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The word Victory , the shining and tragic goal of noble effort , appeared too great , too august , to stand at the head of a mere novel . There was also the possibility of falling under the suspicion of commercial astuteness deceiving ...
The word Victory , the shining and tragic goal of noble effort , appeared too great , too august , to stand at the head of a mere novel . There was also the possibility of falling under the suspicion of commercial astuteness deceiving ...
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His nearest neighbour — I am speaking now of things showing some sort of animation — was an indolent volcano which smoked faintly all day with its head just above the northern horizon , and at night levelled at him , from amongst the ...
His nearest neighbour — I am speaking now of things showing some sort of animation — was an indolent volcano which smoked faintly all day with its head just above the northern horizon , and at night levelled at him , from amongst the ...
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Later , years afterward , when the last vestiges of youth had gone off his face and all the hair off the top of his head , and his red - gold pair of horizontal moustaches had grown to really noble proportions , a certain disreputable ...
Later , years afterward , when the last vestiges of youth had gone off his face and all the hair off the top of his head , and his red - gold pair of horizontal moustaches had grown to really noble proportions , a certain disreputable ...
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At that epoch in his life , in the fulness of his physical development , of a broad , martial presence , with his bald head and long moustaches , he resembled the portraits of Charles XII , of adventurous memory .
At that epoch in his life , in the fulness of his physical development , of a broad , martial presence , with his bald head and long moustaches , he resembled the portraits of Charles XII , of adventurous memory .
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He said it was dark and wet there ; that it was like living with your head and shoulders in a moist gunny - bag . That was only his exaggerated style of talking . Morrison was " one of us . " He was owner and master of the_Capricorn ...
He said it was dark and wet there ; that it was like living with your head and shoulders in a moist gunny - bag . That was only his exaggerated style of talking . Morrison was " one of us . " He was owner and master of the_Capricorn ...
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| Title | Victory: An Island Tale, Volume 1 Volume 17 of Standard collection of British and American authors Victory: An Island Tale, Joseph Conrad |
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| Publisher | Louis Conard, 1916 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 31 Jan 2019 |
| Length | 276 pages |
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