Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 37
... began to examine his piece of sea salvage . By holding the bottle near the light and turning it judiciously , he made out that it contained a double sheet of note - paper filled with close writing ; further , that the paper was of the ...
... began to examine his piece of sea salvage . By holding the bottle near the light and turning it judiciously , he made out that it contained a double sheet of note - paper filled with close writing ; further , that the paper was of the ...
Pagina 38
... began to speculate upon many fanciful theories concerning the story of the bottle , rejecting each in turn . Ships in danger of wreck or disablement sometimes cast forth such precarious messengers calling for aid . But he had seen the ...
... began to speculate upon many fanciful theories concerning the story of the bottle , rejecting each in turn . Ships in danger of wreck or disablement sometimes cast forth such precarious messengers calling for aid . But he had seen the ...
Pagina 46
... began to load upon lighters the thousands of bunches of bananas heaped upon the shore and row them out to the steamer . The Karlsefin had no passenger list , and was soon done with the attention of the authorities . The purser declared ...
... began to load upon lighters the thousands of bunches of bananas heaped upon the shore and row them out to the steamer . The Karlsefin had no passenger list , and was soon done with the attention of the authorities . The purser declared ...
Pagina 66
... began to show between the slats of the jalousies in the upper story of the hotel . " They have engaged rooms , " said Goodwin to himself . 66 So , then , their arrangements for sailing have yet to be made . " At that moment there came ...
... began to show between the slats of the jalousies in the upper story of the hotel . " They have engaged rooms , " said Goodwin to himself . 66 So , then , their arrangements for sailing have yet to be made . " At that moment there came ...
Pagina 76
... began to unfasten the straps . The lady stood by , with an expression of infinite scorn and weariness upon her face . The valise opened wide to a powerful , sidelong wrench . Goodwin dragged out two or three articles of clothing ...
... began to unfasten the straps . The lady stood by , with an expression of infinite scorn and weariness upon her face . The valise opened wide to a powerful , sidelong wrench . Goodwin dragged out two or three articles of clothing ...
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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...