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Only in these continual shocks he came upon familiar images which seized on his audience by their energy; while his workman's gestures, his elbows in and then extended, with his fists thrust out, his jaw suddenly advanced as if to bite, had also an extraordinary effect on his mates.
They spat on it, they thrust out their jaws, saying over and over again, with furious bursts of contempt:"He can do no more! he can do no more!
At once Levaque became threatening, and thrust his fist beneath Maheu's nose.
He shouted to her to go at once by the door if she did not wish to go by the window; and scarcely dressed, in tears, and bruised by kicks in her legs, she had been obliged to go down, pushed outside by a final thrust.
And all continued to thrust themselves on to the rifles.
She ducked and butted so that each might have his share, repeating after each thrust:"There's for the officer!
It was traveling at a speed of 13.43 knots under the thrust of its 1,000-horsepower engines.
But lower down, while diving beneath that surface, isn't your submersible going to encounter a pressure, and consequently undergo an upward thrust, that must be assessed at one atmosphere per every thirty feet of water, hence at about one kilogram per each square centimeter?""Precisely, sir.""Then unless you fill up the whole Nautilus, I don't see how you can force it down into the heart of these liquid masses."
If they slant, the Nautilus follows the angle of that slant and, under its propeller's thrust, either sinks on a diagonal as steep as it suits me, or rises on that diagonal.
Instantly the skiff wheeled around under the ebb tide's outbound thrust.
Nothing else until the moment when, through a rift in the clouds, I saw the daring captain clinging to one of the animal's fins, fighting the monster at close quarters, belaboring his enemy's belly with stabs of the dagger yet unable to deliver the deciding thrust, in other words, a direct hit to the heart.
Clinging to the stempost, Ned Land thrust his harpoon again and again into the gigantic animal, which imbedded its teeth in our gunwale and lifted the longboat out of the water as a lion would lift a deer.
Under this powerful thrust the Nautilus's hull quivered like a resonating chord, and the ship sank steadily under the waters.
With the thrust of its propeller curbed by the slant of its fins, the Nautilus stood still.
At every thrust Ned Land's harpoon would plunge into a squid's sea-green eye and burst it.
Attaining a white heat in the Gulf of Mexico, it heads north up the American coast, advances as far as Newfoundland, swerves away under the thrust of a cold current from the Davis Strait, and resumes its ocean course by going along a great circle of the earth on a rhumb line; it then divides into two arms near the 43rd parallel; one, helped by the northeast trade winds, returns to the Bay of Biscay and the Azores; the other washes the shores of Ireland and Norway with lukewarm water, goes beyond Spitzbergen, where its temperature falls to 4 degrees centigrade, and fashions the open sea at the pole.
The thrust of the waters was so great, the Nautilus swerved away.
She had, like a man, thrust in between two buttons of her bodice a tortoise-shell eyeglass.
He thrust the catechism into his pocket, and stopped short, balancing the heavy vestry key between his two fingers.
As for the memory of Rodolphe, she had thrust it back to the bottom of her heart, and it remained there more solemn and more motionless than a king's mummy in a catacomb.
Eating his cutlet and drinking his tea, he buried his chin in his sky-blue cravat, into which were thrust two diamond pins, held together by a small gold chain; and he smiled a singular smile, in a sugary, ambiguous fashion.
At last, weary of waiting, assailed by fears that she thrust from her, no longer conscious whether she had been here a century or a moment, she sat down in a corner, closed her eyes, and stopped her ears.
She cursed the poison, railed at it, and implored it to be quick, and thrust away with her stiffened arms everything that Charles, in more agony than herself, tried to make her drink.
He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
It was in this position, and in the full light of day, that our hero thought fit to thrust forward his boot and press the pretty foot of Madame de Renal, whose open-work stocking and smart Parisian shoe were evidently attracting the gaze of the gallant Sub-Prefect.
Indeed, when she had no longer anything to refuse him, she thrust him from her, with genuine indignation, and then flung herself into his arms.
Immediately she thrust him from her with horror.
He turned deadly pale, thrust away his cup, assumed an air of assurance and studied his rival most attentively.
The rival had been astonished by Julien's eyes; his glass of brandy drained at a gulp, he said a few words to Amanda, thrust his hands into the side pockets of his ample coat, and made his way to one of the billiard tables, breathing loudly and staring at Julien.
If his merit be genuine, he will certainly be able to surmount or thrust aside your obstacles.'
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