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...assed, the frigate took a more decided westerly direction, and scoured the central waters of the Pacific. Commander Farragut thought, and with reason,... ...tilus, then it stopped. “We have arrived,” said the Captain. I went to the central staircase which opened on to the platform, clambered up the iron st... ...ace of the ocean to renew our supply of oxygen. I directed my steps to the central stair- case, and mounted the platform. 73 Jules Verne It was six o... .... “Hardly.” “Well, come and you will see.” I directed my steps towards the central staircase. There Ned Land and Conseil were slyly watching some of t... ...isoner? Quite free. I opened the door, went to the half- deck, went up the central stairs. The panels, shut the evening before, were open. I went on t... ...he hour we intended leaving his vessel.” “Yes, Ned, he had business at his bankers.” “His bankers!” “Or rather his banking-house; by that I mean the o...

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...matical studies. He had a thoughtful hold of what he knew, which would be exceptional among bankers. He had been brought up in the midst of hot-house ... ...nd the amateur- ish accomplishments of a clique. But manners, like art, should be human and central. Some of my fellow-passengers, as I now moved amon... ...ndowed with very much the same natu- ral capacities, and about as wise in deduction, as the bankers and barristers of what is called society. One and ... ...R’S W ALK IN CARRICK AND GALLOW AY— A FRAGMENT—1876 AT THE FAMOUS BRIDGE of Doon, Kyle, the central district of the shire of Ayr, marches with Carrick... ...is to sow his wild oats; and so the cases of father and son mark an epoch in the history of centralisation in France. Not until the latter had got int...

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...onsider the diffi- culties of a single question, which is also a vital and central question in this forecast. We shall not attempt a full answer here,... ...ation of the nations of the earth. Because, in the face of a league of the Central European Powers attempting recuperation, cherishing revenge, dream-... ...For precisely similar reasons it seems to me incredible that the two great Central European Powers should ever fall into sustained conflict again with... ... be only three great World Powers left— the anti-German allies, the allied Central Europeans, the Pan- Americans. And it is to be noted that, whatever... ...asten on the essential conclusion of the 23 H G Wells great war, that the Central Powers and their pledged antago- nists are in a deadlock, unable to... ...f that original debt; it has added to it tremendously; so far as money and bankers’ 32 What Is Coming? records go it still owes and intends to pay th... ... Great Britain has other sentiments to consider than the finer feelings of bankers and the delicacies of usury. The pound British will come out of thi...

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...nd beauty of composition of a certain building with curved wings and a small central dome that looks across the Seine at the gardens of the Louvre and... ...men of the dawn have been found on the walls and caves and grottoes all over central and southern France, throughout the very region where our America... ... The traces of a very ancient culture discovered in the United States and in Central America prove the far off existence of an artistic and civic deve... ...ic period, must have swept away the astounding race who adorned the caves of central and south western France with drawings matching those of the Japa... ...inuity of her social life. By her geographic position she seemed destined to centralise and cherish the scattered fires of these old societies. What is... ... shopkeepers’ wives, wives of big manufacturers and commission merchants and bankers, were to all intents and purposes their hus bands’ business part...

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... of this vast English middle-class ruling the land is Comfort. It is their central thought; their idea of neces- sity; their sole aim. Whatsoever mini... ...tead of a bounding heart. Something had stunned his heart. He had no clear central feeling; he tried to gather it from her touch, from his joy in beho... ...to be in the front rank of public benefactors—where they put rich brewers, bankers, and speculative manufacturers now. Well! the world is young. We sh...

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...nion, we are obliged to frown upon all modes of violence as hostile to the central principle of that union. We are obliged to rate it, according to th... ...stonishing translation of an ancient people across the pathless deserts of Central Asia, intersected continually by rapid rivers, rarely furnished wit... ...e tragedy, according to the great divisions of the route marked out by the central rivers of Asia. The first stage, we have already said, was from the... ...that large masses of the Imperial troops were converging from all parts of Central Asia to the fords of the river T orgai as the most convenient point... ...rcle, composed of men, women, and children, gath- ered by hundreds round a central fire, all dead and stiff at the return of morning light. Myriads we... ...r that part of the accumulations which rises above the optics of sublunary bankers; whilst the Ceylon pillar is constantly unweaving its own granite t...

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... marked with cross and key, and fetched up from the square magazine in the central depot of the infernal factory, third turning to the right off the g... ...n sat in a web, but as yet had done no more than shoot up a glow along the central heavens, in amid the waves of deepened aloud: a mir- ror for night ... ...cried Abrane, as he puffed. ‘What! cut and run and leave us, post winnings—bankers—knock your luck on the head! What a fellow! Can’t let you. Countess... ...s, gigs, carts, pony-traps, boys on ponies, a swarm on legs, flowed to the central point and huddled there. Was either champion born in Kent? An audac... ...et- fully: ‘He changes.’ On the hall table at Esslemont, a letter from his bankers informed the earl of a considerable sum of money paid in to his acc...

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... the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might be central alike to all the States. It was presumed, when Washington was found... ...ing in the States. San Jose, the capital of the republic of Costa Rica, in Central America, has been pre- pared and arranged as a new city in the same... ... will stand something higher in the world than Mexico and the republics of Central America. Her cotton monopoly will have vanished, and her wealth wil... ...down and perish in its mud. Cairo is the southern terminus of the Illinois Central Railway. There is but one daily arrival there, namely, at half-past... ... the United States. They see to what Mexico has come, and the republics of Central America; but the prospect of even that degradation is less bitter t... ...most unconsciously. Whether this man be rich or be a bankrupt, whether the bankers of that city fail or make their millions, the creative energies of ...

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...ork harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.’ And ther... ... ever summered solitudes; Until the tossing arms grew still Upon the woody central hill; And, gathered in a panting band, We flung on high each waving ...