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Journey to the Center of the Earth - Verne trnsl by M - 45 chptrs
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- On the 19th of June, for about a mile, that is an Icelandic mile, we walked upon hardened lava; this ground is called in the country 'hraun'; the writhen surface presented the appearance of distorted, twisted cables, sometimes stretched in length, sometimes contorted together; an immense torrent, once liquid, now solid, ran from the nearest mountains, now extinct volcanoes, but the ruins around revealed the violence of the past eruptions.†
Chpt 13
- It was formed by one of those torrents of stones flung up by the eruptions, called 'sting' by the Icelanders.†
Chpt 15 *torrents = overwhelming amounts
- If this torrent had not been arrested in its fall by the formation of the sides of the mountain, it would have gone on to the sea and formed more islands.†
Chpt 15
- Every hillock, every rock and stone, every projecting surface, had its share of the beaming torrent, and threw its shadow on the ground.†
Chpt 16
- I imagined the torrents of fire hurled back at every angle in the gallery, and the accumulation of intensely heated vapours in the midst of this confined channel.†
Chpt 19torrents = overwhelming amounts
- What you hear is the rushing of a torrent.†
Chpt 23
- A torrent?†
Chpt 23
- The torrent, after having for some time flowed over our heads, was now running within the left wall, roaring and rushing.†
Chpt 23
- Guided by an instinct peculiar to mountaineers he had as it were felt this torrent through the rock; but he had certainly seen none of the precious liquid; he had drunk nothing himself.†
Chpt 23
- Hans stopped where the torrent seemed closest.†
Chpt 23
- I perceived at once that he was examining to find the exact place where the torrent could be heard the loudest.†
Chpt 23
- Suppose the torrent, bursting through, should drown us in a sudden flood!†
Chpt 23
- stood the cause, when plunging my hands into the spouting torrent, I withdrew them in haste, for the water was scalding hot.†
Chpt 23
- I then learnt that my providential fall had brought me exactly to the extremity of an almost perpendicular shaft; and as I had landed in the midst of an accompanying torrent of stones, the least of which would have been enough to crush me, the conclusion was that a loose portion of the rock had come down with me.†
Chpt 29
- The vault that spanned the space above, the sky, if it could be called so, seemed composed of vast plains of cloud, shifting and variable vapours, which by their condensation must at certain times fall in torrents of rain.†
Chpt 30torrents = overwhelming amounts
- The explosion had caused a kind of earthquake in this fissured and abysmal region; a great gulf had opened; and the sea, now changed into a torrent, was hurrying us along into it.†
Chpt 41
- If we had had provisions enough for months, how could we get out of the abyss into which we were being hurled by an irresistible torrent?†
Chpt 41
- Was there any chance of escaping from the fury of this impetuous torrent, and of returning to the surface of the globe?†
Chpt 41
- I knew quite well that according to the best received theories the mineral covering of the globe is never at absolute rest; the changes brought about by the chemical decomposition of its component parts, the agitation caused by great liquid torrents, and the magnetic currents, are continually tending to disturb it—even when living beings upon its surface may fancy that all is quiet below.†
Chpt 43torrents = overwhelming amounts
- Perhaps the raft itself, stopped in its course by a projection, was staying the volcanic torrent.†
Chpt 43
- It rocked upon the lava torrent, amidst a dense fall of ashes.†
Chpt 43
Definitions:
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(1)
(torrent) an overwhelming amount -- especially of quickly moving water
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)