Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 11
... beach ; the parrots screamed in the orange and ceiba - trees ; the palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like an awkward chorus at the prima donna's cue to enter . Suddenly the town was full of excitement . A native boy dashed down ...
... beach ; the parrots screamed in the orange and ceiba - trees ; the palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like an awkward chorus at the prima donna's cue to enter . Suddenly the town was full of excitement . A native boy dashed down ...
Pagina 12
O. Henry. main street running parallel to the beach became pop- ulated with those who desired to expedite the delivery of the despatch . Knots of women with complexions varying from palest olive to deepest brown gath- ered at street ...
O. Henry. main street running parallel to the beach became pop- ulated with those who desired to expedite the delivery of the despatch . Knots of women with complexions varying from palest olive to deepest brown gath- ered at street ...
Pagina 23
... beach the Broadway of Coralio — were the larger stores , the government bodega and post - office , the cuartel , the rum - shops and the market place . - On his way Goodwin passed the house of Bernard Brannigan . It was a modern wooden ...
... beach the Broadway of Coralio — were the larger stores , the government bodega and post - office , the cuartel , the rum - shops and the market place . - On his way Goodwin passed the house of Bernard Brannigan . It was a modern wooden ...
Pagina 27
... beach . By reason of long practice he gauged his stroll so accurately that by the time he arrived on the sandy shore the boat of the customs officials was rowing back from the steamer , which had been boarded and inspected according to ...
... beach . By reason of long practice he gauged his stroll so accurately that by the time he arrived on the sandy shore the boat of the customs officials was rowing back from the steamer , which had been boarded and inspected according to ...
Pagina 29
... beach about a third of the popula- tion of the town laughed and applauded delight- edly . Every week they expected to see that roll of papers delivered and received in that same manner , and they were never disappointed . Innovations ...
... beach about a third of the popula- tion of the town laughed and applauded delight- edly . Every week they expected to see that roll of papers delivered and received in that same manner , and they were never disappointed . Innovations ...
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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.