 | 1899 - 1284 pages
...footsteps. Black rags were wound round their loins, and the short ends behind wagged to and fro like tails. I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were...a rope ; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking. Another... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pages
...footsteps. Black rags were wound round their loins, and the short ends behind waggled to and fro like tails. I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were...in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain •whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking.... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 398 pages
...Black rags were wound round their loins, and the short ends behind 'waggled to and fro like tails. I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had_an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 364 pages
...footsteps. Black rags were wound round their loins, and the short ends behind waggled to and fro like tails. I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were...in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking. Another... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pages
...footsteps. Black rags were wound round their loins, and the short ends behind waggled to and fro like tails. I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were...a rope ; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking. Another... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 pages
...footsteps. Black rags were wound round their loins, and the short ends behind waggled to and fro like tailsj I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were...in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking. Another... | |
 | Richard Ambrosini - 1991 - 274 pages
...while a group of chained black men pass next to him: "Six black men advanced . . . erect and slow ... I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope." Marlow's description of the chain-gang is often anthologized for the vividness of its impressionistic... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 244 pages
...footsteps. Black rags were wound round their loins, and the short ends behind waggled to and fro like tails. I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were...in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between diem, rhythmically clinking. Another... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 228 pages
...footsteps. Black rags were wound round their loins, and the short ends behind wagged to and fro like tails. I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were...in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking. Another... | |
 | Ursula Lord - 1998 - 382 pages
...free labour working on a chain gang, as prison convicts - hence "criminals" - were often forced to do: "I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs...in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking ...... | |
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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 kept time with their footsteps. Black rags were wound round their loins, and the short ends behind waggled... 
