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Pagina 20
Otherwise he would not have tried to make his message a confidential one ; and ,
besides , everybody would have heard the news . I ' m going around now to see
Dr . Zavalla , and start a man up the trail to cut the telegraph wire . ” As Goodwin ...
Otherwise he would not have tried to make his message a confidential one ; and ,
besides , everybody would have heard the news . I ' m going around now to see
Dr . Zavalla , and start a man up the trail to cut the telegraph wire . ” As Goodwin ...
Pagina 21
From what I ' ve heard of her , though , I imagine that she wouldn ' t stick at
anything to carry her point . Don ' t get romantic , Billy . Sometimes I begin to fear
that there ' s Irish blood in your ancestry . ” “ I never saw her either , ” went on
Keogh ...
From what I ' ve heard of her , though , I imagine that she wouldn ' t stick at
anything to carry her point . Don ' t get romantic , Billy . Sometimes I begin to fear
that there ' s Irish blood in your ancestry . ” “ I never saw her either , ” went on
Keogh ...
Pagina 26
... who subscribed for the London Lancet , expecting to find it quoting his reports
to the home Board of Health concerning the yellow fever germ . The consul knew
that not one in fifty of his acquaintances in the States had ever heard of Coralio .
... who subscribed for the London Lancet , expecting to find it quoting his reports
to the home Board of Health concerning the yellow fever germ . The consul knew
that not one in fifty of his acquaintances in the States had ever heard of Coralio .
Pagina 27
He had just written : “ Most unaccountable is the supineness of the large
exporters in the United States in permitting the French and German houses to
practically control the trade interests of this rich and productive country " , when
he heard ...
He had just written : “ Most unaccountable is the supineness of the large
exporters in the United States in permitting the French and German houses to
practically control the trade interests of this rich and productive country " , when
he heard ...
Pagina 32
During the twelve months of his life in Coralio no word had passed between them
, though he had sometimes heard of her through the dilatory correspondence
with the few friends to whom he still wrote . Still he could not repress a little thrill
of ...
During the twelve months of his life in Coralio no word had passed between them
, though he had sometimes heard of her through the dilatory correspondence
with the few friends to whom he still wrote . Still he could not repress a little thrill
of ...
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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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