Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, During a Four Months' Residence in the Valley of the MarquesasG. Routledge, 1850 - 242 sider |
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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four Months' Residence in a ... Herman Melville Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2012 |
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Side 126 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Side 107 - ... backing their clients up to a quarrel, and then knocking their heads together; no poor relations everlastingly occupying the spare bedchamber, and diminishing the elbow-room at the family table; no destitute widows with their children starving on the cold charities of the world; no beggars; no debtor's prisons; no proud and hardhearted nabobs in Typee; or, to sum up all in one word- no Money! That "root of all evil" was not to be found in the valley.
Side 178 - ... in the picturesque tuft of a tree adjoining Marheyo's habitation. He used to spend hours there,- rustling among the branches, and shouting with delight every time the strong gusts of wind, rushing down from the mountain side, swayed to and fro the tall and flexible column on which he was perched.
Side 71 - ... her cheeks I could almost swear that beneath the transparent medium there lurked the blushes of a faint vermilion. The face of this girl was a rounded oval, and each feature as perfectly formed as the heart or imagination of man could desire. Her full lips, when parted with a smile, disclosed teeth of a dazzling whiteness; and when her rosy mouth Opened with a burst of merriment, they looked like the milk-white seeds of the "arta...
Side 8 - Among the crew, he went by the name of the Long Doctor, or more frequently still, Doctor Long Ghost. And from whatever high estate Doctor Long Ghost might have fallen, he had certainly at some time or other spent money, drunk Burgundy, and associated with gentlemen.
Side 156 - In beauty of form they surpassed anything I had ever seen. Not a single instance of natural deformity was observable in all the throng attending the revels. Occasionally I noticed among the men the...
Side 18 - He was one of that class of rovers you sometimes meet at sea, who never reveal their origin, never allude to home, and go rambling over the world as if pursued by some mysterious fate they cannot possibly elude.
Side 10 - Their appearance perfectly amazed me ; their extreme youth, the light clear brown of their complexions, their delicate features, and inexpressibly graceful figures, their softly moulded limbs, and free unstudied action, seemed as strange as beautiful.
Side 3 - Marquesas !" — the Marquesas ! what strange visions of outlandish things does the very name spirit up ! naked houris— cannibal banquets — groves of cocoa-nut — coral reefs — tatooed chiefs — and bamboo temples— sunny valleys planted with bread-fruit trees — carved canoes dancing on the flashing blue waters — savage woodlands guarded by horrible idols — heathenish rites and human sacrifices.