Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 5
... honoured to unfold her nap- kin with olive - hued , ringed hands at the table of Señora Goodwin . Were you to refer ( with your northern prejudices ) to the vivacious past of Mrs. Goodwin when her audacious and gleeful abandon in light ...
... honoured to unfold her nap- kin with olive - hued , ringed hands at the table of Señora Goodwin . Were you to refer ( with your northern prejudices ) to the vivacious past of Mrs. Goodwin when her audacious and gleeful abandon in light ...
Pagina 68
... honour my poor house by his presence . " " I must come oftener , " said Goodwin , with the Goodwin smile . " I hear that your cognac is the best between Belize to the north and Rio to the south . Set out the bottle , Madama , and let us ...
... honour my poor house by his presence . " " I must come oftener , " said Goodwin , with the Goodwin smile . " I hear that your cognac is the best between Belize to the north and Rio to the south . Set out the bottle , Madama , and let us ...
Pagina 75
... honour , and is about to lose the poor consolation of his stolen riches as much as I blame you , for , by Heaven ! I can very well see how he was brought to it . I can understand , and pity him . It is such women as you that strew this ...
... honour , and is about to lose the poor consolation of his stolen riches as much as I blame you , for , by Heaven ! I can very well see how he was brought to it . I can understand , and pity him . It is such women as you that strew this ...
Pagina 78
... honoured room " Oh , mother , mother , mother ! " But there was an alarm outside . The barber , Estebán , at the sound of the shot , had raised his voice ; and the shot itself had aroused half the town . A pattering of feet came up the ...
... honoured room " Oh , mother , mother , mother ! " But there was an alarm outside . The barber , Estebán , at the sound of the shot , had raised his voice ; and the shot itself had aroused half the town . A pattering of feet came up the ...
Pagina 80
... honours , back of the town near the little bridge that spans the mangrove swamp ; and for a real a boy will show you his grave . They say that the old woman in whose hut the barber shaved the president placed the wooden slab at his head ...
... honours , back of the town near the little bridge that spans the mangrove swamp ; and for a real a boy will show you his grave . They say that the old woman in whose hut the barber shaved the president placed the wooden slab at his head ...
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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
Brani popolari
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.