 | Scotland - 1899 - 1284 pages
...the wool of his pate shaved into queer patterns, and three ornamental scars on each of his cheeks. He ought to have been clapping his hands and stamping...was hard at work, a thrall to strange witchcraft, full of improving knowledge. He was useful because he had been instructed ; and what he knew was this... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pages
...the wool of his pate shaved into queer patterns, and three ornamental scars on each of his cheeks. He ought to have been clapping his hands and stamping...was hard at work, a thrall to strange witchcraft, full of improving knowledge. He was useful because he had been instructed ; and what he knew was this... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 364 pages
...the wool of his pate shaved into queer patterns, and three ornamental scars on each of his cheeks. He ought to have been clapping his hands and stamping...was hard at work, a thrall to strange witchcraft, full of improving knowledge. He was useful because he had been instructed; and what he knew was this... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pages
...the wool of his pate shaved into queer patterns, and three ornamental scars on each of his cheeks. He ought to have been clapping his hands and stamping...was hard at work, a thrall to strange witchcraft, full of improving knowledge. He was useful because he had been instructed ; and what he knew was this... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 366 pages
...the wool of his pate shaved into queer patterns, and three ornamental scars on each of his cheeks. He ought to have been clapping his hands and stamping...was hard at work, a thrall to strange witchcraft, full of improving knowledge. He was useful because he had been instructed; and what he knew was this... | |
 | 1900 - 874 pages
...the wool of his pate shaved into queer patterns, and three ornamental weals on each of his cheeks. He ought to have been clapping his hands and stamping...was hard at work, a thrall to strange witchcraft, full of improving knowledge. He was useful because he had been instructed; and what he knew was this—... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 2004 - 205 pages
...the wool of his pate shaved into queer patterns, and three ornamental scars on each of his cheeks. He ought to have been clapping his hands and stamping...was hard at work, a thrall to strange witchcraft. full of improving knowledge. He was useful because he had been instructed; and what he knew was this... | |
 | Christopher L. Miller - Education - 1985 - 292 pages
...arrival of their genre, the novel. Thus the fireman on board had only "a few months of training" and "ought to have been clapping his hands and stamping...was hard at work, a thrall to strange witchcraft, full of improving knowledge" (p. 106). IJ For him, the steam engine contains "an evil spirit" that... | |
 | Robert D. Hamner - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 294 pages
...the wool pf his pate shaved into queer patterns, and three ornamental scars on each of his cheeks. He ought to have been clapping his hands and stamping...was hard at work, a thrall to strange witchcraft, full of improving knowledge. As everybody knows, Conrad is a romantic on the side. He might not exactly... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 1995 - 228 pages
...the wool of his pate shaved into queer patterns, and three ornamental scars on each of his cheeks. He ought to have been clapping his hands and stamping...was hard at work, a thrall to strange witchcraft, full of improving knowledge. He was useful because he had been instructed; and what he knew was this... | |
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He ought to have been clapping his hands and stamping his feet on the bank, instead of which he was hard at work, a thrall to strange witchcraft, full of improving knowledge. 
