 | Joseph Conrad - 2002 - 280 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... | |
 | James R. Mensch - 2003 - 240 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...in a rope: each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain ..." (43). They are carrying baskets of earth up the hillside... | |
 | John P. Anderson - 2005 - 180 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. This... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 2006 - 222 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... | |
 | Wayne Morrison - 2006 - 428 pages
...and the short ends behind waggled to and fro like lails. I could -sec every rib, the joints of iheir 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 them, rhythmically clinking. Another... | |
 | David Renton, David Seddon, Leo Zeilig - 2007 - 258 pages
...file. They walked erect and slow, balancing small baskets of earth on their heads, and the clink kept time with their footsteps ... I could see every rib,...in a rope, each had an iron collar on his neck and all were connected together with a chain whose bights sung between them, rhythmically clinking. Marlow's... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1928 - 352 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... | |
 | Henry Norman, Henry Chalmers Roberts - 1903 - 732 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 like knots of a rope ; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose... | |
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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... 
