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Pagina 21
... the other , galloping down hill on a sympathetic mule amid songbirds and
flowers ! And here is Billy Keogh , because he is virtuous , condemned to the
unprofitable swindle of slandering the faces of missing links on tin for an honest
living !
... the other , galloping down hill on a sympathetic mule amid songbirds and
flowers ! And here is Billy Keogh , because he is virtuous , condemned to the
unprofitable swindle of slandering the faces of missing links on tin for an honest
living !
Pagina 48
Geddie was lounging in his hammock , somewhat pale of face and languid in
pose . On that night when the Valhalla ' s boat had brought him ashore
apparently drenched to death by the sea , Doctor Gregg and his other friends had
toiled for ...
Geddie was lounging in his hammock , somewhat pale of face and languid in
pose . On that night when the Valhalla ' s boat had brought him ashore
apparently drenched to death by the sea , Doctor Gregg and his other friends had
toiled for ...
Pagina 53
Dr . Gregg , the quarantine physician , was a man of fifty or sixty , with a florid face
and the longest beard between Topeka and Terra del Fuego . He held his
position by virtue of an appointment by the Board of Health of a seaport city in
one of ...
Dr . Gregg , the quarantine physician , was a man of fifty or sixty , with a florid face
and the longest beard between Topeka and Terra del Fuego . He held his
position by virtue of an appointment by the Board of Health of a seaport city in
one of ...
Pagina 55
His face was like an animal ' s , live and wary , but without promise of much
intelligence . This man jabbered with animation and so much seriousness that it
seemed a pity that his words were to be wasted . Dr . Gregg felt his pulse . “ You
sick ?
His face was like an animal ' s , live and wary , but without promise of much
intelligence . This man jabbered with animation and so much seriousness that it
seemed a pity that his words were to be wasted . Dr . Gregg felt his pulse . “ You
sick ?
Pagina 56
He then held up two fingers , shaking them emphatically before the native ' s face
. Next he pulled out his watch and ran his finger round its dial twice . Again the
two fingers confronted the patient ' s nose . “ Two — two — two hours , " repeated
...
He then held up two fingers , shaking them emphatically before the native ' s face
. Next he pulled out his watch and ran his finger round its dial twice . Again the
two fingers confronted the patient ' s nose . “ Two — two — two hours , " repeated
...
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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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