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1  One good screech will do more for you than all your rifles.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
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2  Our wood-cutters raised a warlike whoop; the report of a rifle just at my back deafened me.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
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3  The pilgrims used to turn out in a body and empty every rifle they could lay hands on at him.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
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4  Behind this raw matter one of the reclaimed, the product of the new forces at work, strolled despondently, carrying a rifle by its middle.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
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5  I pulled the string of the whistle, and I did this because I saw the pilgrims on deck getting out their rifles with an air of anticipating a jolly lark.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
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6  Looking past that mad helmsman, who was shaking the empty rifle and yelling at the shore, I saw vague forms of men running bent double, leaping, gliding, distinct, incomplete, evanescent.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
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7  Something big appeared in the air before the shutter, the rifle went overboard, and the man stepped back swiftly, looked at me over his shoulder in an extraordinary, profound, familiar manner, and fell upon my feet.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
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