 In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 1751899Full view - About this book
 | James R. Mensch - Philosophy - 2003 - 240 pages
...down the coast of Africa, his ship encounters "a man-of-war . . . shelling the bush" (40). He relates, "In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water,...firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns;... a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech—and nothing happened. Nothing could... | |
 | Robert J. Art, Kenneth Neal Waltz - Law - 2004 - 500 pages
...and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts. ... In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there...firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile... | |
 | Garry Gillard - Books and reading - 2003 - 156 pages
...is another painterly moment: 'Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy,...up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts' (40—1). And the description concludes with the complete abandonment of any attempt at rationality:... | |
 | John P. Anderson - Fiction - 2005 - 180 pages
...their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy,...firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile... | |
 | John Lewis Gaddis - History - 2005 - 503 pages
...and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts. ... In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there...firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile... | |
 | John Lewis Gaddis - History - 2005 - 503 pages
...jungle in a manner reminiscent of nothing so much as an incident in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was,...firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile... | |
 | Wayne Morrison - Civilization - 2006 - 428 pages
...their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy,...firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile... | |
 | Kevin Bell - American fiction - 2007 - 268 pages
...the means by which terror and ignorance are able to convert themselves into domination and authority. In the empty immensity of earth, sky and water, there...firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile... | |
 | William V. Spanos - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 344 pages
...wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. ... In the empty immensity of earth, sky, water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart out and vanish, a little smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1928 - 352 pages
...their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy,...firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile... | |
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