Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 23
... Vesuvius Fruit Company's agent , the store and residence of Bernard Brannigan , a ruined cathedral in which Columbus had once set foot , and , most imposing of all , the Casa Morena the summer 66 White House " of the President of An ...
... Vesuvius Fruit Company's agent , the store and residence of Bernard Brannigan , a ruined cathedral in which Columbus had once set foot , and , most imposing of all , the Casa Morena the summer 66 White House " of the President of An ...
Pagina 27
... Vesuvius Company . Down to niños of five years , everyone in Coralio could name you each in- coming steamer by the note of her siren . The consul sauntered by a roundabout , shaded way to the beach . By reason of long practice he gauged ...
... Vesuvius Company . Down to niños of five years , everyone in Coralio could name you each in- coming steamer by the note of her siren . The consul sauntered by a roundabout , shaded way to the beach . By reason of long practice he gauged ...
Pagina 45
... Vesuvius . The movements of the Karlsefin were dependent upon the state of the market . Sometimes she would ply steadily between the Spanish Main and New Orleans in the regular transport of fruit ; next she would be making erratic trips ...
... Vesuvius . The movements of the Karlsefin were dependent upon the state of the market . Sometimes she would ply steadily between the Spanish Main and New Orleans in the regular transport of fruit ; next she would be making erratic trips ...
Pagina 88
... Vesuvius line , full - laden and scheduled to sail at six in the morning . There were no loiterers on the beach . So bright was the moonlight that the two men could see the small pebbles shining on the beach where the gentle surf wetted ...
... Vesuvius line , full - laden and scheduled to sail at six in the morning . There were no loiterers on the beach . So bright was the moonlight that the two men could see the small pebbles shining on the beach where the gentle surf wetted ...
Pagina 133
... Vesuvius Fruit Company as a token of amicable relations and certain consummated deals - be- tween that company and the republic of Anchuria . - The jest was carried to its end . A formidable , official document was prepared , encrusted ...
... Vesuvius Fruit Company as a token of amicable relations and certain consummated deals - be- tween that company and the republic of Anchuria . - The jest was carried to its end . A formidable , official document was prepared , encrusted ...
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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.