Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 3
... coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a ...
... coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a ...
Pagina 4
... coast , await- ing a rising tide . They say , in Coralio , that she found a prompt and prosperous tide in the form of Frank Goodwin , an American resident of the town , an investor who had grown wealthy by dealing in the products of the ...
... coast , await- ing a rising tide . They say , in Coralio , that she found a prompt and prosperous tide in the form of Frank Goodwin , an American resident of the town , an investor who had grown wealthy by dealing in the products of the ...
Pagina 5
... coast affords . The wife of the governor of the district , herself , who was of the proud Castilian family of Monteleon y Dolorosa de los Santos y Mendez , feels honoured to unfold her nap- kin with olive - hued , ringed hands at the ...
... coast affords . The wife of the governor of the district , herself , who was of the proud Castilian family of Monteleon y Dolorosa de los Santos y Mendez , feels honoured to unfold her nap- kin with olive - hued , ringed hands at the ...
Pagina 8
... coast that is curved like lips set for smiling . For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . That segment of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting to the sea a formidable border of tropical jungle topped by ...
... coast that is curved like lips set for smiling . For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . That segment of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting to the sea a formidable border of tropical jungle topped by ...
Pagina 11
... coast . It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band . Be- hind it , and seeming almost to topple , imminent , above it , rose the sea - following range of the Cordil- leras . In front the sea was spread , a smiling jailer , but ...
... coast . It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band . Be- hind it , and seeming almost to topple , imminent , above it , rose the sea - following range of the Cordil- leras . In front the sea was spread , a smiling jailer , but ...
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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.