 | 1900 - 872 pages
...world at twentyfour hours' notice, with less thought than most men give to the crossing of a street had a moment, I won't say of hesitation, but of startled pause, before this most commonplace affair. The best way I can explain It to you is by saying that for a second or two... | |
 | Scotland - 1899 - 1284 pages
...world at twenty -four hours' notice, with less thought than most men give to the crossing of a street, had a moment — I won't say of hesitation, but of...were about to set off for the centre of the earth. " I left in a French steamer, and she called in every blamed port they have out there, for, as far... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 404 pages
...world at twenty-four hours' notice, with less thought than most men give to the crossing of a street, had a moment — I won't say of hesitation, but of...or two, I felt as though, instead of going to the center of a continent, I were about to set off for the center of the earth. " I left in a French steamer,... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pages
...thought than most men give to the crossing of a street, had a moment — I won't say of hesitation, bat of startled pause, before this commonplace affair....or two, I felt as though, instead of going to the center of a continent, I were about to set off for 15he center of the earth. .- ; t ' jt,t **• •%... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 364 pages
...world at twenty-four hours' notice, with less thought than most men give to the crossing of a street, had a moment — I won't say of hesitation, but of...were about to set off for the centre of the earth. "I left in a French steamer, and she called in every blamed port they have out there, for, as far as... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pages
...world at twenty-four hours' notice, with less thought than most men give to the crossing of a street, had a moment — I won't say of hesitation, but of...were about to set off for the centre of the earth. " I left in a French steamer, and she called in every blamed port they have out there, for, as far... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 pages
...world at twenty-four hours' notice, with less thought than most men give to the crossing of a street, had a moment — I won't say of hesitation, but of...were about to set off for the centre of the earth^ "I left in a French steamer, and she called in every blamed port they have out there, for, as far as... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 pages
...twenty-four hours' notice, with less thought than most men give to the crossing of a street, had a moment—I won't say of hesitation, but of startled pause, before...saying that, for a second or two, I felt as though, in. stead of going to the centre of a continent, I were about fll to set offJoxJ^centreof the earth,... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 1990 - 84 pages
...world at twenty-four hours' notice, with less thought than most men give to the crossing of a street, had a moment — I won't say of hesitation, but of...it to you is by saying that, for a second or two, 1 felt as though, instead of going to the center of a continent, I were about to set off for the center... | |
 | Tzvetan Todorov - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1990 - 150 pages
...why, in the course of the conversation, "with every word spoken, the room was growing darker" (76)? centre of a continent, I were about to set off for the centre of the earth" (13); Kurtz's station is appropriately called the Inner Station; Kurtz himself is indeed "at the very... | |
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I don't know why - a queer feeling came to me that I was an impostor: Odd thing that I, who used to clear out for any part of the world at twenty-four hours... 
