Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 30
... York journals are supposed to take their Sabbath literary nap . Opening this the consul rested it upon the table , supporting its weight with the aid of the back of a chair . Then he partook of his meal deliberately , turning the leaves ...
... York journals are supposed to take their Sabbath literary nap . Opening this the consul rested it upon the table , supporting its weight with the aid of the back of a chair . Then he partook of his meal deliberately , turning the leaves ...
Pagina 45
... York , according to the distribu- tion of the fruit supply . Goodwin lounged upon the beach with the usual ' crowd of idlers that had gathered to view the steamer . Now that President Miraflores might be expected to reach the borders of ...
... York , according to the distribu- tion of the fruit supply . Goodwin lounged upon the beach with the usual ' crowd of idlers that had gathered to view the steamer . Now that President Miraflores might be expected to reach the borders of ...
Pagina 46
... York , to which port her latest load of oranges and cocoanuts had been con- veyed . Two or three of the freighter sloops were en- gaged to assist in the work , for the captain was anx- ious to make a quick return in order to reap the ...
... York , to which port her latest load of oranges and cocoanuts had been con- veyed . Two or three of the freighter sloops were en- gaged to assist in the work , for the captain was anx- ious to make a quick return in order to reap the ...
Pagina 50
... York . They get monkeys , and cocoanuts , and par- rots down here — is that right ? " " We have them all , " said Geddie . " I'm quite sure that our fauna and flora would take a prize over Central Park . " " Maybe they would ...
... York . They get monkeys , and cocoanuts , and par- rots down here — is that right ? " " We have them all , " said Geddie . " I'm quite sure that our fauna and flora would take a prize over Central Park . " " Maybe they would ...
Pagina 51
... York , I believe . No ; she brought no passengers . I saw her boat come ashore , and there was no one . the only exciting recreation we have here is watching steamers when they arrive ; and a passenger on one of them generally causes ...
... York , I believe . No ; she brought no passengers . I saw her boat come ashore , and there was no one . the only exciting recreation we have here is watching steamers when they arrive ; and a passenger on one of them generally causes ...
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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.