Youth and Two Other StoriesDoubleday, Page, 1924 - 339 Seiten |
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... side ; there we all were , Jermyn , the captain , every one , hardly able to keep our feet , engaged on that gravedigger's work , and trying to toss shovelfuls of wet sand up to wind- ward . At every tumble of the ship you could see ...
... side ; there we all were , Jermyn , the captain , every one , hardly able to keep our feet , engaged on that gravedigger's work , and trying to toss shovelfuls of wet sand up to wind- ward . At every tumble of the ship you could see ...
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... side , took our cargo , and then we went into dry dock to get our copper stripped . No wonder she leaked . The poor thing , strained beyond endurance by the gale , had , as if in disgust , spat out all the oakum of her lower seams . She ...
... side , took our cargo , and then we went into dry dock to get our copper stripped . No wonder she leaked . The poor thing , strained beyond endurance by the gale , had , as if in disgust , spat out all the oakum of her lower seams . She ...
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... side by side , said to me with a queer smile : ' Now , if she only would spring a tidy leak - like that time when we first left the Channel - it would put a stopper on this fire . Wouldn't it ? ' I remarked irrelevantly , ' Do you ...
... side by side , said to me with a queer smile : ' Now , if she only would spring a tidy leak - like that time when we first left the Channel - it would put a stopper on this fire . Wouldn't it ? ' I remarked irrelevantly , ' Do you ...
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... side by side and heaving gently in its centre . Captain Beard had been sitting on the gratings still and mute for hours , but now he rose slowly and advanced in front of us , to the mizzen - shrouds . Captain Nash hailed : ' Come along ...
... side by side and heaving gently in its centre . Captain Beard had been sitting on the gratings still and mute for hours , but now he rose slowly and advanced in front of us , to the mizzen - shrouds . Captain Nash hailed : ' Come along ...
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... side . They were knocking about dangerously and coming near the flame , while the ship rolled on them , and , of course , there was always the danger of the masts going over the side at any moment . I and my two boat - keepers kept them ...
... side . They were knocking about dangerously and coming near the flame , while the ship rolled on them , and , of course , there was always the danger of the masts going over the side at any moment . I and my two boat - keepers kept them ...
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asked bank Bankok barque Batu Beru beard began berth binnacle boats bridge cabin Captain Whalley chap cheroot coast course cried dark dead deck devil door earth engine-room engineer eyes face feeling feet fellow fool glance gone hand head heard heart Heart of Darkness ivory Judea keep knew Kurtz lascar leaning light live looked Mahon Malay mangroves Martini-Henry Massy Massy's matter murmured mysterious never nigger night once Pangu patent slip pilgrims port prau remember Ringdove river round sampan seemed Serang shadow ship shore side sight silence skipper smoke Sofala sombre sort soul stared station steamboat steamer Sterne stood straight stream suddenly talk tell thing thought took trees Tuan turned Van Wyk verandah voice wait walked watch Whal Whalley's whisper word
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Seite 37 - I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more — the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort — to death...
Seite 150 - If such is the form of ultimate wisdom, then life is a greater riddle than some of us think it to be.
Seite 41 - ... of an Eastern crowd. And all these beings stared without a murmur, without a sigh, without a movement. They stared down at the boats, at the sleeping men who at night had come to them from the sea. Nothing moved. The fronds of palms stood still against the sky. Not a branch stirred along the shore, and the brown roofs of hidden houses peeped through the green foliage, through the big leaves that hung shining and still like leaves forged of heavy metal. This was the East of the ancient navigators,...
Seite 138 - I said with emphasis. He started, dropped on me a cold heavy glance, said very quietly, 'He WAS/ and turned his back on me. My hour of favor was over; I found myself lumped along with Kurtz as a partisan of methods for which the time was not ripe: I was unsound! Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.
Seite 155 - I had a vision of him on the stretcher, opening his mouth voraciously, as if to devour all the earth with all its mankind.
Seite 48 - Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze...
Seite 118 - He began with the argument that we whites, from the point of development we had arrived at, "must necessarily appear to them [savages] in the nature of supernatural beings - we approach them with the might as of a deity," and so on, and so on. "By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded,
Seite 93 - When you have to attend to things of that sort, to the mere incidents of the surface, the reality — the reality, I tell you — fades. The inner truth is hidden — luckily, luckily. But I felt it all the same ; I felt often its mysterious stillness watching me at my monkey tricks, just as it watches you fellows performing on your respective tight-ropes for — what is it ? half a crown a tumble " " Try to be civil, Marlow," growled a voice, and I knew there was at least one listener awake besides...
Seite 152 - Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend.
Seite 156 - 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.