top truyện tiếng anh nên đọc Twenty thousand leagues under the sea

... an arm of the sea It was good that men should be specialists, I mused The peculiar knowledge of the pilot and captain sufficed for many thousands of people who knew no more of the sea and navigation ... of keen enjoyment on his face I was not wrong when I decided that his days had been spent on the sea "It's nasty weather like this here that turns heads grey before their time," he said,...

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... These, I afterward learned, were the hunters, the men who shot the seals, and a very superior breed to common sailor-folk "Johansen!" Wolf Larsen called out A sailor stepped forward obediently "Get ... customary "Ay, ay, sir." "We'll see to that," Wolf Larsen answered, and elevated his voice in a call of "Cooky!" Thomas Mugridge popped out of his galley like a jack- in-the-box "Go below...

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... time from the steerage (the name the hunters facetiously gave their midships sleeping quarters) to the cabin Wolf Larsen was on the poop, smoking his everlasting cigar "'Ere she comes Sling yer ... struggled through the storm, would surely have made me sea- sick had I been a victim to that malady As it was, it made me quite squeamish, though this nausea might have been due to the pain of m...

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... but nevertheless a shame rises within me at the recollection, and in the pride of my manhood I feel that my manhood has in unaccountable ways been smirched and sullied All of which is neither here ... after breakfast I learned, also, that Wolf Larsen was anxious to make the most of the storm, which was driving him to the south-west into that portion of the sea where he expected to pick up...

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... the fishes." "Wolf Larsen!" he snorted a moment later "Listen to the word, will ye! Wolf 'tis what he is He's not black-hearted like some men 'Tis no heart he has at all Wolf, just wolf, 'tis what ... him, and there'll be always some tell-tale carryin' word iv it aft to the Wolf The Wolf is strong, and it's the way of a wolf to hate strength, an' strength it is he'll see in Johnson...

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... the drunkard pays And I shall know that I must die, at sea most likely, cease crawling of myself to be all a-crawl with the corruption of the sea; to be fed upon, to be carrion, to yield up all ... had dreamed away thirty-five years among books But a voice behind me, the unmistakable voice of Wolf Larsen, strong with the invincible certitude of the man and mellow with appreciation of the...

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... were swimming like lazy summer seas, though what blissful visions they beheld were beyond my imagination "Get the cards, Hump," Wolf Larsen ordered, as they took seats at the table "And bring ... bunk, he hooked Wolf Larsen's buttonhole with a greasy forefinger and vacuously proclaimed and reiterated, "I got money, I got money, I tell yer, an' I'm a gentleman's son." Wolf Larsen was una...

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... clearness or sanity in them - nothing but the terrific rage of a madman It was the wolf in him that I saw, and a mad wolf at that He sprang for me with a half-roar, gripping my arm I had steeled myself ... darkness of night Several times Wolf Larsen tried to inveigle me into discussion, but I gave him short answers and eluded him Finally, he commanded me to resume my seat at the cabin t...

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... then, was he no more than the obscure master of a seal-hunting schooner with a reputation for frightful brutality amongst the men who hunted seals? My curiosity burst from me in a flood of speech ... the English merchant service Cabin-boy at twelve, ship's boy at fourteen, ordinary seamen at sixteen, able seaman at seventeen, and cock of the fo'c'sle, infinite ambition and infinite loneliness...

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... by seeing Wolf Larsen reading the Bible, a copy of which, after the futile search for one at the beginning of the voyage, had been found in the dead mate's sea- chest I wondered what Wolf Larsen ... Japan coast "And look out for squalls," is Louis's prophecy, "for they hate one another like the wolf whelps they are." Death Larsen is in command of the only sealing steamer in the fleet,...

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... me?" Wolf Larsen was demanding "I know, sir," was the answer "What?" Wolf Larsen demanded, sharply and imperatively "What you and the mate there are going to to me, sir." "Look at him, Hump," Wolf ... sat Wolf Larsen on one of the pivotal cabin chairs An appreciable pause fell after I had closed the doors and drawn the slide, a pause that must have lasted fully a minute It was broken...

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... railing which surrounded the stove and kept the pots from sliding off; but he missed the railing, and his hand, with his weight behind it, landed squarely on the hot surface There was a sizzle ... broken He was abject before Wolf Larsen and almost grovelled to Johansen Not so was the conduct of Leach He went about the deck like a tiger cub, glaring his hatred openly at Wolf Larsen and Joh...

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... the Kanaka's sleep, Wolf Larsen passed on to the next two bunks on the starboard side, occupied top and bottom, as we saw in the light of the sea- lamp, by Leach and Johnson As Wolf Larsen bent ... the same instant, straight down on Wolf Larsen The first sounds were those of a conflict between a bull and a wolf I heard a great infuriated bellow go up from Wolf Larsen, and from Lea...

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... belligerently demanded one Kelly, an Irish-American and a longshoreman, making his first trip to sea, and boat-puller for Kerfoot As he made the demand he spat out a mouthful of blood and teeth ... What would happen to me when these men discovered my presence? I could never fight my way out as Wolf Larsen had done And at this moment Latimer called down the scuttles: "Hump! The old man want...

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... and Johnson would have killed Wolf Larsen at the slightest opportunity, but the opportunity never came Wolf Larsen was too wise for that, and, besides, they had no adequate weapons With their fists ... great miseries For the Ghost, so far as the seamen were concerned, was a hell-ship of the worst description They never had a moment's rest or peace Wolf Larsen treasured against them the...

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