Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 5
... close of a tragedy and the climax of a romance have covered the ground of interest ; but , to the more curious reader it shall be some slight in- struction to trace the close threads that underlie the ingenuous The Proem 5.
... close of a tragedy and the climax of a romance have covered the ground of interest ; but , to the more curious reader it shall be some slight in- struction to trace the close threads that underlie the ingenuous The Proem 5.
Pagina 6
O. Henry. struction to trace the close threads that underlie the ingenuous web of circumstances . The headpiece bearing the name of President Miraflores is daily scrubbed with soap - bark and sand . An old half - breed Indian tends the ...
O. Henry. struction to trace the close threads that underlie the ingenuous web of circumstances . The headpiece bearing the name of President Miraflores is daily scrubbed with soap - bark and sand . An old half - breed Indian tends the ...
Pagina 37
... close writing ; further , that the paper was of the same size and shade as that always used by Ida ; and that , to the best of his belief , the handwriting was hers . The imperfect glass of the bottle so distorted the rays of light that ...
... close writing ; further , that the paper was of the same size and shade as that always used by Ida ; and that , to the best of his belief , the handwriting was hers . The imperfect glass of the bottle so distorted the rays of light that ...
Pagina 62
... close - watch . Good- win held himself responsible for the district about Coralio . The news of the president's flight had been dis- closed to no one in the coast towns save trusted mem- bers of the ambitious political party that was ...
... close - watch . Good- win held himself responsible for the district about Coralio . The news of the president's flight had been dis- closed to no one in the coast towns save trusted mem- bers of the ambitious political party that was ...
Pagina 64
... close . Goodwin , at his deliberate gait , passed the long , low cuartel where Coralio's contingent of Anchuria's military force slumbered , with its bare toes pointed heavenward . There was a law that no civilian might come so near the ...
... close . Goodwin , at his deliberate gait , passed the long , low cuartel where Coralio's contingent of Anchuria's military force slumbered , with its bare toes pointed heavenward . There was a law that no civilian might come so near the ...
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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.