Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 6
... Orleans gave her birth and the mingled French and Spanish creole nature that tinctured her life with such turbulence and warmth . She had little education , but a knowl- edge of men and motives that seemed to have come by instinct . Far ...
... Orleans gave her birth and the mingled French and Spanish creole nature that tinctured her life with such turbulence and warmth . She had little education , but a knowl- edge of men and motives that seemed to have come by instinct . Far ...
Pagina 33
... Orleans for two years ; and when she chose to display her accomplishments no one could detect any difference between her and the girls of Norfolk and Manhattan . But it was delicious to see her at home dressed , as she sometimes was ...
... Orleans for two years ; and when she chose to display her accomplishments no one could detect any difference between her and the girls of Norfolk and Manhattan . But it was delicious to see her at home dressed , as she sometimes was ...
Pagina 45
... Orleans fruit trade , anchored off Coralio with three hoarse toots of her siren . The Karlsefin was not one of the line operated by the Ve- suvius Fruit Company . She was something of a dilet- tante , doing odd jobs for a company that ...
... Orleans fruit trade , anchored off Coralio with three hoarse toots of her siren . The Karlsefin was not one of the line operated by the Ve- suvius Fruit Company . She was something of a dilet- tante , doing odd jobs for a company that ...
Pagina 95
... Orleans . From that celebrated centre of mo- lasses and disfranchised coon songs we took a steamer for South America . 6 " We landed at Solitas , forty miles up the coast from here . ' Twas a palatable enough place to look at . The ...
... Orleans . From that celebrated centre of mo- lasses and disfranchised coon songs we took a steamer for South America . 6 " We landed at Solitas , forty miles up the coast from here . ' Twas a palatable enough place to look at . The ...
Pagina 163
... ' Tis a statement demandin ' elucidation and apologies . " " Twas in New Orleans one morning about the first of June ; I was standin ' down on the wharf , lookin ' about at the ships in the river . The Shamrock and the Palm 163.
... ' Tis a statement demandin ' elucidation and apologies . " " Twas in New Orleans one morning about the first of June ; I was standin ' down on the wharf , lookin ' about at the ships in the river . The Shamrock and the Palm 163.
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admiral aguardiente American Anchuria Atwood bananas beach Beelzebub Billy Keogh Blythe boat bottle captain Caribs Casa Morena chair cigar Clancy coast cocoanut Colonel Falcon consul Coralio crew Dalesburg dark Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional Estebán eyes face Felipe flag friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land laughed looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic Rosine sail sand says seemed Señor Goodwin señorita shoes shore sloop smile smoke Spanish Spanish Main steamer steps stood street tell there's thing thousand tintype took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla
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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...