The Wild PalmsChatto & Windus, 1954 - 315 pàgines |
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Pàgina 32
... entered : a court paved with the same soft , quietly rotting brick . There was a stagnant pool with a terra- cotta figure , a mass of lantana , the single palm , the thick rich leaves and the heavy white stars of the jasmine bush where ...
... entered : a court paved with the same soft , quietly rotting brick . There was a stagnant pool with a terra- cotta figure , a mass of lantana , the single palm , the thick rich leaves and the heavy white stars of the jasmine bush where ...
Pàgina 117
... entered a down - town office building and ascended twenty floors to an opaque glass door lettered Callaghan Mines and entered and passed with some difficulty a chromium- finished office girl and faced at last across a desk flat and ...
... entered a down - town office building and ascended twenty floors to an opaque glass door lettered Callaghan Mines and entered and passed with some difficulty a chromium- finished office girl and faced at last across a desk flat and ...
Pàgina 171
... entered ( they step- ped quickly aside for it or they would have been run down ) came a filled ore tram pushed by a running man whom Wilbourne recognised also to be a Pole though shorter , thicker , squatter ( he was to realise later ...
... entered ( they step- ped quickly aside for it or they would have been run down ) came a filled ore tram pushed by a running man whom Wilbourne recognised also to be a Pole though shorter , thicker , squatter ( he was to realise later ...
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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 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 preter 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