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She had come in when the door was ajar at the moment of the fray, without any one noticing her; and in her endless narrative the single stone with which Jeanlin had broken one window-pane became a regular cannonade which had crushed through the walls.
And suddenly both his hands let go at once, and he rolled down like a ball, leapt at the gutter, and fell across the middle wall in such a way that, by ill chance, he rebounded on the side of the road, where his skull was broken open on the corner of a stone pillar.
This sudden separation dazed her, and she sat down on a stone, looking up at the house, still expecting that he would call her back.
She waded through it, still walking, not daring to look for a stone to sit on.
A stone having bounded back and struck the old soldier with the stripes beneath the belly, his cheeks turned green, and his weapon trembled as he stretched it out at the end of his lean arms.
With a nervous movement the captain had taken off and then put on his cap, struck by a stone; he preserved his pallid stiffness in face of the disaster of his life, while his men with mute faces were reloading.
Could he anticipate, for instance, that his followers in the settlement would one day stone him?
Bonnemort neither heard nor replied, with his terrible face as cold and as hard as a stone.
Here, try yourself with this stone."
For one last time it occurred to them to beat the call, but the stone was lying beneath the water.
In fact, thanks to this cellular arrangement, it has the resistance of a stone block, as if it were completely solid.
The seafloor in this forest was strewn with sharp chunks of stone that were hard to avoid.
A wall of superb rocks stood before us, imposing in its sheer mass: a pile of gigantic stone blocks, an enormous granite cliffside pitted with dark caves but not offering a single gradient we could climb up.
Just then a stone whizzed toward us, landed at our feet, and cut short the harpooner's proposition.
A second well-polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil's hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.
So Conseil and I were deep in the contemplation of our treasure, and I was solemnly promising myself to enrich the Paris Museum with it, when an ill-timed stone, hurled by one of the islanders, whizzed over and shattered the valuable object in Conseil's hands.
I was familiar with the latest research on this bizarre zoophyte-- which turns to stone while taking on a tree form, as some naturalists have very aptly observed--and nothing could have been more fascinating to me than to visit one of these petrified forests that nature has planted on the bottom of the sea.
But as one intellectual has remarked, "Here, perhaps, is the actual point where life rises humbly out of slumbering stone, but without breaking away from its crude starting point."
The latter divide into two groups, dive in rotation, and descend to a depth of twelve meters with the help of a heavy stone clutched between their feet and attached by a rope to their boat."
A stone cut in the shape of a sugar loaf, which he gripped between his feet while a rope connected it to his boat, served to lower him more quickly to the ocean floor.
Then he went back up, emptied his sack, pulled up his stone, and started all over again, the whole process lasting only thirty seconds.
Uninjured, the latter stood up, went right to the Indian, quickly cut the rope binding the man to his stone, took the fellow in his arms, and with a vigorous kick of the heel, rose to the surface of the sea.
In the midst of the stone mazes furrowing this Atlantic seafloor, Captain Nemo moved forward without hesitation.
Trees without leaves, without sap, turned to stone by the action of the waters, and crowned here and there by gigantic pines.
Then, picking up a piece of chalky stone, he advanced to a black basaltic rock and scrawled this one word:ATLANTIS What lightning flashed through my mind!
My heavy soles were crushing the skeletons of animals from the age of fable, animals that used to take cover in the shade of these trees now turned to stone!
Under my eyes there perhaps lay the warlike town of Makhimos or the pious village of Eusebes, whose gigantic inhabitants lived for whole centuries and had the strength to raise blocks of stone that still withstood the action of the waters.
Now then, right at this spot the sea covers entire forests that sank underwater in prehistoric times; today, turned to stone, transformed into carbon fuel, they offer me inexhaustible coal mines."
And the passing years will someday bear out Maury's other view that by collecting in this way over the centuries, these substances will be turned to stone by the action of the waters and will then form inexhaustible coalfields.
What was the point of this digging if I was to die smothered and crushed by this water turning to stone, a torture undreamed of by even the wildest savages!
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