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Pagina 6
New 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 knowledge of men and motives that seemed to have come by instinct .
New 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 knowledge of men and motives that seemed to have come by instinct .
Pagina 8
For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . That segment of continent washed by
the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting to the sea a formidable border of
tropical jungle topped by the overweening Cordilleras , is still begirt by mystery ...
For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . That segment of continent washed by
the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting to the sea a formidable border of
tropical jungle topped by the overweening Cordilleras , is still begirt by mystery ...
Pagina 12
The man in the door was Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter -
day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and protographs were the weapons with
which Keogh and Clancy were at that time assailing the hopeless shores .
The man in the door was Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter -
day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and protographs were the weapons with
which Keogh and Clancy were at that time assailing the hopeless shores .
Pagina 14
This could not have been accomplished in either Spanish cr English , for the eye
politic in Anchuria was an active one . The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on
their guard . But Englehart was a diplomatist . There existed but one code upon ...
This could not have been accomplished in either Spanish cr English , for the eye
politic in Anchuria was an active one . The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on
their guard . But Englehart was a diplomatist . There existed but one code upon ...
Pagina 16
The telegram , which had remained unintelligible to the Anchurian linguists who
had applied to it in vain their knowledge of Spanish and elemental English ,
conveyed a stimulating piece of news to Goodwin ' s understanding . It informed
him ...
The telegram , which had remained unintelligible to the Anchurian linguists who
had applied to it in vain their knowledge of Spanish and elemental English ,
conveyed a stimulating piece of news to Goodwin ' s understanding . It informed
him ...
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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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