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Pagina 29
The consul re - hoisted his umbrella and walked back to the consulate . This
home of a great nation ' s representative was a wooden structure of two rooms ,
with a native - built gallery of poles , bamboo and nipa palm running on three
sides of ...
The consul re - hoisted his umbrella and walked back to the consulate . This
home of a great nation ' s representative was a wooden structure of two rooms ,
with a native - built gallery of poles , bamboo and nipa palm running on three
sides of ...
Pagina 36
After dinner , when the sun was low behind the mountains , Geddie walked on
the little strip of beach under the cocoanuts . The wind was blowing mildly
landward , and the surface of the sea was rippled by tiny wavelets . A miniature
breaker ...
After dinner , when the sun was low behind the mountains , Geddie walked on
the little strip of beach under the cocoanuts . The wind was blowing mildly
landward , and the surface of the sea was rippled by tiny wavelets . A miniature
breaker ...
Pagina 37
He walked back to his house , and set the bottle on his desk . Throwing off his hat
and coat , and lighting a lamp — for the night had crowded precipitately upon the
brief twilight — he began to examine his piece of sea salvage . By holding the ...
He walked back to his house , and set the bottle on his desk . Throwing off his hat
and coat , and lighting a lamp — for the night had crowded precipitately upon the
brief twilight — he began to examine his piece of sea salvage . By holding the ...
Pagina 39
Geddie put on his coat and hat and walked out . He followed a street that led him
along the border of the little plaza where a band was playing and people were
rambling , care - free and indolent . Some timorous señoritas scúrrying past with ...
Geddie put on his coat and hat and walked out . He followed a street that led him
along the border of the little plaza where a band was playing and people were
rambling , care - free and indolent . Some timorous señoritas scúrrying past with ...
Pagina 40
He suggested a stroll , and they walked out to the old Indian well on the hill road .
They sat on the curb , and there Geddie made the expected but long - deferred
speech . Certain though he had been that she would not say him nay , he was ...
He suggested a stroll , and they walked out to the old Indian well on the hill road .
They sat on the curb , and there Geddie made the expected but long - deferred
speech . Certain though he had been that she would not say him nay , he was ...
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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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