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8455-210777-0044 | I WAS TO BE TAKEN AWAY AND CARRIED TO ENGLAND OR ELSEWHERE OR DROWNED UPON THE VOYAGE IT MATTERED NOT WHICH | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0045 | THEN THE REPUBLIC OF BRITANNULA WAS TO BE DECLARED AS NON EXISTENT AND THE BRITISH FLAG WAS TO BE EXALTED AND A BRITISH GOVERNOR INSTALLED IN THE EXECUTIVE CHAMBERS | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0046 | YOU MAY BE QUITE SURE IT'S THERE SAID CAPTAIN BATTLEAX AND THAT I CAN SO USE IT AS TO HALF OBLITERATE YOUR TOWN WITHIN TWO MINUTES OF MY RETURN ON BOARD | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0047 | YOU PROPOSE TO KIDNAP ME I SAID | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0048 | WHAT WOULD BECOME OF YOUR GUN WERE I TO KIDNAP YOU | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0049 | LIEUTENANT CROSSTREES IS A VERY GALLANT OFFICER | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0050 | ONE OF US ALWAYS REMAINS ON BOARD WHILE THE OTHER IS ON SHORE | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0051 | WHAT WORLD WIDE INIQUITY SUCH A SPEECH AS THAT DISCLOSES SAID I STILL TURNING MYSELF TO THE CAPTAIN FOR THOUGH I WOULD HAVE CRUSHED THEM BOTH BY MY WORDS HAD IT BEEN POSSIBLE MY DISLIKE CENTRED ITSELF ON SIR FERDINANDO | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0052 | YOU WILL ALLOW ME TO SUGGEST SAID HE THAT THAT IS A MATTER OF OPINION | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0053 | WERE I TO COMPLY WITH YOUR ORDERS WITHOUT EXPRESSING MY OWN OPINION I SHOULD SEEM TO HAVE DONE SO WILLINGLY HEREAFTER | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0054 | THE LETTER RAN AS FOLLOWS | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0055 | SIR I HAVE IT IN COMMAND TO INFORM YOUR EXCELLENCY THAT YOU HAVE BEEN APPOINTED GOVERNOR OF THE CROWN COLONY WHICH IS CALLED BRITANNULA | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0056 | THE PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE COLONY ARE WITHIN YOUR EXCELLENCY'S KNOWLEDGE | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0057 | BUT IN THEIR SELECTION OF A CONSTITUTION THE BRITANNULISTS HAVE UNFORTUNATELY ALLOWED THEMSELVES BUT ONE DELIBERATIVE ASSEMBLY AND HENCE HAVE SPRUNG THEIR PRESENT DIFFICULTIES | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0058 | IT IS FOUNDED ON THE ACKNOWLEDGED WEAKNESS OF THOSE WHO SURVIVE THAT PERIOD OF LIFE AT WHICH MEN CEASE TO WORK | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0059 | BUT IT IS SURMISED THAT YOU WILL FIND DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY OF YOUR ENTERING AT ONCE UPON YOUR GOVERNMENT | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0060 | THE JOHN BRIGHT IS ARMED WITH A WEAPON OF GREAT POWER AGAINST WHICH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE THAT THE PEOPLE OF BRITANNULA SHOULD PREVAIL | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0061 | YOU WILL CARRY OUT WITH YOU ONE HUNDRED MEN OF THE NORTH NORTH WEST BIRMINGHAM REGIMENT WHICH WILL PROBABLY SUFFICE FOR YOUR OWN SECURITY AS IT IS THOUGHT THAT IF MISTER NEVERBEND BE WITHDRAWN THE PEOPLE WILL REVERT EASILY TO THEIR OLD HABITS OF OBEDIENCE | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0062 | WHEN DO YOU INTEND THAT THE JOHN BRIGHT SHALL START | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0063 | TO DAY I SHOUTED | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0064 | AND I HAVE NO ONE READY TO WHOM I CAN GIVE UP THE ARCHIVES OF THE GOVERNMENT | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0065 | I SHALL BE HAPPY TO TAKE CHARGE OF THEM SAID SIR FERDINANDO | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0066 | THEY OF COURSE MUST ALL BE ALTERED | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0067 | OR OF THE HABITS OF OUR PEOPLE IT IS QUITE IMPOSSIBLE | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0068 | YOUR POWER IS SUFFICIENT I SAID | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0069 | IF YOU WILL GIVE US YOUR PROMISE TO MEET CAPTAIN BATTLEAX HERE AT THIS TIME TO MORROW WE WILL STRETCH A POINT AND DELAY THE DEPARTURE OF THE JOHN BRIGHT FOR TWENTY FOUR HOURS | 8455-210777 | |
8455-210777-0070 | AND THIS PLAN WAS ADOPTED TOO IN ORDER TO EXTRACT FROM ME A PROMISE THAT I WOULD DEPART IN PEACE | 8455-210777 | |
8463-287645-0000 | THIS WAS WHAT DID THE MISCHIEF SO FAR AS THE RUNNING AWAY WAS CONCERNED | 8463-287645 | |
8463-287645-0001 | IT IS HARDLY NECESSARY TO SAY MORE OF THEM HERE | 8463-287645 | |
8463-287645-0002 | FROM THE MANNER IN WHICH HE EXPRESSED HIMSELF WITH REGARD TO ROBERT HOLLAN NO MAN IN THE WHOLE RANGE OF HIS RECOLLECTIONS WILL BE LONGER REMEMBERED THAN HE HIS ENTHRALMENT WHILE UNDER HOLLAN WILL HARDLY EVER BE FORGOTTEN | 8463-287645 | |
8463-287645-0003 | OF THIS PARTY EDWARD A BOY OF SEVENTEEN CALLED FORTH MUCH SYMPATHY HE TOO WAS CLAIMED BY HOLLAN | 8463-287645 | |
8463-287645-0004 | JOHN WESLEY COMBASH JACOB TAYLOR AND THOMAS EDWARD SKINNER | 8463-287645 | |
8463-287645-0005 | A FEW YEARS BACK ONE OF THEIR SLAVES A COACHMAN WAS KEPT ON THE COACH BOX ONE COLD NIGHT WHEN THEY WERE OUT AT A BALL UNTIL HE BECAME ALMOST FROZEN TO DEATH IN FACT HE DID DIE IN THE INFIRMARY FROM THE EFFECTS OF THE FROST ABOUT ONE WEEK AFTERWARDS | 8463-287645 | |
8463-287645-0006 | THE DOCTOR WHO ATTENDED THE INJURED CREATURE IN THIS CASE WAS SIMPLY TOLD THAT SHE SLIPPED AND FELL DOWN STAIRS AS SHE WAS COMING DOWN | 8463-287645 | |
8463-287645-0007 | ANOTHER CASE SAID JOHN WESLEY WAS A LITTLE GIRL HALF GROWN WHO WAS WASHING WINDOWS UP STAIRS ONE DAY AND UNLUCKILY FELL ASLEEP IN THE WINDOW AND IN THIS POSITION WAS FOUND BY HER MISTRESS IN A RAGE THE MISTRESS HIT HER A HEAVY SLAP KNOCKED HER OUT OF THE WINDOW AND SHE FELL TO THE PAVEMENT AND DIED IN A FEW HOURS FROM ... | 8463-287645 | |
8463-287645-0008 | AS USUAL NOTHING WAS DONE IN THE WAY OF PUNISHMENT | 8463-287645 | |
8463-287645-0009 | I NEVER KNEW OF BUT ONE MAN WHO COULD EVER PLEASE HIM | 8463-287645 | |
8463-287645-0010 | HE WORKED ME VERY HARD HE WANTED TO BE BEATING ME ALL THE TIME | 8463-287645 | |
8463-287645-0011 | SHE WAS A LARGE HOMELY WOMAN THEY WERE COMMON WHITE PEOPLE WITH NO REPUTATION IN THE COMMUNITY | 8463-287645 | |
8463-287645-0012 | SUBSTANTIALLY THIS WAS JACOB'S UNVARNISHED DESCRIPTION OF HIS MASTER AND MISTRESS | 8463-287645 | |
8463-287645-0013 | AS TO HIS AGE AND ALSO THE NAME OF HIS MASTER JACOB'S STATEMENT VARIED SOMEWHAT FROM THE ADVERTISEMENT | 8463-287645 | |
8463-287645-0014 | OF STARTING I DIDN'T KNOW THE WAY TO COME | 8463-287645 | |
8463-294825-0000 | IT'S ALMOST BEYOND CONJECTURE | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294825-0001 | THIS REALITY BEGINS TO EXPLAIN THE DARK POWER AND OTHERWORLDLY FASCINATION OF TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEAS | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294825-0002 | FIRST AS A PARIS STOCKBROKER LATER AS A CELEBRATED AUTHOR AND YACHTSMAN HE WENT ON FREQUENT VOYAGES TO BRITAIN AMERICA THE MEDITERRANEAN | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294825-0003 | NEMO BUILDS A FABULOUS FUTURISTIC SUBMARINE THE NAUTILUS THEN CONDUCTS AN UNDERWATER CAMPAIGN OF VENGEANCE AGAINST HIS IMPERIALIST OPPRESSOR | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294825-0004 | IN ALL THE NOVEL HAD A DIFFICULT GESTATION | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294825-0005 | OTHER SUBTLETIES OCCUR INSIDE EACH EPISODE THE TEXTURES SPARKLING WITH WIT INFORMATION AND INSIGHT | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294825-0006 | HIS SPECIFICATIONS FOR AN OPEN SEA SUBMARINE AND A SELF CONTAINED DIVING SUIT WERE DECADES BEFORE THEIR TIME YET MODERN TECHNOLOGY BEARS THEM OUT TRIUMPHANTLY | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294825-0007 | EVEN THE SUPPORTING CAST IS SHREWDLY DRAWN PROFESSOR ARONNAX THE CAREER SCIENTIST CAUGHT IN AN ETHICAL CONFLICT CONSEIL THE COMPULSIVE CLASSIFIER WHO SUPPLIES HUMOROUS TAG LINES FOR VERNE'S FAST FACTS THE HARPOONER NED LAND A CREATURE OF CONSTANT APPETITES MAN AS HEROIC ANIMAL | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294825-0008 | BUT MUCH OF THE NOVEL'S BROODING POWER COMES FROM CAPTAIN NEMO | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294825-0009 | THIS COMPULSION LEADS NEMO INTO UGLY CONTRADICTIONS HE'S A FIGHTER FOR FREEDOM YET ALL WHO BOARD HIS SHIP ARE IMPRISONED THERE FOR GOOD HE WORKS TO SAVE LIVES BOTH HUMAN AND ANIMAL YET HE HIMSELF CREATES A HOLOCAUST HE DETESTS IMPERIALISM YET HE LAYS PERSONAL CLAIM TO THE SOUTH POLE | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294825-0010 | AND IN THIS LAST ACTION HE FALLS INTO THE CLASSIC SIN OF PRIDE | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294825-0011 | HE'S SWIFTLY PUNISHED | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294825-0012 | THE NAUTILUS NEARLY PERISHES IN THE ANTARCTIC AND NEMO SINKS INTO A GROWING DEPRESSION | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294825-0013 | FOR MANY THEN THIS BOOK HAS BEEN A SOURCE OF FASCINATION SURELY ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL NOVELS EVER WRITTEN AN INSPIRATION FOR SUCH SCIENTISTS AND DISCOVERERS AS ENGINEER SIMON LAKE OCEANOGRAPHER WILLIAM BEEBE POLAR TRAVELER SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294825-0014 | FATHOM SIX FEET | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294825-0015 | GRAM ROUGHLY ONE TWENTY EIGHTH OF AN OUNCE | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294825-0016 | MILLIGRAM ROUGHLY ONE TWENTY EIGHT THOUSAND OF AN OUNCE | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294825-0017 | LITER ROUGHLY ONE QUART | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294825-0018 | METER ROUGHLY ONE YARD THREE INCHES | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294825-0019 | MILLIMETER ROUGHLY ONE TWENTY FIFTH OF AN INCH | 8463-294825 | |
8463-294828-0000 | CHAPTER THREE AS MASTER WISHES | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0001 | THREE SECONDS BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF J B HOBSON'S LETTER I NO MORE DREAMED OF CHASING THE UNICORN THAN OF TRYING FOR THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0002 | EVEN SO I HAD JUST RETURNED FROM AN ARDUOUS JOURNEY EXHAUSTED AND BADLY NEEDING A REST | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0003 | I WANTED NOTHING MORE THAN TO SEE MY COUNTRY AGAIN MY FRIENDS MY MODEST QUARTERS BY THE BOTANICAL GARDENS MY DEARLY BELOVED COLLECTIONS | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0004 | BUT NOW NOTHING COULD HOLD ME BACK | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0005 | CONSEIL WAS MY MANSERVANT | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0006 | FROM RUBBING SHOULDERS WITH SCIENTISTS IN OUR LITTLE UNIVERSE BY THE BOTANICAL GARDENS THE BOY HAD COME TO KNOW A THING OR TWO | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0007 | CLASSIFYING WAS EVERYTHING TO HIM SO HE KNEW NOTHING ELSE WELL VERSED IN THE THEORY OF CLASSIFICATION HE WAS POORLY VERSED IN ITS PRACTICAL APPLICATION AND I DOUBT THAT HE COULD TELL A SPERM WHALE FROM A BALEEN WHALE | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0008 | AND YET WHAT A FINE GALLANT LAD | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0009 | NOT ONCE DID HE COMMENT ON THE LENGTH OR THE HARDSHIPS OF A JOURNEY | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0010 | NEVER DID HE OBJECT TO BUCKLING UP HIS SUITCASE FOR ANY COUNTRY WHATEVER CHINA OR THE CONGO NO MATTER HOW FAR OFF IT WAS | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0011 | HE WENT HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE IN PERFECT CONTENTMENT | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0012 | PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR THIS UNDERHANDED WAY OF ADMITTING I HAD TURNED FORTY | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0013 | HE WAS A FANATIC ON FORMALITY AND HE ONLY ADDRESSED ME IN THE THIRD PERSON TO THE POINT WHERE IT GOT TIRESOME | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0014 | THERE WAS GOOD REASON TO STOP AND THINK EVEN FOR THE WORLD'S MOST EMOTIONLESS MAN | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0015 | CONSEIL I CALLED A THIRD TIME CONSEIL APPEARED | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0016 | DID MASTER SUMMON ME HE SAID ENTERING | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0017 | PACK AS MUCH INTO MY TRUNK AS YOU CAN MY TRAVELING KIT MY SUITS SHIRTS AND SOCKS DON'T BOTHER COUNTING JUST SQUEEZE IT ALL IN AND HURRY | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0018 | WE'LL DEAL WITH THEM LATER WHAT | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0019 | ANYHOW WE'LL LEAVE INSTRUCTIONS TO SHIP THE WHOLE MENAGERIE TO FRANCE | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0020 | YES WE ARE CERTAINLY I REPLIED EVASIVELY BUT AFTER WE MAKE A DETOUR | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0021 | A ROUTE SLIGHTLY LESS DIRECT THAT'S ALL | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0022 | WE'RE LEAVING ON THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0023 | YOU SEE MY FRIEND IT'S AN ISSUE OF THE MONSTER THE NOTORIOUS NARWHALE | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0024 | WE DON'T KNOW WHERE IT WILL TAKE US | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0025 | BUT WE'RE GOING JUST THE SAME | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0026 | WE HAVE A COMMANDER WHO'S GAME FOR ANYTHING | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0027 | I LEFT INSTRUCTIONS FOR SHIPPING MY CONTAINERS OF STUFFED ANIMALS AND DRIED PLANTS TO PARIS FRANCE | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0028 | I OPENED A LINE OF CREDIT SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE BABIRUSA AND CONSEIL AT MY HEELS I JUMPED INTO A CARRIAGE | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0029 | OUR BAGGAGE WAS IMMEDIATELY CARRIED TO THE DECK OF THE FRIGATE I RUSHED ABOARD | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0030 | I ASKED FOR COMMANDER FARRAGUT | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0031 | ONE OF THE SAILORS LED ME TO THE AFTERDECK WHERE I STOOD IN THE PRESENCE OF A SMART LOOKING OFFICER WHO EXTENDED HIS HAND TO ME | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0032 | IN PERSON WELCOME ABOARD PROFESSOR YOUR CABIN IS WAITING FOR YOU | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0033 | I WAS WELL SATISFIED WITH MY CABIN WHICH WAS LOCATED IN THE STERN AND OPENED INTO THE OFFICERS MESS | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0034 | WE'LL BE QUITE COMFORTABLE HERE I TOLD CONSEIL | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0035 | AND SO IF I'D BEEN DELAYED BY A QUARTER OF AN HOUR OR EVEN LESS THE FRIGATE WOULD HAVE GONE WITHOUT ME AND I WOULD HAVE MISSED OUT ON THIS UNEARTHLY EXTRAORDINARY AND INCONCEIVABLE EXPEDITION WHOSE TRUE STORY MIGHT WELL MEET WITH SOME SKEPTICISM | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0036 | THE WHARVES OF BROOKLYN AND EVERY PART OF NEW YORK BORDERING THE EAST RIVER WERE CROWDED WITH CURIOSITY SEEKERS | 8463-294828 | |
8463-294828-0037 | DEPARTING FROM FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND THROATS THREE CHEERS BURST FORTH IN SUCCESSION | 8463-294828 |
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