...The ground at the foot of the eucalypti was carpeted with grass, andfrom the bushes escaped flights of little birds, which glittered in thesunlight like winged rubies...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
..."Magnificent, if you like," replied Pencroft; "but still I do not seehow we are to get into our house...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...Indeed, on the 2nd, peals of thunder were heard, the wind blew from theeast, and hail rattled against the façade of Granite House like volleysof grape-shot...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...But by means of along, thin piece of iron rolled up like the barrel of a gun, Pencroftsucceeded in making a tube soon ready for use...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...I was, I think, occupied in collecting my plants, when I hearda noise like an avalanche falling from a very tall tree...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
... murdered—that I am not a wretch—an accursed being—only fit tolive like a wild beast far from all—speak—do you know it?"...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
..."Farewell then!" he cried, and fled like a madman...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...Soon a sort of cylindrical box, in shape like a pepperpot, with apointed roof, rose on the spot chosen...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
..."'A Scotchman like yourself, my lord,' replied the man; 'I am one ofCaptain Grant's crew—one of the castaways of the Britannia...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
..."Or rather it's very like it!" replied Neb...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
..."I will add," said the reporter, "that the fire was very bright, andthat it shot up like a sheet of lightning...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...This looks too much like a purchase and sale,and don’t try the method...
James W. Donovan 「Don't Marry」
...Howmany more like him have made just suchpromises? He can’t keep such a promise if hewould...
James W. Donovan 「Don't Marry」
...She deceivesno one, for her character, like the dude’s, is sotransparent that no one mistakes its meaning...
James W. Donovan 「Don't Marry」
...The good, like the virtuous,live and die and demand no praise of theirvirtue...
James W. Donovan 「Don't Marry」
...At the shortest such a marchwould be about six hundred miles even in an air line, with prospect ofsomething like six hundred more before they reached the Mediterranean...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...Thosesoldiers who ate little of it were like men greatly intoxicated withwine; those who ate much, were seized with the most violent vomiting anddiarrhœa, lying down like madmen in a state of delirium...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...They were like those mercenary armies whichmarched about in Italy during the fourteenth century, under the generalscalled Condottieri, taking service sometimes with one city, sometimeswith another...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
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