Sentence Examples

1. Phileas Fogg wished to go to Liverpool, but the captain would not carry him there.
2. If Phileas Fogg had left in the China, one of the fastest steamers on the Atlantic, he would have reached Liverpool, and then London, within the period agreed upon.
3. As soon as the robbery was discovered, picked detectives hastened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports, inspired by the proffered reward of two thousand pounds, and five per cent.
4. The China, for Liverpool, had started three-quarters of an hour before!
5. These mails are carried to Dublin by express trains always held in readiness to start from Dublin they are sent on to Liverpool by the most rapid boats, and thus gain twelve hours on the Atlantic steamers.
6. They would reach New York on the evening, if not on the morning, of the 11th, and there was still some chances that it would be before the steamer sailed for Liverpool.
7. This was why Phileas Fogg was in command instead of Captain Speedy why the captain was a prisoner in his cabin and why, in short, the Henrietta was directing her course towards Liverpool.
8. A railway train from San Francisco to New York, and a transatlantic steamer from New York to Liverpool, would doubtless bring them to the end of this impossible journey round the world within the period agreed upon.
9. Phileas Fogg had only twenty-four hours more in which to get to London that length of time was necessary to reach Liverpool, with all steam on.
10. Instead of arriving at Liverpool the next evening by the Henrietta, he would be there by noon, and would therefore have time to reach London before a quarter before nine in the evening.