Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 7
... trees on that coast that is curved like lips set for smiling . For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . That segment of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting to the sea a formidable border of tropical ...
... trees on that coast that is curved like lips set for smiling . For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . That segment of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting to the sea a formidable border of tropical ...
Pagina 8
O. Henry. ant to do in the shade of the lemon - trees on that coast that is curved like lips set for smiling . For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . That segment of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting ...
O. Henry. ant to do in the shade of the lemon - trees on that coast that is curved like lips set for smiling . For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . That segment of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting ...
Pagina 11
... trees ; the palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like an awkward chorus at the prima donna's cue to enter . Suddenly the town was full of excitement . A native boy dashed down a grass - grown street , shriek- ing : " Busca el Señor ...
... trees ; the palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like an awkward chorus at the prima donna's cue to enter . Suddenly the town was full of excitement . A native boy dashed down a grass - grown street , shriek- ing : " Busca el Señor ...
Pagina 14
O. Henry. their baking in the mud ovens under the orange - trees , or to the interminable combing of their long , straight hair ; the men to their cigarettes and gossip in the cantinas . Goodwin sat on Keogh's doorstep , and read his ...
O. Henry. their baking in the mud ovens under the orange - trees , or to the interminable combing of their long , straight hair ; the men to their cigarettes and gossip in the cantinas . Goodwin sat on Keogh's doorstep , and read his ...
Pagina 21
... trees to pick cocoanuts for her . Think of that president man with Lord knows how many hundreds of thousands of dollars in one hand , and this muslin siren in the other , galloping down hill on a sym- pathetic mule amid songbirds and ...
... trees to pick cocoanuts for her . Think of that president man with Lord knows how many hundreds of thousands of dollars in one hand , and this muslin siren in the other , galloping down hill on a sym- pathetic mule amid songbirds and ...
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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.