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Its width could not be estimated, since the shore ran widening as far as eye could reach, nor could its length, for the dim horizon bounded the new.
"Well, take my arm, Axel, and let us follow the windings of the shore."
For half an hour we wandered from side to side in the damp shades, and it was a comfortable and pleasant change to arrive once more upon the sea shore.
After spending an hour in the contemplation of this marvellous spectacle, we returned to the shore to regain the grotto, and I fell asleep in the midst of the strangest thoughts.
At the same moment we reached the sand on the shore, and the waves were by slow degrees encroaching on the shore.
At this rate, he said, we shall make thirty leagues in twenty-four hours, and we shall soon come in sight of the opposite shore.
The northern shore was already beginning to dip under the horizon.
I survey the whole space that stretches overhead; it is as desert as the shore was.
The colossal mastodon (nipple-toothed) twists and untwists his trunk, and brays and pounds with his huge tusks the fragments of rock that cover the shore; whilst the megatherium (huge beast), buttressed upon his enormous hinder paws, grubs in the soil, awaking the sonorous echoes of the granite rocks with his tremendous roarings.
At last we leave the island, rounding away past the low rocks on its southern shore.
What I want is to get the least glimpse of rock or shore, even if our raft should be smashed into shivers!"
On my arrival on the shore I found Hans surrounded by an assemblage of articles all arranged in good order.
The boxes containing these were in a line upon the shore, in a perfect state of preservation; for the most part the sea had spared them, and what with biscuits, salt meat, spirits, and salt fish, we might reckon on four months' supply.
"Yes, and the Liedenbrock sea would be six hundred leagues from shore to shore.
It pointed to the shore instead of to the open sea!
Therefore there seemed no reason to doubt that during the storm there had been a sudden change of wind unperceived by us, which had brought our raft back to the shore which we thought we had left so long a distance behind us.
In fact we were not upon the north shore of the sea.
We had long lost sight of the sea shore behind the hills of bones.
And so we arrived at a place where the shore was much narrowed.
I obeyed, not without dissatisfaction, and passed out rapidly among the rocks on the shore.
Suppose we had touched with our prow (the prow of a rudder!) the southern shore of the Liedenbrock sea, what would have become of us?
My uncle put his Ruhmkorff's apparatus in action; the raft moored to the shore was left alone; the mouth of the tunnel was not twenty yards from us; and our party, with myself at the head, made for it without a moment's delay.
After a hasty meal, my uncle and the hunter embarked whilst I remained on shore.
Hans, with a vigorous thrust, sent us from the shore.
I saw a bottomless pit open on the shore.
Towns were overthrown, forests uprooted, coasts devastated by the mountains of water which were precipitated on them, vessels cast on the shore, which the published accounts numbered by hundreds, whole districts leveled by waterspouts which destroyed everything they passed over, several thousand people crushed on land or drowned at sea; such were the traces of its fury, left by this devastating tempest.
But the car had contained five passengers, with a dog, and the balloon only left four on the shore.
The sailor, observing the heavy surf on the shore, shook his head.
The engineer had disappeared to the north of the shore, and nearly half a mile from the place where the castaways had landed.
The little band then continued their march forward, searching into every hollow of the shore.
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