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Pagina 12
Above the door was a sign that read “ Keogh and Clancy ” - a nomenclature that
seemed not to be indigenous to that tropical soil . The man in the door was Billy
Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main .
Above the door was a sign that read “ Keogh and Clancy ” - a nomenclature that
seemed not to be indigenous to that tropical soil . The man in the door was Billy
Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main .
Pagina 22
But I hear Clancy swearing in the back room for having to do all the work . ” And
Keogh plunged for the rear of the “ gallery , " whistling gaily in a spontaneous
way that belied his recent sigh over the questionable good luck of the flying ...
But I hear Clancy swearing in the back room for having to do all the work . ” And
Keogh plunged for the rear of the “ gallery , " whistling gaily in a spontaneous
way that belied his recent sigh over the questionable good luck of the flying ...
Pagina 161
THE SHAMROCK AND THE PALM ONE night when there was no breeze , and
Coralio seemed closer than ever to the gratings of Avernus , five men were
grouped about the door of the photograph establishment of Keogh and Clancy .
THE SHAMROCK AND THE PALM ONE night when there was no breeze , and
Coralio seemed closer than ever to the gratings of Avernus , five men were
grouped about the door of the photograph establishment of Keogh and Clancy .
Pagina 162
Clancy sat on the steps , smoking his short pipe . His mood was the gossip ' s ;
the others were reduced , by the humidity , to the state of disability desirable in an
audience . Clancy was an American with an Irish diathesis and cosmopolitan ...
Clancy sat on the steps , smoking his short pipe . His mood was the gossip ' s ;
the others were reduced , by the humidity , to the state of disability desirable in an
audience . Clancy was an American with an Irish diathesis and cosmopolitan ...
Pagina 163
O. Henry. “ I did , ” said Clancy ; " and they turned it into a ploughshare . ” “ What
country was so fortunate as to secure your aid ? ” airily inquired Blanchard . “
Where ' s Kamchatka ? ” asked Clancy , with seeming irrelevance . “ Why , off
Siberia ...
O. Henry. “ I did , ” said Clancy ; " and they turned it into a ploughshare . ” “ What
country was so fortunate as to secure your aid ? ” airily inquired Blanchard . “
Where ' s Kamchatka ? ” asked Clancy , with seeming irrelevance . “ Why , off
Siberia ...
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Pagina 14 - Nibj skedaddled yesterday per jack-rabbit line with all the coin in the kitty and the bundle of muslin he's spoony about. The boodle is six figures short. Our crowd in good shape, but we need the spondulicks. You collar it. The main guy and the dry goods are headed for the briny. You know what to do. BOB.
Pagina 59 - The mountains reached up their bulky shoulders to receive the level gallop of Apollo's homing steeds, the day died in the lagoons and in the shadowed banana groves and in the mangrove swamps, where the great blue crabs were beginning to crawl to land for their nightly ramble. And it died, at last, upon the highest peaks. Then the brief twilight, ephemeral as the flight of a moth, came and went; the Southern Cross peeped with its topmost eye above a row of palms, and the fire-flies heralded with their...
Pagina 11 - CORALIO reclined, in the mid-day heat, like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem. The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast. It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band. Behind it, and seeming almost to topple, imminent, above it, rose the sea-following range of the Cordilleras.
Pagina 234 - He was the absolute despot and the idol of his people. The wealth of the country poured into his hands. Other presidents had been rapacious without reason. Losada amassed enormous wealth, but his people had their share of the benefits. The joint in his armor was his insatiate passion for monuments and tokens commemorating his glory. In every town he caused to be erected statues of himself bearing legends in praise of his greatness. In the walls of every public edifice, tablets were fixed reciting...
Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Cabbages and Kings Watermark edition |
| Autore | O. Henry |
| Editore | Doubleday, Page, 1904 |
| Lunghezza | 312 pagine |
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