Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 286
... Olivarra , Anchuria's most popular ruler . Olivarra had been assassinated nine years before while in the prime of life and useful- ness . A faction of the Liberal party led by Losada himself had been accused of the deed . Whether guilty ...
... Olivarra , Anchuria's most popular ruler . Olivarra had been assassinated nine years before while in the prime of life and useful- ness . A faction of the Liberal party led by Losada himself had been accused of the deed . Whether guilty ...
Pagina 287
... Olivarra in Coralio , when his appearance at their fiestas was the signal for thun- dering vivas of love and approbation . The first public expression of sentiment from the people that day followed . A low , sustained murmur went among ...
... Olivarra in Coralio , when his appearance at their fiestas was the signal for thun- dering vivas of love and approbation . The first public expression of sentiment from the people that day followed . A low , sustained murmur went among ...
Pagina 288
... Olivarra is dead- dead at the hands of a craven assassin ! " - The speaker turned and gazed boldly into the car- riage of the president . His arm remained extended aloft as if to sustain his peroration . The president was listening ...
... Olivarra is dead- dead at the hands of a craven assassin ! " - The speaker turned and gazed boldly into the car- riage of the president . His arm remained extended aloft as if to sustain his peroration . The president was listening ...
Pagina 289
... Olivarra's assassin , or to his son ? " - " Olivarra ! Olivarra ! " the crowd shrieked and howled . All vociferated the magic name men , women , children and the parrots . And the enthusiasm was not confined to the blood of the plebs ...
... Olivarra's assassin , or to his son ? " - " Olivarra ! Olivarra ! " the crowd shrieked and howled . All vociferated the magic name men , women , children and the parrots . And the enthusiasm was not confined to the blood of the plebs ...
Pagina 290
... Olivarra seized that moment to prove himself a born genius and politician . He waved those soldiers aside , and descended the steps to the street . There , without losing his dignity or the dis- tinguished elegance that the loss of his ...
... Olivarra seized that moment to prove himself a born genius and politician . He waved those soldiers aside , and descended the steps to the street . There , without losing his dignity or the dis- tinguished elegance that the loss of his ...
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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
Brani popolari
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.