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Pagina 31
... steamer chair with his feet on the bamboo railing . He lighted a cigar , and
looked out upon the sea . He felt a glow of satisfaction at finding The Lotus and
the Bottle 31.
... steamer chair with his feet on the bamboo railing . He lighted a cigar , and
looked out upon the sea . He felt a glow of satisfaction at finding The Lotus and
the Bottle 31.
Pagina 37
... bottle down , and laid three cigars side by side on his desk . He fetched his
steamer chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably . He would
smoke those three cigars while considering the problem . For it amounted to a
problem .
... bottle down , and laid three cigars side by side on his desk . He fetched his
steamer chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably . He would
smoke those three cigars while considering the problem . For it amounted to a
problem .
Pagina 41
Then , very deliberately , he lighted a cigar , and took the bottle in his hand , and
walked down the path to the beach . There was a moon , and the sea was
glorious . The breeze had shifted , as it did each evening , and was now rushing ...
Then , very deliberately , he lighted a cigar , and took the bottle in his hand , and
walked down the path to the beach . There was a moon , and the sea was
glorious . The breeze had shifted , as it did each evening , and was now rushing ...
Pagina 59
On the sandy beach , with his back against a cocoanut - tree and the stubs of
many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing his sharp gaze
in the direction of the steamer . The incongruous yachtsman had concentrated his
...
On the sandy beach , with his back against a cocoanut - tree and the stubs of
many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing his sharp gaze
in the direction of the steamer . The incongruous yachtsman had concentrated his
...
Pagina 61
In the nick of time he shall come to tell us why he strewed so many anxious cigar
stumps around the cocoanut palm that night . This he must do ; for , when he
sailed away before the dawn in his yacht Rambler , he carried with him the
answer ...
In the nick of time he shall come to tell us why he strewed so many anxious cigar
stumps around the cocoanut palm that night . This he must do ; for , when he
sailed away before the dawn in his yacht Rambler , he carried with him the
answer ...
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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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