Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 23
... cool porch ran around the house half way up its outer walls . A handsome , viva- cious girl neatly dressed in flowing white leaned over the railing and smiled down upon Goodwin . She was no darker than many an Andalusian of high descent ...
... cool porch ran around the house half way up its outer walls . A handsome , viva- cious girl neatly dressed in flowing white leaned over the railing and smiled down upon Goodwin . She was no darker than many an Andalusian of high descent ...
Pagina 24
... cool enough . " " He isn't grumpy , " said Paula Brannigan , im- pulsively , " when he— ” - But she ceased suddenly , and drew back with a deepening colour ; for her mother had been a mestizo lady , and the Spanish blood had brought to ...
... cool enough . " " He isn't grumpy , " said Paula Brannigan , im- pulsively , " when he— ” - But she ceased suddenly , and drew back with a deepening colour ; for her mother had been a mestizo lady , and the Spanish blood had brought to ...
Pagina 26
... cool in the heat of the tropics a paradox that may be allowed between Cancer and Capricorn . ― So many thousand bunches of bananas , so many thousand oranges and cocoanuts , so many ounces of gold dust , pounds of rubber , coffee ...
... cool in the heat of the tropics a paradox that may be allowed between Cancer and Capricorn . ― So many thousand bunches of bananas , so many thousand oranges and cocoanuts , so many ounces of gold dust , pounds of rubber , coffee ...
Pagina 50
... cool guy on the beach directed me here . Thought I'd pay my respects to the flag . " " Sit down , " said Geddie . " I've been admiring your craft ever since it came in sight . Looks like a fast sailer . What's her tonnage ? " " Search ...
... cool guy on the beach directed me here . Thought I'd pay my respects to the flag . " " Sit down , " said Geddie . " I've been admiring your craft ever since it came in sight . Looks like a fast sailer . What's her tonnage ? " " Search ...
Pagina 51
... you speak of , but I won't be here long enough to do much knocking around . That cool gent on the beach spoke of a doctor ; can you tell me where I could find him ? The Rambler ain't quite as steady on her feet as Smith 51.
... you speak of , but I won't be here long enough to do much knocking around . That cool gent on the beach spoke of a doctor ; can you tell me where I could find him ? The Rambler ain't quite as steady on her feet as Smith 51.
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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
Brani popolari
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.