Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 46
... captain was anx- ious to make a quick return in order to reap the advantage offered by a certain dearth of fruit in the States . About four o'clock in the afternoon another of those marine monsters , not very familiar in those waters ...
... captain was anx- ious to make a quick return in order to reap the advantage offered by a certain dearth of fruit in the States . About four o'clock in the afternoon another of those marine monsters , not very familiar in those waters ...
Pagina 95
... onto the rear step , this town of Solitas will wake up and ask if anybody spoke . " The captain went ashore with us , and offered to conduct what he seemed to like to call the obsequies The Phonograph and the Graft 95.
... onto the rear step , this town of Solitas will wake up and ask if anybody spoke . " The captain went ashore with us , and offered to conduct what he seemed to like to call the obsequies The Phonograph and the Graft 95.
Pagina 96
... captain . 666 ' By that time , ' we told him , ' we'll be amassing wealth in the interior towns with our galvanized prima donna and correct imitations of Sousa's band excavating a march from a tin mine . ' " Ye'll not , ' says the captain ...
... captain . 666 ' By that time , ' we told him , ' we'll be amassing wealth in the interior towns with our galvanized prima donna and correct imitations of Sousa's band excavating a march from a tin mine . ' " Ye'll not , ' says the captain ...
Pagina 111
... captain's boat on the beach we went down and stood in the edge of the water . The captain grinned when he saw us . " I told you you'd be waiting , ' he says . " Where's the Hamburger machine ? ' " It stays behind , ' I says , " The ...
... captain's boat on the beach we went down and stood in the edge of the water . The captain grinned when he saw us . " I told you you'd be waiting , ' he says . " Where's the Hamburger machine ? ' " It stays behind , ' I says , " The ...
Pagina 112
... captain again . Climb in the boat . ' " And that , " said Keogh , " is the way me and Henry Horsecollar introduced the phonograph into this country . Henry went back to the States , but I've been rummaging around in the tropics ever ...
... captain again . Climb in the boat . ' " And that , " said Keogh , " is the way me and Henry Horsecollar introduced the phonograph into this country . Henry went back to the States , but I've been rummaging around in the tropics ever ...
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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.