated a pressure of five atmospheres (corresponding to a depth of fifty meters), and the electric log gave our speed as
fifteen
miles per hour.
There I saw again, but not yet pressed and dried like the Nautilus's specimens, some peacock's tails spread open like fans to stir up a cooling breeze, scarlet rosetangle, sea tangle stretching out their young and edible shoots, twisting strings of kelp from the genus Nereocystis that bloomed to a height of
fifteen
meters, bouquets of mermaid's cups whose stems grew wider at the top, and a number of other open-sea plants, all without flowers.
After renewing its air, the Nautilus stayed at an average depth of
fifteen
meters, enabling it to return quickly to the surface of the waves.
A gentle slope gravitated to an uneven bottom whose depth was about
fifteen
fathoms.
Among other specimens in these two branches, I noted some windowpane oysters with thin valves of unequal size, a type of ostracod unique to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, then orange-hued lucina with circular shells, awl-shaped auger shells, some of those Persian murex snails that supply the Nautilus with such wonderful dye, spiky periwinkles
fifteen
centimeters long that rose under the waves like hands ready to grab you, turban snails with shells made of horn and bristling all over with spines, lamp shells, edible duck clams that feed the Hindu marketplace, subtly luminous jellyfish of the species Pelagia panopyra, and finally some wonderful Oculina flabelliforma, magnificent sea fans that fashion one of the most luxuriant tree forms in this ocean.
The others had rugged black surfaces, measured up to
fifteen
centimeters in width, and were ten or more years old.
Hence such an oyster held
fifteen
kilos of meat, and you'd need the stomach of King Gargantua to eat a couple dozen.
They went in groups of five or six, hunting in packs like wolves over the countryside; moreover, they're just as voracious as dogfish, if I can believe a certain Copenhagen professor who says that from one dolphin's stomach, he removed thirteen porpoises and
fifteen
seals.
People claim these animals can circle around the world in just
fifteen
days."
Its propeller churned the waves and it headed due north at a speed of
fifteen
miles per hour.
Long bores were driven into the side walls; but after
fifteen
meters, the instruments were still impeded by the thickness of those walls.
Among cartilaginous fish: some brook lamprey, a type of eel
fifteen
inches long, head greenish, fins violet, back bluish gray, belly a silvery brown strewn with bright spots, iris of the eye encircled in gold, unusual animals that the Amazon's current must have swept out to sea because their natural habitat is fresh water; sting rays, the snout pointed, the tail long, slender, and armed with an extensive jagged sting; small one-meter sharks with gray and whitish hides, their teeth arranged in several backward-curving rows, fish commonly known by the name carpet shark; batfish, a sort of reddish isosceles triangle half a meter long, whose pectoral fins are attached by fleshy extensions that make these fish look like bats, although an appendage made of horn, located near the nostrils, earns them the nickname of sea unicorns; lastly, a couple species of triggerfish, the cucuyo whose stippled flanks glitter with a sparkling gold color, and the bright purple leatherjacket whose hues glisten like a pigeon's throat.
Finally, adorned with emerald ribbons and dressed in velvet and silk, golden angelfish passed before our eyes like courtiers in the paintings of Veronese; spurred gilthead stole by with their swift thoracic fins; thread herring
fifteen
inches long were wrapped in their phosphorescent glimmers; gray mullet thrashed the sea with their big fleshy tails; red salmon seemed to mow the waves with their slicing pectorals; and silver moonfish, worthy of their name, rose on the horizon of the waters like the whitish reflections of many moons.
The wind was blowing from the southwest, initially a stiff breeze, in other words, with a speed of
fifteen
meters per second, which built to twenty-five meters near three o'clock in the afternoon.
They measured up to
fifteen
meters in height over a length of 150 to 175 meters, and the speed of their propagation (half that of the wind) was
fifteen
meters per second.
I thought it would find calm again at
fifteen
meters down.
Some
fifteen
of the Nautilus's seamen surrounded their captain and stared with a feeling of implacable hate at the ship bearing down on them.
I estimate--but perhaps I'm mistaken--that the Nautilus's haphazard course continued for
fifteen
or twenty days, and I'm not sure how long this would have gone on without the catastrophe that ended our voyage.
They form a whirlpool aptly called "the ocean's navel," whose attracting power extends a distance of
fifteen
kilometers.
The "new fellow," standing in the corner behind the door so that he could hardly be seen, was a country lad of about fifteen, and taller than any of us.
For six months, then, Emma, at
fifteen
years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.
A few men (some
fifteen
or so), of twenty-five to forty, scattered here and there among the dancers or talking at the doorways, distinguished themselves from the crowd by a certain air of breeding, whatever their differences in age, dress, or face.
Only think, Monsieur Homais, that since morning they have had about
fifteen
games, and drunk eight jars of cider!
He lived as a bachelor, and was supposed to have "at least
fifteen
thousand francs a year."
Neither Ambrose Pare, applying for the first time since Celsus, after an interval of
fifteen
centuries, a ligature to an artery, nor Dupuytren, about to open an abscess in the brain, nor Gensoul when he first took away the superior maxilla, had hearts that trembled, hands that shook, minds so strained as Monsieur Bovary when he approached Hippolyte, his tenotome between his fingers.
It contained
fifteen
napoleons; it was the account.
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