Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 68
... aguardiente , " said Madama , with pride , is the best . It grows , in beautiful bottles , in the dark places among the banana - trees . Si , Señor . Only at midnight can they be picked by sailor - men who bring them , before daylight ...
... aguardiente , " said Madama , with pride , is the best . It grows , in beautiful bottles , in the dark places among the banana - trees . Si , Señor . Only at midnight can they be picked by sailor - men who bring them , before daylight ...
Pagina 116
... aguardiente , which is the best . To their rooms they ascended Numero Nueve and Numero Diez . Later came Señor Goodwin , who ascended to speak with them . Then I heard a great noise like that of a canon , and they said that the pobre ...
... aguardiente , which is the best . To their rooms they ascended Numero Nueve and Numero Diez . Later came Señor Goodwin , who ascended to speak with them . Then I heard a great noise like that of a canon , and they said that the pobre ...
Pagina 127
... aguardiente por acá . " 66 Now , what do you want to see me about ? " asked Goodwin , when the drinks were before them . " Confound it , old man , " drawled Blythe , " why do you spoil a golden moment like this with business ? I wanted ...
... aguardiente por acá . " 66 Now , what do you want to see me about ? " asked Goodwin , when the drinks were before them . " Confound it , old man , " drawled Blythe , " why do you spoil a golden moment like this with business ? I wanted ...
Pagina 195
... aguardiente . In two of the pulperias his coura- geous petition for drink was met with a refusal so polite that it stung worse than abuse . The third es- tablishment had acquired something of American methods ; and here he was seized ...
... aguardiente . In two of the pulperias his coura- geous petition for drink was met with a refusal so polite that it stung worse than abuse . The third es- tablishment had acquired something of American methods ; and here he was seized ...
Pagina 200
... all out at the elbows , and I'd sell my mother's prayer - book for three fingers of aguardiente . I'm not putting on the screws hard . It ought to be worth a thousand to you for me to have slept on 200 Cabbages and Kings.
... all out at the elbows , and I'd sell my mother's prayer - book for three fingers of aguardiente . I'm not putting on the screws hard . It ought to be worth a thousand to you for me to have slept on 200 Cabbages and Kings.
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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...