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The livid wretch, clinging with imbecile obstinacy to his fixed idea, continued to stammer his need of cleaning himself.
Maheu, Levaque, and the others forgot the shop, with their eyes fixed on the wall along which a thin red streak was slowly flowing down.
The abuse increased, while the dead man, stretched on his back, gazed motionless with his large fixed eyes at the immense sky from which the night was falling.
And with eyes open, in this warm nothingness, he returned to his fixed idea--the thought of what his mates were doing above.
His long meditations had fixed his ambition.
Souvarine had gone back to his chair, with his back to the wall and his eyes fixed on the smoke from his cigarette, but his feverish fingers were moving restlessly, and he ran them over his knees, seeking the warm fur of Poland, who was absent this evening; it was an unconscious discomfort, something that was lacking, he could not exactly say what.
The blue eyes, wide open, were gazing at the sky with that fixed gaze with which he had before seen him searching the horizon for the country of his birth.
For another quarter of an hour he reflected, still absorbed in the same struggle, his eyes fixed on the burning wick.
Since he dared not kill, it was for him to die; and this idea of death, which had already touched him, came again and fixed itself in his head, as a last hope.
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.
Souvarine was behind them with a deep wrinkle on his forehead, as though the nail of his fixed idea had printed itself there threateningly.
He remained for hours with fixed gaze, having no intelligence now except to spit into a plate filled with ashes, which was put beside him for cleanliness.
With eyes vaguely fixed on the pit in the shadow, Souvarine quietly concluded:"If it does smash up, the mates will know it, since you advise them to go down again."
And the man above, on the pit-bank, the fair man with the girlish face, smoked cigarettes to occupy himself, keeping his clear eyes fixed on the pit.
And she sat down again, and waited still, without a word, with hard, fixed face.
Bonnemort was there alone, with large fixed eyes, nailed to his chair in front of the cold fireplace.
The old horse was there, trembling, with its dilated eye fixed on this water which was constantly rising.
He was devoured by insomnia, and watched over her with fixed eyes and forehead between his hands.
The fractures of the coal struck into their spines, and they felt at the back of their necks a fixed intense pain, through having to keep constantly bent in order to avoid striking their heads.
Maheude left off crying to stare at him stupidly with her large fixed eyes.
Pierron had appeared with his naked captain's lamp fixed into the leather of his cap.
There the captain fixed his position and used a chronometer to calculate his longitude, which he double-checked against his previous observations of hour angles.
His chief officer regularly fixed the positions I found reported on the chart, and in such a way that I could exactly plot the Nautilus's course.
Reefs were still numerous but more widely scattered and were fixed on the chart with the greatest accuracy.
Conseil looked at it with purely scientific fascination, and I'm sure he placed it, not without good reason, in the class of cartilaginous fish, order Chondropterygia with fixed gills, family Selacia, genus Squalus.
The Canadian and I sat him up; we massaged his contracted arms, and when he regained his five senses, that eternal classifier mumbled in a broken voice:"Class of cartilaginous fish, order Chondropterygia with fixed gills, suborder Selacia, family Rajiiforma, genus electric ray.""Yes, my friend," I answered, "it was an electric ray that put you in this deplorable state."
The Nautilus no longer kept to a fixed heading.
His outbursts became regular; he embraced her at certain fixed times.
A breath of love had passed over the stitches on the canvas; each prick of the needle had fixed there a hope or a memory, and all those interwoven threads of silk were but the continuity of the same silent passion.
Then at the back of the shop, behind the great scales fixed to the counter, the word "Laboratory" appears on a scroll above a glass door, which about half-way up once more repeats "Homais" in gold letters on a black ground.
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