Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 24
... been a mestizo lady , and the Spanish blood had brought to Paula a certain shyness that was an adornment to the other half of her demonstrative nature . 1 II THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE WILLARD GEDDIE , consul 24 Cabbages and Kings.
... been a mestizo lady , and the Spanish blood had brought to Paula a certain shyness that was an adornment to the other half of her demonstrative nature . 1 II THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE WILLARD GEDDIE , consul 24 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 28
... brought in on their backs the Valhalla's purser and the little native offi- cials in their cotton undershirts , blue trousers with red stripes , and flapping straw hats . At college Geddie had been a treasure as a first- baseman . He ...
... brought in on their backs the Valhalla's purser and the little native offi- cials in their cotton undershirts , blue trousers with red stripes , and flapping straw hats . At college Geddie had been a treasure as a first- baseman . He ...
Pagina 29
... brought for him . Geddie leaped high and caught the roll with a sounding " thwack . " The loungers on the beach — about a third of the popula- tion of the town laughed and applauded delight- edly . Every week they expected to see that ...
... brought for him . Geddie leaped high and caught the roll with a sounding " thwack . " The loungers on the beach — about a third of the popula- tion of the town laughed and applauded delight- edly . Every week they expected to see that ...
Pagina 35
... brought the calm and peace of a situation from which all uncertainty had been erased . He knew that men sometimes hope without being aware of it . Now , since she had come two thousand miles and had passed without a sign , not even his ...
... brought the calm and peace of a situation from which all uncertainty had been erased . He knew that men sometimes hope without being aware of it . Now , since she had come two thousand miles and had passed without a sign , not even his ...
Pagina 36
... brought with it something round and shiny that rolled back again as the wave receded . The next influx beached it clear , and Ged- die picked it up . The thing was a long - necked wine bottle of colourless glass . The cork had been ...
... brought with it something round and shiny that rolled back again as the wave receded . The next influx beached it clear , and Ged- die picked it up . The thing was a long - necked wine bottle of colourless glass . The cork had been ...
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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...