A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar. I slipped... Complete Works - Page 55by Joseph Conrad - 1903Full view - About this book
| 1900 - 872 pages
...innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead ellence, grass sprouting between the stones, Imposing carriage archways right and left immense double doors...slipped through one of these cracks, went up a swept and ungarnlshed staircase, as arid as a desert, and opened the first door I came to. Two women, one fat... | |
| 1899 - 1284 pages
...innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors...to. Two women, one fat and the other slim, sat on straw - bottomed chairs, knitting black wool. The slim one got up and walked straight at me — still... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 402 pages
...innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors...black wool. The slim one got up and walked straight at me— still knitting with downcast eyes — and only just as I began to think of getting out of her... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pages
...innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors...a desert, and opened the first door I came to. Two women^bnefat and the other slim, sat on strawbottomed chairs, knitting black wool. The slim one got... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pages
...innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors...black wool. The slim one got up and walked straight at me — still knitting with downcast eyes — and only just as I began to think of getting out of her... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 pages
...innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors...black wool. The slim one got up and walked straight at me — still knitting with down-cast eyes — and only just as I began to think of getting out of her... | |
| Ian Watt - 1981 - 400 pages
...innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors...ungarnished staircase, as arid as a desert, and opened the hist door 1 came to. Two women, one fat and the other slim, sat on straw-bottomed chairs, knitting... | |
| Nadya Aisenberg - 1979 - 292 pages
...inorganic, by their machine-like movement, which by implication transform them into puppets or automata: The slim one got up and walked straight at me—still...downcast eyes—and only just as I began to think of getting out of her way, as you would for a somnanbulist, stood still and looked up. Her dress was... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 244 pages
...innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors...black wool. The slim one got up and walked straight at me - still knitting with downcast eyes - and only just as I began to think of getting out of her way,... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 228 pages
...innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors...slim, sat on straw-bottomed chairs, knitting black wool.34 The slim one got up and walked straight at me - still knitting with downcast eyes - and only... | |
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