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"Sir," I told Captain Nemo, "to you belongs the honor of first setting foot on this shore."
Resting on shore, they assumed extremely graceful positions.
By nine o'clock we had pulled up to shore.
Behind us to the south and east: an immense shore, a chaotic heap of rocks and ice whose limits we couldn't see.
"When we return to shore, jaded from all these natural wonders," Conseil added, "think how we'll look down on those pitiful land masses, those puny works of man!No, the civilized world won't be good enough for us!"
But if we returned to the Pacific, far from every populated shore, what would happen to Ned Land's plans?
But on April 11 it rose suddenly, and the shore reappeared at the mouth of the Amazon River, a huge estuary whose outflow is so considerable, it desalts the sea over an area of several leagues.
The Canadian was quite disheartened, having counted on putting his plans into execution in the gulf, either by reaching shore or by pulling alongside one of the many boats plying a coastal trade from one island to another.
The sea was plowed continuously by the many steamers providing service between the Gulf of Mexico and New York or Boston, and it was crossed night and day by little schooners engaged in coastal trade over various points on the American shore.
Your Nemo's veering away from shore and heading up north.
Nearly seven months had gone by without our having any news from shore.
Ned Land (who promptly reappeared after we hugged shore) never stopped questioning me.
She did not know what this chance would be, what wind would bring it her, towards what shore it would drive her, if it would be a shallop or a three-decker, laden with anguish or full of bliss to the portholes.
You wave an airy adieu to the boys on shore, light your biggest pipe, and swagger about the deck as if you were Captain Cook, Sir Francis Drake, and Christopher Columbus all rolled into one.
I begin to strike out frantically for the shore, and wonder if I shall ever see home and friends again, and wish I'd been kinder to my little sister when a boy (when I was a boy, I mean).
We had originally intended to go on to Magna Charta Island, a sweetly pretty part of the river, where it winds through a soft, green valley, and to camp in one of the many picturesque inlets to be found round that tiny shore.
Slowly the heavy, bright-decked barges leave the shore of Runningmede.
And King John has stepped upon the shore, and we wait in breathless silence till a great shout cleaves the air, and the great cornerstone in England's temple of liberty has, now we know, been firmly laid.
Yet, as I have said, when on shore she was kind-hearted and amiable enough.
The dragoons lingered on the shore till the last moment, and then they reluctantly commenced their own retreat back to the main body of the corps.
After searching for a short time under the shore, the peddler discovered a skiff, that appeared to be an old acquaintance; and entering it with his companion he landed him on the south side of the Croton.
On the opposite, or western shore, the rocks of Jersey were gathered into an array that has obtained for them the name of the "Palisades," elevating themselves for many hundred feet, as if to protect the rich country in their rear from the inroads of the conqueror; but, disdaining such an enemy, the river swept proudly by their feet, and held its undeviating way to the ocean.
The boat pulled from the shore, and Birch turned on his heel, drawing his breath, like one relieved, and shot up the hills with the strides for which he was famous.
A short walk brought them to a spot where the hill overhung the river, the ground falling nearly perpendicularly to the shore.
It was not inhabited; it lay far over toward the further shore, abreast a dense and almost wholly unpeopled forest.
There was an easy, comfortable path along the shore under the bluff, but it lacked the advantages of difficulty and danger so valued by a pirate.
They discovered that the island was about three miles long and a quarter of a mile wide, and that the shore it lay closest to was only separated from it by a narrow channel hardly two hundred yards wide.
They sprang to their feet and hurried to the shore toward the town.
CHAPTER XVA few minutes later Tom was in the shoal water of the bar, wading toward the Illinois shore.
However, he reached the shore finally, and drifted along till he found a low place and drew himself out.
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