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Pagina 34
The gentle slope from the consulate to the sea was covered with the dark - green
foliage of lemon - trees and orange - trees just bursting into bloom . A lagoon
pierced the land like a dark , jagged crystal , and above it a pale ceiba - tree rose
...
The gentle slope from the consulate to the sea was covered with the dark - green
foliage of lemon - trees and orange - trees just bursting into bloom . A lagoon
pierced the land like a dark , jagged crystal , and above it a pale ceiba - tree rose
...
Pagina 36
The cork had been driven in tightly to the level of the mouth , and the end covered
with dark - red sealing - wax . The bottle contained only what seemed to be a
sheet of paper , much curled from the manipulation it had undergone while being
...
The cork had been driven in tightly to the level of the mouth , and the end covered
with dark - red sealing - wax . The bottle contained only what seemed to be a
sheet of paper , much curled from the manipulation it had undergone while being
...
Pagina 41
Reaching in the half - darkness , his hand struck against the bottle . He started as
if he had touched the cold rotundity of a serpent . He had forgotten that the bottle
was there . He lighted the lamp and fed the monkey . Then , very deliberately ...
Reaching in the half - darkness , his hand struck against the bottle . He started as
if he had touched the cold rotundity of a serpent . He had forgotten that the bottle
was there . He lighted the lamp and fed the monkey . Then , very deliberately ...
Pagina 64
Somewhere over in that tropical darkness — perhaps already threading the
profundities of the alluvial lowlands — the high adventurer and his mate were
moving toward land ' s end . The game of Fox - in - the - Morning should be
coming ...
Somewhere over in that tropical darkness — perhaps already threading the
profundities of the alluvial lowlands — the high adventurer and his mate were
moving toward land ' s end . The game of Fox - in - the - Morning should be
coming ...
Pagina 66
... a dark place . Carramba ! — el Seņor Presidente to make himself thus secret
and obscured ! I think he desired not to be known — but , carajo ! can you shave
a man and not see his face ? This 66 ...
... a dark place . Carramba ! — el Seņor Presidente to make himself thus secret
and obscured ! I think he desired not to be known — but , carajo ! can you shave
a man and not see his face ? This 66 ...
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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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