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Volcano in sentence

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There you dream that an elephant has suddenly sat down on your chest, and that the volcano has exploded and thrown you down to the bottom of the sea - the elephant still sleeping peacefully on your bosom.
It was like looking at an extinct Volcano a volcano that rumbled in good English.
The hill on which the palace stood seemed to smoke like a volcano, for the little dignitaries came without cessation, each expecting the salute of cannon due to his rank.
His imagination is a volcano, and to do that which other geologists have never done he would risk his life.
"Impossible?" said the Professor severely; "and why, pray?""Because this crater is evidently filled with lava and burning rocks, and therefore--""But suppose it is an extinct volcano?""Extinct?"
"I very much approve of your beginning with that volcano, M. Liedenbrock.
We were rounding the immense base of the volcano.
BUT ARCTICS CAN BE INHOSPITABLE, TOOStapi is a village consisting of about thirty huts, built of lava, at the south side of the base of the volcano.
My uncle now took the opportunity to explain to Hans that it was his intention to explore the interior of the volcano to its farthest limits.
If there is a way to penetrate into the very bowels of the island, if that ill-advised Saknussemm has told a true tale, we shall lose our way amidst the deep subterranean passages of this volcano.
I spent that whole night in one constant nightmare; in the heart of a volcano, and from the deepest depths of the earth I saw myself tossed up amongst the interplanetary spaces under the form of an eruptive rock.
Hence then the volcano would distend and lift up the crust, and then burst through a crater suddenly formed at the summit or thinnest part of the volcano.
After the exhaustion of the basalt, the volcano, the power of which grew by the extinction of the lesser craters, supplied an egress to lava, ashes, and scoriae, of which I could see lengthened screes streaming down the sides of the mountain like flowing hair.
Moreover, in the neighbourhood of an extinct volcano, through gneiss, it has been observed that the increase of a degree is only attained at every 125 feet.
I only hope, thought I, that this so-called extinct volcano won't take a fancy in his old age to begin his sports again!
I preferred to admit in truth, that this chimney of an extinct volcano, lined with lavas, which are non-conductors of heat, did not suffer the heat to pass through its walls.
SHOT OUT OF A VOLCANO AT LAST!Yes: our compass was no longer a guide; the needle flew from pole to pole with a kind of frenzied impulse; it ran round the dial, and spun hither and thither as if it were giddy or intoxicated.
Do you mean to affirm that we are running up the shaft of a volcano?""I believe we are," said the indomitable Professor with an air of perfect self-possession; "and it is the best thing that could possibly happen to us under our circumstances."
We were imprisoned in the shaft or chimney of some volcano.
"Very good," said my uncle; "in ten minutes more we shall be off again, for our present business lies with an intermittent volcano.
At any rate it was clear that we were not in the main shaft of the volcano, but in a lateral gallery where there were felt recurrent tunes of reaction.
Look, Axel, look!"Above our heads, at a height of five hundred feet or more, we saw the crater of a volcano, through which, at intervals of fifteen minutes or so, there issued with loud explosions lofty columns of fire, mingled with pumice stones, ashes, and flowing lava.
The slope of the volcano was in many places of great steepness.
And that threatening volcano far away in the south was the fierce Etna.
It was the rugged mouth of the crater, by which the eruptive liquid matter had escaped at the periods when the volcano was still in activity.
Happily these acclivities wound up the interior of the volcano and favored their ascent.
As to the volcano itself, it could not be doubted that it was completely extinct.
It was more than the sleep of a volcano; it was its complete extinction.
The next day, the 30th of March, after a hasty breakfast, which consisted solely of the roasted tragopan, the engineer wished to climb again to the summit of the volcano, so as more attentively to survey the island upon which he and his companions were imprisoned for life perhaps, should the island be situated at a great distance from any land, or if it was out of the course of vessels which visited the archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean.
But there was no doubt as to the complete extinction of the volcano.
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