Youth: And Two Other StoriesGrosset & Dunlap, 1903 - 381 էջ |
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... clear , sir . ' . . . ' Are you all right ? ' asked the gruff voice . I had jumped forward to see the damage , and hailed back , ' I think so . ' Easy astern , ' said the gruff voice . A bell jingled . ' What steamer is that ...
... clear , sir . ' . . . ' Are you all right ? ' asked the gruff voice . I had jumped forward to see the damage , and hailed back , ' I think so . ' Easy astern , ' said the gruff voice . A bell jingled . ' What steamer is that ...
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... clear out . I called Mahon to enjoy the spectacle . Rat after rat ap- peared on our rail , took a last look over his shoulder , and leaped with a hollow thud into the empty hulk . We tried to count them , but soon lost the tale . Mahon ...
... clear out . I called Mahon to enjoy the spectacle . Rat after rat ap- peared on our rail , took a last look over his shoulder , and leaped with a hollow thud into the empty hulk . We tried to count them , but soon lost the tale . Mahon ...
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... clear that if the smoke came out the air came in . This was disheartening . This combustion refused to be stifled . " We resolved to try water , and took the hatches off . Enormous volumes of smoke , whitish , yellowish , thick , greasy ...
... clear that if the smoke came out the air came in . This was disheartening . This combustion refused to be stifled . " We resolved to try water , and took the hatches off . Enormous volumes of smoke , whitish , yellowish , thick , greasy ...
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... . Then the game's up , ' he said . ' We had better stop this towing , or she will burst out suddenly fore and aft before we can clear out . ' We set up a yell ; 6 -ON- nd 6 rang bells to attract their attention ; [ 32 ] YOUTH.
... . Then the game's up , ' he said . ' We had better stop this towing , or she will burst out suddenly fore and aft before we can clear out . ' We set up a yell ; 6 -ON- nd 6 rang bells to attract their attention ; [ 32 ] YOUTH.
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... clear . It flared fierce , with noises like the whir of wings , with rumbles as of thunder . There were cracks , detonations , and from the cone of flame the sparks flew upwards , as man is born to trouble , to leaky ships , and to ...
... clear . It flared fierce , with noises like the whir of wings , with rumbles as of thunder . There were cracks , detonations , and from the cone of flame the sparks flew upwards , as man is born to trouble , to leaky ships , and to ...
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Youth, and Two Other Stories: By Joseph Conrad ..., Հատոր 26 Joseph Conrad Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1903 |
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Էջ 97 - I don't like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work, - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.
Էջ 70 - 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 — j and nothing happened.
Էջ 59 - Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, When I grow up I will go there.
Էջ 105 - ... away — in another existence perhaps. There were moments when one's past came back to one, as it will sometimes when you have not a moment to spare to yourself; but it came in the shape of an unrestful and noisy dream, remembered with wonder amongst the overwhelming realities of this strange world of plants, and water, and silence. And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention.
Էջ 132 - The wilderness had patted him on the head, and, behold, it was like a ball an ivory ball; it had caressed him, and - lo! - he had withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation.
Էջ 72 - A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run. A heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke came out of the cliff, and that was all. No change appeared on the face of the rock. They were building a railway. The cliff was not in the way or anything ; but this objectless blasting was all the work going on.
Էջ 41 - I remember the heat, the deluge of rain-squalls that kept us baling for dear life (but filled our water-cask), and I remember sixteen hours on end with a mouth dry as a cinder and a steering-oar over the stern to keep my first command head on to a breaking sea. I did not know how good a man I was till then.
Էջ 164 - There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked the very earth to pieces.
Էջ 133 - You can't understand. How could you? — with solid pavement under your feet, surrounded by kind neighbours ready to cheer you or to fall on you, stepping delicately between the butcher and the policeman, in the holy terror of scandal and gallows and lunatic asylums...
Էջ 56 - Land in a swamp, march through the woods, and in some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him— all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.