Pedro, at any rate, was just a simple, straightforward brute, if a murderous one. There was no mystery about him, nothing uncanny, no suggestion of a stealthy, deliberate wild-cat turned into a man, or of an insolent spectre on leave from Hades, endowed... Victory - Page 116by Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 385 pagesFull view - About this book
| JOSEP CONRAD - 1921 - 534 pages
...straightforward brute, if a murderous one. There was no mystery about him, nothing uncanny, no suggestion of a stealthy, deliberate wild-cat turned into a man, or...gentlemen, if you had turned up here only three months ago—ay, less than three months ago—you would have found somebody very different from what I am... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 444 pages
...living in hell for weeks, so you don't make much difference. I'll let you have the concertroom—and hang the consequences. But what about the boy on late..."That will do very well," he assented mournfully. "But in it ul, gentlemen, if you had turned up here only three months ago—ay, less than three months ago—... | |
| Ronald Paulson - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 423 pages
...straightforward brute, if a murderous one. There was no mystery about him, nothing uncanny, no suggestion of a stealthy, deliberate wild-cat turned into a man, or...with skin and bones and a subtle power of terror" (2.5.115-16). So we have the trio: grotesque man-animal creatures, abominations. Their uncanny evil... | |
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