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" They were dying slowly - it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, - nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom. Brought from all the recesses of... "
Complete Works - Page 66
by Joseph Conrad - 1903
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 165

1899 - 1284 pages
...very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, — nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying...away and rest. These moribund shapes were free as air — and nearly as thin. I began to distinguish the gleam of eyes under the trees. Then, glancing...
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 404 pages
...very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, — nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying...away and rest. These moribund shapes were free as air — and nearly as thin. I began to distinguish the gleam of eyes under the trees. Then, glancing...
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pages
...very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, — nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying...away and rest. These moribund shapes were free as air — and nearly as thin. I began to distinguish the gleam of the eyes under the trees. Then, glancing...
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 402 pages
...very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, — nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying...gloom. Brought from all the recesses of the coast in nil the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they...
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 364 pages
...not PT1f;nii'esr they were^ n,pt. (yinynals, they were arlhliL now, — nothing but black shadow5"of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish...away and rest. These moribund shapes were free as air — and nearly as thin. I began to distinguish the gleam of the eyes under the trees. Then, glancing...
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The Works of Joseph Conrad, Volume 5

Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pages
...very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now — nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying...away and rest. These moribund shapes were free as air — and nearly as thin. I began to distinguish the gleam of the eyes under the trees. Then, glancing...
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 pages
...very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, — nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying...away and rest. These moribund shapes were free as air — and nearly as thin. I began to distinguish the gleam of the eyes under the trees. Then, glancing...
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Conrad in the Nineteenth Century

Ian Watt - 1981 - 400 pages
...brutality, but of the blindness to their needs of an alien and more powerful order; they have been "brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts" by the rationality of a capitalist order based on legal agreements and chronometric time, an order...
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Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad - 1990 - 84 pages
...very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying...away and rest. These moribund shapes were free as air — and nearly as thin. I began to distinguish the gleam of the eyes under the trees. Then, glancing...
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Joseph Conrad: Third World Perspectives

Robert D. Hamner - 1990 - 294 pages
...very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now — nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying...inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest. The kind of liberalism espoused here by Marlow/Conrad touched all the best minds of the age in England,...
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