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Quotation from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
“He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull”
Lord Jim, Ch. 1 (opening sentence) (1900 first edition)
The novel's opening portrait of Jim.
Citation: "He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull" — Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, Ch. 1 (opening sentence) (1900 first edition). (id lord-jim-q1)
Portrait: Joseph Conrad-remastered to black and white, George Charles Beresford, Public domain.
