 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 402 pàgines
...repose. And from right to left along the lighted shore moved a wild and gorgeous apparition of a woman. " She walked with measured steps, draped in striped...and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, with « slight jingle and flash of barbarous ornaments. She carried her head high; her hair was done in... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pàgines
...repose. And from right to left along the lighted shore moved a wild and gorgeous apparition of a woman. " She walked with measured steps, draped in striped...was done in the shape of a helmet ; she had brass to the knee, brass wire gauntlets to the elbow, a crimson spot on her tawny cheek, innumerable necklaces... | |
 | Ford Madox Ford - 1924 - 298 pàgines
...into decasyllabic lines. The writer remembers the paragraph quite well. It is the one which begins : She walked with measured steps, draped in striped...a slight jingle and flash of barbarous ornaments. . . . -*But he cannot remember what Conrad added or took away. There come back vaguely to him a line... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 pàgines
...along the lighted shore moved a wild and gorgeous apparition of a woman. ? "-ghe-walkpd withjneasured steps, .draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly,. with a slight jingle and flash_pf barbarous ornaments. She carrieorBeFEeaoThTgh; her Hair was done inline snape of a helmet;... | |
 | Ethan Allen Cross - 1928 - 524 pàgines
...repose. And from right to left along the lighted shore moved a wild and gorgeous apparition of a woman. " She walked with measured steps, draped in striped...carried her head high; her hair was done in the shape [420] of a helmet ; she had brass leggings to the knee, brass wire gauntlets to the elbow, a crimson... | |
 | Norman Sherry - 1971 - 484 pàgines
...que les marchandises de Jourret avaient ete amenes chez Mohara.'28 Kurtz also had his native woman: 'She carried her head high; her hair was done in the shape of a helmet; she had brass leggings to the knees, brass wire gauntlets to the elbow, a crimson spot on her tawny cheek. . .' Hodister, like Kurtz,... | |
 | Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar - 1991 - 482 pàgines
...hystery. Shadowing the marble-pale "Intended" the way Ayesha shadows the matriarchal Victoria, she walks with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed...the shape of a helmet; she had brass leggings to the knees, brass wire gauntlets to the elbow, a crimson spot on her tawny cheek, innumerable necklaces... | |
 | David Galef - 1993 - 252 pàgines
...all appeared somewhat out of place in the Congo, she emerges as a piece of the jungle personified: She walked with measured steps, draped in striped...the shape of a helmet; she had brass leggings to the knees, brass wire gauntlets to the elbows, a crimson spot on her tawny cheek, innumerable necklaces... | |
 | George Robertson - 1994 - 276 pàgines
...1989. 7 McNelly is thinking of Conrad's Heart of Darkness I 1902). in which we read of a 'dark lady'. 'She walked with measured steps. draped in striped...her head high: her hair was done in the shape of a hehnet: she had brass leggings to her knees. brass wire gauntlets to the elbow. a erimson spot on her... | |
 | Gordon Teskey - 1996 - 220 pàgines
...Conrad. This woman is also, when we first see her, the dark continent's "tenebrous and passionate soul": She carried her head high; her hair was done in the shape of a helmet; she had brass leggings to the knees, brass wire gauntlets to the elbow, a crimson spot on her tawny cheek, innumerable necklaces... | |
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She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, with a slight jingle and flash of barbarous ornaments. She carried her head high; her hair was done in the shape of a helmet; she had brass leggings to the... 
