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Journey to the Center of the Earth - Verne trnsl by G&F - 44 chptrs
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- As to the existence of a gallery, or of subterraneous passages leading into the interior of the earth, the idea was simply absurd, the hallucination of a distempered imagination.†
Chpt 9
- What, then, must we expect when we come to the upheaved regions—to the districts broken and roughened from volcanic eruptions and subterraneous commotions?†
Chpt 9
- If a road does really present itself by which to descend into the dark and subterraneous bowels of Mother Earth, if this thrice unhappy Saknussemm has really told the truth, we shall be most certainly lost in the midst of the labyrinth of subterraneous galleries of the volcano.†
Chpt 11
- If a road does really present itself by which to descend into the dark and subterraneous bowels of Mother Earth, if this thrice unhappy Saknussemm has really told the truth, we shall be most certainly lost in the midst of the labyrinth of subterraneous galleries of the volcano.†
Chpt 11
- If this really be the case, its origin can be attributed to only one cause—that of the continued action of subterranean fires.†
Chpt 12 *
- My uncle had full confidence in finding subterranean resources, but hitherto we had completely failed in so doing.†
Chpt 15
- Suddenly we would come upon a series of low subterranean tunnels which looked like beaver holes, or the work of foxes—through whose narrow and winding ways we had literally to crawl!†
Chpt 16
- The earth had evidently been cast apart by some violent subterranean commotion.†
Chpt 17
- Then came about the action of natural chemistry; in the depths of the ocean the vegetable mass at first became turf, then, thanks to the influence of gases and subterranean fermentation, they underwent the complete process of mineralization.†
Chpt 17
- Now I, the Christopher Columbus of this subterranean region, only ask of you one more day.†
Chpt 18
- "There's not the slightest doubt about it," he replied, "a subterranean river is flowing beside us."†
Chpt 20
- "Again," thought I, reasoning as calmly as was possible, "there is another sure means of not losing my way, a thread to guide me through the labyrinthine subterraneous retreat—one which I had forgotten—my faithful river."†
Chpt 23
- I began to run, to fly, rushing at haphazard in this inextricable labyrinth, always going downwards, running wildly underneath the terrestrial crust, like an inhabitant of the subterranean furnaces, screaming, roaring, howling, until bruised by the pointed rocks, falling and picking myself up all covered with blood, seeking madly to drink the blood which dripped from my torn features, mad because this blood only trickled over my face, and watching always for this horrid wall which ever presented to me the fearful obstacle against which I could not dash my head.†
Chpt 24
- The illuminating power in this subterranean region, from its trembling and Rickering character, its clear dry whiteness, the very slight elevation of its temperature, its great superiority to that of the moon, was evidently electric; something in the nature of the aurora borealis, only that its phenomena were constant, and able to light up the whole of the ocean cavern.†
Chpt 27
- But the amazing vegetation of subterraneous land was not confined to gigantic mushrooms.†
Chpt 27
- You are right, Uncle, it is indeed a menagerie; for the mighty animals to which these bones once belonged, have lived and died on the shores of this subterranean sea, under the shadow of these plants.†
Chpt 27
- But, Uncle, if these antediluvian animals formerly lived in these subterranean regions, what more likely than that one of these monsters may at this moment be concealed behind one of yonder mighty rocks.†
Chpt 27
- We were the only living creatures in this subterranean world!†
Chpt 27
- About twelve o'clock in the day our guide Hans having prepared and baited a hook, cast his line into the subterranean waters.†
Chpt 29
- Still, though I am confident of the correctness of my surmise, this fish offers to our notice a remarkable peculiarity, never known to exist in any other fish but those which are the natives of subterranean waters, wells, lakes, in caverns, and suchlike hidden pools.†
Chpt 29
- This subterranean ocean must have been tolerably well supplied with fish, for in two hours we took a large number of Pterychtis, as well as other fish belonging to another supposed extinct family—the Dipterides (a genus of fish, furnished with two fins only, whence the name), though my uncle could not class it exactly.†
Chpt 29
- We were now convinced that this subterranean sea contained only fish known to us as fossil specimens—and fish and reptiles alike were all the more perfect the farther back they dated their origin.†
Chpt 29
- Why should not one of the birds reconstructed by the immortal Cuvier flap his stupendous wings aloft in the dull strata of subterranean air?†
Chpt 29
- I shall not be sorry to exchange the narrow limits of our raft for the mysterious strand of the subterranean ocean.†
Chpt 29
- I then recollected that the Professor, before our departure, had estimated the length of this subterranean ocean as at most about thirty leagues.†
Chpt 30
- My eyes stare wildly and with terror upon the subterranean sea.†
Chpt 30
- Perhaps even this water, having to contend against the accumulated subterraneous fires of the interior of the earth, had become partially vaporized.†
Chpt 34
- Had these once animated beings been buried so far beneath the soil by some tremendous convulsion of nature, after they had been earth to earth and ashes to ashes, or had they lived here below, in this subterranean world, under this factitious sky, borne, married, and given in marriage, and died at last, just like ordinary inhabitants of the earth?†
Chpt 35
- Yes—not more than a quarter of a mile off, leaning against the trunk of an enormous tree, was a human being—a Proteus of these subterranean regions, a new son of Neptune keeping this innumerable herd of mastodons.†
Chpt 36
- No human being could by any possibility have existed in that subterranean world!†
Chpt 36
- "Wonderful and glorious genius, great Saknussemm," he cried, "you have left no stone unturned, no resource omitted, to show to other mortals the way into the interior of our mighty globe, and your fellow creatures can find the trail left by your illustrious footsteps, three hundred years ago, at the bottom of these obscure subterranean abodes.†
Chpt 38
- What else but gunpowder, a subterranean mine?†
Chpt 38
- The next day, which was the twenty-seventh of August, was a date celebrated in our wondrous subterranean journey.†
Chpt 39
- Is there any chance of our escaping from our horrible subterranean dangers?†
Chpt 40
- You mean to tell me, Uncle, that we shall get out of this monstrous subterranean shaft?†
Chpt 41
Definitions:
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(1)
(subterranean) under the ground
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, subterraneancan refer to something that is lying beneath what is easily seen. For example, a "subterranean motive", could refer to a motive that is hidden from others, or even a motive that is not understood by the person who has it.