Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 11
... word passed quickly . come to anyone in Coralio . Telegrams do not often The cry for Señor Good- win was taken up by a dozen officious voices . The 11 main street running parallel to the beach became pop- ulated "FOX-IN-THE-MORNING.
... word passed quickly . come to anyone in Coralio . Telegrams do not often The cry for Señor Good- win was taken up by a dozen officious voices . The 11 main street running parallel to the beach became pop- ulated "FOX-IN-THE-MORNING.
Pagina 12
O. Henry. main street running parallel to the beach became pop- ulated with those who desired to expedite the delivery of the despatch . Knots of women with complexions varying from palest olive to deepest brown gath- ered at street ...
O. Henry. main street running parallel to the beach became pop- ulated with those who desired to expedite the delivery of the despatch . Knots of women with complexions varying from palest olive to deepest brown gath- ered at street ...
Pagina 17
... running too much to philology , Billy , " said Goodwin . " Do you make out the meaning of it ? " 66 " All Sure , " replied the philosopher of Fortune . languages come easy to the man who must know ' em . I've even failed to ...
... running too much to philology , Billy , " said Goodwin . " Do you make out the meaning of it ? " 66 " All Sure , " replied the philosopher of Fortune . languages come easy to the man who must know ' em . I've even failed to ...
Pagina 18
... run , and shout : Fox - in - the- Morning ! ' Me and you , standing here , we say : ' Goose and the Gander ! ' They say : How many miles is it to London town ? ' We say : ' Only a few , 6 if your legs are long enough . How many comes ...
... run , and shout : Fox - in - the- Morning ! ' Me and you , standing here , we say : ' Goose and the Gander ! ' They say : How many miles is it to London town ? ' We say : ' Only a few , 6 if your legs are long enough . How many comes ...
Pagina 21
... running away with it . Frank , did you ever see the ' bundle of mus- lin ' that His Excellency has wrapped up and carried off ? " " Isabel Guilbert ? " said Goodwin , laughing . " No , I never did . From what I've heard of her , though ...
... running away with it . Frank , did you ever see the ' bundle of mus- lin ' that His Excellency has wrapped up and carried off ? " " Isabel Guilbert ? " said Goodwin , laughing . " No , I never did . From what I've heard of her , though ...
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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...