Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

by Jules Verne

common narwhal, or unicorn of the sea,

Either Captain Farragut would kill the narwhal, or the narwhal would kill the captain. There was no third course.

“No, sir; it is evidently a gigantic narwhal, and an electric one.”

evidently a hard, impenetrable body, and not the soft substance that forms the bodies of the great marine mammalia.

eight strong men, with masked faces, appeared noiselessly, and drew us down into their formidable machine.

there seems to be a sea breeze!”

cetacea, and the sugar by the great fucus of the North Sea; and, lastly, permit me to offer you some preserve of anemones, which is equal to that of the most delicious fruits.”

Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors.

There only is independence! There I recognise no masters! There I am free!”

smoking-room!”

owe all to the ocean; it produces electricity, and electricity gives heat, light, motion, and, in a word, life to the Nautilus.”

I admired this curious mammal, with its rounded head ornamented with short ears, its round eyes and white whiskers like those of a cat, with webbed feet and nails, and tufted tail.