Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 45
... dories that belonged to the sea - going contingent of Coralio . Goodwin and Zavalla moved everywhere , but without ostentation , watching the loopholes of escape . The customs officials crowded importantly into their boat and rowed Smith ...
... dories that belonged to the sea - going contingent of Coralio . Goodwin and Zavalla moved everywhere , but without ostentation , watching the loopholes of escape . The customs officials crowded importantly into their boat and rowed Smith ...
Pagina 70
... . " The lady neither moved nor replied , but steadily regarded the cigar in Goodwin's hand . " We , " continued the dictator , thoughtfully re- garding the neat buckskin shoe on his gently swing- ing 70 Cabbages and Kings.
... . " The lady neither moved nor replied , but steadily regarded the cigar in Goodwin's hand . " We , " continued the dictator , thoughtfully re- garding the neat buckskin shoe on his gently swing- ing 70 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 74
... moved toward the closed door that connected the two rooms , but stopped , and half turned and be- stowed upon Goodwin a grave , searching look that ended in a quizzical smile . " You force my door , " she said , " and you follow your ...
... moved toward the closed door that connected the two rooms , but stopped , and half turned and be- stowed upon Goodwin a grave , searching look that ended in a quizzical smile . " You force my door , " she said , " and you follow your ...
Pagina 75
... moved her . I do not know if Eve were light or dark , but if such a woman had stood in the garden I know that the apple would have been eaten . This woman was to be Goodwin's fate , and he did not know it ; but he must have felt the ...
... moved her . I do not know if Eve were light or dark , but if such a woman had stood in the garden I know that the apple would have been eaten . This woman was to be Goodwin's fate , and he did not know it ; but he must have felt the ...
Pagina 108
... moved while it was playing , and the governor man kept his eyes steady on Mellinger . I saw Mellinger's head go up little by little , and his hand came creep- ing away from the package . Not until the last note sounded did anybody stir ...
... moved while it was playing , and the governor man kept his eyes steady on Mellinger . I saw Mellinger's head go up little by little , and his hand came creep- ing away from the package . Not until the last note sounded did anybody stir ...
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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.