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Nautilus in sentence

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Now then, the tides aren't strong in the Pacific, and if you can't unballast the Nautilus, which seems impossible to me, I don't see how it will float off."
"Ned my friend," I replied, "unlike you, I haven't given up on our valiant Nautilus, and in four days we'll know where we stand on these Pacific tides.
And we'll always have that as a last resort if the Nautilus doesn't right itself, which I'd regard as a real calamity."
At eight o'clock, armed with rifles and axes, we pulled clear of the Nautilus.
By 8:30 the Nautilus's skiff had just run gently aground on a sandy strand, after successfully clearing the ring of coral that surrounds Gueboroa Island.
He spotted a coconut palm, beat down some of its fruit, broke them open, and we drank their milk and ate their meat with a pleasure that was a protest against our standard fare on the Nautilus.
Some fresh vegetables would be well received in the Nautilus's pantry."
Finally, at five o'clock in the afternoon, laden with all our treasures, we left the island beach and half an hour later pulled alongside the Nautilus.
What a supply for the Nautilus!
The Nautilus, looking like a long reef, emerged from the waves two miles offshore.
"What if we don't return to the Nautilus this evening?"
I looked to see if their appearance might draw some of the Nautilus's men onto the platform.
"Well then," I replied, "if you don't want to welcome them aboard the Nautilus, you'd better take some precautions!"
"Professor Aronnax," replied Captain Nemo, whose fingers took their places again on the organ keys, "if every islander in Papua were to gather on that beach, the Nautilus would still have nothing to fear from their attacks!"
I then remembered that this loyal, good-natured satellite would return to this same place the day after tomorrow, to raise the tide and tear the Nautilus from its coral bed.
Taking advantage of the low tide, some of them had moved forward over the heads of coral to within two cable lengths of the Nautilus.
One of these chieftains came fairly close to the Nautilus, examining it with care.
During this whole time of low tide, the islanders lurked near the Nautilus, but they weren't boisterous.
Besides, it was the last day the Nautilus would spend in these waterways, if, tomorrow, it still floated off to the open sea as Captain Nemo had promised.
However, I'm opposed to being devoured, even in all decency, so I'll keep on my guard, especially since the Nautilus's commander seems to be taking no precautions.
Now some twenty dugout canoes were surrounding the Nautilus.
Just then the dugout canoes drew nearer to the Nautilus, and a cloud of arrows burst over us.
"What's that, sir?""Tomorrow at about this time, we'll need to reopen the hatches to renew the Nautilus's air."
Constantly tossed about by hurricanes, the Zealous and the new Astrolabe couldn't compare with the Nautilus, a quiet work room truly at rest in the midst of the waters!"
"What's that, sir?""Like them, the Nautilus has run aground!"
"The Nautilus is not aground, sir," Captain Nemo replied icily.
"The Nautilus was built to rest on the ocean floor, and I don't need to undertake the arduous labors, the maneuvers d'Urville had to attempt in order to float off his sloops of war.
The Zealous and the new Astrolabe wellnigh perished, but my Nautilus is in no danger.
"My boy," I replied, "when I expressed the belief that these Papuan natives were a threat to his Nautilus, the captain answered me with great irony.
"Won't they come inside the Nautilus?"
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