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...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extr...

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...esse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac IN A SPANISH CITY on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, ... ...ngerous reefs that stretch far out to sea, with the sparkling waves of the Mediterranean playing over them. So, only from the sea can you discern the ... ...th a thor- oughly Spanish conception. But now surround this picture by the Mediterranean, and a burning sky , imagine a few palms here and there, a fe... ...ette de Navarreins was living, consumed by love, on a ledge of rock in the Mediterranean; but it was in the Pope’s power to dissolve Sister Theresa’s ...

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...f 8,000 yards has been found in the North Atlantic, and 2,500 yards in the Mediterranean. The most remarkable soundings have been made in the South At... ... mens of the zoophyte. This coral was more valuable than that found in the Mediterranean, on the coasts of France, Italy and Barbary. Its tints justif... ...o see the long jetty of Port Said after to-morrow, when we shall be in the Mediterranean.” “The Mediterranean!” I exclaimed. “Yes, sir; does that asto... ...ave to put on the Nautilus, if the day after to-morrow she is to be in the Mediterranean, having made the round of Africa, and 159 Jules Verne double... ... day into the impassable Red Sea. I noticed that in the Red Sea and in the Mediterranean there existed a certain number of fishes of a kind per- fectl... ...was, the subterranean current must necessarily run from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, from the sole cause of difference of level. I caught a large... ...ed Sea, which the incline of the tunnel precipitated violently towards the Mediterranean. The Nautilus went with the torrent, rapid as an arrow, in sp... ...es past ten, Captain Nemo quitted the helm, and, turning to me, said: “The Mediterranean!” In less than twenty minutes, the Nautilus, carried along by... ...l, Sir Naturalist,” said the Canadian, in a slightly jovial tone, “and the Mediterranean?” “We are floating on its surface, friend Ned.” “What!” said ...

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...lieve it even now. around Great Britain, France, Italy, and in the eastern Mediterranean all navigation, that of neutrals included, from and to France... ... and Ireland, the Atlantic coasts of Europe, or the harbors of the eastern Mediterranean, and to conduct those operations without regard to the establ... ...Europe or any of the ports controlled by the enemies of Germany within the Mediterranean. That had seemed to be the object of the German submarine war...

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... XXXVII THE CRADLE of oversea traffic and of the art of naval combats, the Mediterranean, apart from all the asso- ciations of adventure and glory, th... ...med encounters of lesser interest, all the blood heroically spilt into the Mediterranean has not stained with a single trail of purple the deep azure ... ...ed to afflict the soul of every sound economist. It is not likely that the Mediterranean will ever behold a battle with a greater issue; but when the ... ...tur- ous voyage; and there is no such sea for adventur- ous voyages as the Mediterranean -the inland sea which the ancients looked upon as so vast and... ...e sole artisans of all the wonder and romance of the world. It was for the Mediterranean sailors that fair-haired sirens sang among the black rocks se... ...ell all men that the great god Pan was dead. But the great leg- end of the Mediterranean, the legend of traditional song and grave history, lives, fas... ...f world-wide oceans beyond the Pillars of Hercules. XXXIX THE CHARM of the Mediterranean dwells in the unfor- gettable flavour of my early days, and t... ...udent travellers, I withdrew unseen—and re- turned, not much wiser, to the Mediterranean, the sea of classic adventures. 134 The Mirror of the Sea XL... ...of the once unbidden guests entertained unawares in our young days. If the Mediterranean, the venerable (and sometimes atrociously ill-tempered) nurse...

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...ained that the party were to go southward to meet her father at one of the Mediterranean ports, as the English Government were so suspicious of Jacobi... ...her route. Estelle heard this with great satisfaction. ‘We shall go to the Mediterranean Sea and be in danger,’ she said to herself, unfolding the map... ...was more sluggish, but nothing more was wanting in the descent towards the Mediterranean. The accommodation was not of a high order, but when- ever th... ... was near the end of October, the blue expanse of sea was calm as only the Mediterranean can be, so that she trusted that no harm would result to thos... ...terly incomprehensible to the Scot, but which was the lingua Franca of the Mediterranean ports. It resulted in four men being placed on guard at the h... ...ern Telemachus the Janissaries was next in authority to him. Piracy on the Mediterranean was, as all knew, the chief occupation of the T urks and Moor... ...but, unfortu- nately, the man knew very little of the lingua Franca of the Mediterranean, and Arthur knew still less. However, he made out that he was... ...ents Arthur changed places with the former. And thus the hours passed. The Mediterranean may be in our eyes a European lake, but it was quite large en... ...ate payment. He was by this time tolerably versed in the vernacular of the Mediterranean, and a cook’s boy, shipped at Gibraltar, was also supposed to...

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... said the fisherman, going up a hillock to show us an island in the little Mediterranean between the dunes where we were walk- ing and the marshes of ...

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...he little free states that nestled amid the rocks and gulfs of the Eastern Mediterranean. Already had his might devoured the cherished colonies of the... ...shared the East between them, and he reigned over all the country from the Mediterranean Sea even into Persia and the borders of India. He spoke Greek... ... to a little city called Modin, somewhere on the hills on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, not far from Joppa. There they sent out, as usual, order... ...fastnesses, and spreading over the lovely plains of the south, even to the Mediterranean coast, as one beautiful Moorish city after another yielded to... ...illing their old mission as the protectors and nurses of the weak. All the Mediterranean Sea was infested by cor- sairs from the African coast and the... ...cred duty; moreover, Ceuta was a nest of cor- sairs who infested the whole Mediterranean coast. Up to the nineteenth century the seaports along the Af... .... Up to the nineteenth century the seaports along the African coast of the Mediterranean were the hives of pirates, whose small rapid vessels were the... ... They were resolved, however, to continue their old work of protecting the Mediterranean travelers, and thankfully ac- cepted, as a gift from the Empe... ...he beautiful Gulf of Lyons, the wind blowing gently in the sails, the blue Mediterranean lying glittering to the south, and the curved line of the Fre...

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..., I trust, even there you will not forget the “Iberia,” and the delightful Mediterranean cruise we had in her in the Autumn of 1844. Most faithfully y... ...ir cities, and the actual aspect of Nature, along the famous shores of the Mediterranean. CHAPTER I:VIGO THE SUN BROUGHT ALL the sick people out of th... ... the very image of an enormous lion, crouched between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and set there to guard the passage for its British mistress.... ... and Spain, consoled us all by saying that the very minute we got into the Mediterranean we might consider ourselves entirely free from illness; and, ... ...this is almost the only sign of ferocious vitality left in the Turk of the Mediterranean coast, and strangers may enter scores of mosques without mole... ... a man at Beyrout, who had served as a lad on board an English ship in the Mediterranean. Above his tattooage of the five crosses, the fellow had a pi...

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...do me good, and I went to plunge for a few minutes into the waters of this mediterranean sea, for assur- edly it better deserved this name than any ot... ...the waves. T ruly this sea is of infinite width. It must be as wide as the Mediterranean or the Atlantic—and why not? My uncle took soundings several ... ...red leagues from shore to shore. Surely, Axel, it may vie in size with the Mediterranean itself.” “Especially,” I replied, “if it happens that we have... ...are right, and we are nine hundred leagues from Rejkiavik, we have now the Mediterranean above our head.” “That is a good long way, my friend. But whe... ...lood-stained ground. 199 Jules Verne CHAPTER XLIV SUNNY LANDS IN THE BLUE MEDITERRANEAN When I opened my eyes again I felt myself grasped by the belt... ...ct this unexpected name produced upon my mind! We were in the midst of the Mediterranean Sea, on an island of the Aeolian archipelago, in the ancient ...

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...h made two great expeditions; they of Tyrambel through the Atlan tic to the Mediterranean Sea; and they of Coya, through the South Sea upon this our ...

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...hat he was in some way concerned in the canal about to be made between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. In discussion on this subject he had become ...

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...got on. “As to the captain, he had been for years in coasters, then in the Mediterranean, and last in the West Indian trade. He had never been round t...

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...ater mysteriously flows; when the stars are beaming; when the waves of the Mediterranean lap one after another like the avowal of a woman, from whom y... ...e—such Boccaccio hours can be known only in Italy and on the shores of the Mediterranean. Imagine to yourself, round the table, the Marquis di Negro, ...

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...t o’ the fleet Which I dispersed, they all have met again And are upon the Mediterranean flote, Bound sadly home for Naples, Supposing that they saw t...

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...ging about six hundred miles in depth, run- ning in a ring-fence about the Mediterranean. This belt, and no more, was in decent cultivation. Beyond th... ...collectively. On that scheme of valuation, we have the old Roman belt, the Mediterranean riband not much tarnished, and we have all the rest of Eu- ro... ... was the custom also of all nations that lived round the great pond of the Mediterranean. In Athens, Egypt, Palestine, Asia Minor, everywhere, the anc... ...t, was obliged to request of her children that they would settle round the Mediterranean. She could not even afford them water, unless they would come...

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...ellow hadn’t married her, not having had time: he had lost his life in the Mediterranean by the capsizing of a boat, before the prohibitory term had e...

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...control, either a world-wide pooling or a pooling at least of the Atlantic-Mediterranean Allies in one Air League, the splendid peace possibilities of... ...se of that impregnable fastness, that great naval station, that Key to the Mediterranean, Gibraltar. British boys are brought up on Gibraltar and the ...

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...a gay breeze that sent the good ship dancing over the crested waves of the Mediterranean, in company with many another of her gal- lant sisters, crowd... ...’s boats, and to share little John of Dunster’s unfailing marvel, that the Mediterranean should produce such outlandish crea- tures, so alien to his B... ...till- ing Hermon. Far to the west lay the glorious glittering sheet of the Mediterranean; but nearer, almost beneath his feet, was the curving bay and... ...s; and at certain openings in their foliage might be seen the azure of the Mediterranean, which little John of Dunster persisted in calling too blue— ...

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...ed a little, confess- ing that I had spent a little time on the way in the Mediterranean and in the West Indies. I did not want to present myself to t... .... Many a time “the little friend of Baptistin” had the hooded cloak of the Mediterranean sailor thrown over him by their honest hands while dodging at... ...ordi- nary Normans or Bretons, but then, in the whole immense sweep of the Mediterranean shores, you could not find half a dozen men of his stamp. Sta...

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... hear! 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, _30 Lulled by t... ...d bad air of Maremma stretch the whole length of the western shores of the Mediterranean, till broken by the rocks and hills of Spezia. It was a vague... ...ith their one sailor-boy, thought themselves a match for the storms of the Mediterranean, in a boat which they looked upon as equal to all it was put ...