 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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Էջ 1751899Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | James R. Mensch - 2003 - 240 էջ
...down the coast of Africa, his ship encounters "a man-of-war . . . shelling the bush" (40). He relates, "In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water,...firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns;... a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech—and nothing happened. Nothing could... | |
 | Robert J. Art, Kenneth Neal Waltz - 2004 - 500 էջ
...and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts. ... In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there...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... | |
 | Garry Gillard - 2003 - 156 էջ
...is another painterly moment: 'Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy,...up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts' (40—1). And the description concludes with the complete abandonment of any attempt at rationality:... | |
 | John P. Anderson - 2005 - 180 էջ
...their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy,...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... | |
 | John Lewis Gaddis - 2005 - 503 էջ
...and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts. ... In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there...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... | |
 | John Lewis Gaddis - 2005 - 503 էջ
...jungle in a manner reminiscent of nothing so much as an incident in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was,...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... | |
 | Wayne Morrison - 2006 - 428 էջ
...their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy,...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... | |
 | Kevin Bell - 2007 - 268 էջ
...the means by which terror and ignorance are able to convert themselves into domination and authority. In the empty immensity of earth, sky and water, there...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... | |
 | William V. Spanos - 2008 - 344 էջ
...wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. ... In the empty immensity of earth, sky, water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart out and vanish, a little smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1928 - 352 էջ
...their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy,...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... | |
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