Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 3
... head . Some one has burned upon the headstone with a hot iron this inscription : RAMON ANGEL DE LAS CRUZES Y MIRAFLORES PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA DE ANCHURIA QUE SEA SU JUEZ DIOS 3 It is characteristic of this buoyant people that they ...
... head . Some one has burned upon the headstone with a hot iron this inscription : RAMON ANGEL DE LAS CRUZES Y MIRAFLORES PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA DE ANCHURIA QUE SEA SU JUEZ DIOS 3 It is characteristic of this buoyant people that they ...
Pagina 4
... head rather than give up the funds , and , in conse- quence , the Señorita Guilbert . They will relate further that Doña Isabel , her adventurous bark of fortune shoaled by the simultaneous loss of her dis- tinguished admirer and the ...
... head rather than give up the funds , and , in conse- quence , the Señorita Guilbert . They will relate further that Doña Isabel , her adventurous bark of fortune shoaled by the simultaneous loss of her dis- tinguished admirer and the ...
Pagina 18
... head with All Around the Rosebush . ' The spirit of Fox - in - the- Morning ' is opposed to the holding of hands . I'll tell you how it's played . This president man and his companion in play , they stand up over in San Mateo , ready ...
... head with All Around the Rosebush . ' The spirit of Fox - in - the- Morning ' is opposed to the holding of hands . I'll tell you how it's played . This president man and his companion in play , they stand up over in San Mateo , ready ...
Pagina 22
... nothing ; and here were set the palm - thatched huts of the Caribs and the poorer natives , and the shabby cabins of negroes from Jamaica and the West India - islands . A few structures raised their heads above 22 Cabbages and Kings.
... nothing ; and here were set the palm - thatched huts of the Caribs and the poorer natives , and the shabby cabins of negroes from Jamaica and the West India - islands . A few structures raised their heads above 22 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 23
O. Henry. - islands . A few structures raised their heads above the red - tiled roofs of the one - story houses the bell tower of the Calaboza , the Hotel de los Estranjeros , the residence of the Vesuvius Fruit Company's agent , the ...
O. Henry. - islands . A few structures raised their heads above the red - tiled roofs of the one - story houses the bell tower of the Calaboza , the Hotel de los Estranjeros , the residence of the Vesuvius Fruit Company's agent , the ...
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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...