Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 21
... mule amid songbirds and flowers ! And here is Billy Keogh , because he is virtuous , condemned to the unprofitable swindle of slandering the faces of missing links on tin for an honest living ! " " Fox - in - the - Morning " 21.
... mule amid songbirds and flowers ! And here is Billy Keogh , because he is virtuous , condemned to the unprofitable swindle of slandering the faces of missing links on tin for an honest living ! " " Fox - in - the - Morning " 21.
Pagina 48
... face and languid in pose . On that night when the Valhalla's boat had brought him ashore appar- ently drenched to death by the sea , Doctor Gregg and his other friends had toiled for hours to preserve the little spark of life that ...
... face and languid in pose . On that night when the Valhalla's boat had brought him ashore appar- ently drenched to death by the sea , Doctor Gregg and his other friends had toiled for hours to preserve the little spark of life that ...
Pagina 53
... face and the longest beard between Topeka and Terra del Fuego . He held his position by virtue of an appointment by the Board of Health of a seaport city in one of the Southern states . That city feared the ancient enemy of every ...
... face and the longest beard between Topeka and Terra del Fuego . He held his position by virtue of an appointment by the Board of Health of a seaport city in one of the Southern states . That city feared the ancient enemy of every ...
Pagina 55
... face was like an animal's , live and wary , but without promise of much intelligence . This man jabbered with animation and so much seriousness that it seemed a pity that his words were to be wasted . Dr. Gregg felt his pulse . " You ...
... face was like an animal's , live and wary , but without promise of much intelligence . This man jabbered with animation and so much seriousness that it seemed a pity that his words were to be wasted . Dr. Gregg felt his pulse . " You ...
Pagina 56
... face . Next he pulled out his watch and ran his finger round its dial twice . the two fingers confronted the patient's nose . -two two hours , " repeated the doctor . 66 - Si , Señor , " said the native , sadly . Again " Two He pulled a ...
... face . Next he pulled out his watch and ran his finger round its dial twice . the two fingers confronted the patient's nose . -two two hours , " repeated the doctor . 66 - Si , Señor , " said the native , sadly . Again " Two He pulled a ...
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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.