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Pagina 7
... cutlass and attack with quip and jollity ; to draw one saving titter of mirth from
the rusty casque of Romance — this were pleasant to do in the shade of the
lemon - trees The Proem.
... cutlass and attack with quip and jollity ; to draw one saving titter of mirth from
the rusty casque of Romance — this were pleasant to do in the shade of the
lemon - trees The Proem.
Pagina 8
O. Henry. ant to do in the shade of the lemon - trees on that coast that is curved
like lips set for smiling . For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . That segment
of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting to the sea a
...
O. Henry. ant to do in the shade of the lemon - trees on that coast that is curved
like lips set for smiling . For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . That segment
of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting to the sea a
...
Pagina 11
The waves swished along the smooth beach ; the parrots screamed in the orange
and ceiba - trees ; the palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like an awkward
chorus at the prima donna ' s cue to enter . Suddenly the town was full of ...
The waves swished along the smooth beach ; the parrots screamed in the orange
and ceiba - trees ; the palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like an awkward
chorus at the prima donna ' s cue to enter . Suddenly the town was full of ...
Pagina 14
their baking in the mud ovens under the orange - trees , or to the interminable
combing of their long , straight hair ; the men to their cigarettes and gossip in the
cantinas . Goodwin sat on Keogh ' s doorstep , and read his telegram . It was from
...
their baking in the mud ovens under the orange - trees , or to the interminable
combing of their long , straight hair ; the men to their cigarettes and gossip in the
cantinas . Goodwin sat on Keogh ' s doorstep , and read his telegram . It was from
...
Pagina 21
I never saw her either , ” went on Keogh ; “ but they say she ' s got all the ladies of
mythology , 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 .
I never saw her either , ” went on Keogh ; “ but they say she ' s got all the ladies of
mythology , 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 .
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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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