 ... 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...  Youth: And Two Other Stories - Էջ 37Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 379 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Ernst Paulus Bendz - 1923 - 134 էջ
...with aching arms, and suddenly a puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odours of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out of the still...night, — the first sigh of the East on my face. That 1 can never forget. It was impalpable and enslaving, like a charm, like a whispered promise of mysterious... | |
 | Marjorie Hope Nicolson - 1925 - 472 էջ
...with aching arms, and suddenly a puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odors of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out of the still...sat at the tiller. We had made out the red light in the bay and steered for it, guessing it must mark some small coasting port. We passed two vessels,... | |
 | Helen Bartlett Bridgeman - 1925 - 350 էջ
...puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odors of blossoms, of aromatic wood came out of the still night — the first sigh of the East...charm, like a whispered promise of mysterious delight." Yet Theodore Roosevelt, hunting in Africa, declared he would give all the riotous splendor of the Congo... | |
 | Sir Harold Herbert Williams - 1925 - 554 էջ
...in the dark. . . . Suddenly a puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odours of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out of the still...never forget. It was impalpable and enslaving, like a dream, like a whispered promise of mysterious delight." Joseph Conrad was not among the greatly popular... | |
 | 1925 - 638 էջ
...with aching arms, and suddenly a puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odours of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out of the still night — the first sign of the East on my face. That I can never forget. It was impalpable and enslaving, like a charm,... | |
 | Rodolphe Louis Mégroz - 1926 - 104 էջ
...with aching arms, and suddenly a puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odours of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out of the still...charm, like a whispered promise of mysterious delight." When the prose presents actions dramatically it is just as fine and perhaps more sure of itself than... | |
 | Walter Taylor Field - 1926 - 474 էջ
...with aching arms, and suddenly a puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odors of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out of the still...the East on my face. That I can never forget. It was like a charm, like a whispered promise of mysterious delight. "We had been pulling this finishing spell... | |
 | John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert, Martin Freeman - 1928 - 572 էջ
...with aching arms, and suddenly a puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid' and laden with strange odors of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out of the still...charm, like a whispered promise of mysterious delight. --Joseph Conrad, "Youth" Which details suggest that the narrator is a man of artistic sensibility?... | |
 | 1898 - 1094 էջ
...with aching arms, and suddenly a puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange oddrs of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out of the still...never forget. It was impalpable and enslaving, like a spell, like a charm, like a whispered promise of mysterious delight. " We had been pulling this finishing... | |
 | 1898 - 600 էջ
...with aching arms, and suddenly a puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odors of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out of the still...sigh of the East on my face. That I can never forget. 1 1 was impalpable and enslaving, like a spell, like a charm, like a whispered promise of mysterious... | |
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