Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 13
... side of the street , stood the abode of the consul for the United States . Out from the door of this building tumbled Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with Willard Ged- die , the consul , on the back porch of the consulate ...
... side of the street , stood the abode of the consul for the United States . Out from the door of this building tumbled Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with Willard Ged- die , the consul , on the back porch of the consulate ...
Pagina 22
... side streets were covered by a growth of thick , rank grass , which was kept to a navigable shortness by the machetes of the police . Stone side- walks , little more than a ledge in width , ran along the base of the mean and monotonous ...
... side streets were covered by a growth of thick , rank grass , which was kept to a navigable shortness by the machetes of the police . Stone side- walks , little more than a ledge in width , ran along the base of the mean and monotonous ...
Pagina 29
... sides of it . One room was the official apart- ment , furnished chastely with a flat - top desk , a ham- mock , and ... side of the gallery facing the sea- a spot famous as the coolest in Coralio . The break- fast consisted of shark's ...
... sides of it . One room was the official apart- ment , furnished chastely with a flat - top desk , a ham- mock , and ... side of the gallery facing the sea- a spot famous as the coolest in Coralio . The break- fast consisted of shark's ...
Pagina 37
... side by side on his desk . He fetched his steamer chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably . He would smoke those three cigars while considering the problem . For it amounted to a problem . He almost wished that he had ...
... side by side on his desk . He fetched his steamer chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably . He would smoke those three cigars while considering the problem . For it amounted to a problem . He almost wished that he had ...
Pagina 52
... side of it , enclosed by a low , rock wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered adobe , stained a hundred shades of colour by the salt breeze and the sun . Upon its upper bal- cony opened a central door ...
... side of it , enclosed by a low , rock wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered adobe , stained a hundred shades of colour by the salt breeze and the sun . Upon its upper bal- cony opened a central door ...
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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...