Quotes by Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness

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Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in — Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which water the earth copiou — Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, — Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward — Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few — Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resou — Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with te — Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
They did not, however, infect the air as the Sudanese sun dried them up like mummies; all had the hue of gray parchment, — Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good. — Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
...he began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into insignificance, just — Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
They were like two poor little leaves in a storm which bore death and annihilation not only to the heads of individuals, — Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
He would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said, would not surrende — Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. The flame of her life — Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
England is never in a hurry because she is eternal. — Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
At most, a hundred paces separated him from them. The powerful beast, seeing the riders and horses, rose on his fore paw — Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plun — Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness