Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 3
... sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration , was never afterward recovered . For a real , a boy will show you his grave . It is back of the ...
... sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration , was never afterward recovered . For a real , a boy will show you his grave . It is back of the ...
Pagina 4
... sand , dropped anchor on this stagnant coast , await- ing a rising tide . They say , in Coralio , that she found a prompt and prosperous tide in the form of Frank Goodwin , an American resident of the town , an investor who had grown ...
... sand , dropped anchor on this stagnant coast , await- ing a rising tide . They say , in Coralio , that she found a prompt and prosperous tide in the form of Frank Goodwin , an American resident of the town , an investor who had grown ...
Pagina 6
... sand . An old half - breed Indian tends the grave with fidelity and the dawdling minuteness of inherited sloth . He chops down the weeds and ever - springing grass with his machete , he plucks ants and scorpions and beetles from it with ...
... sand . An old half - breed Indian tends the grave with fidelity and the dawdling minuteness of inherited sloth . He chops down the weeds and ever - springing grass with his machete , he plucks ants and scorpions and beetles from it with ...
Pagina 28
... sand . Then half - clothed Car- ibs dashed into the water , and brought in on their backs the Valhalla's purser and the little native offi- cials in their cotton undershirts , blue trousers with red stripes , and flapping straw hats ...
... sand . Then half - clothed Car- ibs dashed into the water , and brought in on their backs the Valhalla's purser and the little native offi- cials in their cotton undershirts , blue trousers with red stripes , and flapping straw hats ...
Pagina 36
... sand brought with it something round and shiny that rolled back again as the wave receded . The next influx beached it clear , and Ged- die picked it up . The thing was a long - necked wine bottle of colourless glass . The cork had been ...
... sand brought with it something round and shiny that rolled back again as the wave receded . The next influx beached it clear , and Ged- die picked it up . The thing was a long - necked wine bottle of colourless glass . The cork had been ...
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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 laughed 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 White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla
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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...