Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 4
... young American opera singer ; and how , being apprehended by members of the opposing po- litical party in Coralio , he shot himself through the head rather than give up the funds , and , in conse- quence , the Señorita Guilbert . They ...
... young American opera singer ; and how , being apprehended by members of the opposing po- litical party in Coralio , he shot himself through the head rather than give up the funds , and , in conse- quence , the Señorita Guilbert . They ...
Pagina 82
... young life . The con- sulship at Coralio seemed to offer a retreat suffi- ciently removed and romantic enough to inject the necessary drama into the pastoral scenes of Dales- burg life . It was while playing the part of Cupid's exile ...
... young life . The con- sulship at Coralio seemed to offer a retreat suffi- ciently removed and romantic enough to inject the necessary drama into the pastoral scenes of Dales- burg life . It was while playing the part of Cupid's exile ...
Pagina 83
... young woman was possessed of plentiful attrac- tions , so that the young men of the community were agitated in their bosoms . Among the more agitated was Johnny , the son of Judge Atwood , who lived in the big colonial mansion on the ...
... young woman was possessed of plentiful attrac- tions , so that the young men of the community were agitated in their bosoms . Among the more agitated was Johnny , the son of Judge Atwood , who lived in the big colonial mansion on the ...
Pagina 84
... young farmer came between them on that occasion is not known ; but Rosine's answer was unfavourable . Mr. John De Graffenreid Atwood bowed till his hat touched the lawn grass , and went away with his head high , but with a sore wound in ...
... young farmer came between them on that occasion is not known ; but Rosine's answer was unfavourable . Mr. John De Graffenreid Atwood bowed till his hat touched the lawn grass , and went away with his head high , but with a sore wound in ...
Pagina 86
... young Southerner that the sophisticated Keogh liked . His manner was simple almost to boyishness ; but he possessed the cool carelessness of a man of far greater age and experience . Neither uniforms nor titles , red tape nor foreign ...
... young Southerner that the sophisticated Keogh liked . His manner was simple almost to boyishness ; but he possessed the cool carelessness of a man of far greater age and experience . Neither uniforms nor titles , red tape nor foreign ...
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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.