The Wild PalmsChatto & Windus, 1954 - 315 pàgines |
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Pàgina 24
... watched the approach of the disaster with that same amazed and incredulous hope of the slaves -- the lions and bears and elephants , the grooms and bathmen and pastrycooks - who watched the mounting flames of Rome from Ahenobarbus ...
... watched the approach of the disaster with that same amazed and incredulous hope of the slaves -- the lions and bears and elephants , the grooms and bathmen and pastrycooks - who watched the mounting flames of Rome from Ahenobarbus ...
Pàgina 184
... watched him out of nothing , subdued , patient , obedient , trusting and wild . " Now what ? " he said again . Then he began to watch Charlotte and now they all watched her , the five women pushing forward also to see , as she fastened ...
... watched him out of nothing , subdued , patient , obedient , trusting and wild . " Now what ? " he said again . Then he began to watch Charlotte and now they all watched her , the five women pushing forward also to see , as she fastened ...
Pàgina 290
... watched later a tiny figure which he knew to be a woman taking the garments from the line , believing he could distinguish the gesture with which she put the clothes pins one by one into her mouth , and he thought , If we had known it ...
... watched later a tiny figure which he knew to be a woman taking the garments from the line , believing he could distinguish the gesture with which she put the clothes pins one by one into her mouth , and he thought , If we had known it ...
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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