Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 126
... Blythe , with the air of a courtier and the outward aspect of a scarecrow , pounced upon him hopefully from the door of a pulperia . Blythe had been re - christened " Beelzebub " as an acknowledgment of the greatness of his fall . Once ...
... Blythe , with the air of a courtier and the outward aspect of a scarecrow , pounced upon him hopefully from the door of a pulperia . Blythe had been re - christened " Beelzebub " as an acknowledgment of the greatness of his fall . Once ...
Pagina 127
... Blythe . " I've been in a drought ever since morning . Hi- muchacho ! el aguardiente por acá . " - " Now , what do you want to see me about ? " asked Goodwin , when the drinks were before them . " Confound it , old man , " drawled Blythe ...
... Blythe . " I've been in a drought ever since morning . Hi- muchacho ! el aguardiente por acá . " - " Now , what do you want to see me about ? " asked Goodwin , when the drinks were before them . " Confound it , old man , " drawled Blythe ...
Pagina 128
... Blythe sipped blissfully from his , as he began to enter the state of a true idealist . 99 " I must trot along in a minute or two , " hinted Goodwin . " Was there anything in particular ? Blythe did not reply at once . 66 Old Losada ...
... Blythe sipped blissfully from his , as he began to enter the state of a true idealist . 99 " I must trot along in a minute or two , " hinted Goodwin . " Was there anything in particular ? Blythe did not reply at once . 66 Old Losada ...
Pagina 189
... - ing their merchandise formed themselves into a softly jabbering and gesticulating group . For there upon their space of the platform was sprawled , asleep , the unbeautiful figure of " Beelzebub " Blythe . He lay 189.
... - ing their merchandise formed themselves into a softly jabbering and gesticulating group . For there upon their space of the platform was sprawled , asleep , the unbeautiful figure of " Beelzebub " Blythe . He lay 189.
Pagina 190
... Blythe . He sat up , blinking , and leaned his back against the wall of the mar- ket . Drawing a blighted silk handkerchief from his pocket , he assiduously rubbed and burnished his glasses . And while doing this he became aware that ...
... Blythe . He sat up , blinking , and leaned his back against the wall of the mar- ket . Drawing a blighted silk handkerchief from his pocket , he assiduously rubbed and burnished his glasses . And while doing this he became aware that ...
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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.