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Journey to the Center of the Earth - Verne trnsl by G&F - 44 chptrs
- If elsewhere she produces grand artistic effects by piling up huge masses without order or connection—if elsewhere we see truncated cones, imperfect pyramids, with an odd succession of lines; here, as if wishing to give a lesson in regularity, and preceding the architects of the early ages, she has erected a severe order of architecture, which neither the splendors of Babylon nor the marvels of Greece ever surpassed.†
Chpt 11
- New volcanic eruptions are always preceded by perfectly well-known phenomena.†
Chpt 11 *
- We walked in single file, preceded by Hans, the imperturbable eider-duck hunter.†
Chpt 12
- I took in every item of what I saw, and I began to comprehend the succession of phenomena which had preceded its formation.†
Chpt 12
- Where is the packet which preceded us in our descent?†
Chpt 15
- At that period of the world which preceded the secondary epoch, the earth was covered by a coating of enormous and rich vegetation, due to the double action of tropical heat and perpetual humidity.†
Chpt 17
- We are to the southeast, two hundred and fifty miles from the base of Sneffels, and, according to my preceding notes, I think we have gone sixteen leagues in a downward direction.†
Chpt 22
- Hans was no doubt following behind preceded by my uncle.†
Chpt 23
- I have been trying to realize from memory the particular instincts of those antediluvian animals of the secondary period, which succeeding to the mollusca, to the crustacea, and to the fish, preceded the appearance of the race of mammifers.†
Chpt 30
- By means of these wondrous and unexpected discoveries, man ascended endless centuries in the scale of time; he, in fact, preceded the mastodon; became the contemporary of the Elephas meridionalis—the southern elephant; acquired an antiquity of over a hundred thousand years, since that is the date given by the most eminent geologists to the Pliocene period of the earth.†
Chpt 35
- Someone, therefore, must have preceded us upon the shores of this extraordinary sea.†
Chpt 37
- There, on a square tablet of granite, which had been smoothed by rubbing it with another stone, we could see two mysterious, and much worn letters, the two initials of the bold and extraordinary traveler who had preceded us on our adventurous journey.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(precede) to go or do before