Excerpt from Works of Jules Verne, Vol. 5: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; The Mysterious Island, Dropped From the Clouds
For some time past, vessels had been met by an enor mous thing, a long object, spindle-shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale.
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