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Now I ask you, after it had been wounded west of America, how could this animal be killed in the east, unless it had cleared the equator and doubled Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope?""I agree with our friend Ned," Conseil said, "and I'm waiting to hear how master will reply to him."
"Master will reply, my friends, that baleen whales are localized, according to species, within certain seas that they never leave.
All in all, this reply told me nothing.
I was unwilling to get into a pointless argument with the Canadian and didn't reply.
But why should I have been startled by this reply?
I had no reply to this, and I feared that Captain Nemo wouldn't take us homeward but rather into that huge ocean washing the shores of both Asia and America.
I received no reply.
But before I could reply, he showed me a manuscript open on the table and told me in a more serious tone:"Here, Professor Aronnax, is a manuscript written in several languages.
He didn't reply.
I didn't reply to the Canadian's proposition but kept watching the ship, which was looming larger on the horizon.
Before I could reply, white smoke streamed from the battleship's bow.
Our reply will be dreadful.
Thus to that question asked 6,000 years ago in the Book of Ecclesiastes--"Who can fathom the soundless depths?"-- two men out of all humanity have now earned the right to reply.
Instead of sending a reply she came herself; and when Emma wanted to know whether he had got anything out of her, "Yes," he replied; "but she wants to see the account."
The cure on his arrival inquired how Monsieur Bovary was, and, on the reply of the druggist, went on—"The blow, you see, is still too recent."
The man at the circulating library demanded three years' subscriptions; Mere Rollet claimed the postage due for some twenty letters, and when Charles asked for an explanation, she had the delicacy to reply—"Oh, I don't know.
Sorel's reply was at first nothing more than a long-winded recital of all the formal terms of respect which he knew by heart.
The tone of this reply would have stung a man far less susceptible than the Mayor of Verrieres; it occurred to him to reply to Julien with an immediate dismissal.
To all that Madame de Renal said to him, Julien could only murmur in reply:'This is what rich people are like!'M. de Renal kept close beside them; his presence increased Julien's anger.
Julien did not utter a single word in reply to the attentions that were shown him throughout the remainder of the walk.
Had she not to reply incessantly to his artless questions about a thousand simple matters of which a child of good family is not ignorant at fifteen?
After the Bishop's address and the King's reply, His Majesty took his place beneath the dais; he then knelt down most devoutly upon a cushion close to the altar.
The Mayor of Verrieres felt it incumbent on him to reply in the Ancient Roman style: 'If the King's Minister did me the honour to consult me, I should say to him: "Ruin without compunction all provincial printers, and make printing a monopoly like the sale of tobacco."'
His reply was perfect, and as long as a pastoral charge; it let everything be understood, and at the same time said nothing definite.
By way of reply, his wife drew him aside and explained to him the necessity of getting rid of Julien.
'But, Great God!How do you expect me to believe you?' was Julien's reply to his mistress's chill protestations.
The writer gave an address at Dijon, and at the same time hoped that Julien would never reply, or that at least he would confine himself to language which a woman restored to the ways of virtue could read without blushing.
They will never allow Julien Sorel to leave, they will manage to cover themselves with the cleverest excuses, they will reply that he is ill, letters will have gone astray in the post,' etc., etc.'One of these days I shall procure a letter from the Minister to the Bishop,' said the Marquis.
His heart trembling, but determined nevertheless to see her or to perish, he flung a handful of gravel against the shutter; no reply.
She made no reply; as for him, he was weeping bitter tears.
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