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"South Sea Islands" Quotes from Famous Books

... little book an unduly strong impression of the uniformity of Island life. The loves of white men and brown women, often cynical and brutal, sometimes exquisitely tender and pathetic, necessarily fill a large space in any true picture of the South Sea Islands, and Mr Becke, no doubt of set artistic purpose, has confined himself in the collection of tales now offered almost entirely to this facet of the life. I do not question that he is right in deciding to detract ...

— By Reef and Palm • Louis Becke

... South Sea Islands they have a curious way of catching sharks by setting a log of wood afloat with a rope attached, a noose at the end of it; the sharks gather round the log, apparently out of curiosity, and one or another is apt soon to get his head into the ...

— Elsie at Nantucket • Martha Finley

... wife and a home and love; and now that it all seemed to slip through his fingers he was seized with despair. He wanted all that more than anything in the world. What did he care for Spain and its cities, Cordova, Toledo, Leon; what to him were the pagodas of Burmah and the lagoons of South Sea Islands? America was here and now. It seemed to him that all his life he had followed the ideals that other people, by their words or their writings, had instilled into him, and never the desires of his own heart. Always his course had been swayed by what he thought he should ...

— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham

... embraces the South Sea Islands and the New World where, at the time of its discovery, Sotadic love was, with some exceptions, an established ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton

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