 And yet it ended a most anxious six months of knocking about at sea with valuable merchandise in a damaged hull, most of the time on short rations, always on the lookout for English cruisers, once or twice on the verge of shipwreck and more than once...  The Rover - Page 1by Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 286 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 304 pages
...undemonstrative to such a degree that he did not even let out a sigh of relief at the rumble of the cable. And yet it ended a most anxious six months of knocking...hard as nails and ravenous as so many wolves for the delights of the shore, swarmed aloft to furl the sails nearly as thin and as patched as the grimy shirts... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1924 - 310 pages
...undemonstrative to such a degree that he did not even let out a sigh of relief at the rumble of the cable. And yet it ended a most anxious six months of knocking...downs, and which now had lasted for fiftyeight years. nails and ravenous as so many wolves for the delights of the shore, swarmed aloft to furl the sails... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 306 pages
...undemonstrative to such a degree that he did not even let out a sigh of relief at the rumble of the cable. And yet it ended a most anxious six months of knocking...downs, and which now had lasted for fiftyeight years. nails and ravenous as so many wolves for the delights of the shore, swarmed aloft to furl the sails... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1948 - 294 pages
...undemonstrative to such a degree that he did not even let out a sigh of relief at the rumble of the cable. And yet it ended a most anxious six months of knocking...hard as nails and ravenous as so many wolves for the delights of the shore, swarmed aloft to furl the sails nearly as thin and as patched as the grimy shirts... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 304 pages
...undemonstrative to such a degree that he did not even let out a sigh of relief at the rumble of the cable. And yet it ended a most anxious six months of knocking...downs, and which now had lasted for fiftyeight years. nails and ravenous as so many wolves for the delights of the shore, swarmed aloft to furl the sails... | |
 | English literature - 1926 - 700 pages
...disadvantages to be on the whole outweighed by the conveniences. I quote from the edition of 1923 . (1) p. 7. But as to that, old Peyrol had made up his mind from...downs, and which now had lasted for fifty-eight years. Here is a sentence which assuredly would never have been written by any Englishman since the seventeenth... | |
 | Ernest Edward Kellett - Criticism - 1928 - 296 pages
...disadvantages to be on the whole outweighed by the conveniences. I quote from the edition of 1923. (1) p. 7. But as to that, old Peyrol had made up his mind from...downs, and which now had lasted for fifty-eight years. Here is a sentence which assuredly would never have been written by any Englishman since the seventeenth... | |
 | Ernest Edward Kellett - 1928 - 296 pages
...disadvantages to be on the whole outweighed by the conveniences. I quote from the edition of 1923. (i) p. 7. But as to that, old Peyrol had made up his mind from...downs, and which now had lasted for fifty-eight years. Here is a sentence which assuredly would never have been written by any Englishman since the seventeenth... | |
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