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... vegetation , broken shadows of bamboo fences in the sheen of long grass , something like an overgrown bit of road slanting among ragged thickets towards the shore only a couple of hundred yards away , with a black jetty and a 2 VICTORY.
... vegetation , broken shadows of bamboo fences in the sheen of long grass , something like an overgrown bit of road slanting among ragged thickets towards the shore only a couple of hundred yards away , with a black jetty and a 2 VICTORY.
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Joseph Conrad. hundred yards away , with a black jetty and a mound of some sort , quite inky on its unlighted side . But the most conspicuous object was a gigantic blackboard raised on two posts and presenting to Heyst , when the moon ...
Joseph Conrad. hundred yards away , with a black jetty and a mound of some sort , quite inky on its unlighted side . But the most conspicuous object was a gigantic blackboard raised on two posts and presenting to Heyst , when the moon ...
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... jetty , sticking out of the jungle into the empty sea ; those roof - ridges of deserted houses peeping dismally above the long grass ! Ough ! The gigantic and funereal blackboard sign of the Tropical Belt Coal Company , still emerging ...
... jetty , sticking out of the jungle into the empty sea ; those roof - ridges of deserted houses peeping dismally above the long grass ! Ough ! The gigantic and funereal blackboard sign of the Tropical Belt Coal Company , still emerging ...
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... jetty . A crowd of blue - clad figures with yellow faces and calves was being hustled down into the boats of the char- tered steamer lying well out , like a painted ship on a painted sea ; painted in crude colours , without shadows ...
... jetty . A crowd of blue - clad figures with yellow faces and calves was being hustled down into the boats of the char- tered steamer lying well out , like a painted ship on a painted sea ; painted in crude colours , without shadows ...
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... jetty , Heyst be- held a broad , clear space , black and level , with only one or two clumps of charred twigs , where the flame had swept from the front of his house to the nearest trees of the forest . " You took the risk of firing the ...
... jetty , Heyst be- held a broad , clear space , black and level , with only one or two clumps of charred twigs , where the flame had swept from the front of his house to the nearest trees of the forest . " You took the risk of firing the ...
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