All 25 Uses of

essence
in
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

In essence, over a period of time several ships had encountered "an enormous thing" at sea, a long spindle—shaped object, sometimes giving off a phosphorescent glow, infinitely bigger and faster than any whale.†
Chpt 1

In essence, on July 20, 1866, the steamer Governor Higginson, from the Calcutta & Burnach Steam Navigation Co., encountered this moving mass five miles off the eastern shores of Australia.†
Chpt 1

When the monster's detractors cited a saying by the botanist Linnaeus that "nature doesn't make leaps," witty writers in the popular periodicals parodied it, maintaining in essence that "nature doesn't make lunatics," and ordering their contemporaries never to give the lie to nature by believing in krakens, sea serpents, "Moby Dicks," and other all—out efforts from drunken seamen.†
Chpt 1

In essence, the narwhale is armed with a sort of ivory sword, or lance, as certain naturalists have expressed it.†
Chpt 1 *

In essence, over an hour's time a single human being consumes all the oxygen found in 100 liters of air, at which point that air has become charged with a nearly equal amount of carbon dioxide and is no longer fit for breathing.†
Chpt 1

And in essence, professor, nature is here made manifest by all three of her kingdoms, mineral, vegetable, and animal.†
Chpt 1

In essence, I was already familiar with the whole forward part of this underwater boat, and here are its exact subdivisions going from amidships to its spur: the dining room, 5 meters long and separated from the library by a watertight bulkhead, in other words, it couldn't be penetrated by the sea; the library, 5 meters long; the main lounge, 10 meters long, separated from the captain's stateroom by a second watertight bulkhead; the aforesaid stateroom, 5 meters long; mine, 2.5 meters long; and finally, air tanks 7.5 meters long and extending to the stempost.†
Chpt 1

In essence, these nets stayed in our wake for several hours, incarcerating an entire aquatic world in prisons made of thread.†
Chpt 1

In essence, heat creates the different densities that lead to currents and countercurrents.†
Chpt 1

In essence, a whaling vessel had reported that some medals and a Cross of St. Louis had been found in the hands of savages in the Louisiade Islands and New Caledonia.†
Chpt 1

In essence, beating the bushes, the two friends flushed a herd of kangaroos that fled by bounding away on their elastic paws.†
Chpt 1

In essence, if I represent the density of fresh water by 1.000, then I find 1.028 for the waters of the Atlantic, 1.026 for the waters of the Pacific, 1.030 for the waters of the Mediterranean—" Aha, I thought, so he ventures into the Mediterranean?†
Chpt 1

In essence, it was a cluster of countless open—sea infusoria, of noctiluca an eighth of an inch wide, actual globules of transparent jelly equipped with a threadlike tentacle, up to 25,000 of which have been counted in thirty cubic centimeters of water.†
Chpt 1

In essence, its light was generated in a vacuum, insuring both its steadiness and intensity.†
Chpt 2

"My gallant Ned," I replied, laughing, "those were artificial pearls, ordinary glass beads whose insides were coated with Essence of Orient."†
Chpt 2

In essence, we were then crossing that part of the whole Mediterranean so fertile in casualties.†
Chpt 2

In essence, the Mediterranean receives a continual influx of water not only from the Atlantic but from rivers emptying into it; since local evaporation isn't enough to restore the balance, the total amount of added water should make this sea's level higher every year.†
Chpt 2

In essence, the year before, the royal houses of Holland, Austria, and England had signed a treaty of alliance at The Hague, aiming to wrest the Spanish crown from King Philip V and to place it on the head of an archduke whom they prematurely dubbed King Charles III.†
Chpt 2

Ed. In essence, numerous fish had caught his eye, and when fish pass by, Conseil vanishes into his world of classifying and leaves real life behind.†
Chpt 2

In essence, this ingenious American has noted that between the South Pole and the 60th parallel, the sea is covered with floating ice of dimensions much greater than any found in the north Atlantic.†
Chpt 2

In essence, manatees, like seals, are designed to graze the underwater prairies, destroying the clusters of weeds that obstruct the mouths of tropical rivers.†
Chpt 2

In essence, it was an issue of stocking the larder with excellent red meat, even better than beef or veal.†
Chpt 2

Definition:

the defining or most important quality of something

or:

a extract that concentrates important qualities of something such as smell or taste