 The twilight lay over the east, and the coast, turned black, extended infinitely its sombre wall that seemed the very stronghold of the night; the western horizon was one great blaze of gold and crimson in which a big detached cloud floated dark and still,...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3311900Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 1905 - 408 pages
...gleam in his eyes that looked dumbly at me. . . . 'No — nothing,' he said, and with a slight wave of his hand motioned the boat away. I did not look...east, and the coast, turned black, extended infinitely its sombre wall that seemed the very stronghold of the night ; the western horizon was one great blaze... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 540 pages
...gleam in his eyes that looked dumbly at me. . . . ' No — nothing,' he said, and with a slight wave of his hand motioned the boat away. I did not look...east, and the coast, turned black, extended infinitely its sombre wall that seemed the very stronghold of the night ; the western horizon was one great blaze... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Atonement - 1924 - 440 pages
...gleam in his eyes that looked dumbly at me. . . . 'No — nothing,' he said, and with a slight wave of his hand motioned the boat away. I did not look...east, and the coast, turned black, extended infinitely its sombre wall that seemed the very stronghold of the night; the western horizon was one great blaze... | |
 | Robert D. Hamner - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 294 pages
...red gleam in his eyes that looked dumbly at me ... "No — nothing," he said, and with a slight wave of his hand motioned the boat away. I did not look...shore till I had clambered on board the schooner. ... He was white from head to foot, and remained persistently visible with the stronghold of the night... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 1993 - 308 pages
...red gleam in his eyes that looked dumbly at me ... "No - nothing," he said, and with a slight wave of his hand motioned the boat away. I did not look...that time the sun had set. The twilight lay over the the east, and the coast, turned black, extended infinitely its sombre wall that seemed the very stronghold... | |
 | Robert McNab - Art - 2004 - 288 pages
...different from what lay ahead in Java. Conrad's vivid description in Lord Jim sets the scene of departure: The twilight lay over the east, and the coast, turned black, extended infinitely its sombre wall that seemed the very stronghold of the night; the western horizon was one great blaze... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 2005 - 512 pages
...its red gleam in his eyes that looked dumbly at me ... "No nothing," he said, and with a slight wave of his hand motioned the boat away. I did not look...east, and the coast, turned black, extended infinitely its sombre wall that seemed the very stronghold of the night; the western horizon was one great blaze... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 2006 - 242 pages
...red gleam in his eyes that looked dumbly at me . . . "No - nothing," he said, and with a slight wave of his hand motioned the boat away. I did not look...east, and the coast, turned black, extended infinitely its sombre wall that seemed the very stronghold of the night; the western horizon was one great blaze... | |
 | 428 pages
...gleam in his eyes that looked dumbly at me. . . . 'No — nothing,' he said, and with a slight wave of his hand motioned the boat away. I did not look...east, and the coast, turned black, extended infinitely its sombre wall that seemed the very stronghold of the night; the western horizon was one great blaze... | |
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