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" He said these things, not for Mrs. Schomberg's information, but simply thinking aloud, and trying to work his fury up to a point where it would give him courage enough to face "plain Mr. Jones." "Impudent, overbearing, swindling sharper," he went on.... "
Victory: An Island Tale - Page 119
by Joseph Conrad - 1915 - 444 pages
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Victory

Joseph Conrad - Abused women - 1921 - 442 pages
...early in the morning. I don't mind a round game of cards, but to make a decoy of my table d'h6te — my blood boils! He came here because some lying rascal...the direction of her shrinking person. In her scanty night-dress, and barefooted, she recalled a mediaeval penitent being reproved for her sins in blasphemous...
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VICTORY

JOSEP CONRAD - 1921 - 534 pages
...his—early in the morning. I don't mind a round game of cards, but to make a decoy of my table d'hote—my blood boils! He came here because some lying rascal...horribly in the direction of her shrinking person. In he: scanty night-dress, and barefooted, she recalled a mediaeval penitent being reproved for her sins...
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Victory

Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pages
...d'h6te—my blood boils! He came here because some lying rascal in Manila told him I kept a table d'h6te." He said these things, not for Mrs. Schomberg's information,...the direction of her shrinking person. In her scanty night-dress, and barefooted, she recalled a mediaeval penitent being reproved for her sins in blasphemous...
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Victory

Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 446 pages
...— my blood boils! He came here because some lying rascal in Manila told him I kept a table d'hdte." He said these things, not for Mrs. Schomberg's information,...the direction of her shrinking person. In her scanty night-dress, and barefooted, she recalled a mediaeval penitent being reproved for her sins in blasphemous...
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The Works of Joseph Conrad: The shadow line

Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 444 pages
...d'hdte—my blood boils! He came here because some lying rascal in Manila told him I kept a table d'h6te." He said these things, not for Mrs. Schomberg's information,...the direction of her shrinking person. In her scanty night-dress, and barefooted, she recalled u mediaeval penitent being reproved for her sins in blasphemous...
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Victory

Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 442 pages
...fuming for the purpose of screwing his courage up to the sticking point. "Hang me if I ought not to go now, at once, this minute, into his bedroom, and...the direction of her shrinking person. In her scanty night-dress, and barefooted, she recalled a mediaeval penitent being reproved for her sins in blasphemous...
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The Works of Joseph Conrad, Volume 15

Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 442 pages
..."Impudent, overbearing, swindling sharper," he went on. "I have a good mind to " He was beside himself hi his lurid, heavy, Teutonic manner, so unlike the picturesque,...the direction of her shrinking person. In her scanty night-dress, and barefooted, she recalled a mediaeval penitent being reproved for her sins in blasphemous...
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The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...American writer I'ma hero with coward's legs. Spike Milligan (b. 1918) British comedian, humorous writer The last thing a woman will consent to discover in...or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) English novelist If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Harry...
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And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the ...

Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - Humor - 1992 - 552 pages
...our English dead. — William Shakespeare Fear always springs from ignorance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson The last thing a woman will consent to discover in...or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. — Joseph Conrad True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat? 2540 The last thing a woman will consent to discover in...or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. 2517 To have his path made clear for him is the aspiratlon of every human being in our beclouded and...
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