A Writer's Notebook |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 52
Page 97
... round eyes , a round nose , and a round face , a man of forty - five per- haps ; he does not welcome the arriving guest , but puts obsta- cles in the way of his taking a room or having dinner and has to be persuaded to provide him with ...
... round eyes , a round nose , and a round face , a man of forty - five per- haps ; he does not welcome the arriving guest , but puts obsta- cles in the way of his taking a room or having dinner and has to be persuaded to provide him with ...
Page 142
... round the island , but it is so rough and uneven that it tears your feet to pieces . In the pools fish dart about ... round with a kind of horrible stealth . The rod was merely a bamboo , and to this a line was attached . The big black ...
... round the island , but it is so rough and uneven that it tears your feet to pieces . In the pools fish dart about ... round with a kind of horrible stealth . The rod was merely a bamboo , and to this a line was attached . The big black ...
Page 283
... round to show himself and then with precaution took it out . He lightly rubbed the places where the skewer had gone ... round face and bespectacled round eyes , very fluent in conversation . He had been in the war and emerged with the ...
... round to show himself and then with precaution took it out . He lightly rubbed the places where the skewer had gone ... round face and bespectacled round eyes , very fluent in conversation . He had been in the war and emerged with the ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Apia asked beauty Bermondsey blue boat casuarina Cesare Borgia character Chinese clean-shaven clouds coconut colour copra crowd dark dead death dhoty Dostoievsky dressed Dyak emotion English Eugène Sue eyes face feeling fellow felt Fiji fish France French friends gave girl give green grey hair happy head heart human humour imagination impression island Jeremy Taylor Jules Renard laugh lava-lavas lived look Malay married mind native never night nose novels one's Papeete pass passion persons play pleasure reef river round Russian sail sarongs Savinkov seemed sense side silent smile soul story strange Suva talk tall tell tennis shirt Tetiaroa thin thing thought tion told took toothbrush moustache trees turn veranda walk wife woman women words writers young youth