Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 4
... coun- try -a banana king , a rubber prince , a sarsaparilla , indigo , and mahogany baron . The Señorita Guil- bert , you will be told , married Señor Goodwin one month after the president's death , thus , in the 4 Cabbages and Kings.
... coun- try -a banana king , a rubber prince , a sarsaparilla , indigo , and mahogany baron . The Señorita Guil- bert , you will be told , married Señor Goodwin one month after the president's death , thus , in the 4 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 7
... told you ) the wife of Frank Goodwin , and happily living a life of dull and dreamy inaction ? The underlying threads reach far , stretching across the sea . Following them out it will be made plain why " Shorty " O'Day , of the ...
... told you ) the wife of Frank Goodwin , and happily living a life of dull and dreamy inaction ? The underlying threads reach far , stretching across the sea . Following them out it will be made plain why " Shorty " O'Day , of the ...
Pagina 32
... told him- self that he had conquered the distress that had sent him , a voluntary exile , to this far land of the lotus . He could never forget Ida , of course ; but there was n longer any pain in thinking about her . When they had had ...
... told him- self that he had conquered the distress that had sent him , a voluntary exile , to this far land of the lotus . He could never forget Ida , of course ; but there was n longer any pain in thinking about her . When they had had ...
Pagina 54
... I mean the consul , told me you hung out at this caravansary . My name's Smith ; and I came in a yacht . Taking a cruise around , looking at the mon- keys and pineapple - trees . Come inside and have 54 Cabbages and Kings.
... I mean the consul , told me you hung out at this caravansary . My name's Smith ; and I came in a yacht . Taking a cruise around , looking at the mon- keys and pineapple - trees . Come inside and have 54 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 73
... told me , " went on the lady , speaking as if to herself , and with a slight frown , " that there were towns on this coast of beauty and importance ; that there was a pleasing social order - especially an American colony of cultured ...
... told me , " went on the lady , speaking as if to herself , and with a slight frown , " that there were towns on this coast of beauty and importance ; that there was a pleasing social order - especially an American colony of cultured ...
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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.