Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 27
... boat of the customs officials was rowing back from the steamer , which had been boarded and inspected according to the laws of Anchuria . There is no harbour at Coralio . Vessels of the draught of the Valhalla must ride at anchor a mile ...
... boat of the customs officials was rowing back from the steamer , which had been boarded and inspected according to the laws of Anchuria . There is no harbour at Coralio . Vessels of the draught of the Valhalla must ride at anchor a mile ...
Pagina 28
... boat and the Valhalla gig reached the shore at the same time . When they grounded in the shallow water there was still five yards of rolling surf between them and dry sand . Then half - clothed Car- ibs dashed into the water , and ...
... boat and the Valhalla gig reached the shore at the same time . When they grounded in the shallow water there was still five yards of rolling surf between them and dry sand . Then half - clothed Car- ibs dashed into the water , and ...
Pagina 42
... boats was the third mate of that vessel , who was an acquaintance of Si- mon's , and three sailors from the fruiter ... boat , " and he's rather more than half drownded . We seen him from the steamer nearly a mile out from shore ...
... boats was the third mate of that vessel , who was an acquaintance of Si- mon's , and three sailors from the fruiter ... boat , " and he's rather more than half drownded . We seen him from the steamer nearly a mile out from shore ...
Pagina 45
... that belonged to the sea - going contingent of Coralio . Goodwin and Zavalla moved everywhere , but without ostentation , watching the loopholes of escape . The customs officials crowded importantly into their boat and rowed Smith 45.
... that belonged to the sea - going contingent of Coralio . Goodwin and Zavalla moved everywhere , but without ostentation , watching the loopholes of escape . The customs officials crowded importantly into their boat and rowed Smith 45.
Pagina 46
O. Henry. The customs officials crowded importantly into their boat and rowed out to the Karlsefin . A boat from the steamer landed her purser with his papers , and took out the quarantine doctor with his green umbrella and clinical ...
O. Henry. The customs officials crowded importantly into their boat and rowed out to the Karlsefin . A boat from the steamer landed her purser with his papers , and took out the quarantine doctor with his green umbrella and clinical ...
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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.