Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 12
... Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and protographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy were at that time assailing the hopeless shores . Outside the shop were set ...
... Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and protographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy were at that time assailing the hopeless shores . Outside the shop were set ...
Pagina 17
... Billy , " he said . " It's from Bob Englehart . Can you manage the cipher ? " Keogh sat in the other half of the doorway , and carefully perused the telegram . " " Tis not a cipher , " he said , finally . " " Tis what they call ...
... Billy , " he said . " It's from Bob Englehart . Can you manage the cipher ? " Keogh sat in the other half of the doorway , and carefully perused the telegram . " " Tis not a cipher , " he said , finally . " " Tis what they call ...
Pagina 18
... Billy ; their feathers are too valuable . Our crowd is prepared and able to step into the shoes of the govern- ment at once ; but with the treasury empty we'd stay in power about as long as a tenderfoot would stick on an untamed bronco ...
... Billy ; their feathers are too valuable . Our crowd is prepared and able to step into the shoes of the govern- ment at once ; but with the treasury empty we'd stay in power about as long as a tenderfoot would stick on an untamed bronco ...
Pagina 20
... Billy , " advised Goodwin . " We don't want the Ins to know that the president is in flight . I suppose Bob's information is something of a scoop in the capital as yet . Otherwise he would not have tried to make his message a ...
... Billy , " advised Goodwin . " We don't want the Ins to know that the president is in flight . I suppose Bob's information is something of a scoop in the capital as yet . Otherwise he would not have tried to make his message a ...
Pagina 21
... Billy . Sometimes I begin to fear that there's Irish blood in your ances- try . " " I never saw her either , " went on Keogh ; “ but they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculp- ture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They ...
... Billy . Sometimes I begin to fear that there's Irish blood in your ances- try . " " I never saw her either , " went on Keogh ; “ but they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculp- ture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They ...
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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 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 Walrus White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla
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Pagina 10 - His Nibs 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 to know what to do. BOB.
Pagina 90 - Gallia in tres partes divisa est'; which is the same as to say, "We will need all of our gall in devising means to tree them parties.
Pagina 55 - 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 7 - 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.