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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.
On March 5, 1867, the Moravian from the Montreal Ocean Co., lying during the night in latitude 27 degrees 30' and longitude 72 degrees 15', ran its starboard quarter afoul of a rock marked on no charts of these waterways.
At first I didn't know what to make of this sudden assault, but I was reassured to observe the captain lying motionless beside me.
This group is chiefly made up of nine large islands and forms a 120-league strip from the north-northwest to the south-southeast, lying between latitude 2 degrees and 15 degrees south, and between longitude 164 degrees and 168 degrees.
Lying well out, that enormous machine still seemed completely deserted.
But this long, iron cylinder lying in the bay, with no masts or funnels--what were they to make of it?
Its masting was visible for an instant, but it couldn't have seen the Nautilus because we were lying too low in the water.
When I told them we would be lying in Mediterranean waters within two days, Conseil clapped his hands, but the Canadian shrugged his shoulders.
So, in our swift cruise through these deep strata, how many vessels I saw lying on the seafloor, some already caked with coral, others clad only in a layer of rust, plus anchors, cannons, shells, iron fittings, propeller blades, parts of engines, cracked cylinders, staved-in boilers, then hulls floating in midwater, here upright, there overturned.
There I saw numerous iron undersides, the phantasmagoric ruins of steamers, some lying down, others rearing up like fearsome animals.
Pudding stones and trachyte gave way to black basaltic rock: here, lying in slabs all swollen with blisters; there, shaped like actual prisms and arranged into a series of columns that supported the springings of this immense vault, a wonderful sample of natural architecture.
These were seals of various species, some stretched out on the ground, others lying on drifting ice floes, several leaving or reentering the sea.
So the Nautilus was lying on its starboard side, completely stationary to boot.
I felt like I was lying in the jaws of a fearsome monster, jaws irresistibly closing.
Half lying on a couch in the library, I was suffocating.
The Nautilus, sometimes lying on its side, sometimes standing on end like a mast, rolled and pitched frightfully.
It was on May 17, about 500 miles from Heart's Content and 2,800 meters down, that I spotted this cable lying on the seafloor.
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.
Were we lying in the dangerous waterways off the Norwegian coast?
But when I regained consciousness, I was lying in a fisherman's hut on one of the Lofoten Islands.
Charles from time to time opened his eyes, his mind grew weary, and, sleep coming upon him, he soon fell into a doze wherein, his recent sensations blending with memories, he became conscious of a double self, at once student and married man, lying in his bed as but now, and crossing the operation theatre as of old.
When she was taken too bad she went off quite alone to the sea-shore, so that the customs officer, going his rounds, often found her lying flat on her face, crying on the shingle.
He declaimed—"This is no longer the time, gentlemen, when civil discord ensanguined our public places, when the landlord, the business-man, the working-man himself, falling asleep at night, lying down to peaceful sleep, trembled lest he should be awakened suddenly by the noise of incendiary tocsins, when the most subversive doctrines audaciously sapped foundations."
It was Captain Binet lying in ambush for wild ducks.
She remained until evening racking her brain with every conceivable lying project, and had constantly before her eyes that imbecile with the game-bag.
She was lying flat on her stomach at the top of a rick.
What! silk for lining at two francs, when you can get jaconet for ten sous, or even for eight, that would do well enough!"Emma, lying on a lounge, replied as quietly as possible—"Ah!
Handkerchiefs were lying about on the stoves, and little Berthe, to the great scandal of Madame Homais, wore stockings with holes in them.
Lying on her back, motionless, and with staring eyes, she saw things but vaguely, although she tried to with idiotic persistence.
She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road.
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