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At this moment Rasseneur's voice was lost in the
midst
of enthusiastic shouts:"Hurrah for Rasseneur!
In the
midst
of the joy, he forced himself to hide the melancholy of his ruin.
Only the construction of tubbings, frameworks jointed like the stays of a barrel, could keep Out the springs which flow in and isolate the shafts in the
midst
of the lakes, which with deep obscure waves beat against the walls.
First he felt with his hand and then worked, only lighting a match when he lost himself in the
midst
of these slimy beams.
At the very entrance she recognized Chaval, in the
midst
of some twenty miners, waiting till a cage was free.
That was the terror they all felt each time that the cage rose; this time it was able to pass, but who knew if it would be able to pass again in the
midst
of the obstacles obstructing the shaft?
He went down lower, lost in the
midst
of these chasms which continued to multiply, beaten and turned round by the waterspout of the springs, so badly lighted by the red star of the lamp moving on below, that he seemed to distinguish the roads and squares of some destroyed town far away in the play of the great moving shadows.
And they both continued whispering, overcome at the thought that a man had had the courage to go down, to hang in the
midst
of space, to risk his life twenty times over in his terrible task.
Deneulin, who had been appointed divisional engineer, came into the
midst
of the disaster on beginning his duties; and his first care was to turn the canal back into its bed, for this torrent increased the damage every hour.
The engineer was astonished; he again applied his ear, and was at last able to catch a sound of aerial softness, a rhythmical roll scarcely to be distinguished, the well-known cadence beaten by the miners when they are fighting against the coal in the
midst
of danger.
And they were terrified when they heard it plunge into the
midst
of the foam which leapt up.
The rolling of the trams shook the metal floor, the drums were turning, unrolling the cables in the
midst
of cries from the trumpet, the ringing of bells, blows of the mallet on the signal block; he found the monster again swallowing his daily ration of human flesh, the cages rising and plunging, engulfing their burden of men, without ceasing, with the facile gulp of a voracious giant.
Below, beneath the screening-shed, he noticed a creature seated on the earth, with legs stretched out, in the
midst
of a thick pile of coal.
In the
midst
of the general silence, a voice became audible.
Sometimes I go hunting right in the
midst
of this element that has long seemed so far out of man's reach, and I corner the game that dwells in my underwater forests.
Here I'm free!"Captain Nemo suddenly fell silent in the
midst
of this enthusiastic outpouring.
"I understand, captain, I understand your delight at strolling in the
midst
of this wealth.
Here, as in the lounge, I always have them before my eyes, and they indicate my position and exact heading in the
midst
of the ocean.
"But in the
midst
of the waters, how can your helmsman follow the course you've given him?"
"Fair enough, captain, but if we're going to see, we need light to drive away the dark, and in the
midst
of the murky waters, I wonder how your helmsman can--""Set astern of the pilothouse is a powerful electric reflector whose rays light up the sea for a distance of half a mile."
Many people would welcome the circumstances that have been handed us, just to walk in the
midst
of these wonders.
In the
midst
of their leaping and cavorting, while they competed with each other in beauty, radiance, and speed, I could distinguish some green wrasse, bewhiskered mullet marked with pairs of black lines, white gobies from the genus Eleotris with curved caudal fins and violet spots on the back, wonderful Japanese mackerel from the genus Scomber with blue bodies and silver heads, glittering azure goldfish whose name by itself gives their full description, several varieties of porgy or gilthead (some banded gilthead with fins variously blue and yellow, some with horizontal heraldic bars and enhanced by a black strip around their caudal area, some with color zones and elegantly corseted in their six waistbands), trumpetfish with flutelike beaks that looked like genuine seafaring woodcocks and were sometimes a meter long, Japanese salamanders, serpentine moray eels from the genus Echidna that were six feet long with sharp little eyes and a huge mouth bristling with teeth; etc.
Farther on, the bottom was tinted with fine shades of ultramarine; then, off in the distance, it turned blue and faded in the
midst
of a hazy darkness.
Looming like a long reef, the Nautilus's hull disappeared little by little, but when night fell in the
midst
of the waters, the ship's beacon would surely facilitate our return on board, since its rays carried with perfect distinctness.
Despite its speed, the Nautilus navigated for several hours in the
midst
of this school of animals, and its nets brought up an incalculable number, among which I recognized all nine species that Professor Orbigny has classified as native to the Pacific Ocean.
It changed its setting and decor for the mere pleasure of our eyes, and we were called upon not simply to contemplate the works of our Creator in the
midst
of the liquid element, but also to probe the ocean's most daunting mysteries.
In the broad electric daylight, an enormous black mass, quite motionless, hung suspended in the
midst
of the waters.
It will still carry you through the
midst
of the ocean's wonders.
At present they were cackling in chorus with parakeets of every color, with solemn cockatoos that seemed to be pondering some philosophical problem, while bright red lories passed by like pieces of bunting borne on the breeze, in the
midst
of kalao parrots raucously on the wing, Papuan lories painted the subtlest shades of azure, and a whole variety of delightful winged creatures, none terribly edible.
The moon shone in the
midst
of the constellations at their zenith.
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