Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 39
... followed a street that led him along the border of the little plaza where a band was playing and people were rambling , care - free and indolent . Some timor- ous señoritas scurrying past with fire - flies tangled in the jetty braids of ...
... followed a street that led him along the border of the little plaza where a band was playing and people were rambling , care - free and indolent . Some timor- ous señoritas scurrying past with fire - flies tangled in the jetty braids of ...
Pagina 60
... to show where he had followed the trail of his mystery on the sands of Coralio that night . He came ; he spake his strange jargon of the asphalt and the 66 cafés ; he sat under the cocoanut - tree 60 Cabbages and Kings.
... to show where he had followed the trail of his mystery on the sands of Coralio that night . He came ; he spake his strange jargon of the asphalt and the 66 cafés ; he sat under the cocoanut - tree 60 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 65
... followed at increased speed , but without any of the artful tactics that are so dear to the heart of the sleuth . The American was too broad to feel the instinct of the detective . He stood as an agent for the people of Anchuria , and ...
... followed at increased speed , but without any of the artful tactics that are so dear to the heart of the sleuth . The American was too broad to feel the instinct of the detective . He stood as an agent for the people of Anchuria , and ...
Pagina 71
... followed it and rested upon it with icy and significant concentration . Apparently she had not heard a word he had said . He understood , tossed the cigar out the window , and , with an amused laugh , slid from the table to his feet ...
... followed it and rested upon it with icy and significant concentration . Apparently she had not heard a word he had said . He understood , tossed the cigar out the window , and , with an amused laugh , slid from the table to his feet ...
Pagina 78
... followed , and some one swept him aside and struggled into the room of the fallen man . A desolation , thought Goodwin , greater than that derived from the loss of cavalier and gold must have been in the heart of the enchantress to have ...
... followed , and some one swept him aside and struggled into the room of the fallen man . A desolation , thought Goodwin , greater than that derived from the loss of cavalier and gold must have been in the heart of the enchantress to have ...
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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...