 ... deliberate words sink into him. The force of that unarmed big man seemed overwhelming. He bowed his head slowly. "Allah is our refuge," he murmured, accepting the inevitable. He delighted Mrs. Travers not as a living being but like a clever sketch...  The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows - Page 297by Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 381 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 510 pages
...not as a living being but like a clever sketch in colours, a vivid rendering of an artist's vision of some soul, delicate and fierce. His bright half-smile...would be delivered to him on the beach that he never planced back till, after reaching the boat, he and Mrs. Travers turned about. advanced smiling, as... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 484 pages
...not as a living being but like a clever sketch in colours, a vivid rendering of an artist's vision of some soul, delicate and fierce. His bright half-smile...reaching the boat, he and Mrs. Travers turned about. advanced smiling, as if the beach were a drawingroom. With a very few paddlers the heavy old Europeanbuilt... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Lingard, Tom (Fictitious character) - 1924 - 488 pages
...not as a living being but like a clever sketch in colours, a vivid rendering of an artist's vision of some soul, delicate and fierce. His bright half-smile...would be delivered to him on the beach that he never jrlanced back till, after reaching the boat, he and Mrs. Travers turned about. 4 advanced smiling,... | |
 | Asia - 1923 - 934 pages
...northern mists". Of other atmospheric effects Conrad's senses take precise note. In The Rescue the heat is "so potent that it seemed to have a taste, a feel, a smell of its own". In An Outcast of the Islands the degradation of Willems, as he stands between his tempters and his... | |
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