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" Esterel, probably with the intention of anchoring for the night off the long white beach which in a regular curve closes the roadstead of Hyeres on that side. Peyrol pictured her to himself, on the clouded night, not so very dark since the full moon was... "
The Rover - Page 142
by Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 286 pages
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The rover

Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 304 pages
...southward. There was a little wind in the Passe, while the dull silver of the open had a dark' ing rim of rippled water far away to the east in that...for a great sea victory for its people: that inland mult j lude of which Peyrol knew nothing except the few individuals on that peninsula cut off from...
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The rover

Joseph Conrad - 1924 - 310 pages
...Cicie, parading their damned impudence. Then indeed that corvette, the big factor of everyday life on that stretch of coast, would become very small...longing for a great sea victory for its people: that ml multitude of which Peyrol knew nothing except the fi individuals on that peninsula cut off from...
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Rereading Conrad

Daniel R. Schwarz - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 212 pages
...represented in his mind by the tiny coastal hamlet in which he lives and the people he knows there: The disinherited soul of that rover ranging for so many years a lawless ocean . . . had come back to its crag, circling like a great sea bird in the dusk and longing for a great...
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The Rover

Joseph Conrad - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1948 - 294 pages
...Englishman meant to pass to windward of Cape Esterel, probably with the intention of anchoring lor the night off the long white beach which in a regular...ranging for so many years a lawless ocean with the ©oasts of two continents for a raiding ground, had come back to its crag, circling like a sea-bird...
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The Bookman: A Review of Books and Life, Volume 58

Literature - 1924 - 836 pages
...other invader of the strained, questionable, and ominous in its origins, peace of the Escampobar farm. The disinherited soul of that rover ranging for so...continents for a raiding ground, had come back to its crag. I think you will admit that the arrangement of these sentences is not quite in the English tradition....
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