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... eyes , and a small dark face all pinched and lined , for he spent his life crouching , slinking , and peering through the undergrowth and the trees . He was more silent than the leopard and more cunning than the jackal : he knew the ...
... eyes , and a small dark face all pinched and lined , for he spent his life crouching , slinking , and peering through the undergrowth and the trees . He was more silent than the leopard and more cunning than the jackal : he knew the ...
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... eyes and in his slinking feet , fear in his pricked ears and in the bound with which he vanishes into the shadows at the least suspicious sound . In the time of the rains the jungle might seem to be a pleasant place . The trees are ...
... eyes and in his slinking feet , fear in his pricked ears and in the bound with which he vanishes into the shadows at the least suspicious sound . In the time of the rains the jungle might seem to be a pleasant place . The trees are ...
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... eyes , or the cunning of the jackal . And there is in them the blind anger of the jungle , the ferocity of the leopard , and the sudden fury of the bear . In Beddagama there lived a man called Silindu , with his wife Dingihami . They ...
... eyes , or the cunning of the jackal . And there is in them the blind anger of the jungle , the ferocity of the leopard , and the sudden fury of the bear . In Beddagama there lived a man called Silindu , with his wife Dingihami . They ...
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... eyes open like some animals , and very often he would moan , whine , and twitch in his sleep like a dog ; he slept as lightly as a deer , and would start up from the heaviest sleep in an instant fully awake . When not in the jungle he ...
... eyes open like some animals , and very often he would moan , whine , and twitch in his sleep like a dog ; he slept as lightly as a deer , and would start up from the heaviest sleep in an instant fully awake . When not in the jungle he ...
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... eyes set far apart from one another , flat broad cheeks , big breasts , and thick legs . Unlike her brother she was always busy , sweeping the house and com- pound , fetching water from the tank , cooking , and attending to the children ...
... eyes set far apart from one another , flat broad cheeks , big breasts , and thick legs . Unlike her brother she was always busy , sweeping the house and com- pound , fetching water from the tank , cooking , and attending to the children ...
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afraid Agent Hamadoru aiya Aiyo Amara Devi anger angry Appochchi Appu Arachchi asked Babehami Babun Beddagama began Beragama brother Buddha buffalo called charm child cloth compound daughter deer devil elephant evil eyes face father fear felt Fernando fever fool girl give grain hami hand hang headman hear heard Hinni Hinnihami hunter judge jungle Kamburupitiya kapurala Karlinahami kill knew Korala Mahatmaya kunji kurakkan kurunies laughed leave leopard listen live looked magistrate Malay months morning Mudalali Nanchohami never night path peon pilgrims prison Punchi Menika Punchirala rain Ratemahatmaya rice Rodiya round sanyasi silence Silindu Sinhalese slowly squatted stood strange talk Tamils tank tell temple thing thought tired told took track trees trouble veddas vederala verandah village walked watched wife wild woman women words yakka Yakkini yakko
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Page 1 - The village was called Beddagama. which means the village in the jungle. It lay in the low country or plains, midway between the sea and the great mountains which seem, far away to the north, to rise like a long wall straight up from the sea of trees. It was in. and of. the jungle; the air and smell of the jungle lay heavy upon it — the smell of hot air. of dust, and of dry and powdered leaves and sticks. Its beginning and its end was in the jungle, which stretched away from it on all sides unbroken,...
Page 31 - The villagers lived upon debt, and their debts were the main topic of their conversation. A good kurakkan crop, from two to four acres of chena, would be sufficient to support a family for a year. But no one, not even the headman, ever enjoyed the full crop which he had reaped. At the time of reaping a band of strangers from the little town of Kamburupitiya, thirty miles away, would come into the village. Mohamadu Lebbe Ahamadu Cassim, the Moorman boutiquekeeper, had supplied clothes to be paid for...
Page 278 - He began by saying — that he was asked, what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him...
Page 22 - It was a strange world, a world of bare and brutal facts, of superstition, of grotesque imagination; a world of trees and the perpetual twilight of their shade; a world of hunger and fear and devils, where a man was helpless before the unseen and unintelligible powers surrounding him.
Page 4 - The trees are stunted and twisted by the drought, by the thin sandy soil, by the dry wind. They are scabrous, thorny trees, with grey leaves whitened by the clouds of dust which the wind perpetually sweeps over them; their trunks are grey with hanging, stringy lichen. And there are enormous cactuses, evil-looking and obscene, with their great fleshy green slabs, which put out immense needle-like spines. More evil-looking still are the great leafless trees, which look like a tangle of gigantic spiders'...
Page 1 - It lay in the low country or plains, midway between the sea and the great mountains which seem, far away to the north, to rise like a long wall straight up from the sea of trees. It was in, and of the jungle; the air and smell of the jungle lay heavy upon it— the smell of hot air, of dust, and of dry and powdered leaves and sticks. Its beginning and its end was in the jungle, which stretched away from it on all sides unbroken, north and south and east and west, to the blue line of the hills and...
Page 248 - They want to be left alone, to reap their miserable chenas and eat their miserable kurakkan, to live quietly, as he said, in their miserable huts. I don't think that you know, any more than I do, Ratemahatmaya, what goes on up there in the jungle. He was a quiet man in the village, I believe that. He only wanted to be left alone. It must take a lot of cornering and torturing and shooting to rouse a man like that. I expect, as he said, they went on at him for years. This not letting one another alone...
Page 140 - The sight of the bleeding deer and the woman lying on the ground, naked to the waist, seemed to send a wave of lust and cruelty through the men.
Page 18 - Aiyo! aiyo! the way is rough and steep, Aiyo! the thorns are sharp, the rivers deep, But the night comes at last. So sleep, child, sleep.
Page 4 - It looks like a great sea, over which the pitiless hot wind perpetually sends waves unbroken, except where the bare rocks, rising above it, show like dark smudges against the grey-green of the leaves. For ten months of the year the sun beats down and scorches it; and the hot wind in a whirl of dust tears over it, tossing the branches and scattering the leaves. The trees are stunted and twisted by the drought, by the thin and sandy soil, by the dry wind. They are scabrous, thorny trees, with grey...