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At that instant he knew that neither his doubts nor the impossibility of believing with his reason – of which he was conscious – all prevented his appealing to God.
'Peter Dmitrich!'Levin again began in a piteous voice, but at that instant the doctor came out, dressed and with his hair brushed.
One mood when not in her presence: when with the doctor, who smoked one thick cigarette after another and extinguished them against the rim of the overflowing ashpan; when with Dolly and the Prince, where they talked about dinner, politics, or Mary Petrovna's illness, and when Levin suddenly quite forgot for an instant what was happening and felt just as if he was waking up; and the other was in her presence, by her pillow, where his heart was ready to burst with pity and yet did not burst, and there he prayed unceasingly to God.
Other shadows rushed toward it from another side; for an instant they rushed together, but then again they spread with renewed swiftness, flickered, and all was darkness.
He glanced at her, frowned for an instant, and continued to read a letter.
The familiar gesture of making the sign of the cross called up a whole series of girlish and childish memories, and suddenly the darkness, that obscured everything from her, broke, and life showed itself to her for an instant with all its bright past joys.
But at that instant returning into that mood, he felt with joy that something new and important had occurred within him.
And Catherine drew him away, while, at the same instant, a heavy gallop shook the street from afar.
didn't remain at rest for an instant.
In an instant the frigate's deck would become densely populated.
At any instant a collision could have occurred that would have been fatal to us.
Help!"Ceasing all movement for an instant, we listened.
An instant later our feet were treading the bottom of the sea.
"Would master kindly come here for an instant?" he said to me in an odd voice.
Meanwhile, turning, the Nautilus made a circle around the sinking ship, and for an instant I could read the board on its stern: The FloridaSunderland, EnglandCHAPTER 19VanikoroTHIS DREADFUL SIGHT was the first of a whole series of maritime catastrophes that the Nautilus would encounter on its run.
Loading provisions and weapons into the skiff, pushing it to sea, and positioning its two oars were the work of an instant.
I worked in my stateroom until noon without seeing Captain Nemo even for an instant.
Timor Island was visible for barely an instant at noon while the chief officer determined his position.
He walked up and down, sat and stood, picked up a book at random, discarded it immediately, consulted his instruments without taking his customary notes, and seemed unable to rest easy for an instant.
Its masting was visible for an instant, but it couldn't have seen the Nautilus because we were lying too low in the water.
An instant later, the longboat's sailors helped us overboard one after the other, and we set foot on level sand in a meter and a half of water.
After leaving this gulf we raised Muscat for an instant, the most important town in the country of Oman.
For an instant it bumped the Nautilus's side, then all sounds ceased.
For an instant I could glimpse the wonderful ruins of the Temple of Hercules, buried undersea, as Pliny and Avianus have mentioned, together with the flat island they stand on; and a few minutes later, we were floating on the waves of the Atlantic.
Just then the moon appeared for an instant through the watery mass, casting a few pale rays over this submerged continent.
When the sun appeared for an instant near noon, Captain Nemo took a reasonably accurate sight that gave our position as longitude 51 degrees 30' and latitude 67 degrees 39' south.
Nevertheless, he didn't waste an instant.
Noon arrived without the orb of day appearing for a single instant.
For an instant I was gripped by despair.
For one instant I could see their lofty peaks.
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