And then I saw the men of the East — they were looking at me. The whole length of the jetty was full of people. I saw brown, bronze, yellow faces, the black eyes, the glitter, the colour of an Eastern crowd. And all these beings stared without a murmur,... Youth: And Two Other Stories - Side 46af Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1905 - 862 sider
...on a rowing-boat coming in from the sea, the day breaking over an unknown, beautiful coast. 1 Aiid then I saw the men of the East — they were looking...bronze, yellow faces, the black eyes, the glitter, the colour of an Eastern crowd. . . . The fronds of palms stood still against the sky. Not a branch stirred... | |
| 1927 - 544 sider
...marvelous flexibility of words is partly responsible for their use as a medium of esthetic enjoyment. "Then I saw the men of the East — they were looking at me, ' ' like ' ' A wet leaf that clings to the threshold, ' ' is only potentially poetic. They become verse... | |
| John Livingston Lowes - 1919 - 368 sider
...motionless, looks down in the morning at the shipwrecked boats come up from their tussle with the sea: "And then I saw the men of the East — they were looking...without a murmur, without a sigh, without a movement. . . . Nothing moved. The fronds of palms stood still against the sky. Not a branch stirred along the... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 sider
...and the sky had never looked so far, so high, before. I opened my eyes and lay without moving. " And then I saw the men of the East — they were looking...bronze, yellow faces, the black eyes, the glitter, the colour of an Eastern crowd. And all these beings stared without a murmur, without a sigh, without a... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 sider
...and the sky had never looked so far, so high, before. I opened my eyes and lay without moving. "And then I saw the men of the East — they were looking...bronze, yellow faces, the black eyes, the glitter, the colour of an Eastern crowd. And \\\ these beings stared without a murmur, without a wb, without a movement.... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 sider
...and the sky had never looked so far, so high, before. I opened my eyes and lay without moving. And then I saw the men of the East — they were looking...bronze, yellow faces, the black eyes, the glitter, the colour of an Eastern crowd. And all these beings stared without a murmur, without a sigh, without a... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 sider
...so high, before. I opened my eyes and lay without moving. "And then I saw the men of the East—they were looking at me. The whole length of the jetty...bronze, yellow faces, the black eyes, the glitter, the colour of an Eastern crowd. And all these beings stared without a murmur, without a sigh, without a... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 sider
...jetty was full of people. I saw brown, bronze, yellow faces, the black eyes, the glitter, the colour of an Eastern crowd. And all these beings stared without a murmur, without a sigh, without a movementT They stared down at the boats, at the sleeping men who at night had come to them from the... | |
| Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 sider
...and the sky had never looked so far, so high, before. I opened my eyes and lay without moving. "And Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. London, 1802 MILTON! colour of an Eastern crowd. And all these beings stared without a murmur, without a sigh, without a... | |
| 1898 - 1094 sider
...and the sky had never looked so far, so high, before. I opened my eyes and lay without moving. " And then I saw the men of the East — they were looking...They stared down at the boats, at the sleeping men that at night had come to them from the sea. Nothing moved. The fronds of palms stood still against... | |
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