Complete Works, Հատոր 16Doubleday, Page, 1903 |
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... felt like a small boy between two grandfathers . " The ship also was old . Her name was the Judea . Queer name , isn't it ? She belonged to a man Wilmer , Wilcox - some name like that ; but he has been bankrupt and dead these twenty ...
... felt like a small boy between two grandfathers . " The ship also was old . Her name was the Judea . Queer name , isn't it ? She belonged to a man Wilmer , Wilcox - some name like that ; but he has been bankrupt and dead these twenty ...
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... felt to be dry . " And there was somewhere in me the thought : By Jove ! this is the deuce of an adventure - something you read about ; and it is my first voyage as second mate- and I am only twenty - and here I am lasting it out as ...
... felt to be dry . " And there was somewhere in me the thought : By Jove ! this is the deuce of an adventure - something you read about ; and it is my first voyage as second mate- and I am only twenty - and here I am lasting it out as ...
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... felt something hard floating on deck strike the calf of my leg . I made a grab at it and missed . It was so dark we could not see each other's faces within a foot - you understand . " After that thump the ship kept quiet for a while ...
... felt something hard floating on deck strike the calf of my leg . I made a grab at it and missed . It was so dark we could not see each other's faces within a foot - you understand . " After that thump the ship kept quiet for a while ...
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... felt as though we each had inherited a large fortune . But a beastly smell of burning hung about the ship . Captain Beard had hollow eyes and sunken cheeks . I had never noticed so much before how twisted and bowed he was . He and Mahon ...
... felt as though we each had inherited a large fortune . But a beastly smell of burning hung about the ship . Captain Beard had hollow eyes and sunken cheeks . I had never noticed so much before how twisted and bowed he was . He and Mahon ...
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... felt a dull con- cussion which made my ribs ache suddenly . No doubt about it - I was in the air , and my body was describing a short parabola . But short as it was , I had the time to think several thoughts in , as far as I can ...
... felt a dull con- cussion which made my ribs ache suddenly . No doubt about it - I was in the air , and my body was describing a short parabola . But short as it was , I had the time to think several thoughts in , as far as I can ...
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Էջ 62 - In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech— and nothing happened.
Էջ 51 - The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea - something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to...
Էջ 66 - They were dying slowly - it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, - nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom. Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest.
Էջ 136 - She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul.
Էջ 162 - Marlow ceased, and sat apart, indistinct and silent, in the pose of a meditating Buddha. Nobody moved for a time. "We have lost the first of the ebb," said the Director suddenly. I raised my head. The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky— seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
Էջ 86 - ... from the recesses of the land. The great wall of vegetation, an exuberant and entangled mass of trunks, branches, leaves, boughs, festoons, motionless in the moonlight, was like a rioting invasion of soundless life, a rolling wave of plants, piled up, crested, ready to topple over the creek, to sweep every little man of us out of his little existence. And it moved not. A deadened burst of mighty splashes and snorts reached us from afar, as though an ichthyosaurus had been taking a bath of glitter...
Էջ 67 - Near the same tree two more bundles of acute angles sat with their legs drawn up. One, with his chin propped on his knees, stared at nothing, in an intolerable and appalling manner: his brother phantom rested its forehead, as if over-come with a great weariness; and all about others were scattered in every pose of contorted collapse, as in some picture of a massacre or a pestilence.
Էջ 37 - ... And I see a bay, a wide bay, smooth as glass and polished like ice, shimmering in the dark. A red light burns far off upon the gloom of the land, and the night is soft and warm. We drag at the oars with aching arms, and suddenly a puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange...
Էջ 55 - A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar. I slipped through one of these cracks, went up a swept and ungarnished staircase, as arid as a desert, and opened the first door I came to. Two women, one fat and the other slim, sat on straw-bottomed chairs, knitting black wool.
Էջ 82 - Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams ...