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 116
... eyes on him in the office , Anton had hardly been able to look away . There was not much resemblance between him and his daughter ; it was not his face that fascinated him anyhow . It was his eyes . A white force seemed to radiate from ...
... eyes on him in the office , Anton had hardly been able to look away . There was not much resemblance between him and his daughter ; it was not his face that fascinated him anyhow . It was his eyes . A white force seemed to radiate from ...
Page 188
... eyes , he recognized the sound , galloping toward them from the darkness . She stood up behind the flames as if she were rising from them , and her eyes were those of a martyr at the stake . Then the horse broke through the undergrowth ...
... eyes , he recognized the sound , galloping toward them from the darkness . She stood up behind the flames as if she were rising from them , and her eyes were those of a martyr at the stake . Then the horse broke through the undergrowth ...
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... eyes had a weird , sad power that reminded him of something , of somebody , long ago . He tried to remember whom and where ; he gazed into the black eyes for hours , while his spirit slowly disentangled itself from the jungle of his ...
... eyes had a weird , sad power that reminded him of something , of somebody , long ago . He tried to remember whom and where ; he gazed into the black eyes for hours , while his spirit slowly disentangled itself from the jungle of his ...
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