The Wild PalmsChatto & Windus, 1954 - 315 pàgines |
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Pàgina 134
... arms flailed the impotent paddle at the water , that inno- cent - appearing medium which at one time had held him in iron - like and shifting convolutions like an anaconda , yet which now seemed to offer no more resistance to the thrust ...
... arms flailed the impotent paddle at the water , that inno- cent - appearing medium which at one time had held him in iron - like and shifting convolutions like an anaconda , yet which now seemed to offer no more resistance to the thrust ...
Pàgina 160
... arms , shrieking , I want to surrender ! I want to surrender ! " watching not in terror but in amazed and absolutely unbearable outrage as a squatting clump of the khaki figures parted and he saw the machine gun , the blunt thick muzzle ...
... arms , shrieking , I want to surrender ! I want to surrender ! " watching not in terror but in amazed and absolutely unbearable outrage as a squatting clump of the khaki figures parted and he saw the machine gun , the blunt thick muzzle ...
Pàgina 230
... arms and face like limber knives , dragging by the vine - spliced painter the skiff in which the woman sat , slogging and stumbling knee - deep in something less of earth than water , along one of those black , winding channels , less ...
... arms and face like limber knives , dragging by the vine - spliced painter the skiff in which the woman sat , slogging and stumbling knee - deep in something less of earth than water , along one of those black , winding channels , less ...
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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 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