Sentence No. 106 · 11 July 2026
In any case, such a wall seemed to me to mark the limits of that Atlantis, of which we had in reality passed over only the smallest part.
Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) · Read it at Project Gutenberg
What holds this sentence together
Notice the relative pronoun 'of which' — it always points back to a noun just named ('Atlantis') and introduces extra information about it. Spotting these relative phrases helps you anchor a long modifying clause to the noun it depends on.
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On Sentle this sentence arrives in 8 pieces, shuffled, with the lines that lead up to it for context. A submariner glimpses an unfamiliar coast and ponders his bearings. Putting it back in the author’s order is the puzzle — and the order is rarely arbitrary, which is what the note above is about.
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