And all the time I dared not look towards the land lest my heart should fail me. I released my grip at last and he ran forward as if fleeing for dear life. I wondered what my double there in the sail-locker thought of this commotion. He was able to hear... Complete Works - Page 141by Joseph Conrad - 1925Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 324 pages
...noise " — shake — " and see these head-sheets properly overhauled " — shake, shake — shake. grip at last and he ran forward as if fleeing for...and light wind it was impossible to feel the ship coming- to. No ! I could not feel her. And my second self was making now ready to slip out and lower... | |
 | Dorothy Brewster - Fiction - 1928 - 536 pages
...head-sheets properly overhauled" — shake — , shake — shake. And all the time I dared not look toward the land lest my heart should fail me. I released...and light wind it was impossible to feel the ship eoming-to. No! I could not feel her. And my second self was now making ready to slip out and lower... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 1997 - 276 pages
...these head-sheets property overhauled' - shake, shake - shake. And all the time I dared not look toward the land lest my heart should fail me. I released...shouted in a mountain gorge. And then I watched the land intendy. In that smooth water and light wind it was impossible to feel the ship coming-to. No! I could... | |
 | Joseph Hillis Miller - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 300 pages
...matter of conscience to shave the land as close as possible" (56); hidden in the sail locker Leggatt "was able to hear everything — and perhaps he was...my conscience, it had to be thus close — no less" (58). In a brilliant recent book on Shakespeare, Daemonic Figures, Ned Lukacher has shown how the word... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 2002 - 310 pages
...my double there in the sail-locker thought of this commotion. He was able to hear everything—and perhaps he was able to understand why, on my conscience, it had to be thus close—no less. My first order "Hard alee!" re-echoed ominously under the towering shadow of Koh-ring... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 2008 - 10 pages
...hear everything - and perhaps he was able to understand why, on my conscience, it had to be thus 35 close — no less. My first order "Hard a-lee" re-echoed...and light wind it was impossible to feel the ship coming-to.No! I could not feel her. And my second self was making 40 now ready to slip out and lower... | |
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