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The captain placed before my eyes a working drawing that gave the ground plan, cross section, and side view of the Nautilus.
Placed on our backs, the Rouquayrol device went into operation as soon as it was in position, and for my part, I could breathe with ease.
The captain approached, placed a finger over a position on the chart, and pronounced just one word:"Vanikoro."
A ship named after the Search was placed at his disposal, and he departed on January 23, 1827, accompanied by a French deputy.
Only, I'd like to know what you mean by a 'happy year' under the circumstances in which we're placed.
Conseil brought a dozen of them to Ned Land, who cut them into thick slices and placed them over a fire of live coals, all the while repeating:"You'll see, sir, how tasty this bread is!""Especially since we've gone without baked goods for so long," Conseil said.
Its head was comparatively small, and its eyes, placed near the opening of its beak, were also small.
By contrast, Captain Nemo would seek the sea's temperature by going himself into its depths, and when he placed his thermometer in contact with the various layers of liquid, he found the sought-for degree immediately and with certainty.
He addressed a few words to his chief officer in their strange language, then he turned to me:"Professor Aronnax," he told me in a tone of some urgency, "I ask that you now honor one of the binding agreements between us.""Which one, captain?""You and your companions must be placed in confinement until I see fit to set you free."
Medicine to the ancients, jewelry to the moderns, it wasn't decisively placed in the animal kingdom until 1694, by Peysonnel of Marseilles.
Sheer chance had placed me in the presence of the most valuable specimens of this zoophyte.
Amid these shrubs of precious coral, I observed other polyps no less unusual: melita coral, rainbow coral with jointed outgrowths, then a few tufts of genus Corallina, some green and others red, actually a type of seaweed encrusted with limestone salts, which, after long disputes, naturalists have finally placed in the vegetable kingdom.
The next day at four o'clock in the morning, I was awakened by the steward whom Captain Nemo had placed expressly at my service.
And above all, what must he have thought when Captain Nemo pulled a bag of pearls from a pocket in his diving suit and placed it in the fisherman's hands?
Conseil looked at it with purely scientific fascination, and I'm sure he placed it, not without good reason, in the class of cartilaginous fish, order Chondropterygia with fixed gills, family Selacia, genus Squalus.
Accordingly, I became aware of the isle of Karpathos, one of the Sporades Islands, only when Captain Nemo placed his finger over a spot on the world map and quoted me this verse from Virgil:Est in Carpathio Neptuni gurgite vates Caeruleus Proteus . .
Air tanks, abundantly charged, were placed on our backs, but the electric lamps were not in readiness.
I finished harnessing myself, I felt an alpenstock being placed in my hand, and a few minutes later, after the usual procedures, we set foot on the floor of the Atlantic, 300 meters down.
Chief among them were specimens of that dreadful cartilaginous genus that's divided into three subgenera numbering at least thirty-two species: striped sharks five meters long, the head squat and wider than the body, the caudal fin curved, the back with seven big, black, parallel lines running lengthwise; then perlon sharks, ash gray, pierced with seven gill openings, furnished with a single dorsal fin placed almost exactly in the middle of the body.
Our position fix placed us in latitude 45 degrees 37' south and longitude 37 degrees 53' west.
I placed it in Conseil's hands, and holding it like precious porcelain from China, that cautious, sure-footed lad got it back to the Nautilus in one piece.
The captain then broke into speech:"Gentlemen," he said in a calm voice, "there are two ways of dying under the conditions in which we're placed."
"Weren't its eyes prominently placed and considerably enlarged?"
Sheer chance had placed us in the presence of this squid, and I didn't want to lose this opportunity to meticulously study such a cephalopod specimen.
He sat down again and placed it on his knee.
The house at Dieppe was found to be eaten up with mortgages to its foundations; what she had placed with the notary God only knew, and her share in the boat did not exceed one thousand crowns.
The silver dish covers reflected the lighted wax candles in the candelabra, the cut crystal covered with light steam reflected from one to the other pale rays; bouquets were placed in a row the whole length of the table; and in the large-bordered plates each napkin, arranged after the fashion of a bishop's mitre, held between its two gaping folds a small oval shaped roll.
By the last gleam of the twilight one could see that his face was rubicund and his form athletic."What can I do for you, Monsieur le Curie?" asked the landlady, as she reached down from the chimney one of the copper candlesticks placed with their candles in a row.
I care little who has placed us here below to fulfil our duties as citizens and fathers of families; but I don't need to go to church to kiss silver plates, and fatten, out of my pocket, a lot of good-for-nothings who live better than we do.
Unconsciously, Leon, while talking, had placed his foot on one of the bars of the chair on which Madame Bovary was sitting.
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