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... though peculiar, blending of colours,—white caps, blue blouses, and green vegetables,— and at last the Knight destined for the adventure seemed to ha... ...o have been recently sent home from the fishmonger’s; a moonlight night at sea (in a circle); dead game; scroll-work; the head of a hoary hermit engag...

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...w-path. A natural spring of soft and pleasant water—a rare treasure on the sea-girt peninsula where the Puritan settlement was made—had early induced ... ...essful diligence at handicrafts; laboring on the wharves, or following the sea, as sailors before the mast; living here and there about the town, in h... ...ng out human features through its agency. A few of those biscuits, dipt in sea-water, will be just what I need for breakfast. What is the price of hal... ...ebe wondered whose care and toil it could have been that had planted these vegetables, and kept the soil so clean and orderly. Not surely her cousin H... ... little nook of grass, and foliage, and aristocratic flowers, and plebeian vegetables. The eye of Heaven seemed to look down into it pleasantly, and w... ...e of a blossom, now and then, in exchange for all the good, honest kitchen vegetables with which I propose to enrich Miss Hepzibah’s table. So we will... ...n voyager from the Islands of the Blest, in a frail bark, on a tempestuous sea, had been flung, by the last mountain-wave of his shipwreck, into a qui... ...ish-cart, heralded by its horn; so, likewise, was the countryman’s cart of vegetables, plodding from door to door, with long pauses of the patient hor... ...he harpsi- chord which Alice Pyncheon had brought with her from beyond the sea. The fair Alice bestowed most of her maiden leisure between flowers and...

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...efore—a present besides for putting him out to a farmer, or sending him to sea, so that he might never turn up to disgrace his parents, supposing him ... ...ed and patient as Mrs Nickleby herself. ‘You know, there is no language of vegetables, which converts a cucumber into a formal declara- tion of attach... ... than his previous course of reflection, and only drove him out upon a new sea of speculation and con- 117 Charles Dickens jecture, where he tossed a... ... air was darkened by a shower of onions, turnip- radishes, and other small vegetables, which fell rolling and scattering, and bumping about, in all di... ...over the neighbours’ gardens, and force the 127 Charles Dickens fruit and vegetables into premature existence. That fact I am acquainted with. But wi... ... fast; ‘jewels, lighthouses, fish- ponds, a whalery of my own in the North Sea, and several oyster-beds of great profit in the Pacific Ocean. If you w... ...moment. ‘He is an idle ruffian,’ said Ralph; ‘a vagabond from be- yond the sea where he travelled for his crimes; a felon let loose to run his neck in... ...ing one of them here by tomorrow night?’ ‘Impossible!’ said Nicholas, ‘the sea is between us and them. With the fairest winds that ever blew, to go an...

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...he chief point, they promptly beat a hasty retreat, and plunged again into a sea of subtle distinctions, reservations, quotations, allusions, and ap ... ... friend, you give us two—or better say three— dozen oysters, clear soup with vegetables. . . ” “Printani` ere,” prompted the Tatar. But Stepan Arkadye... ...o allow him the satisfaction of giving the French names of the dishes. “With vegetables in it, you know. Then turbot with thick sauce, then. . . roast... ..., mesdames, pardon, pardon, mes dames”; and steering his course through the sea of lace, tulle, and ribbon, and not disarranging a feather, he turned... ...e wet mossy ground, sometimes at Laska listening all alert, sometimes at the sea of bare tree tops that stretched on the slope below him, sometimes at... ...ill trying to draw his friend out of his ill temper. “Count the sands of the sea, number the stars. Some higher power might do it.” “Oh, well, the hig... ...ssession), Vronsky drove to the sheds. From the sheds he could see a perfect sea of carriages, and people on foot, soldiers surrounding the race cours...

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...gth; I had made friends; I had learned new interests; the time of my voy- ages had passed like days in fairyland; and I decided to remain. I began to ... ...n most interesting; the axes of my black boys are already clearing the foundations of my fu- ture house; and I must learn to address readers from the ... ...exerts the same attractive power upon the visitor, and the task before me is to communicate to fireside travellers some sense of its seduction, and to... ...e in thought and habit as Rob Roy or Barbarossa, the Apostles or the Caesars. The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first su... ...e of towns to be ex- pected, no plying pilot. Somewhere, in that pale phantas- magoria of cliff and cloud, our haven lay concealed; and somewhere to t... ...cottish heath. Again the cliff yawned, but now with a deeper entry; and the Casco, haul- ing her wind, began to slide into the bay of Anaho. The cocoa... ...mstance is common to them all, but that they lived on islands destitute, or very nearly so, of animal food? I can never find it in my appetite that ma... ...ed us to open another tin of miserable mutton. And in at least one ocean language, a particular word denotes that a man is ‘hungry for fish,’ having r... ...ing. But in the old days, when there was trouble in one clan, there would be activity in all its neighbours; the woods would be laid full of ambushes;...

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...an, pale and slender, more like a sickly counting-house clerk than a bluff sea-captain. Bid- ding me be seated, he ordered the steward to hand me a gl... ...luxurious repose of the valley, and the wild noise and motion of a ship at sea, that at times my recent adventures had all the strangeness of a dream;... ...d notwithstanding my bad night’s rest, the cool, fresh air of a morning at sea was so bracing, mat, as soon as I breathed it, my spirits rose at once.... ...out of a New England port during the war of 1812, she had been captured at sea by a British cruiser, and, after seeing all sorts of service, was at la... ...e; and when she dashed the waves from her prow, and pranced, and pawed the sea, you never thought of her patched sails and blistered hull. How the fle... ...hly valued as an anti-scorbutic. Nor was the variety of foreign fruits and vegetables which were introduced the only benefit conferred by the first vi...

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity.... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sic... ...s an equal opportunity university. 3 Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne PART ONE CHAPTER I A SHIFTING REEF T HE YEAR 1866 was si... ...airly conclude that this mysterious being sur- 4 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea passed greatly all dimensions admitted by the learned ones of the day, ... ... over all. Now the largest whales, those which frequent those parts of the sea round the Aleutian, Kulammak, and 5 Jules Verne Umgullich islands, hav... ...d see if the island does not produce some substance not less useful. Fresh vegetables would be welcome on board the Nautilus.” “Master is right,” repl... ...opose to reserve three places in our vessel, one for fruits, the other for vegetables, and the third for the venison, of which I have not yet seen the... ...we sur- veyed it in all directions. Chance rewarded our search for eatable vegetables, and one of the most useful products of the tropical zones fur- ... ...seals and otters had splendid re- pasts, eating the flesh of fish with sea-vegetables, ac- cording to the English fashion. Over this fertile and luxu-...

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...iting: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many miles away marks a city. All the appointments of this room were orderly and beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new...

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...all window on his left one perceived only dis- tances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many mil... ... love peering out from her puckered eyelids… When she went out to buy some vegetables in the middle of the morning she got me a half-penny journal. It... ...en I clean forgot Nettie, in dreaming of battles and victories by land and sea, of shell fire, and entrenchments, and the heaped slaughter of many tho... ...met ingly across the grass, and the trees rose ghostly out of that phantom sea. Great and shadowy and strange was the world that night, no one seemed ... ...ny, of course!” A naval battle was supposed to be in progress in the North Sea. Let them! I returned to the consideration of my own affairs. Parload? ... ...rating-room—I know not why. “They’re going to give us trouble in the North Sea, it seems,” he remarked with a sort of innocent zest. “I’m glad they me...

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...d rogue, my man,” said the Captain. “Come, come, Cap’n, be just,” returned the other. “There’s no call to be angry with me in earnest. I’m on’y a char... ... “I wouldn’t set no limits to what a virtuous chara’ter might consider argument,” responded Silver. “But I’m the villain of this tale, I am; and speak... ...er, who was to show him everything. First of all they came through a wood, and the stranger looked upon the trees. “Whom have we here?” said he. “Thes... ..., but the eddy carried him away. “I do not care about this eddy,” said the missionary; and even as he said it, he was aware of a house raised on piles... ...d hold of the ladder and went up. It was a fine house; but there was no man there; and when the missionary looked back he saw no island, only the heav... ...hem.” By this the kava of the dead was ready, and the daughters of Miru began to intone in the old manner of singing. “Gone are the green islands and ...

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...ion; indeed she could hardly be said to have any, for she had been born at sea, and had been a sailor’s wife; but whether she was mostly English, Dutc... ...tch or Spanish, nobody knew and nobody cared. Her husband had been lost at sea, and Uncle Joseph had taken her to look after his house, and always sai... ...earls out of those great flat ones, and dive all down to the bottom of the sea after them; mustn’t touch, my dear, only look; paws off.” One would thi... ...were the stars in the sky, and this was the way people found their road at sea; but if Lucy asked how, they always said she was not big enough to unde... ...obe, is just a picture of the shapes of the coast-line of the land and the sea, and the rivers in them, and mountains, and the like. Look here!” And s... ...with nothing but dry biscuits and salt junk, and may be a tin of preserved vegetables just to keep it wholesome, to see the black fellows come grinnin...

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...ata seu inordinata,” as Euclid has it. XXX. cry, “Thalatta! thalatta!” the sea! the sea! The deeply indented shore was lined with a breadth of fine sh... ...words as ice, sir, anger, cruel, sacred wood, changeable, mother, bow, and sea? The first and the last might have something to do with each other; it ... ...prising that in a document written in Iceland there should be mention of a sea of ice; but it was quite another thing to get to the end of this crypto... ...e capital? You do. Well; ascend the innu- merable fiords that indent those sea-beaten shores, and stop at the sixty-fifth degree of latitude. What do ... ... you see anything upon that knee bone?” “Yes; a mountain rising out of the sea.” “Right. That is Snaefell.” “That Snaefell?” “It is. It is a mountain ... ...worn-out bit of carpet, or some appearance of a kitchen garden, the sparse vegetables of which (potatoes, cabbages, and lettuces), would have figured ... ...ingular creations. Were they some of the two hundred thou- sand species of vegetables known hitherto, and did they claim a place of their own in the l...

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...possible to the general capacity of readers. However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I alone am answera... ...judicious and candid readers to adjust it as they please. I hear some of our sea Yahoos find fault with my sea language, as not proper in many part... ... mariners, and learned to speak as they did. But I have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt, like the land ones, to become new fangled in their w... ...ted with my wife, and some of my acquain tance, I determined to go again to sea. I was surgeon successively in two ships, and made several voyages, f... ...y. The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew weary of the sea, and intended to stay at home with my wife and family. I removed from... ...rk, the tops whereof I could but just reach with my fist clenched. The other vegetables are in the same pro portion; but this I leave to the reader’s... ...ce and eight deep, a quantity of acorns, dates, chestnuts, and other mast or vegetables, whereof these animals are fondest; then you drive six hundred... ...comprehend. The other was, by a certain com position of gums, minerals, and vegetables, outwardly applied, to prevent the growth of wool upon two you...

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...eding navigators—there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every... ...dship. I accompanied the whale fish ers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I oft... ...ojects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore. But to return to dearer ... ...nded by ice, which closed in the ship on all sides, scarcely leaving her the sea room in which she floated. Our situation was somewhat dangerous, espe... ...reatest attention. About two hours after this occurrence we heard the ground sea, and before night the ice broke and freed our ship. We, however, lay ... ...the neater cottages, and stately houses engaged my admiration by turns. The vegetables in the gardens, the milk and cheese that I saw placed at the w... ...il in a very distressing degree. Their nourishment consisted entirely of the vegetables of their garden and the milk of one cow, which gave very littl... ... persons, whose gaunt and scraggy limbs gave tokens of their miserable fare. Vegetables and bread, when they indulged in such luxuries, and even fresh...

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...’s palace, he earnestly advised him to get on board of a vessel, and go by sea; because he might thus arrive within fifteen miles of Ath ens, without... ... trusted on such a perilous journey, all by himself. No, no; let him go by sea.” But when Theseus heard of robbers and monsters, he pricked up his ear... ...rel. He was in the habit of flinging his victims off a high cliff into the sea; and, in order to give him exactly his deserts, Theseus tossed him off ... ...heseus tossed him off the very same place. But if you will believe me, the sea would not pollute itself by receiv ing such a bad person into its boso... ...t rid of him, consent to take him back; so that, between the cliff and the sea, Scinis stuck fast in the air, which was forced to bear the burden of h... ...how ever, this was during the time when Ceres had forbidden any fruits or vegetables to grow; and, after seeking all over the earth, King Pluto’s ser...

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...hirling mill, In fumes of burning chocolate shall glow, And tremble at the sea that froths below!’ He spoke; the spirits from the sails descend; Some,... ...s grow, And wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow; Sooner let earth, air, sea to chaos fall, Men, monkeys, lapdogs, parrots, perish all!’ ... ... and the vain man’s toast? 10 Why deck’d with all that land and sea afford? Why angels call’d, and angel-like adored? Why round our coaches... ...roll’d, And on their banks Augusta 53 rose in gold. Around his throne the sea-born brothers stood, Who swell with tributary urns his flood; First the... ... stain’d with Danish blood. High in the midst, upon his urn reclined, (His sea-green mantle waving with the wind) The god appear’d: he turn’d his azur... ...arious life endued, Press to one centre still, the general Good. See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again: All forms that...

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...ould the newly-come little one from India do, but catch a fever in the Red Sea, and I had to keep guard over the brothers at Weymouth till she was rep... ...out them to feel aggrieved at the sight of hash, nice as it was with fresh vegetables, and they were not disposed to good temper when they sat down to... ...sing the bay?” Neither girl seemed to have eyes for the lovely blue of the sea in the spring sunshine, nor the striking forms of ruddy peaks of rock t... ...the boat; but such a gale was blowing that it was impossible to put out to sea or make any search round the coast. Words could hardly describe the dis... ...e in London or his wife at home, or for the discovery of anything from the sea, or search- ing in his son’s lodgings, where nothing was found that did... ...e was carrying them, not towards the quay and marble rocks, but farther to sea. The waves grew rougher and had crests of foam, and discomfort began. O...

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...Hengist and dumpy Horsa, quitting ledger and coronet, might recur to their sea bowlegs and red-stubble chins, might take to their tarpau- lins again; ... ...ale on the voluptuous indolence of a man drawn along by Nereids over sunny sea- waves to behold the birth of the Foam-Goddess? ‘ According to Carling,... ...n and the earth of the works of man, speaking a grander tongue than barren sea or wood or wilderness. Just a moment; it goes; as, when a well-attuned ... ...said of little Nesta once, that she had a nature pure and sparkling as mid-sea foam. Happy he who wins her! But she was one of the young women who are... ... ‘I like to be sure of my cutlet.’ ‘I like to be sure of a tastiness in my vegetables.’ ‘And good sauces!’ ‘ And pretty pastry. I said, Cordon bleu. T... ...n the great wave surgent at her eyes. Victor was like a swimmer in morning sea amid the excla- mations encircling him. He led through the straight pas...

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...th her opposite neighbour. There was a richly carved mantel- piece, with a sea-coal fire burning in it, for though it was May, the sea winds blew cold... ...ge press of dark oak, guarded on each side by the twisted weap- ons of the sea unicorn, and in the middle of the room stood a large, solid-looking tab... ...ed up, sucking his thumb, and hugging to his breast the soft fragment of a sea-bird’s downy breast. If he stirred, his mother’s foot was on the rocker... ...a young man who, with the indifference of those days to service by land or sea, had been at one time a gentleman pensioner of Queen Mary; at another h... ...cony, watching for him, and shrieking with joy at the first glimpse of the sea-bird’s feather in his cap. The spotless home-spun cloth and the trenche... ...s own way, all being alike horrified at the gross English diet and lack of vegetables. Many tried experiments in the way of growing salads in little g...

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...ght spar within her arms, the mother drifted out upon the dark and unknown sea that rolls round all the world. 15 Charles Dickens CHAPTER 2. IN WHICH... ...n the same tone. ‘With a little abstinence, you know, my dear, in point of vegetables.’ ‘ And pickles, perhaps,’ suggested Miss T ox. ‘With such excep... ...ent its philosophical composure from being disturbed by the rolling of the sea. Such extraordinary precautions were taken in every instance to save ro... ...tself, partaking of the general infection, seemed almost to become a snug, sea- going, ship-shape concern, wanting only good sea-room, in the event of... ...lf to a second glass of the old Madeira, with increased relish. ‘As to the Sea,’ he pursued, ‘that’s well enough in fic- tion, Wally, but it won’t do ... ... rubbed his hands with an air of stealthy en- joyment, as he talked of the sea, though; and looked on the seafaring objects about him with inexpressib... ...peci- men shooting out broad claws, like a green lobster; several creeping vegetables, possessed of sticky and adhesive leaves; and one uncomfortable ... ...tor, dinner began. There was some nice soup; also roast meat, boiled meat, vegetables, pie, and cheese. Every young gentleman had a massive silver for... ...he thickest of the fray, a black cook in a black caboose up to his eyes in vegetables and blinded with smoke. The Captain immediately drew Walter into...

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... that opened before them, of the spectacle of the world, the splendours of sea and mountain they might travel and see, the joys of skill they might ac... ...be splendid to be a diver and go down into the dark green mysteries of the sea. He led stormers against well-nigh impregnable forts, and died on the r... ... the perpetual refreshment of the strong soft winds that blow from off the sea as our Mother England does. It was good for the Three Ps to walk throug... ...st to Foxbourne, that eastern- most suburb of Brayling and Hampsted-on-the-Sea. Foxbourne seemed a very jolly little place to Mr. Polly that afternoon... ...o delicate talent for such a use. He was impressed by the charm of selling vegetables by auction in one of those open shops near London Bridge, but ad... ... our race, like a lump of soil among things of paper. He put his basket of vegetables very deliberately on the new violet tablecloth, removed his hat ... ... to cribs. I should keep my money anyhow.” Fate never winced. “Run away to sea,” whispered Mr. Polly, but he knew he wasn’t man enough. “Cut my bloomi... ...as particularly charmed by the ducklings. They were piping about among the vegetables in the com- pany of their foster mother, and as he and the plump...