Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 4
... president ; how he strove to escape from the country with the public funds and also with Doña Isabel Guilbert , the young American opera singer ; and how , being apprehended by ... president's death , thus , in the 4 Cabbages and Kings.
... president ; how he strove to escape from the country with the public funds and also with Doña Isabel Guilbert , the young American opera singer ; and how , being apprehended by ... president's death , thus , in the 4 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 5
... president's fancy , or to her share in that statesman's downfall and mal- feasance , the Latin shrug of the shoulder would be your only answer and rebuttal . What prejudices there were in Coralio concerning Señora Goodwin seemed now to ...
... president's fancy , or to her share in that statesman's downfall and mal- feasance , the Latin shrug of the shoulder would be your only answer and rebuttal . What prejudices there were in Coralio concerning Señora Goodwin seemed now to ...
Pagina 62
O. Henry. IV CAUGHT THE plans for the detention of the flying President Miraflores and his companion at the coast line seemed ... president's flight had been dis- closed to no one in the coast towns save trusted mem- bers of the ambitious ...
O. Henry. IV CAUGHT THE plans for the detention of the flying President Miraflores and his companion at the coast line seemed ... president's flight had been dis- closed to no one in the coast towns save trusted mem- bers of the ambitious ...
Pagina 101
... president of this republic ; and my duties are running it . I'm not headlined in the bills , but I'm the mustard in the ... president's inkstand and search visiting statesmen for dirks and dynamite ; but in the back room I dictate the ...
... president of this republic ; and my duties are running it . I'm not headlined in the bills , but I'm the mustard in the ... president's inkstand and search visiting statesmen for dirks and dynamite ; but in the back room I dictate the ...
Pagina 107
... president's favour , and we know your influence . influence . The government will be changed . We know the worth of your services . We esteem your friendship and aid so much that ' Mellinger raises his hand , but the governor man bot ...
... president's favour , and we know your influence . influence . The government will be changed . We know the worth of your services . We esteem your friendship and aid so much that ' Mellinger raises his hand , but the governor man bot ...
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Pagina 14 - Nibj 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 know what to do. BOB.
Pagina 59 - 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 11 - 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.
Pagina 234 - He was the absolute despot and the idol of his people. The wealth of the country poured into his hands. Other presidents had been rapacious without reason. Losada amassed enormous wealth, but his people had their share of the benefits. The joint in his armor was his insatiate passion for monuments and tokens commemorating his glory. In every town he caused to be erected statues of himself bearing legends in praise of his greatness. In the walls of every public edifice, tablets were fixed reciting...