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Pagina 23
A wide cool porch ran around the house half way up its outer walls . A handsome
, vivacious girl neatly dressed in flowing white leaned over the railing and smiled
down upon Goodwin . She was no darker than many an Andalusian of high ...
A wide cool porch ran around the house half way up its outer walls . A handsome
, vivacious girl neatly dressed in flowing white leaned over the railing and smiled
down upon Goodwin . She was no darker than many an Andalusian of high ...
Pagina 29
Engravings of the first and latest president of the country represented hung
against the wall . The other room was the consul ' s living apartment . It was
eleven o ' clock when he returned from the beach , and therefore breakfast time .
Chanca ...
Engravings of the first and latest president of the country represented hung
against the wall . The other room was the consul ' s living apartment . It was
eleven o ' clock when he returned from the beach , and therefore breakfast time .
Chanca ...
Pagina 52
A grove of small orange - trees crowded against one 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 .
A grove of small orange - trees crowded against one 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 .
Pagina 54
He was coatless , and he leaned back against the wall and smoked , while he
stroked his beard . Surprise came into his pale blue eyes when he caught sight of
Smith in his unusual and prismatic clothes . “ You ' re Dr . Gregg — is that right ?
He was coatless , and he leaned back against the wall and smoked , while he
stroked his beard . Surprise came into his pale blue eyes when he caught sight of
Smith in his unusual and prismatic clothes . “ You ' re Dr . Gregg — is that right ?
Pagina 81
There are floors polished like mirrors and covered with hand - woven Indian rugs
of silk fibre , tall ornaments and pictures , musical instruments and papered walls
— “ figure - it - to - yourself ! ” they exclaim . But they cannot tell you in Coralio ...
There are floors polished like mirrors and covered with hand - woven Indian rugs
of silk fibre , tall ornaments and pictures , musical instruments and papered walls
— “ figure - it - to - yourself ! ” they exclaim . But they cannot tell you in Coralio ...
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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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