 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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Side 1751899Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | J. Bowyer Bell - 496 sider
...man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush . . . In the empty immensity of earth, sky. and water, there...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... | |
 | Norma Claire Moruzzi - 2000 - 236 sider
...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,...she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. JOSEPH CONRAD, Heart of Darkness (New York: Penguin Books, 1994), 19-20 This chapter is primarily an... | |
 | Jonathan Schell - 2000 - 484 sider
...of recognition in the following description of a French naval vessel firing into the African jungle: In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there...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 - 2010 - 132 sider
...their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign drooped 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... | |
 | Jonathan Schell - 2001 - 140 sider
...of recognition in the following description of a French naval vessel firing into the African jungle: In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there...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... | |
 | Papa Samba Diop, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Ute Fendler, Christoph Vatter - 2001 - 652 sider
...bateau de guerre français est en train de lancer des obus dans la brousse. On ne voit rien du tout: „In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water,...she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent." (p. 61sv.). Tout aussi incompréhensibles sont les explosions sur une pente de rochers: „A horn tooted... | |
 | Paul Cobley - 2001 - 284 sider
...their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the mu22les of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up la2ily and let her down, swaying her thin masts. In the empry immensity of earth, sky and waler, there... | |
 | John Salinsky - 2002 - 304 sider
...warship which is anchored off the coast and firing shells into the bush in an apparently blind manner. 'In the empty immensity of earth, sky and water, there...she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent .... There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding.' The explanation is that 'the French have one... | |
 | Neluka Silva - 2002 - 206 sider
...narrator, Marlow, describes this early in his journey, watching a French ship shelling the jungle: "In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water,...she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent" (Conrad 1989: 41). But within the shadows of such incomprehensible (and seemingly futile and pointless)... | |
 | Jonathan Schell - 2003 - 148 sider
...of recognition in the following description of a French naval vessel firing into the African jungle: In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there...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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