Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 17
... knew before that Presi- dent Norvin Green had stamped it with the seal of his approval . " Tis now no longer literature , but lan- guage . The dictionaries tried , but they couldn't make it go for anything but dialect . Sure , now that ...
... knew before that Presi- dent Norvin Green had stamped it with the seal of his approval . " Tis now no longer literature , but lan- guage . The dictionaries tried , but they couldn't make it go for anything but dialect . Sure , now that ...
Pagina 26
... knew that not one in fifty of his acquaint- ances in the States had ever heard of Coralio . He knew that two men , at any rate , would have to read his report - some underling in the State Department and a compositor in the Public ...
... knew that not one in fifty of his acquaint- ances in the States had ever heard of Coralio . He knew that two men , at any rate , would have to read his report - some underling in the State Department and a compositor in the Public ...
Pagina 27
... knew it to be the Valhalla , one of the line of fruit vessels plying for the Vesuvius Company . Down to niños of five years , everyone in Coralio could name you each in- coming steamer by the note of her siren . The consul sauntered by ...
... knew it to be the Valhalla , one of the line of fruit vessels plying for the Vesuvius Company . Down to niños of five years , everyone in Coralio could name you each in- coming steamer by the note of her siren . The consul sauntered by ...
Pagina 35
... had been erased . He knew that men sometimes hope without being aware of it . Now , since she had come two thousand miles and had passed without a sign , not even his unconscious self need The Lotus and the Bottle 35.
... had been erased . He knew that men sometimes hope without being aware of it . Now , since she had come two thousand miles and had passed without a sign , not even his unconscious self need The Lotus and the Bottle 35.
Pagina 38
... knew he was in Coralio ; she must have launched the bottle while the yacht was passing and the wind blowing fairly toward the shore . As soon as Geddie reached this conclusion a wrinkle came between his brows and a stubborn look settled ...
... knew he was in Coralio ; she must have launched the bottle while the yacht was passing and the wind blowing fairly toward the shore . As soon as Geddie reached this conclusion a wrinkle came between his brows and a stubborn look settled ...
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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...