The Wild PalmsChatto & Windus, 1954 - 315 pàgines |
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Pàgina 64
... began dumping the fire from the firebox . After another hour they began to see lights ahead - a faint wavering row of red pin - pricks extending along the horizon and apparently hanging low in the sky . But it took almost another hour ...
... began dumping the fire from the firebox . After another hour they began to see lights ahead - a faint wavering row of red pin - pricks extending along the horizon and apparently hanging low in the sky . But it took almost another hour ...
Pàgina 139
... began to wear away and swing : the old irresistible movement which he knew well by now , too well to fight against it , so that he let the bow swing on downstream with the hope of utilising the skiff's own momentum to bring it through ...
... began to wear away and swing : the old irresistible movement which he knew well by now , too well to fight against it , so that he let the bow swing on downstream with the hope of utilising the skiff's own momentum to bring it through ...
Pàgina 141
... began to paddle , on across the cottonfield . It began to rain again , though not hard at first . " Yah , " he said . " Ask the boat . I been in it since breakfast and I ain't never knowed , where I aimed to go or where I was going ...
... began to paddle , on across the cottonfield . It began to rain again , though not hard at first . " Yah , " he said . " Ask the boat . I been in it since breakfast and I ain't never knowed , where I aimed to go or where I was going ...
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66 All right ain't already began believe beneath black wind blinked boat breath Buckner Cajan 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