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Page 68
... standing behind his chair , opened his mouth a little in a half smile . I was really angry with O'Brien by that time , with his air of omniscience , superiority , and self - content , as if he were talking to a child or someone very ...
... standing behind his chair , opened his mouth a little in a half smile . I was really angry with O'Brien by that time , with his air of omniscience , superiority , and self - content , as if he were talking to a child or someone very ...
Page 88
... standing apart in a saturnine dignity . " Are you going to have us all murdered , Castro ? " I asked , with indignation . To my surprise he did not seem to recognize me ; indeed , he pretended not to see me at all . I might have been ...
... standing apart in a saturnine dignity . " Are you going to have us all murdered , Castro ? " I asked , with indignation . To my surprise he did not seem to recognize me ; indeed , he pretended not to see me at all . I might have been ...
Page 89
... standing about Lumsden , the major , and myself , fingering the locks of their guns . Poor old Cowper , breaking away from his guard , was raging up and down the poop ; and the big pirate kept him off the companion truculently . The ...
... standing about Lumsden , the major , and myself , fingering the locks of their guns . Poor old Cowper , breaking away from his guard , was raging up and down the poop ; and the big pirate kept him off the companion truculently . The ...
Page 102
... standing in tall grass , running back , hiding in a steep valley ; silver - gray huts with ragged dun roofs , like disheveled shocks of hair ; a great pink church - face , very tall and narrow , pyramidal towards the top , and pierced ...
... standing in tall grass , running back , hiding in a steep valley ; silver - gray huts with ragged dun roofs , like disheveled shocks of hair ; a great pink church - face , very tall and narrow , pyramidal towards the top , and pierced ...
Page 113
... standing there by the seashore like a tomb of warlike glories . They built their houses thus , centuries ago , when the bands of buccaneers , indomitable and atrocious , had haunted their conquest with a reminder of mortality and ...
... standing there by the seashore like a tomb of warlike glories . They built their houses thus , centuries ago , when the bands of buccaneers , indomitable and atrocious , had haunted their conquest with a reminder of mortality and ...
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