The Abraham Lincoln, propelled by her wonderful screw, went straight at the animal.


“suddenly I was refreshed by a current of pure air, and perfumed with saline emanations. It was an invigorating sea breeze, charged with iodine. I opened my mouth wide, and my lungs saturated themselves with fresh particles.”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind, and endowed with the will and power to effect purposes of horror, such as the deed which he had now done, nearly in the light of my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein

“Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“That day being Christmas Day, Ned Land seemed to regret sorely the non-celebration of "Christmas," the family fete of which Protestants are so fond.”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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