Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 4
... young American opera singer ; and how , being apprehended by members of the opposing po- litical party in Coralio , he shot himself through the head rather than give up the funds , and , in conse- quence , the Señorita Guilbert . They ...
... young American opera singer ; and how , being apprehended by members of the opposing po- litical party in Coralio , he shot himself through the head rather than give up the funds , and , in conse- quence , the Señorita Guilbert . They ...
Pagina 82
... young life . The con- sulship at Coralio seemed to offer a retreat suffi- ciently removed and romantic enough to inject the necessary drama into the pastoral scenes of Dales- burg life . It was while playing the part of Cupid's exile ...
... young life . The con- sulship at Coralio seemed to offer a retreat suffi- ciently removed and romantic enough to inject the necessary drama into the pastoral scenes of Dales- burg life . It was while playing the part of Cupid's exile ...
Pagina 83
... young woman was possessed of plentiful attrac- tions , so that the young men of the community were agitated in their bosoms . Among the more agitated was Johnny , the son of Judge Atwood , who lived in the big colonial mansion on the ...
... young woman was possessed of plentiful attrac- tions , so that the young men of the community were agitated in their bosoms . Among the more agitated was Johnny , the son of Judge Atwood , who lived in the big colonial mansion on the ...
Pagina 84
... young farmer came between them on that occasion is not known ; but Rosine's answer was unfavourable . Mr. John De Graffenreid Atwood bowed till his hat touched the lawn grass , and went away with his head high , but with a sore wound in ...
... young farmer came between them on that occasion is not known ; but Rosine's answer was unfavourable . Mr. John De Graffenreid Atwood bowed till his hat touched the lawn grass , and went away with his head high , but with a sore wound in ...
Pagina 86
... young Southerner that the sophisticated Keogh liked . His manner was simple almost to boyishness ; but he possessed the cool carelessness of a man of far greater age and experience . Neither uniforms nor titles , red tape nor foreign ...
... young Southerner that the sophisticated Keogh liked . His manner was simple almost to boyishness ; but he possessed the cool carelessness of a man of far greater age and experience . Neither uniforms nor titles , red tape nor foreign ...
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admiral aguardiente American Anchuria Atwood bananas beach Beelzebub Billy Keogh Blythe boat bottle captain Caribs Casa Morena chair cigar Clancy coast cocoanut Colonel Falcon consul Coralio crew Dalesburg dark Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional Estebán eyes face Felipe flag friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land laughed looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic Rosine sail sand says seemed Señor Goodwin señorita shoes shore sloop smile smoke Spanish Spanish Main steamer steps stood street tell there's thing thousand tintype took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla
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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...