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On the nights of full moon the silence around Samburan — the “ Round Island " of the chartswas dazzling ; and in the flood of cold light Heyst could see his immediate surroundings , which had the aspect of an abandoned settlement ...
On the nights of full moon the silence around Samburan — the “ Round Island " of the chartswas dazzling ; and in the flood of cold light Heyst could see his immediate surroundings , which had the aspect of an abandoned settlement ...
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And perhaps it was some sort of enchantment . There are more spells than your commonplace magicians ever dreamed of . Roughly speaking , a circle with a radius of eight hundred miles drawn round a point in North Borneo was in Heyst's ...
And perhaps it was some sort of enchantment . There are more spells than your commonplace magicians ever dreamed of . Roughly speaking , a circle with a radius of eight hundred miles drawn round a point in North Borneo was in Heyst's ...
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the table , his eyes bloodshot , his voice nearly gone , the brim of his round pith hat shading an unshaven , livid face . His white clothes , which he had not taken off for three days , were dingy . He looked already gone to the bad ...
the table , his eyes bloodshot , his voice nearly gone , the brim of his round pith hat shading an unshaven , livid face . His white clothes , which he had not taken off for three days , were dingy . He looked already gone to the bad ...
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From the first he had selected Samburan , or Round Island , for the central station . Some copies of the prospectus issued in Europe , having found their way out East , were passed from hand to hand . We greatly admired the map which ...
From the first he had selected Samburan , or Round Island , for the central station . Some copies of the prospectus issued in Europe , having found their way out East , were passed from hand to hand . We greatly admired the map which ...
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We reassured him on the point of correct behaviour . The sea is open to all . This slight deviation added some ten miles to Davidson's round trip , but as that was sixteen hundred miles it did not matter much .
We reassured him on the point of correct behaviour . The sea is open to all . This slight deviation added some ten miles to Davidson's round trip , but as that was sixteen hundred miles it did not matter much .
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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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