Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 166
... Vega that he shall to his country bring those success and glory ! It is hard - oh , so hard to find good mans to help in the work . ' " Monseer , ' says I , leanin ' over the table and graspin ' his hand , ' I don't know where your ...
... Vega that he shall to his country bring those success and glory ! It is hard - oh , so hard to find good mans to help in the work . ' " Monseer , ' says I , leanin ' over the table and graspin ' his hand , ' I don't know where your ...
Pagina 167
... Vega was overcome with joy to con- fiscate my condolence of his conspiracies and predic- aments . He tried to embrace me across the table , but his fatness , and the wine that had been in the bot- tles , prevented . Thus was I welcomed ...
... Vega was overcome with joy to con- fiscate my condolence of his conspiracies and predic- aments . He tried to embrace me across the table , but his fatness , and the wine that had been in the bot- tles , prevented . Thus was I welcomed ...
Pagina 169
... Vega headed the revolution , as it pulled out of the seaport town . That train travelled about as fast as a police- man goin ' to a riot . It penetrated the most con- spicuous lot of fuzzy scenery ever seen outside a geography . We run ...
... Vega headed the revolution , as it pulled out of the seaport town . That train travelled about as fast as a police- man goin ' to a riot . It penetrated the most con- spicuous lot of fuzzy scenery ever seen outside a geography . We run ...
Pagina 171
... Vega man , who was smokin ' a cigar and gazin ' upon the scene with satisfactions and glory . He smiles at me polite and devilish . Plenty work , ' says he , for big , strong mans in Guatemala . Yes . T'irty dollars in the month . Good ...
... Vega man , who was smokin ' a cigar and gazin ' upon the scene with satisfactions and glory . He smiles at me polite and devilish . Plenty work , ' says he , for big , strong mans in Guatemala . Yes . T'irty dollars in the month . Good ...
Pagina 174
... Vega ? ' " " Tis the man , ' says Halloran , who is tryin ' to complete the finishin ' of the railroad . ' Twas the project of a private corporation , but it busted , and then the government took it up . De Vegy is 174 Cabbages and Kings.
... Vega ? ' " " Tis the man , ' says Halloran , who is tryin ' to complete the finishin ' of the railroad . ' Twas the project of a private corporation , but it busted , and then the government took it up . De Vegy is 174 Cabbages and Kings.
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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.