автордың кітабынан сөз тіркестері  The Lost World / Затерянный мир

Артур Конан Дойл

Hardly was it shut when Mrs. Challenger ran out of the dining-room. The small woman was furious.
“You brute, George!” she

The man’s bag lay beside the couch, and I examined the contents. His name was written upon a tab within it… Maple W

are held here with no clear means of making our escape, and we were very angry. Yet, I can well imagine that the day may com

When shall we have such

Zambo’s fire, the one point of light in the wide world below. And yet I felt happier, for it was good to think that the world should know what we had done.
Finally, I closed the door of the refuge, lit three separate fires, and having eaten a hearty supper[77] fell asleep. In the early morning, just as day was breaking, a hand was laid on my arm, and with all my nerves strained and my hand fe

European science would have been amazed could they have seen Challenger now, the hope of the future, with his tangled head, his

It was, as I have said, a pit. The atmosphere was poisonous and horrible. Suddenly I came against something hard, and I found that an upright post[76] was firmly fixed in the centre of the hollow. It was so high that I could not reach the top

can assure our friends in England that we had no notion of the uproar which the mere rumour of our experiences had caused through Europe. It was agreed among us, however, that no definite statement should be given to the Press until we had met the members of the Zoological Institute, since as delegates it was our clear duty to give our first report to the body from which we had received our commission of investigation. Thus, although we found Southamp

was thinking it over, when my mind was brought back by a strange noise behind me. It was something between a snore and a growl, low and deep. Some strange creature was evidently near me, but nothing could be seen, so I went faster

have said that I beamed with pride when three such men as my companions thanked me for having saved the situation. As t