 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...  Youth: And Two Other Stories - Էջ 72Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1899 - 1284 էջ
...blinked, the path was steep. 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...head. Six black men advanced in a file, toiling up the path. They walked erect and slow, balancing small baskets full of earth on their heads, and the clink... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 404 էջ
...blinked, the path was steep. 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...head. Six black men advanced in a file, toiling up the path. They walked erect and slow, balancing small baskets full of earth on their heads, and the clink... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 402 էջ
...blinked, the path was steep. 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...railway. The cliff was not in the way or anything ; but tliis objectless blasting was all the work going on. " A slight clinking behind me made me turn my... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 364 էջ
...blinked, the path was steep. 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...going on. "A slight clinking behind me made me turn myhea3. Six black men advanced in a file, toiling up the path. They walked erect and slow, balancing... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 էջ
...blinked, the path was steep. 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...head. Six black men advanced in a file, toiling up the path. They walked erect and slow, balancing small baskets full of earth on their heads, and the clink... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 էջ
...blinked, the path was steep. 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...rock. They were building a railway. The cliff was not hi the way or anything; but this objectless blasting was all the work going on. "A slight clinking... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 էջ
...blinked, the path was steep. 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...head. Six black men advanced in a file, toiling up the path. They walked erect and slow, balancing small baskets full of earth on then* heads, and the clink... | |
 | Norman Sherry - 1971 - 484 էջ
...visitor's first impression: 'A horn tooted to the right, and 30 I saw the black people run. A heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke came out of the cliff.' It is Marlow's commentary — ' The cliff was not in the way,' etc. — which transforms the necessary... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1990 - 84 էջ
...blinked, the path was sleep. A horn tooled to the right, and 1 saw the black people run. A heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke...and that was all. No change appeared on the face of lhe rock. They were building a railway. The cliff was not in the way or anything; but this objectless... | |
 | Mark Bracher - 1993 - 224 էջ
...the proceeding" (28). Another instance is found in the effort to construct a railway: "A heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke...this objectless blasting was all the work going on" (2930). The savoir faire produces reassurance merely because it is enacted, not because it produces... | |
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