Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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O. Henry. " The time has come , " the Walrus said , " To talk of many things ; Of shoes and ships and sealing - wax , And cabbages and kings . " THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER CABBAGES AND KINGS THE PROEM BY THE CARPENTER THEY will.
O. Henry. " The time has come , " the Walrus said , " To talk of many things ; Of shoes and ships and sealing - wax , And cabbages and kings . " THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER CABBAGES AND KINGS THE PROEM BY THE CARPENTER THEY will.
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... things . Per- haps to the promiscuous ear of the Walrus it shall come with most avail ; for in it there are indeed shoes and ships and sealing - wax and cabbage - palms and presidents instead of kings . Add to these a little love and ...
... things . Per- haps to the promiscuous ear of the Walrus it shall come with most avail ; for in it there are indeed shoes and ships and sealing - wax and cabbage - palms and presidents instead of kings . Add to these a little love and ...
Pagina 13
... things , my boy . It won't do to trifle with the feelings of the public this way . You'll be getting a pink note some day with violet scent on it ; and then the country'll be steeped in the throes of a revolution . " Goodwin had ...
... things , my boy . It won't do to trifle with the feelings of the public this way . You'll be getting a pink note some day with violet scent on it ; and then the country'll be steeped in the throes of a revolution . " Goodwin had ...
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... things without wings could safely pass . Therefore the fugitives could hope to reach the coast only by one of the routes named . " Keep the matter quiet , Billy , " advised Goodwin . " We don't want the Ins to know that the president is ...
... things without wings could safely pass . Therefore the fugitives could hope to reach the coast only by one of the routes named . " Keep the matter quiet , Billy , " advised Goodwin . " We don't want the Ins to know that the president is ...
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... thing , a chimera of his idle brain . Geddie went into his office and sat down to dawdle over his report . If the reading of the article in the paper had left him unshaken , this silent passing of the Idalia had done for him still more ...
... thing , a chimera of his idle brain . Geddie went into his office and sat down to dawdle over his report . If the reading of the article in the paper had left him unshaken , this silent passing of the Idalia had done for him still more ...
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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...