I need not tell you what it is to be knocking about in an open boat. I remember nights and days of calm, when we pulled, we pulled, and the boat seemed to stand still, as if bewitched within the circle of the sea horizon. The Outlook - Stranica 3381898Potpun prikaz - O ovoj knjizi
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - Broj stranica: 1262
...name. We made our way north. «Y. The Landfall I NEED not tell you what it is to be knocking about in an open boat. I remember nights and days of calm,...sixteen hours on end with a mouth dry as a cinder and a steering-oar over the stern to keep my first command head on to a breaking sea. I did not know... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - Broj stranica: 360
...— like Bankok, you know. I steered many days. "I need not tell you what it is to be knocking about in an open boat. I remember nights and days of calm,...sixteen hours on end with a mouth dry as a cinder and a steering-oar over the stern to keep my first command head on to a breaking sea. I did not know... | |
| Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - Broj stranica: 1746
...— like Bankok, you know. I steered many days. "I need not tell you what it is to be knocking about e, whether you were sent for or no! Ros. [Aside to...hold not off. Guil. My lord, we were sent for. Ham. and a steering-oar over the stern to keep my first command head on to a breaking sea. I did not know... | |
| Walter Taylor Field - 1926 - Broj stranica: 472
...know. I steered many days. " I need not tell you what it is to be knocking about in an open boat. F remember nights and days of calm, when we pulled,...remember the heat, the deluge of rainsqualls that kept us bailing for dear life (but filled our water-cask), and I remember sixteen hours on end with a mouth... | |
| Joseph Conrad, Georges Jean-Aubry - 1927 - Broj stranica: 384
...boat is uncertain. In Youth Conrad only says : I was steering for Java ... I steered many days. ... I remember nights and days of calm when we pulled, we pulled, and the boat seemed to stand still. It is known, however, that he was at Singapore rather more than fifteen days later.1 His first sight... | |
| 1898 - Broj stranica: 1094
...blessed name — like Bankok, you lrow. I steered many days. •• 1 need not tell you what it is to be knocking about for days in an open boat. I remember...heat, the deluge of rain-squalls that kept us baling lot dear life (but filled our water-cask), and I remember sixteen hours on end with a mouth dry as... | |
| D. H. Rawlinson - 1968 - Broj stranica: 254
...youth ! The silly, charming, beautiful youth . . . I need not tell you what it is to be knocking about in an open boat. I remember nights and days of calm,...sixteen hours on end with a mouth dry as a cinder and a steering-oar over the stern to keep my first command head on to a breaking sea. I did not know... | |
| David B. Downing, Susan Bazargan - 1991 - Broj stranica: 368
...cockle-shell of a lifeboat reaches the shores of the East, I need not tell you what it is to be knocking about in an open boat. I remember nights and days of calm,...sixteen hours on end with a mouth dry as a cinder and a steering-oar over the stem to keep my first command head on to a breaking sea. I did not know... | |
| Richard Ambrosini - 1991 - Broj stranica: 274
...story's happy ending. The ease with which Conrad shifts from a description to his comment is unique: I remember sixteen hours on end with a mouth dry as a cinder and a steering-oar over the stern to keep my first command head on to a breaking sea. I did not know... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1995 - Broj stranica: 244
...- like Bankok, you know. I steered many days. 'I need not tell you what it is to be knocking about in an open boat. I remember nights and days of calm,...sixteen hours on end with a mouth dry as a cinder and a steering-oar over the stern to keep my first command head on to a breaking sea. I did not know... | |
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