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radiating or reflecting light
and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide |
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the wide lower area of a river where the current meets the tide
It was difficult to realize his work was not out there in the luminous estuary, but behind him |
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morally severe, stric
He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, an ascetic aspect |
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peaceably, mildly, calmly, or quietly.
The water shone pacifically |
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very sheer and light; almost completely transparent or translucent. delicately hazy.
draping the low shores in diaphanous folds |
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grand
but in the august light of abiding memories |
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accustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise.
but he was a wanderer, too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life |
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unsure; uncertain; not definite or positive; hesitant
made a tentative jab with a spear at the white man |
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a tomb, vault for sacred relics
I arrived in a city that always makes me think of a whited sepulcher |
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calmness, tranquility
The swift and indifferent placidity of that look troubled me |
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merriment; jollity.
so I proposed a drink, and thereupon he developed a vein of joviality |
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a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation
Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you—smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering |
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gloomy, mournful
There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight |
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descending
A rocky cliff appeared, mounds of turned-up earth by the shore, houses on a hill, others, with iron roofs, amongst a waste of excavations, or hanging to the declivity |
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violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob; uproar
Then, alluding with a toss of the head to the tumult in the station-yard, |
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large, open porch, usually roofed and partly enclosed, as by a railing, often extending across the front and sides of a house
he lived all alone in a clay hut with a sort of veranda |
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haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
His little eyes glittered like mica discs—with curiosity—though he tried to keep up a bit of superciliousness |
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incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
What a row the brute makes!’ said the indefatigable man with the moustaches |
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destructive fires
This will prevent all conflagrations for the future. I was just telling the manager |
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slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning
Not in bed yet,’ he said, with a kind of servile heartiness |
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boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions.
it was reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage |
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proclaimed
The dawns were heralded by the descent of a chill stillness |
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to reecho or resound
between the high walls of our winding way, reverberating in hollow claps the ponderous beat of the stern-wheel |
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to bypass
I had to watch the steering, and circumvent those snags |
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resolutely fearless; dauntless:
He squinted at the steam-gauge and at the water-gauge with an evident effort of intrepidity |
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wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious
‘It must be this miserable trader-this intruder,’ exclaimed the manager, looking back malevolently at the place we had left. |
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resembling farce; ludicrous; absurd.
as long as there was a piece of paper written over in accordance with some farcical law or other made down the river |
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not explicable; incapable of being accounted for or explained.
than the curious, inexplicable note of desperate grief in this savage clamor |
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damnation
It's really easier to face bereavement, dishonor, and the perdition of one's soul—than this kind of prolonged hunger. |
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to pass or move over, along, or through.
I threw my head back to a glinting whizz that traversed the pilot-house |
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fleeting
I saw vague forms of men running bent double, leaping, gliding, distinct, incomplete, evanescent. |
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tending to belittle or bring reproach upon:
‘Mostly fossil,’ the manager had remarked, disparagingly |
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to expand and contract rhythmically, as the heart; beat; throb.
the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light |
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existing in one from birth; inborn; native
When they are gone you must fall back upon your own innate strength |
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the conclusion of a speech
The peroration was magnificent, though difficult to remember, you know |
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unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others
It was very simple, and at the end of that moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment it blazed at you, luminous and terrifying |
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desire to do good to others; goodwill; charitableness
It gave me the notion of an exotic Immensity ruled by an august Benevolence. It made me tingle with enthusiasm. This was the unbounded power of eloquence—of words—of burning noble words |
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abrupt in manner; blunt; rough
And then I made a brusque movement, and one of the remaining posts of that vanished fence leaped up in the field of my glass |
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a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, especially a ghost; a specter or phantom
anything that appears, especially something remarkable or startling
the lower jaw moving, the eyes of that apparition shining darkly far in its bony head that nodded with grotesque jerks |
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craving or consuming large quantities of food
it gave him a weirdly voracious aspect, as though he had wanted to swallow all the air |
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capable of being perceived; recognizable; appreciable:
I noticed that the crowd of savages was vanishing without any perceptible movement of retreat |
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fertile
whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at he |
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dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure
We must save it, at all events—but look how precarious the position is—and why? Because the method is unsound. |
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the act of exulting; lively or triumphant joy, as over success or victory.
I remember the exultation with which I said to myself, ‘He can't walk—he is crawling on all-fours—I’ve got him. |
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unyielding; unalterable
Kurtz's life was running swiftly, too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time |
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characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
images of wealth and fame revolving obsequiously round his inextinguishable gift of noble and lofty expression. |
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morally harmful; corrupting; pernicious
This noxious fool’ (meaning the manager) ‘is capable of prying into my boxes when I am not looking |
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characterized by a lack of force or enthusiasm
in a sickly atmosphere of tepid skepticism, without much belief in your own right |
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a stone coffin
A grand piano stood massively in a corner; with dark gleams on the flat surfaces like a somber and polished sarcophagus |
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sincere; honest; straightforward; frank.
This fair hair, this pale visage, this pure brow, seemed surrounded by an ashy halo from which the dark eyes looked out at me. Their glance was guileless, profound, confident, and trustful |
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