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| Joseph Conrad - 2004 - 205 pages
...the same kind of ominous voice; but these men could by no stretch of imagination be called enemies. They were called criminals, and the outraged law,...shells, had come to them, an insoluble mystery from the sea. All their meagre breasts panted together, the violently dilated nostrils quivered, the eyes... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1990 - 84 pages
...these men could by no stretch of imagination be called enemies. They were called criminals, and lhe outraged law, like the bursting shells, had come to them, an insoluble mystery from the sea. All their meager breasts panted together, the violently dilated nostrils quivered, the eyes... | |
| Richard Ambrosini - 1991 - 274 pages
...free black men with the French ship: "these men could by no stretch of imagination be called enemies. They were called criminals, and the outraged law,...shells, had come to them, an insoluble mystery from the sea" (64). But, then, the discourse which Conrad articulates through Marlow's rhetorical interruptions... | |
| Christiane Fioupou - 1994 - 416 pages
...the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope ; each had an iron collar on his neck, and ail were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking (22) Six Noirs, en file indienne, montaient péniblement le chemin. Ils marchaient lentement et se... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 244 pages
...waggled to and fro like tails. I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all...bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking. Another report from the cliff made me think suddenly of that ship of war I had seen firing into a continent.... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 228 pages
...behind wagged to and fro like tails. I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all...bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking. Another report from the cliff made me think suddenly of that ship of war I had seen firing into a continent.... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 244 pages
...waggled to and fro like tails. I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all...connected together with a chain whose bights swung between diem, rhythmically clinking. Another report from the cliff made me diink suddenly of that ship of war... | |
| Gail Fincham, Myrtle Hooper - 1996 - 252 pages
...imprisoned Africans, Marlow remarks: these men could by no stretch of the imagination be called enemies. They were called criminals and the outraged law like the bursting shells (of the man-of-war] had come to them, an insoluble mystery from the sea. All their meagre breasts panted... | |
| Ursula Lord - 1998 - 382 pages
..."criminals" - were often forced to do: "I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all...whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking ... But these men could by no stretch of the imagination be called enemies. They were called criminals,... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 2010 - 132 pages
...the same kind of ominous voice; but these men could by no stretch of imagination be called enemies. They were called criminals, and the outraged law,...shells, had come to them, an insoluble mystery from the Î3 sea. All their meagre breasts panted together, the violently dilated nostrils quivered, the... | |
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