... from the recesses of the land. The great wall of vegetation, an exuberant and entangled mass of trunks, branches, leaves, boughs, festoons, motionless in the moonlight, was like a rioting invasion of soundless life, a rolling wave of plants, piled... Complete Works - Էջ 86Joseph Conrad - 1903Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Joseph Conrad - 2004 - 238 էջ
...invasion of soundless life, a rolling wave of plants, piled up, crested, ready to topple over the creek, to sweep every little man of us out of his little...splashes and snorts reached us from afar, as though an ichthyosaurus55 had been taking a bath of glitter in the great river. 'After all,' said the boilermaker... | |
| John P. Anderson - 2005 - 180 էջ
...invasion of soundless life, a rolling wave of plants, piled up, crested, ready to topple over the creek, to sweep every little man of us out of his little...splashes and snorts reached us from afar, as though an icthyosaurus had been taking a bath of glitter in the great river. "After all,' said the boilermaker... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 2006 - 222 էջ
...invasion of soundless life, a rolling wave of plants, piled up, crested, ready to topple over the creek, to sweep every little man of us out of his little...a bath of glitter in the great river. 'After all, 1 said the boiler-maker in a reasonable tone, 'why shouldn't we get the rivets?' Why not, indeed! I... | |
| Florian Scharr - 2007 - 117 էջ
...planet."32, zieht sogar einen Vergleich zu den Dinosauriern, die vor Jahrmillionen die Erde beherrschten: "a deadened burst of mighty splashes and snorts reached...Ichthyosaurus had been taking a bath of glitter in the great river."33 Afrika stellt sich für Marlow als Gebiet dar, das noch in einem ursprünglich belassenen,... | |
| John Glendening - 2007 - 254 էջ
...invasion of soundless life, a rolling wave of plants piled up, crested, ready to topple over the creek to sweep every little man of us out of his little existence. And it moved not" (32). Embedded in this description, intensifying the unease it conveys, is the idea of unpredictability;... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1928 - 352 էջ
...invasion of soundless life, a rolling wave of plants, piled up, crested, ready to topple over the creek, to sweep every little man of us out of his little...Why not, indeed! I did not know of any reason why we shouldn't. "They'll come in three weeks,' I saids confidently. "But they didn't. Instead of rivets... | |
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