The Wild PalmsChatto & Windus, 1954 - 315 pàgines |
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Pàgina 64
... squatted in the skiffs , huddled into the soaked gar- ments ( they no longer felt the rain any more at all as separate drops ) and watched the lights draw nearer and nearer until at last the crest of the levee defined itself ; now they ...
... squatted in the skiffs , huddled into the soaked gar- ments ( they no longer felt the rain any more at all as separate drops ) and watched the lights draw nearer and nearer until at last the crest of the levee defined itself ; now they ...
Pàgina 138
... just one inch beyond the frail planks on which he squatted and which , as soon as he released the vine , took charge of the skiff , not with one powerful clutch but in a series of touches light , tentative , and catlike 138 THE WILD PALMS.
... just one inch beyond the frail planks on which he squatted and which , as soon as he released the vine , took charge of the skiff , not with one powerful clutch but in a series of touches light , tentative , and catlike 138 THE WILD PALMS.
Pàgina 145
... squatted in it still going through the motions of paddling , waiting for an opportunity to scream . He never found it . For an instant the skiff seemed to stand erect on its stern and then shoot scrabbling and scrambling up the curling ...
... squatted in it still going through the motions of paddling , waiting for an opportunity to scream . He never found it . For an instant the skiff seemed to stand erect on its stern and then shoot scrabbling and scrambling up the curling ...
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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