- motley
a garment made of a multicolored woolen fabric
There he was before me, in motley, as though he had absconded from a troupe of mimes, enthusiastic, fabulous. - abscond
run away, often taking something or somebody along
There he was before me, in motley, as though he had absconded from a troupe of mimes, enthusiastic, fabulous. - inexplicable
incapable of being explained or accounted for
His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. - destitution
a state without money or prospects
The glamour of youth enveloped his parti-coloured rags, his destitution, his loneliness, the essential desolation of his futile wanderings. - futile
producing no result or effect
The glamour of youth enveloped his parti-coloured rags, his destitution, his loneliness, the essential desolation of his futile wanderings. - gallant
lively and spirited
For months--for years--his life hadn't been worth a day's purchase; and there he was gallantly, thoughtlessly alive, to all appearances indestructible solely by the virtue of his few years and of his unreflecting audacity. - fatalism
a doctrine that all events are predetermined in advance
It came to him, and he accepted it with a sort of eager fatalism. - impenetrable
impossible to understand
I looked around, and I don't know why, but I assure you that never, never before, did this land, this river, this jungle, the very arch of this blazing sky, appear to me so hopeless and so dark, so impenetrable to human thought, so pitiless to human weakness. - brusque
marked by rude or peremptory shortness
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. - vengeance
harming someone in retaliation for something they have done
But the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. - crestfallen
brought low in spirit
"The admirer of Mr. Kurtz was a bit crestfallen. - indistinct
not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand
In a hurried, indistinct voice he began to assure me he had not dared to take these--say, symbols--down. - petrify
cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned
The knot of men with the stretcher had stopped, too, halfway to the steamer, as if petrified. - atrocious
shockingly brutal or cruel
I resented bitterly the absurd danger of our situation, as if to be at the mercy of that atrocious phantom had been a dishonouring necessity. - apparition
a ghostly appearing figure
I could not hear a sound, but through my glasses I saw the thin arm extended commandingly, the lower jaw moving, the eyes of that apparition shining darkly far in its bony head that nodded with grotesque jerks. - voracious
devouring or craving food in great quantities
I saw him open his mouth wide--it gave him a weirdly voracious aspect, as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him. - languor
inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
I was struck by the fire of his eyes and the composed languor of his expression. - factitious
not produced by natural forces
However, he had enough strength in him-- factitious no doubt--to very nearly make an end of us, as you shall hear directly. - fecund
capable of producing offspring or vegetation; got genuine
And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul. - tenebrous
dark and gloomy
And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul. - partisan
an enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity
My hour of favour was over; I found myself lumped along with Kurtz as a partisan of methods for which the time was not ripe: I was unsound! - pacify
ease the anger, agitation, or strong emotion of
It pacified me, in fact, so much that I did not raise an alarm. - aversion
a feeling of intense dislike
This clearly was not a case for fisticuffs, even apart from the very natural aversion I had to beat that Shadow--this wandering and tormented thing. - litany
any long and tedious address or recital
When we came abreast again, they faced the river, stamped their feet, nodded their horned heads, swayed their scarlet bodies; they shook towards the fierce river-demon a bunch of black feathers, a mangy skin with a pendent tail--something that looked a dried gourd; they shouted periodically together strings of amazing words that resembled no sounds of human language; and the deep murmurs of the crowd, interrupted suddenly, were like the responses of some satanic litany. - placid
not easily irritated
The manager was very placid, he had no vital anxieties now, he took us both in with a comprehensive and satisfied glance: the 'affair' had come off as well as could be wished. - noxious
injurious to physical or mental health
'This noxious fool' (meaning the manager) 'is capable of prying into my boxes when I am not looking.' - ratchet
device consisting of a toothed wheel moving in one direction
I lived in an infernal mess of rust, filings, nuts, bolts, spanners, hammers,ratchet-drills--things I abominate, because I don't get on with them. - evanescence
the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight
And it is not my own extremity I remember best--a vision of greyness without form filled with physical pain, and a careless contempt for the evanescence of all things--even of this pain itself. - abominable
unequivocally detestable
It was an affirmation, a moral victory paid for by innumerable defeats, by abominable terrors, by abominable satisfactions. - incalculable
not capable of being computed or enumerated
'It would be an incalculable loss if,' etc., etc. - desolation
sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned
But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful desolation came upon her face that I perceived she was one of those creatures that are not the playthings of Time. - blunder
make one's way clumsily or blindly
I asked myself what I was doing there, with a sensation of panic in my heart as though I had blundered into a place of cruel and absurd mysteries not fit for a human being to behold. - persistent
never-ceasing
"I was on the point of crying at her, 'Don't you hear them?' The dusk was repeating them in a persistent whisper all around us, in a whisper that seemed to swell menacingly like the first whisper of a rising wind. 'The horror! The horror!' - somber
grave or even gloomy in character
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
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