Youth: And Two Other StoriesDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 339 |
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Strona 27
... seemed to argue with him . Then they went away together to the steamer . 66 " When our skipper came back we learned that the steamer was the Somerville , Captain Nash , from West Australia to Singapore via Batavia with mails , and that ...
... seemed to argue with him . Then they went away together to the steamer . 66 " When our skipper came back we learned that the steamer was the Somerville , Captain Nash , from West Australia to Singapore via Batavia with mails , and that ...
Strona 32
... sight , and the heat seemed hardly bearable at first . On a settee cushion dragged out of the cabin Captain Beard , his legs drawn up and one arm under his head , slept with the light playing on him . Do you know what 32 YOUTH.
... sight , and the heat seemed hardly bearable at first . On a settee cushion dragged out of the cabin Captain Beard , his legs drawn up and one arm under his head , slept with the light playing on him . Do you know what 32 YOUTH.
Strona 35
... seemed to fill with flying fire the night patient and watchful , the vast night lying silent upon the sea . At daylight she was only a charred shell , floating still under a cloud of smoke and bearing a glowing mass of coal within ...
... seemed to fill with flying fire the night patient and watchful , the vast night lying silent upon the sea . At daylight she was only a charred shell , floating still under a cloud of smoke and bearing a glowing mass of coal within ...
Strona 38
... find out whether she is English . Perhaps they could give us a passage some- where . ' He seemed nervously anxious . So by dint of punching and kicking I started one of my men into a state of somnambulism , and giving him an oar , 38 YOUTH.
... find out whether she is English . Perhaps they could give us a passage some- where . ' He seemed nervously anxious . So by dint of punching and kicking I started one of my men into a state of somnambulism , and giving him an oar , 38 YOUTH.
Strona 45
... seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked , with gleams of varnished sprits . A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness . The air was dark above Gravesend , and farther back still seemed ...
... seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked , with gleams of varnished sprits . A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness . The air was dark above Gravesend , and farther back still seemed ...
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