The Wild PalmsChatto & Windus, 1954 - 315 pàgines |
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Pàgina 24
... feet above their heads . But they listened , and soon even those who like the taller convict had probably never before seen more water than a horse pond would hold knew what thirty feet on a river gauge at Cairo or Memphis meant and ...
... feet above their heads . But they listened , and soon even those who like the taller convict had probably never before seen more water than a horse pond would hold knew what thirty feet on a river gauge at Cairo or Memphis meant and ...
Pàgina 67
... feet and told off into two groups , one of which was armed from a stack of mud- clogged picks and shovels nearby , and marched away up the levee . A little later the motor launch with its train of skiffs came up across what was , fifteen ...
... feet and told off into two groups , one of which was armed from a stack of mud- clogged picks and shovels nearby , and marched away up the levee . A little later the motor launch with its train of skiffs came up across what was , fifteen ...
Pàgina 163
... feet fled beneath him and with the indubitable last of his strength he half pushed and half flung the woman up the bank as he shot feet first and face down back into that medium upon which he had lived for more days and nights than he ...
... feet fled beneath him and with the indubitable last of his strength he half pushed and half flung the woman up the bank as he shot feet first and face down back into that medium upon which he had lived for more days and nights than he ...
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ain't already began believe beneath beside black wind blinked boat breath Buckner Cajan carrying cashier's cheque ceased Charlotte cigarette coat cold cottonfield cried damned dark deputy doctor dollars door drink eyes face feet flat glare going gunwales hand hard Harry head hear heard hell hold instant knew levee light Listen live looked McCord move never niggers night nurse officer oleander once Orleans outrage paddle palm pantomime pilot house pirogue pistol plump convict quietly realised remembered returned Rittenmeyer seemed sitting skiff sleep smell snow sorghum sound squatted stared steadily steamboat stood stopped stove talk tall convict tell thinking thought told took train trees truck trying turned vanished Vicksburg violently voice wait waked walk Warden watched whisky wife Wilbourne wild Wild Palms wind window woman