Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 3
... revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration , was never afterward recovered . For a real , a boy will ...
... revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration , was never afterward recovered . For a real , a boy will ...
Pagina 13
... revolution . " Goodwin had strolled up the street and met the boy with the message . The ox - eyed women gazed at him with shy admiration , for his type drew them . He was big , blonde , and jauntily dressed in white linen , with ...
... revolution . " Goodwin had strolled up the street and met the boy with the message . The ox - eyed women gazed at him with shy admiration , for his type drew them . He was big , blonde , and jauntily dressed in white linen , with ...
Pagina 15
... revolutionary party ; and to it he had always allied himself ; for the ad- herents of a new administration received the rewards of their labours ... revolution , and now Englehart's telegram had come as a 66 15 Fox - in - the - Morning "
... revolutionary party ; and to it he had always allied himself ; for the ad- herents of a new administration received the rewards of their labours ... revolution , and now Englehart's telegram had come as a 66 15 Fox - in - the - Morning "
Pagina 16
O. Henry. revolution , and now Englehart's telegram had come as a corroboration of his wisdom . The telegram , which had remained unintelligible to the Anchurian linguists who had applied to it in vain their knowledge of Spanish and ...
O. Henry. revolution , and now Englehart's telegram had come as a corroboration of his wisdom . The telegram , which had remained unintelligible to the Anchurian linguists who had applied to it in vain their knowledge of Spanish and ...
Pagina 50
... revolutions come from . I had no idea there was so much scenery down here . Why , Central Park ain't in it with this neck of the woods . I'm from New York . They get monkeys , and cocoanuts , and par- rots down here is that right ...
... revolutions come from . I had no idea there was so much scenery down here . Why , Central Park ain't in it with this neck of the woods . I'm from New York . They get monkeys , and cocoanuts , and par- rots down here is that right ...
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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...