It gives one a vivid idea of the situation.

He presently found that while he was busy drawing life from one of his sleeves a young English gentleman was stealing supplies from the other one.

Holwell was an unselfish man, a man of the most generous impulses; he lived and died famous for these fine and rare qualities; yet when he found out what was happening to that unwatched sleeve, he took the precaution to suck that one dry first.

The miseries of the Black Hole were able to change even a nature like his.

But that young gentleman was one of the twenty-three survivors, and he said it was the stolen perspiration that saved his life.