Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 26
... Gregg , the quaran- tine doctor , who subscribed for the London Lancet , expecting to find it quoting his reports to the home Board of Health concerning the yellow fever germ . The consul knew that not one in fifty of his acquaint ...
... Gregg , the quaran- tine doctor , who subscribed for the London Lancet , expecting to find it quoting his reports to the home Board of Health concerning the yellow fever germ . The consul knew that not one in fifty of his acquaint ...
Pagina 42
... Gregg or Mr. Goodwin or anybody that's a friend to Mr. Geddie , and bring ' em here at once . " " Saints of the skies ! " said Simon , sleepily , " noth- ing has happened to Mr. Geddie ? " " He's under that tarpauling , " said the mate ...
... Gregg or Mr. Goodwin or anybody that's a friend to Mr. Geddie , and bring ' em here at once . " " Saints of the skies ! " said Simon , sleepily , " noth- ing has happened to Mr. Geddie ? " " He's under that tarpauling , " said the mate ...
Pagina 48
... Gregg and his other friends had toiled for hours to preserve the little spark of life that remained to him . The bottle , with its impotent message , was gone out to sea , and the problem that it had provoked was reduced to a simple sum ...
... Gregg and his other friends had toiled for hours to preserve the little spark of life that remained to him . The bottle , with its impotent message , was gone out to sea , and the problem that it had provoked was reduced to a simple sum ...
Pagina 52
... Gregg at the hotel , " said the consul . " You can see it from the door it's that two - story building with the balcony , where the orange - trees are . " The Hotel de los Estranjeros was a dreary hos- telry , in great disuse both by ...
... Gregg at the hotel , " said the consul . " You can see it from the door it's that two - story building with the balcony , where the orange - trees are . " The Hotel de los Estranjeros was a dreary hos- telry , in great disuse both by ...
Pagina 53
... Gregg , the quarantine physician , was a man of fifty or sixty , with a florid face and the longest beard between Topeka and Terra del Fuego . He held his position by virtue of an appointment by the Board of Health of a seaport city in ...
... Gregg , the quarantine physician , was a man of fifty or sixty , with a florid face and the longest beard between Topeka and Terra del Fuego . He held his position by virtue of an appointment by the Board of Health of a seaport city in ...
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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...