| 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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