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... Youth: And Two Other Stories - Seite 70von Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 Seiten
...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... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 Seiten
...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... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 Seiten
...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... | |
| Ford Madox Ford - 1924 - 298 Seiten
...she was shelling the bush. . . . Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 Seiten
...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,...thin masts. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and y t water, there she was, incomprehensible, fidngjntpja cgn4 *t*^ tinent. Pop, would go one of the... | |
| Jacques Berthoud - 1978 - 204 Seiten
...their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of her long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up easily and let her down, swaying her thin masts. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there... | |
| Ian Watt - 1981 - 400 Seiten
...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 - 1982 - 452 Seiten
...she was shelling the bush. 1t appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts. . . .1n the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there...was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, wonld go one of the sis-inch gons: a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would... | |
| Michael Adas - 1989 - 452 Seiten
...carries Marlowe to Africa makes its way along the coast, he sees a French man-of-war "shelling the bush": "In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water,...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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