Jules Verne

Certainly a Government might possess such a destructive machine.

young Virlandaise of seventeen, Martha, and myself. As his nephew and an orphan, I became his laboratory assistant.

The horses being already harnessed to the carriage, our friends immediately started in the direction of Bamble.

The lake was at its very best this beautiful morning. The sun had absorbed all the mist of the previous night, and no one could not have asked for a more superb summer's day.

The sky was cloudless, the weather magnificent, the air not too cool, nor the sun too warm.

Two boatmen were standing on the shore beside a birch-bark canoe, so fragile and unstable that the slightest imprudence on the part of its occupants would inevitably overturn it.

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which was al­ways flush.

coun­ten­ance

He was not lav­ish, nor, on the con­trary, av­ar­i­cious; for, whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble,