Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 131
... Felipe Carrera as its admiral . Next to the champagne the credit of the appoint- ment belongs to Don Sabas Placido , the newly con- firmed Minister of War . The president had requested a convention of his cabinet for the discussion of ...
... Felipe Carrera as its admiral . Next to the champagne the credit of the appoint- ment belongs to Don Sabas Placido , the newly con- firmed Minister of War . The president had requested a convention of his cabinet for the discussion of ...
Pagina 132
... Felipe Carrera — not , be it understood , one of extreme wisdom , but loyal and the best sailor along the coast . It was upon this hint that the Minister of War acted , executing a rare piece of drollery that so en- livened the tedium ...
... Felipe Carrera — not , be it understood , one of extreme wisdom , but loyal and the best sailor along the coast . It was upon this hint that the Minister of War acted , executing a rare piece of drollery that so en- livened the tedium ...
Pagina 133
... of state . This commission conferred upon el Señor Don Felipe Carrera the title of Flag Admiral of the Republic of Anchuria . Thus within the space of a few minutes and the dominion of a dozen " extra dry , " the country The Admiral 133.
... of state . This commission conferred upon el Señor Don Felipe Carrera the title of Flag Admiral of the Republic of Anchuria . Thus within the space of a few minutes and the dominion of a dozen " extra dry , " the country The Admiral 133.
Pagina 134
... Felipe Carrera became entitled to a salute of nineteen guns whenever he might enter port . The southern races are lacking in that particular kind of humour that finds entertainment in the de- fects and misfortunes bestowed by Nature ...
... Felipe Carrera became entitled to a salute of nineteen guns whenever he might enter port . The southern races are lacking in that particular kind of humour that finds entertainment in the de- fects and misfortunes bestowed by Nature ...
Pagina 135
O. Henry. raged and set other men to cowering , the deficiencies of Felipe seemed of little importance . He was a perfect sailor , if an imperfect man . He owned no boat , but worked among the crews of the schooners and sloops that ...
O. Henry. raged and set other men to cowering , the deficiencies of Felipe seemed of little importance . He was a perfect sailor , if an imperfect man . He owned no boat , but worked among the crews of the schooners and sloops 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 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 - 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.