LOST in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Stories of USA Today
Materials for Reading & Listening Practice
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:

Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
 Current Search - Lost in Heart of Darkness
1  I looked at him, lost in astonishment.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
ContextHighlight   In III
2  His voice lost itself in the calm of the evening.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
ContextHighlight   In III
3  I asked myself what I was to do there, now my boat was lost.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
ContextHighlight   In I
4  'The only book I had left, and I thought I had lost it,' he said, looking at it ecstatically.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
ContextHighlight   In II
5  It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
ContextHighlight   In II
6  If they left the bank in their canoes they would get lost in it, as we would be if we attempted to move.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
ContextHighlight   In II
7  It looked as though after wrenching that thing from somebody ashore he had lost his balance in the effort.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
ContextHighlight   In II
8  I was cut to the quick at the idea of having lost the inestimable privilege of listening to the gifted Kurtz.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
ContextHighlight   In II
9  No; I can't forget him, though I am not prepared to affirm the fellow was exactly worth the life we lost in getting to him.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
ContextHighlight   In II
10  The current snatched him as though he had been a wisp of grass, and I saw the body roll over twice before I lost sight of it for ever.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
ContextHighlight   In II
11  Sometimes I would pick out a tree a little way ahead to measure our progress towards Kurtz by, but I lost it invariably before we got abreast.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
ContextHighlight   In II
12  I laid my head on my arm again, and had nearly lost myself in a doze, when somebody said in my ear, as it were: 'I am as harmless as a little child, but I don't like to be dictated to.'
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
ContextHighlight   In II
13  So, one evening, I made a speech in English with gestures, not one of which was lost to the sixty pairs of eyes before me, and the next morning I started the hammock off in front all right.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
ContextHighlight   In I
14  It had lost its covers, and the pages had been thumbed into a state of extremely dirty softness; but the back had been lovingly stitched afresh with white cotton thread, which looked clean yet.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
ContextHighlight   In II
15  He steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk, and would let that cripple of a steamboat get the upper hand of him in a minute.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
ContextHighlight   In II
16  Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
ContextHighlight   In I
17  But there was in it one river especially, a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
ContextHighlight   In I
Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.