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Jeanlin remained the captain of these expeditions, leading the troop on to all sorts of prey, ravaging the onion fields, pillaging the orchards, attacking shop
windows.
Everything was still asleep at Deneulin's; the old brick house stood mute and gloomy, with closed doors and windows, at the end of the large ill-kept garden which separated it from the Jean-Bart mine.
On this side, factory chimneys striped the flat horizon; wooden sheds, brick workshops with large dusty windows, appeared along the street.
Nothing was stirring in the house, and the closed
windows
were dulled by the warm steam within.
She was delaying, watching the bourgeois at their garden gates or the
windows
of their houses; and whenever she saw them, as she was not able to spit in their faces, she showed them what for her was the climax of contempt.
People were wildly running about; doors and
windows
were banged to.
bread!"M. Hennebeau was standing at the window when Hippolyte came in to close the shutters, for fear the
windows
should be broken by stones.
On the road, three children were throwing stones, and he gave them a good kick, shouting out to his comrades that it was no good breaking
windows.
But the women were already coming back, turning round and passing beneath the manager's
windows.
When he raised his head there were threatening men there, women drawing aside the curtains from their windows; and beneath this still silent accusation and the restrained anger of these eyes, enlarged by hunger and tears, he became awkward and could scarcely walk straight.
There again he found the settlement apparently waiting for him, the men at the doors, the women at the
windows.
They could not even understand this mad courage in destruction; they refused to believe, in spite of the evidence, just as we doubt those stories of celebrated escapes of prisoners who fly through
windows
thirty metres above the ground.
The
windows
and the doors, left open, showed the abandonment within; a forgotten ginger cat, divining the peril in this solitude, jumped from a staircase and disappeared.
Through the large dusty
windows
the early sun was entering, drowning the lanterns in grey light; and the engine moved every three minutes, the cables unrolled, the cages continued to swallow down men.
"My helmsman is stationed behind the
windows
of a pilothouse, which protrudes from the topside of the Nautilus's hull and is fitted with biconvex glass."
Now then, I use glass
windows
measuring no less than twenty-one centimeters at their centers; in other words, they've thirty times the thickness."
On both sides I had
windows
opening over these unexplored depths.
In wonderment, we leaned on our elbows before these show windows, and our stunned silence remained unbroken until Conseil said:"You wanted to see something, Ned my friend; well, now you have something to see!""How unusual!" the Canadian put in, setting aside his tantrums and getaway schemes while submitting to this irresistible allure.
Accordingly, my eyes soon closed behind their heavy glass
windows
and I fell into an uncontrollable doze, which until then I had been able to fight off only through the movements of our walking.
We stared at them through our thick glass windows: they swam backward with tremendous speed, moving by means of their locomotive tubes, chasing fish and mollusks, eating the little ones, eaten by the big ones, and tossing in indescribable confusion the ten feet that nature has rooted in their heads like a hairpiece of pneumatic snakes.
To anyone without my grand passion for the sea, these hours would surely have seemed long and monotonous; but my daily strolls on the platform where I was revived by the life-giving ocean air, the sights in the rich waters beyond the lounge windows, the books to be read in the library, and the composition of my memoirs, took up all my time and left me without a moment of weariness or boredom.
Set in the cabin's walls were four deadlights,
windows
of biconvex glass that enabled the man at the helm to see in every direction.
I leaned my hand against one of the windows, but the heat was so great, I had to snatch it back.
We stayed on watch before the lounge windows, and our notes enable me to reconstruct, in a few words, the ichthyology of this sea.
The lounge was dark, but the sea's waves sparkled through the transparent
windows.
I could feel its sheet-iron plates trembling down to their riveted joins; metal bars arched; bulkheads groaned; the lounge
windows
seemed to be warping inward under the water's pressure.
Conseil, Ned, and I sat in front of the lounge
windows.
Through the
windows
you could see their enormous mouths paved with teeth, their fearsome eyes.
Moreover, the panels opened just then, and the outside light burst through the uncovered
windows.
After Ned was dressed, I reentered the lounge, whose
windows
had been uncovered; stationed next to Conseil, I examined the strata surrounding and supporting the Nautilus.
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