 ... right. Near a clump of dark pines with blood-red trunks in the sunset, Peyrol perceived a rutty track branching off in the direction of the sea. At that spot Citizen Peyrol had made up his mind to leave the high road. Every feature of the country...  The Rover - Page 6by Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 286 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American fiction - 1924 - 550 pages
...219). But what exquisitely fine work in color and flavor appears in such phrasings as these : — .... there was the sea of the Hyeres roadstead with a lumpy...still beyond — which was the island of Porquerolles. (p. 6). At the sound of the voices the dog got up with a strange air of being all backbone, and, approaching... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1924 - 310 pages
...the high road. Every feature of the country with the darkly wooded rises, the barren flat expanse of stones and sombre bushes to his left, appealed to him with a sort of strarge familiarity, because they had remained unchanged since the days of his boyhood. The very cartwheel... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 304 pages
...the high road. Every feature of the country with the darkly wooded rises, the barren flat expanse of stones and sombre bushes to his left, appealed to him with a sort of strarge familiarity, because they had remained unchanged since the days of his boyhood. The very cartwheel... | |
 | English literature - 1926 - 700 pages
...13, line 9 (Every . . . they) to the colloquial origin of Conrad's English. (9) p. 13. Far away . . . there was the sea of the Hyeres roadstead with a lumpy indigo swelling still beyond. It turns out that swelling is a noun, and that still beyond means still further out. 0 io) p. 13. Of... | |
 | Ernest Edward Kellett - Criticism - 1928 - 296 pages
...Bennett will have observed how, in his later novels, he affects this French idiom. (9) p. 13. Far away. . .there was the sea of the Hyeres roadstead with a lumpy indigo swelling still beyond. It turns out that swelling is a noun, and that still beyond means still further out. (10) p. 13. Of... | |
 | Ernest Edward Kellett - 1928 - 296 pages
...Bennett will have observed how, in his later novels, he affects this French idiom. (9) P- J3- Far away. . .there was the sea of the Hyeres roadstead with a lumpy indigo swelling still beyond. It turns out that swelling is a noun, and that still beyond means still further out. (10) p. 13. Of... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1948 - 294 pages
...the high road. Every feature of the country with the darkly wooded rises, the barren flat expanse of stones and sombre bushes to his left, appealed to him with a sort of strarge familiarity, because they had remained unchanged since the days of his boyhood. The very cartwheel... | |
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