„By the time he was twenty Charles Gould had, in his own turn, fallen under the spell of the Sao Tomé mine.“

„The flame showed a bronze, black whiskered face, a pair of eyes gazing straight (…)“

Part One, Chapter 4

„Nostromo, a fellow in a thousand (…)“

Part One, Chapter 1

„On the second evening an upright spiral of smoke (…) was seen for the first time within memory of man (…).“

„Sulaco had found an inviolable sanctuary from the temptations of a trading world in the solemn hush of the deep Golf Placido (…).“

«Als er aus dem Bahnhof trat und wieder diese Strassenfluchten und Häuserblocks vor sich sah, dieses hoffnungslose, unbarmherzige Labyrinth, wurde ihm schwindlig.»