Youth: And Two Other StoriesMcClure, Phillips & Company, 1903 - 381 էջ |
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... keep our feet , engaged on that gravedigger's work , and try- ing to toss shovelfuls of wet sand up to windward . At every tumble of the ship you could see vaguely in the dim light men falling down with a great flourish of shov- els ...
... keep our feet , engaged on that gravedigger's work , and try- ing to toss shovelfuls of wet sand up to windward . At every tumble of the ship you could see vaguely in the dim light men falling down with a great flourish of shov- els ...
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... muffler at night , just remind him from me to keep his throat well wrapped up . ' Certainly , Mrs. Beard , ' I said . ' You are a good young man ; I noticed how at- 6 tentive you are to John - to Captain- The train [ 10 ] YOUTH.
... muffler at night , just remind him from me to keep his throat well wrapped up . ' Certainly , Mrs. Beard , ' I said . ' You are a good young man ; I noticed how at- 6 tentive you are to John - to Captain- The train [ 10 ] YOUTH.
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... keeping my chaps up to the mark . I was pleased . I would not have given up the experience for worlds . I had moments of exultation . Whenever the old dismantled craft pitched heavily with her counter high in the air , she seemed to me ...
... keeping my chaps up to the mark . I was pleased . I would not have given up the experience for worlds . I had moments of exultation . Whenever the old dismantled craft pitched heavily with her counter high in the air , she seemed to me ...
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... Keep on , boys ! ' when suddenly I 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 ...
... Keep on , boys ! ' when suddenly I 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 ...
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... keeping comparatively smooth . Two hours ' pumping in every four is no joke but it kept her afloat as far as Falmouth . " The good people there live on casualties of the sea , and no doubt were glad to see us . A hungry crowd of ...
... keeping comparatively smooth . Two hours ' pumping in every four is no joke but it kept her afloat as far as Falmouth . " The good people there live on casualties of the sea , and no doubt were glad to see us . A hungry crowd of ...
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Youth, and Two Other Stories: By Joseph Conrad ..., Հատոր 26 Joseph Conrad Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1903 |
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Էջ 184 - 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 somber under an overcast sky — seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
Էջ 58 - It was the farthest point of navigation and the culminating point of my experience. It seemed somehow to throw a kind of light on everything about me — and into my thoughts. It was sombre enough, too — and pitiful — not extraordinary in any way — not very clear either. No, not very clear. And yet it seemed to throw a kind of light.
Էջ 94 - It had become so pitch dark that we listeners could hardly see one another. For a long time already he, sitting apart, had been no more to us than a voice. There was not a word from anybody. The others might have been asleep, but I was awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clew to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative that seemed to shape itself without human lips in the heavy nightair of the river. "... Yes — I let him run on,"...
Էջ 105 - Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings.
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 — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There...
Էջ 178 - She came forward, all in black, with a pale head, floating towards me in the dusk. She was in mourning. It was more than a year since his death, more than a year since the news came; she seemed as though she would remember and mourn forever. She took both my hands in hers and murmured, 'I had heard you were coming.
Էջ 135 - This was the unbounded power of eloquence — of words — of burning noble words. There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic current of phrases, unless a kind of note at the foot of the last page, scrawled evidently much later, in an unsteady hand, may be regarded as the exposition of a method. It was very simple, and at the end of that moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment it blazed at you, luminous and terrifying, like a flash of lightning in a serene sky : 'Exterminate all the...
Էջ 70 - Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long eight-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
Էջ 183 - I felt like a chill grip on my chest. ' Don't,' I said, in a muffled voice. " ' Forgive me. I — I — have mourned so long in silence — in silence. . . . You were with him — to the last? I think of his loneliness. Nobody near to understand him as I would have understood. Perhaps no one to hear. . . .' " ' To the very end,
Էջ 90 - It was evident he took me for a perfectly shameless prevaricator. At last he got angry, and, to conceal a movement of furious annoyance, he yawned. I rose. Then I noticed a small sketch in oils, on a panel, representing a woman, draped and blindfolded, carrying a lighted torch. The background was somber — almost black. The movement of the woman was stately, and the effect of the torch-light on the face was sinister.