Center of the Earth: It must in all truth be confessed, things as yet had gone on well, and I should have acted in bad taste to have ...

Center of the Earth: ... complained. If the true medium of our difficulties did not increase, it was within the range of possibility ...

Center of the Earth: ... that we might ultimately reach the end of our journey. Then what glory would be ours! I began in the newly ...

Center of the Earth: ... aroused ardor of my soul to speak enthusiastically to the Professor. Well, was I serious? The whole state in ...

Center of the Earth: ... which we existed was a mystery--and it was impossible to know whether or not I was in earnest.

Center of the Earth: For several days after our memorable halt, the slopes became more rapid--some were even of a most frightful ...

Center of the Earth: ... character--almost vertical, so that we were forever going down into the solid interior mass. During some days, ...

Center of the Earth: ... we actually descended a league and a half, even two leagues towards the centre of the earth. The descents were ...

Center of the Earth: ... sufficiently perilous, and while we were engaged in them we learned fully to appreciate the marvelous coolness ...

Center of the Earth: ... of our guide, Hans. Without him we should have been wholly lost. The grave and impassible Icelander devoted ...

Center of the Earth: ... himself to us with the most incomprehensible sang-froid and ease; and, thanks to him, many a dangerous pass ...

Center of the Earth: ... was got over, where, but for him, we should inevitably have stuck fast.

Center of the Earth: His silence increased every day. I think that we began to be influenced by this peculiar trait in his character. ...

Center of the Earth: ... It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain. It ...

Center of the Earth: ... must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and ...

Center of the Earth: ... words. How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad--simply because the ...

Center of the Earth: ... thinking faculties have lain dormant!

Center of the Earth: During the two weeks that followed our last interesting conversation, there occurred nothing worthy of being ...

Center of the Earth: ... especially recorded.

Center of the Earth: I have, while writing these memoirs, taxed my memory in vain for one incident of travel during this particular period.