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Pagina 9
... small adventurer , with empty pockets to fill , light of heart , busy - brained —
the modern fairy prince , bearing an alarm clock with which , more surely than by
the sentimental kiss , to awaken the beautiful tropics from their centuries ' sleep .
... small adventurer , with empty pockets to fill , light of heart , busy - brained —
the modern fairy prince , bearing an alarm clock with which , more surely than by
the sentimental kiss , to awaken the beautiful tropics from their centuries ' sleep .
Pagina 19
Between the sea and the foothills stretched the five miles breadth of alluvial coast
. Here was the flora of the tropics in its rankest and most prodigal growth . Spaces
here and there had been wrested from the jungle and planted with “ Fox - in ...
Between the sea and the foothills stretched the five miles breadth of alluvial coast
. Here was the flora of the tropics in its rankest and most prodigal growth . Spaces
here and there had been wrested from the jungle and planted with “ Fox - in ...
Pagina 26
only twenty - four ; and he had not been in Coralio long enough for his
enthusiasm to cool in the heat of the tropics — a paradox that may be allowed
between Cancer and Capricorn . So many thousand bunches of bananas , so
many thousand ...
only twenty - four ; and he had not been in Coralio long enough for his
enthusiasm to cool in the heat of the tropics — a paradox that may be allowed
between Cancer and Capricorn . So many thousand bunches of bananas , so
many thousand ...
Pagina 89
The authority of the sea and the tropics , the mystery that attends unknown sails ,
and the prestige of drifting music on moonlit waters gave it an anodynous charm .
Johnny Atwood felt it , and thought of Dalesburg ; but as soon as Keogh ' s ...
The authority of the sea and the tropics , the mystery that attends unknown sails ,
and the prestige of drifting music on moonlit waters gave it an anodynous charm .
Johnny Atwood felt it , and thought of Dalesburg ; but as soon as Keogh ' s ...
Pagina 112
Henry went back to the States , but I ' ve been rummaging around in the tropics
ever since . They say Mellinger never travelled a mile after that without his
phonograph . I guess it kept him reminded about his graft whenever he saw the
siren ...
Henry went back to the States , but I ' ve been rummaging around in the tropics
ever since . They say Mellinger never travelled a mile after that without his
phonograph . I guess it kept him reminded about his graft whenever he saw the
siren ...
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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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