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" In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give... "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 175
1899
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pages
...their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six -inch guns, stuck out all over the low hull ; the greasy,...firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame •would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny...
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 402 pages
...their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy,...let her down, swaying her thin masts. In the empty immcnsitj7 of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop,...
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 364 pages
...their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy,...firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile...
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The Works of Joseph Conrad, Volume 5

Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pages
...their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag ; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull ; the greasy,...firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns ; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile...
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 pages
...their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy,...firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile...
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Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance

Ford Madox Ford - 1924 - 298 pages
...she was shelling the bush. . . . Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent....
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Complete Works, Volume 16

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 pages
...their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy,...thin masts. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and y t water, there she was, incomprehensible, fidngjntpja cgn4 *t*^ tinent. Pop, would go one of the...
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U.S. Policy and Programs in Cambodia: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs - Economic assistance, American - 1973 - 230 pages
...and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts. ... In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there...firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns ; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile...
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Joseph Conrad: The Major Phase

Jacques Berthoud - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 204 pages
...their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of her long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up easily and let her down, swaying her thin masts. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there...
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Conrad in the Nineteenth Century

Ian Watt - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 400 pages
...their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy,...firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile...
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