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... and that one hundred thousand 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 show you
his grave ...
... and that one hundred thousand 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 show you
his grave ...
Pagina 4
Even with the hundred thousand unfound , though greatly coveted , the hue and
cry went no further than that . To the stranger or the guest the people of Coralio
will relate the story of the tragic end of their former president ; how he strove to ...
Even with the hundred thousand unfound , though greatly coveted , the hue and
cry went no further than that . To the stranger or the guest the people of Coralio
will relate the story of the tragic end of their former president ; how he strove to ...
Pagina 21
... sculpture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They say she can look at a man
once , and he ' ll turn monkey and climb trees to pick cocoanuts for her . Think of
that president man with Lord knows how many hundreds of thousands of dollars
in ...
... sculpture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They say she can look at a man
once , and he ' ll turn monkey and climb trees to pick cocoanuts for her . Think of
that president man with Lord knows how many hundreds of thousands of dollars
in ...
Pagina 26
So many thousand bunches of bananas , so many thousand oranges and
cocoanuts , so many ounces of gold dust , pounds of rubber , coffee , indigo and
sarsaparilla — actually , exports were twenty per cent . greater than for the
previous ...
So many thousand bunches of bananas , so many thousand oranges and
cocoanuts , so many ounces of gold dust , pounds of rubber , coffee , indigo and
sarsaparilla — actually , exports were twenty per cent . greater than for the
previous ...
Pagina 35
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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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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