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" A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run. A heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke came out of the cliff, and that was all. No change appeared on the face of the rock. They were building a railway. The cliff was... "
Youth: And Two Other Stories - Page 72
by Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 pages
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 165

1899 - 1284 pages
...blinked, the path was steep. A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run. A heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke...head. Six black men advanced in a file, toiling up the path. They walked erect and slow, balancing small baskets full of earth on their heads, and the clink...
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 404 pages
...blinked, the path was steep. A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run. A heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke...head. Six black men advanced in a file, toiling up the path. They walked erect and slow, balancing small baskets full of earth on their heads, and the clink...
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 402 pages
...blinked, the path was steep. A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run. A heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke...railway. The cliff was not in the way or anything ; but tliis objectless blasting was all the work going on. " A slight clinking behind me made me turn my...
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 364 pages
...blinked, the path was steep. A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run. A heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke...going on. "A slight clinking behind me made me turn myhea3. Six black men advanced in a file, toiling up the path. They walked erect and slow, balancing...
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The Works of Joseph Conrad, Volume 5

Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pages
...blinked, the path was steep. A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run. A heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke...head. Six black men advanced in a file, toiling up the path. They walked erect and slow, balancing small baskets full of earth on their heads, and the clink...
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 pages
...blinked, the path was steep. A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run. A heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke...rock. They were building a railway. The cliff was not hi the way or anything; but this objectless blasting was all the work going on. "A slight clinking...
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Youth, and Two Other Stories: By Joseph Conrad ..., Volume 26

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 pages
...blinked, the path was steep. A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run. A heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke...head. Six black men advanced in a file, toiling up the path. They walked erect and slow, balancing small baskets full of earth on then* heads, and the clink...
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Conrad's Western World

Norman Sherry - 1971 - 484 pages
...visitor's first impression: 'A horn tooted to the right, and 30 I saw the black people run. A heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke came out of the cliff.' It is Marlow's commentary — ' The cliff was not in the way,' etc. — which transforms the necessary...
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Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad - 1990 - 84 pages
...blinked, the path was sleep. A horn tooled to the right, and 1 saw the black people run. A heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke...and that was all. No change appeared on the face of lhe rock. They were building a railway. The cliff was not in the way or anything; but this objectless...
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Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism

Mark Bracher - 1993 - 224 pages
...the proceeding" (28). Another instance is found in the effort to construct a railway: "A heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke...this objectless blasting was all the work going on" (2930). The savoir faire produces reassurance merely because it is enacted, not because it produces...
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