"That wasn't a circumstance," he remarked, "to the great whale that used to hang around the Philippine Islands. He was reckoned to be a king, as all the other whales took off their hats to him, and used to get down on their front knees when he came around. His skin was like leather, and he was stuck so full of harpoons that he looked like a porcupine under a magnifying-glass. Every ship that saw him used to put an iron into him, and I reckon you could get up a good history of the whale-fishery if you could read the ships' names on all of them irons. Lots of whalers fought with him, but he always came out first best. Captain Sammis of the Ananias had the closest acquaintance with him, and the way he tells it is this: Prout remarked that Charlton was better. Fortunately no great damage had been done. He was suffering from some loss of blood, but in a day or two the patient would be able to give evidence. There would be enough sensation for the papers tomorrow. It has been already remarked that the boldness of young engineers is very apt to be inversely as their experience, not to say their want of knowledge, and it is only by a strong and determined effort towards conservatism, that a true balance is maintained in judging of new schemes. “I did not see her,” Miss Serena replied to Sandy while she answered the older man’s question in the same breath. “But I saw a glimpse of dress just afterward.” Her expression showed confident assurance. The Reverend Taylor gradually became aware that the air was very bad. He laid down the newspaper and looked round. "There's a gang of rebels in camp over there," said he to himself, with a woodman's quick reading of every sign. "That smoke's from their fires. 'Tain't enough of it to be clearin' ground; people ain't clearin' up at this time o' year; that ground over there ain't the kind they'd clear up for anything. 'Twouldn't raise white beans if it was cleared; and you don't hear nobody choppin'." "It certainly will be. Miss Widgeon," answered Maria, with strictly "company manners." "One who has never had a brother exposed to the constant dangers of army life can hardly understand how glad we all feel to have Si snatched from the very jaws of death and brung back to us." "When I enlisted," Monty confided to Alf Russell, "I thought I'd do my best to become a Captain or a General. Now, I'm dead anxious to be an Orderly-Sarjint." "There, them bushes over there are shaking—they're coming out again," said Harry Joslyn, turning to run back for his gun. The master beckoned through the open door of Cadnan's working-room, and two more masters appeared, strange ones, leading between them an elder. The elder, Cadnan saw at once, had lived through many matings: the green skin of his arms was turning to silver, and his eye was no longer bright, but dulling fast with age. He looked at the working-room and at the young Albert with blank caution. "His clothes are still burning—here, help me, you!" cried Reuben, beating at the flames with his hands. "Nay," said Wells, "you know I am slipping my cable, and you shouldn't grudge a parting salute; but, however, don't stand aloof—I give you the word of a sailor—I cannot say of an honest one, but that's nothing—one man's word is as good as another's if he means to keep it, and so I give you my word that I will not offend again, and now give me your hand, and I will trust my secret to a sinless maiden." HoME欧美一级23式动 ENTER NUMBET 0018nmgbasmaoyi.com.cn
Aldous Huxley: selected works
NOVELS
Aldous Huxley Biography- Crome Yellow (1921)
- Antic Hay (1923)
- Those Barren Leaves (1925)
- Point Counter Point (1928)
- Brave New World (1932)
- Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
- After Many a Summer Dies the Swan (1939)
- Time Must Have a Stop (1944)
- Ape and Essence (1948)
- The Devils of Loudun (1952)
- Genius and the Goddess (1955)
- Heaven and Hell (1956)
- After the Fireworks (1957)
- Brave New World Revisited (1958)
- Island (1962)
POETRY
- The Burning Wheel (1916)
- The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems (1918)
- Selected Poems (1925)
- Arabia Infelix and Other Poems (1929)
- The Cicadas and Other Poems (1931)
- The Collected Poetry of Aldous Huxley [1971]
SHORT STORIES/OTHER WORKS
- Limbo (1918)
- Mortal Coils (1922)
- On the Margin (1923)
- Young Archimedes and Other Stories (1924)
- Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist (1925)
- Essays New and Old (1926)
- Two or Three Graces and Other Stories (1926)
- Proper Studies (1928)
- Leda (1929)
- Do What You Will (1929)
- Holy Face and Other Essays (1929)
- Brief Candles (1930)
- Vulgarity in Literature: Digressions from a Theme (1930)
- The World of Light: A Comedy in Three Acts (1931)
- Rotunda: A Selection of the Works of Aldous Huxley (1932)
- Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey (1932)
- Texts and Pretexts (1933)
- Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934)
- The Olive Tree and Other Essays (1936)
- Ends and Means (1937)
- The Perennial Philosophy (1938)
- Grey Eminence: A Study in Religion and Politics (1941)
- Stories, Essays, and Poems (1942)
- Science, Liberty, and Peace (1946)
- Little Mexican: Six Stories (1948)
- Themes and Variations (1950)
- The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (1954)
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Other Essays (1956)
- Adonis and the Alphabet and Other Essays (1956)
- The Art of Seeing (1957)
- On Art and Artists (1960)
- Letters of Aldous Huxley [1969]
- The World of Aldous Huxley: An Omnibus of His Fiction and Non-fiction Over Three Decades [1971]
- Music at Night and Other Essays [1975]
- Collected Short Stories [1975]
- Moksha [1980]
- Complete Essays [2000]
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