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Nautilus in sentence

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I realized the Nautilus had come to rest on the ocean floor.
Around the Nautilus for a half-mile radius, the waters seemed saturated with electric light.
Here, whenever he needed, Captain Nemo came to withdraw these millions to ballast his Nautilus.
And now I knew where Captain Nemo had delivered those millions, when the Nautilus navigated the waters where Crete was in rebellion against the Ottoman Empire!
.""What's the Nautilus's heading?"
The waters were profoundly dark, but Captain Nemo pointed to a reddish spot in the distance, a sort of wide glow shimmering about two miles from the Nautilus.
When I turned around, I could still see the Nautilus's whitish beacon, which was starting to grow pale in the distance.
Two hours after leaving the Nautilus, we had cleared the timberline, and 100 feet above our heads stood the mountain peak, forming a dark silhouette against the brilliant glare that came from its far slope.
Once past the petrified forest, I could see the Nautilus's beacon twinkling like a star.
I hurried to find out the Nautilus's heading.
In fact, the Nautilus was skimming only ten meters over the soil of these Atlantis plains.
Sometimes an unpredictable irregularity in the seafloor would force the Nautilus to slow down, and then it would glide into the narrow channels between the hills with a cetacean's dexterity.
It was an enjoyable and impressive way of navigating that did indeed recall the maneuvers of an airship ride, with the major difference that the Nautilus faithfully obeyed the hands of its helmsman.
I expected these long plains to change into mountain regions, and in fact, as the Nautilus was executing certain turns, I noticed that the southerly horizon was blocked by a high wall that seemed to close off every exit.
Just then the Nautilus had arrived at the perpendicular face of that high wall.
The Nautilus did not stir.
It told me that the Nautilus was afloat on the surface of the ocean.
"And the Nautilus is still floating?"
The Nautilus was stationary.
While you were sleeping, professor, the Nautilus entered this lagoon through a natural channel that opens ten meters below the surface of the ocean.
The Nautilus doesn't need a harbor."
"But will master tell me why this huge smelter suspended operations, and how it is that an oven was replaced by the tranquil waters of a lake?""In all likelihood, Conseil, because some convulsion created an opening below the surface of the ocean, the opening that serves as a passageway for the Nautilus.
"But Ned my friend," Conseil answered, "if it weren't an underwater passageway, the Nautilus couldn't enter it!"
Let's go change clothes on the Nautilus."
Just then the crewmen finished loading the sodium supplies, and the Nautilus could have departed immediately.
Be that as it may, by the next day the Nautilus had left its home port and was navigating well out from any shore, a few meters beneath the waves of the Atlantic.
Such was the region our Nautilus was visiting just then: a genuine prairie, a tightly woven carpet of algae, gulfweed, and bladder wrack so dense and compact a craft's stempost couldn't tear through it without difficulty.
At the very outset and in no uncertain terms, hadn't he declared that the secret of his life required that we be permanently imprisoned on board the Nautilus?
But the fact remains that not a single dogfish let itself get caught in the Nautilus's nets, so I can't vouch for their voracity.
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.
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