 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 - Strona 1751899Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | J. Bowyer Bell - Liczba stron: 496
...man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush . . . In the empty immensity of earth, sky. and water, there...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... | |
 | Norma Claire Moruzzi - 2000 - Liczba stron: 236
...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,...she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. JOSEPH CONRAD, Heart of Darkness (New York: Penguin Books, 1994), 19-20 This chapter is primarily an... | |
 | Jonathan Schell - 2000 - Liczba stron: 484
...of recognition in the following description of a French naval vessel firing into the African jungle: 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... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 2010 - Liczba stron: 132
...their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign drooped 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... | |
 | Jonathan Schell - 2001 - Liczba stron: 140
...of recognition in the following description of a French naval vessel firing into the African jungle: 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... | |
 | Papa Samba Diop, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Ute Fendler, Christoph Vatter - 2001 - Liczba stron: 652
...bateau de guerre français est en train de lancer des obus dans la brousse. On ne voit rien du tout: „In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water,...she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent." (p. 61sv.). Tout aussi incompréhensibles sont les explosions sur une pente de rochers: „A horn tooted... | |
 | Paul Cobley - 2001 - Liczba stron: 284
...their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the mu22les of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up la2ily and let her down, swaying her thin masts. In the empry immensity of earth, sky and waler, there... | |
 | John Salinsky - 2002 - Liczba stron: 304
...warship which is anchored off the coast and firing shells into the bush in an apparently blind manner. 'In the empty immensity of earth, sky and water, there...she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent .... There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding.' The explanation is that 'the French have one... | |
 | Neluka Silva - 2002 - Liczba stron: 206
...narrator, Marlow, describes this early in his journey, watching a French ship shelling the jungle: "In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water,...she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent" (Conrad 1989: 41). But within the shadows of such incomprehensible (and seemingly futile and pointless)... | |
 | Jonathan Schell - 2003 - Liczba stron: 148
...of recognition in the following description of a French naval vessel firing into the African jungle: 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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