It was more like those myths, current in Polynesia, of amazing strangers, who arrive at an island, gods or demons, bringing good or evil to the innocence of the inhabitants — gifts of unknown things, words never heard before. Heyst noticed a cork helmet... Victory: An Island Tale - Page 257by Joseph Conrad - 1915 - 444 pagesFull view - About this book
| Joseph Conrad - Abused women - 1921 - 442 pages
...plunged straight into the stern-sheets of a big boat, the greater part of which was hidden from kim by the planking of the jetty. His eyes fell on the...bony poll. An oar, too, had been knocked overboard, probably by the sprawling man, who was still struggling between the thwarts. By this time Heyst regarded... | |
| JOSEP CONRAD - 1921 - 534 pages
...back for a dozen yards or so, and then looked over. His sight plunged straight into the stern-sheets of' a big boat, the greater part of which was hidden...demons, bringing good or evil to the innocence of the inhabitants—gifts of unknown things, words never heard before. Heyst noticed a cork helmet floating... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pages
...plunged straight into the stern-sheets of a big boat, the greater part of which was hidden from kirn by the planking of the jetty. His eyes fell on the...demons, bringing good or evil to the innocence of the inhabitants—gifts of unknown things, words never heard before. Heyst noticed a cork helmet floating... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 446 pages
...back for a dozen yards or so, and then looked over. His sight plunged straight into the stern-sheets of a big boat, the greater part of which was hidden...bony poll. An oar, too, had been knocked overboard, probably by the sprawling man, who was still struggling between the thwarts. By this time Heyst regarded... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 444 pages
...boat Heyst could not connect with anything plausible. The civilisation of the tropics could have hnd nothing to do with it. It was more like those myths,...demons, bringing good or evil to the innocence of the inhabitants—gifts of unknown things, words never heard before. Heyst noticed a cork helmet floating... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 442 pages
...back for a dozen yards or so, and then looked over. His sight plunged straight into the stern-sheets of a big boat, the greater part of which was hidden...bony poll. An oar, too, had been knocked overboard, probably by the sprawling man, who was still struggling between the thwarts. By this time Heyst regarded... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 442 pages
...back for a dozen yards or so, and then looked over. His sight plunged straight into the stern-sheets of a big boat, the greater part of which was hidden...bony poll. An oar, too, had been knocked overboard, probably by the sprawling man, who was still struggling between the thwarts. By this time Heyst regarded... | |
| Jamake Highwater - Fiction - 1992 - 228 pages
...certain. Whatever might happen to him, whatever his fate, he was no longer afraid. It was like those myths of amazing strangers, who arrive at an island, gods...gifts of unknown things, words never heard before. —JOSEPH CONRAD WHEN SITKO AND Patu returned to the little room, they discovered that the walls had... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 432 pages
...man's long legs were tucked up nervelessly. A large earthenware jar, with its wide mouth uncorked j rolled out on the bottom-boards from under the sprawling...bony poll. An oar, too, had been knocked overboard, probably by the sprawling man, who was still struggling between the thwarts. By this time Heyst regarded... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1929 - 430 pages
...civilisation; but their apparition in a boat Heyst could not connect with anything plausible. The civiUsation of the tropics could have had nothing to do with it....bony poll. An oar, too, had been knocked overboard, probably by the sprawling man, who was still struggling between the thwarts. By this time Heyst regarded... | |
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