Sentence Examples

1. Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty, plunged to the neck in the peculiar howdahs provided for them, were horribly jostled by the swift trotting of the elephant, spurred on as he was by the skilful Parsee but they endured the discomfort with true British phlegm, talking little, and scarcely able to catch a glimpse of each other.
2. One of the bows was equipped with poison arrows so strong it could kill an elephant within seconds, whilst a dagger had been imbued with a spell powerful enough to disintegrate armour.
3. The travellers several times saw bands of ferocious Indians, who, when they perceived the elephant striding across-country, made angry and threatening motions.
4. After two hours the guide stopped the elephant, and gave him an hour for rest, during which Kiouni, after quenching his thirst at a neighbouring spring, set to devouring the branches and shrubs round about him.
5. The Parsee, who was an accomplished elephant driver, covered his back with a sort of saddle-cloth, and attached to each of his flanks some curiously uncomfortable howdahs.
6. Fogg do with the elephant when he got to Allahabad?
7. Yet the offer was an alluring one, for, supposing it took the elephant fifteen hours to reach Allahabad, his owner would receive no less than six hundred pounds sterling.
8. They had not as yet had any unpleasant encounters, and the journey seemed on the point of being successfully accomplished, when the elephant, becoming restless, suddenly stopped.
9. Fogg aside, and begged him to reflect before he went any further to which that gentleman replied that he was not in the habit of acting rashly, that a bet of twenty thousand pounds was at stake, that the elephant was absolutely necessary to him, and that he would secure him if he had to pay twenty times his value.
10. The elephant, which its owner had reared, not for a beast of burden, but for warlike purposes, was half domesticated.