Only one of its arms wriggled in the air, brandishing the victim like a feather.
From Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas), by Jules Verne, illustrated by Édouard Riou and Alphonse de Neuville, Paris, 1871.
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The Whaling Naturalist via BibliOdyssey
Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) (via ruffians)
HMS Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, England, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time. HMS Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan’s fourth operatic collaboration and their first international sensation.
The story takes place aboard the British ship HMS Pinafore. The captain’s daughter, Josephine, is in love with a lower-class sailor, Ralph Rackstraw, although her father intends her to marry Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty.
—HMS Pinafore on wikipedia
The Octopus - An Absorbing Novel of the Wheat Growers and Their Fight with the Railroad(1901)
from wikipedia:
The Octopus: A California Story is a 1901 novel by Frank Norris and the first part of a planned but uncompleted trilogy, The Epic of Wheat.
It describes the raising of wheat in California, and conflict between the wheat growers and a railway company. Norris was inspired by role of the Southern Pacific Railroad in events surrounding the Mussel Slough Tragedy. It depicts the tension between the corrupt railroad and the ranchers and the Ranchers’ League. The book emphasized the control of “forces” such as wheat and railroads over individuals.
Read it at:
The Internet Archive:
www.archive.org/search.php?query=title:octopus
Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/etext/268
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