Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 207
... Pasa , her daughter , that went to school in the States she brought back some civilized notions in the way of foot gear . And there's the comandante's sister that dresses up her feet on feast - days- and Mrs. Geddie , who wears a two ...
... Pasa , her daughter , that went to school in the States she brought back some civilized notions in the way of foot gear . And there's the comandante's sister that dresses up her feet on feast - days- and Mrs. Geddie , who wears a two ...
Pagina 261
... for he was drinking and playing cards half the day and night with the coman- dante , the collector of customs , the Jefe Politico and other gay dogs among the native officials . One day Dicky saw Pasa , the daughter of Madama Dicky 261.
... for he was drinking and playing cards half the day and night with the coman- dante , the collector of customs , the Jefe Politico and other gay dogs among the native officials . One day Dicky saw Pasa , the daughter of Madama Dicky 261.
Pagina 262
... Pasa " La Santita Naranjadita . " Naranjadita is a Spanish word for a certain colour that you must go to more trouble to describe in English . By saying " The little saint , tinted the most beautiful - delicate - slightly - orange ...
... Pasa " La Santita Naranjadita . " Naranjadita is a Spanish word for a certain colour that you must go to more trouble to describe in English . By saying " The little saint , tinted the most beautiful - delicate - slightly - orange ...
Pagina 263
... Pasa sat by the window in the room next to the one where they drank , and strummed dreamily upon her guitar . And then , by twos and threes , would come visiting young caballeros and oc- cupy the prim line of chairs set against the wall ...
... Pasa sat by the window in the room next to the one where they drank , and strummed dreamily upon her guitar . And then , by twos and threes , would come visiting young caballeros and oc- cupy the prim line of chairs set against the wall ...
Pagina 264
... Pasa was descended from the proudest Spanish families in the country . Moreover , she had had un- usual advantages . Two years in a New Orleans school had elevated her ambitions and fitted her for a fate above the ordinary maidens of ...
... Pasa was descended from the proudest Spanish families in the country . Moreover , she had had un- usual advantages . Two years in a New Orleans school had elevated her ambitions and fitted her for a fate above the ordinary maidens of ...
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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.