Victory: An Island TaleA story of rescue and violent tragedy set in the Malayan archipelago, 'Victory' combines high adventure with sensitive portrayal of three drifters. |
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Page 121
... one , like an incurious spectre , and the way the other , when addressed , suddenly retracted his lips and exhibited his teeth without looking round -here was evidence enough to settle that point . Desperadoes VICTORY 121.
... one , like an incurious spectre , and the way the other , when addressed , suddenly retracted his lips and exhibited his teeth without looking round -here was evidence enough to settle that point . Desperadoes VICTORY 121.
Page 130
... spectre on leave from Hades , en- dowed with skin and bones and a subtle power of ter- ror . Pedro with his fangs , his tangled beard and queer stare of his little bear's eyes was , by compari- son , delightfully natural . Besides ...
... spectre on leave from Hades , en- dowed with skin and bones and a subtle power of ter- ror . Pedro with his fangs , his tangled beard and queer stare of his little bear's eyes was , by compari- son , delightfully natural . Besides ...
Page 133
... spectre turned into a banker , faced Ricardo , a rather nasty , slow - moving cat turned into a croupier . By contrast , the other faces round that table , anything between twenty and thirty , must have looked like col- lected samples ...
... spectre turned into a banker , faced Ricardo , a rather nasty , slow - moving cat turned into a croupier . By contrast , the other faces round that table , anything between twenty and thirty , must have looked like col- lected samples ...
Page 166
... spectre , a cat , an ape - there was a pretty association for a mere man to remonstrate with , he reflected with an inward shudder ; for Schomberg had been overpowered , as it were , by his imagination and his reason could not react ...
... spectre , a cat , an ape - there was a pretty association for a mere man to remonstrate with , he reflected with an inward shudder ; for Schomberg had been overpowered , as it were , by his imagination and his reason could not react ...
Page 167
... spectre , either ! What the morals of a spectre could be , Schomberg had no idea . Something dreadful , no doubt . Compassion certainly had no place in them . As to the ape — well , everybody knew what an ape was . It had no morals ...
... spectre , either ! What the morals of a spectre could be , Schomberg had no idea . Something dreadful , no doubt . Compassion certainly had no place in them . As to the ape — well , everybody knew what an ape was . It had no morals ...
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