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The officers on watch rushed to the craft's stern.
I was well satisfied with my cabin, which was located in the stern and opened into the officers' mess.
The electric light suddenly went out, and two enormous waterspouts crashed onto the deck of the frigate, racing like a torrent from stem to stern, toppling crewmen, breaking spare masts and yardarms from their lashings.
"And if you'd care to follow me, we'll inspect the Nautilus's stern."
The electricity generated here makes its way to the stern, where electromagnets of huge size activate a special system of levers and gears that transmit movement to the propeller's shaft.
The Nautilus's bow and stern boasted that spindle-shaped outline that had caused the ship to be compared appropriately to a long cigar.
Captain Nemo led me to the Nautilus's stern, and passing by Ned and Conseil's cabin, I summoned my two companions, who instantly followed us.
Meanwhile, turning, the Nautilus made a circle around the sinking ship, and for an instant I could read the board on its stern: The FloridaSunderland, EnglandCHAPTER 19VanikoroTHIS DREADFUL SIGHT was the first of a whole series of maritime catastrophes that the Nautilus would encounter on its run.
Leaning my elbows on the beacon housing, which jutted from the stern of the platform, I got set to scour that whole stretch of sky and sea.
Captain Nemo led me to the Nautilus's stern and invited me into a cabin located next to the sailors' quarters.
Captain Nemo, Conseil, Ned Land, and I found seats in the stern of the skiff.
Ned, Conseil, and I found seats in the stern.
In the center stood an upright wheel geared to rudder cables running to the Nautilus's stern.
One of these boats made a dreadful first impression: sides torn open, funnel bent, paddle wheels stripped to the mountings, rudder separated from the sternpost and still hanging from an iron chain, the board on its stern eaten away by marine salts!
Its stern was flooded, and the Essex went down fast."
In fact, I could feel it assuming an oblique position, lowering its stern and raising its spur.
He looked up sharply, with a frowning brow, and said in a pretty stern tone:"Oh, it's you!
The square oars rang in the iron thwarts, and, in the stillness, seemed to mark time, like the beating of a metronome, while at the stern the rudder that trailed behind never ceased its gentle splash against the water.
He said to himself, in a careless tone, as he went down to the drawing-room: 'I must tell this woman that I love her.'Instead of that gaze charged with passion which he expected to meet, he found the stern face of M. de Renal, who, having arrived a couple of hours earlier from Verrieres, did not conceal his displeasure on finding that Julien was wasting the whole morning without attending to the children.
As for Julien, he was so plunged in ecstasy, still so absorbed in the great events which for the last few hours had been happening before his eyes, that at first he could barely lower the pitch of his attention to listen to the stern voice of M. de Renal.
His stern, angry face formed a strange contrast with the innocent gaiety which his presence banished.
The stern Jansenist Pirard's invariable principle was: 'Has a man any merit in your eyes?
The only consolation for this stern character was to concentrate upon Julien all the vigilance at his command.
The wealthiest of your future parishioners has never set eyes on you, but is devoted to you more warmly than you can suppose; he is the Marquis de La Mole.'Without knowing it, the stern abbe Pirard loved this Seminary, peopled with his enemies, to which, for fifteen years, he had devoted all his thoughts.
The stern Jansenist, indignant at everything that he saw around him, spent a long time at work with the counsel whom he had chosen for the Marquis de La Mole, and then left for Paris.
He met with a stern reception.
'But, in that case, why does the Marquis invite M. Balland?'The stern abbe Pirard was making faces in a corner of the room, as he heard fresh names announced.
The fact was that the stern abbe did not recognise the distinguishing marks of good society.
He admired these devout and stern men who took no interest in the budget.
Julien's eye remained penetrating and stern.
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