Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 3
... 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 town near a little bridge that spans a mangrove swamp . A plain ...
... 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 town near a little bridge that spans a mangrove swamp . A plain ...
Pagina 4
... 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 Seņorita Guilbert . They will ...
... 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 Seņorita Guilbert . They will ...
Pagina 5
... American , Don Frank Goodwin , and of his wife the natives have nothing but good to say . Don Frank has lived among them for years , and has com- pelled their respect . His lady is easily queen of what social life the sober coast ...
... American , Don Frank Goodwin , and of his wife the natives have nothing but good to say . Don Frank has lived among them for years , and has com- pelled their respect . His lady is easily queen of what social life the sober coast ...
Pagina 14
... American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist and " good people . " That he was a man of resource and imagination was proven by the ...
... American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist and " good people . " That he was a man of resource and imagination was proven by the ...
Pagina 15
... Americans that had invaded Anchuria , and he had not reached that enviable pinnacle without having well exercised the arts of foresight and deduction . He had taken up political intrigue as a matter of business . He was acute enough to ...
... Americans that had invaded Anchuria , and he had not reached that enviable pinnacle without having well exercised the arts of foresight and deduction . He had taken up political intrigue as a matter of business . He was acute enough to ...
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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 cool Coralio crew Dalesburg 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 Seņor Goodwin seņorita 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 - 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 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.