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My
mouth
was filling with water.
I was at the end of my strength; my fingers gave out; my hands were no help to me; my
mouth
opened convulsively, filling with brine; its coldness ran through me; I raised my head one last time, then I collapsed. . . .
He was tall, his forehead broad, his nose straight, his
mouth
clearly etched, his teeth magnificent, his hands refined, tapered, and to use a word from palmistry, highly "psychic," in other words, worthy of serving a lofty and passionate spirit.
Why, in every country on earth, when you open your mouth, snap your jaws, smack your lips and teeth, isn't that the world's most understandable message?
I opened my
mouth
wide, and my lungs glutted themselves on the fresh particles.
"No vehement phrases will leave my mouth, no vicious gestures will give my feelings away, not even when they don't feed us on time."
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.
In the Rouquayrol device that has been in general use, two india-rubber hoses leave this box and feed to a kind of tent that imprisons the operator's nose and mouth; one hose is for the entrance of air to be inhaled, the other for the exit of air to be exhaled, and the tongue closes off the former or the latter depending on the breather's needs.
"You glutton," Conseil replied, "you're making my
mouth
water!""It remains to be seen," I said, "whether these forests do contain game, and if the types of game aren't of such size that they can hunt the hunter."
CHAPTER 22The Lightning Bolts of Captain NemoWITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land's completing its assignment.
It was more than twenty-five feet long; its enormous
mouth
occupied a third of its body.
As for marine mammals, on passing by the
mouth
of the Adriatic Sea, I thought I recognized two or three sperm whales equipped with the single dorsal fin denoting the genus Physeter, some pilot whales from the genus Globicephalus exclusive to the Mediterranean, the forepart of the head striped with small distinct lines, and also a dozen seals with white bellies and black coats, known by the name monk seals and just as solemn as if they were three-meter Dominicans.
"But couldn't someone enter through the
mouth
of its crater?"
"Can you picture," I asked them, "what this funnel must have been like when it was filled with boiling lava, and the level of that incandescent liquid rose right to the mountain's mouth, like cast iron up the insides of a furnace?""I can picture it perfectly," Conseil replied.
At the
mouth
of a hole cut in the trunk of a dragon tree, there swarmed thousands of these ingenious insects so common to all the Canary Islands, where their output is especially prized.
Above us, the yawning crater looked like the wide
mouth
of a well.
In this locality there gaped the
mouth
of a magnificent cave.
Whatever the range of its flight, however evasive its trajectory (even up and over the Nautilus), the hapless flying fish always found a dolphin to welcome it with open
mouth.
They're merely
mouth
and teeth!
"Mouth
and teeth!
Its open
mouth
let water flow through its whalebone like a murmuring surf.
I noted some one-decimeter southern bullhead, a species of whitish cartilaginous fish overrun with bluish gray stripes and armed with stings, then some Antarctic rabbitfish three feet long, the body very slender, the skin a smooth silver white, the head rounded, the topside furnished with three fins, the snout ending in a trunk that curved back toward the
mouth.
The Nautilus passed the wide estuary formed by the
mouth
of the Rio de la Plata, and on April 4 we lay abreast of Uruguay, albeit fifty miles out.
But on April 11 it rose suddenly, and the shore reappeared at the
mouth
of the Amazon River, a huge estuary whose outflow is so considerable, it desalts the sea over an area of several leagues.
During the course of the next day, April 12, the Nautilus drew near the coast of Dutch Guiana, by the
mouth
of the Maroni River.
This toxic vegetation has increased beneath the seas of the Torrid Zone, so the disease spreads unchecked from the
mouth
of the Rio de la Plata to Florida!"
"And wasn't its
mouth
a real parrot's beak but of fearsome size?""Correct, Conseil."
It was only on May 1 that the Nautilus openly resumed its northbound course, after raising the Bahamas at the
mouth
of Old Bahama Channel.
Before a few days are out, I figure the Nautilus will lie abreast of Nova Scotia, and from there to Newfoundland is the
mouth
of a large gulf, and the St. Lawrence empties into that gulf, and the St. Lawrence is my own river, the river running by Quebec, my hometown-- and when I think about all this, my gorge rises and my hair stands on end!
After our position had been marked on the chart, I saw that we were passing into the
mouth
of the English Channel, that our heading would take us to the northernmost seas with incomparable speed.
The "new fellow" then took a supreme resolution, opened an inordinately large mouth, and shouted at the top of his voice as if calling someone in the word "Charbovari."
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