The Spiral RoadNovel relating the present and past of a group of men and women, doctors and missionaries, working in the jungles of Borneo. |
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Page 10
... death . The thought of the sinister completeness of these years came back with all the symptoms of a death- bed : remorse for lies , regrets for missed chances , the realization of the futility of it all ; he fled by listening to old ...
... death . The thought of the sinister completeness of these years came back with all the symptoms of a death- bed : remorse for lies , regrets for missed chances , the realization of the futility of it all ; he fled by listening to old ...
Page 37
... death patrol . They had sent him , the totok , the tenderfoot , on a death patrol . The thought was ridiculous . He made his own diagnosis : hysterical cowardice . But it didn't make any difference : a death patrol , that's what it was ...
... death patrol . They had sent him , the totok , the tenderfoot , on a death patrol . The thought was ridiculous . He made his own diagnosis : hysterical cowardice . But it didn't make any difference : a death patrol , that's what it was ...
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... death . He was amazed at the calm that had come over him ; when he bent over the body he felt completely secure . Yet the battle with death was without hope as far as the man on the stretcher was concerned . Even Teddy , who knew ...
... death . He was amazed at the calm that had come over him ; when he bent over the body he felt completely secure . Yet the battle with death was without hope as far as the man on the stretcher was concerned . Even Teddy , who knew ...
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