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Besides, the shore lay no more than two miles off, and it would be child's play for the Canadian to guide that nimble skiff through those rows of reefs so ill-fated for big ships.
A mild breeze blew from shore.
As for the savages, they went back to shore near eleven o'clock in the morning, when the heads of coral began to disappear under the waves of the rising tide.
After cruising along the Cartier, Hibernia, Seringapatam, and Scott reefs, the solid element's last exertions against the liquid element, we were beyond all sight of shore by January 14.
The Canadian sighted nothing new on the horizon, neither sail nor shore.
Only, contrary to plants on shore, these tree forms become attached to rocks on the seafloor by heading from top to bottom.
At least let us lead the lives of the fish that populate this liquid element, or better yet, the lives of amphibians, which can spend long hours either at sea or on shore, traveling through their double domain as their whims dictate!
Among the great wind riders--carried over long distances from every shore and resting on the waves from their exhausting flights-- I spotted some magnificent albatross, birds belonging to the Longipennes (long-winged) family, whose discordant calls sound like the braying of an ass.
The Nautilus cruised along a short distance off the shore of this desert island.
On this Indian shore, professor, there are roads and railways, English, French, and Hindu villages.
Perhaps that this approaching shore was too close for comfort, contrary to the Canadian's views in which it still seemed too far away.
Between us and the shore, the sea was deserted.
I could clearly see the shore, which featured a few sparse trees here and there.
It likewise hugged Kiltan Island, a shore of madreporic origin discovered by Vasco da Gama in 1499 and one of nineteen chief islands in the island group of the Laccadives, located between latitude 10 degrees and 14 degrees 30' north, and between longitude 50 degrees 72' and 69 degrees east.
But soon the Nautilus hugged the eastern shore where these tree forms appeared in all their glory.
"Yes, if we're close enough to shore and the ship's afloat on the surface.
But since then I had absolutely no idea what happened to this revolution, and Captain Nemo, deprived of all contact with the shore, was hardly the man to keep me informed.
Water is his true element, and he lives in the sea more than on shore, going constantly from one island to another, even to Crete.""You know him, captain?""Why not, Professor Aronnax?"
The wind's blowing toward shore.
Tomorrow, might not Captain Nemo take us far away from any shore?
How painfully the hours passed, as I sometimes envisioned myself safe on shore with my companions, or, despite my better judgment, as I sometimes wished that some unforeseen circumstances would prevent Ned Land from carrying out his plans.
In spite of everything, I thought that Captain Nemo must have kept up some type of relationship with the shore.
Was I approaching some natural phenomenon still unknown to scientists on shore?
Sometimes I leaped over a crevasse whose depth would have made me recoil had I been in the midst of glaciers on shore; sometimes I ventured out on a wobbling tree trunk fallen across a gorge, without looking down, having eyes only for marveling at the wild scenery of this region.
"So here we are, back on shore," Conseil said.
"I'd hardly call this shore," the Canadian replied.
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.
It's meant to be a refuge for people like its commander, people who have severed all ties with the shore."
A narrow channel separated it from a considerable shore, perhaps a continent whose limits we couldn't see.
The existence of this shore seemed to bear out Commander Maury's hypotheses.
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