Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 34
... cocoanut palms on the beach flared their dec- orative green leaves against the slate of an almost qui- escent sea . His senses were cognizant of brilliant scarlet and ochres amid the vert of the coppice , of odours of fruit and bloom ...
... cocoanut palms on the beach flared their dec- orative green leaves against the slate of an almost qui- escent sea . His senses were cognizant of brilliant scarlet and ochres amid the vert of the coppice , of odours of fruit and bloom ...
Pagina 59
... cocoa- nut - tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing his sharp gaze in the direction of the steamer . The incongruous yachtsman had concentrated his interest upon the innocent fruiter ...
... cocoa- nut - tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing his sharp gaze in the direction of the steamer . The incongruous yachtsman had concentrated his interest upon the innocent fruiter ...
Pagina 60
... cocoanut palm , and with the beady , shifting eyes of the selfsame reptile , sustained his espionage on the Karlsefin . On the white sands a whiter gig belonging to the yacht was drawn up , guarded by one of the white- ducked crew . Not ...
... cocoanut palm , and with the beady , shifting eyes of the selfsame reptile , sustained his espionage on the Karlsefin . On the white sands a whiter gig belonging to the yacht was drawn up , guarded by one of the white- ducked crew . Not ...
Pagina 61
... cocoanut palm that night . This he must do ; for , when he sailed away before the dawn in his yacht Rambler , he carried with him the answer to a riddle so big and preposterous that few in Anchuria had ventured even to propound it . IV ...
... cocoanut palm that night . This he must do ; for , when he sailed away before the dawn in his yacht Rambler , he carried with him the answer to a riddle so big and preposterous that few in Anchuria had ventured even to propound it . IV ...
Pagina 95
... cocoanut would drop ker- blip in the sand ; and that was all there was doing . Yes , I judge that town was considerably on the quiet . I judge that after Gabriel quits blowing his horn , and the car starts , with Philadelphia swinging ...
... cocoanut would drop ker- blip in the sand ; and that was all there was doing . Yes , I judge that town was considerably on the quiet . I judge that after Gabriel quits blowing his horn , and the car starts , with Philadelphia swinging ...
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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.