Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 28
... crew would be- come doubly vigilant and wary . At night a sloop or two would be making strange trips in and out along the shore ; and in the morning the stock of Three- Star Hennessey , wines and drygoods in Coralio would be found ...
... crew would be- come doubly vigilant and wary . At night a sloop or two would be making strange trips in and out along the shore ; and in the morning the stock of Three- Star Hennessey , wines and drygoods in Coralio would be found ...
Pagina 38
... crew had mutinied and imprisoned the passengers below , and the message was one begging for succour ! But , premising such an improbable outrage , would the agitated captives have taken the pains to fill four pages of note - paper with ...
... crew had mutinied and imprisoned the passengers below , and the message was one begging for succour ! But , premising such an improbable outrage , would the agitated captives have taken the pains to fill four pages of note - paper with ...
Pagina 46
... engraving . The beautiful vessel hovered off shore , see - sawing the waves as lightly as a duck in a rain barrel . A swift boat manned by a crew in uni- form came ashore , and a stocky - built man 46 Cabbages and Kings.
... engraving . The beautiful vessel hovered off shore , see - sawing the waves as lightly as a duck in a rain barrel . A swift boat manned by a crew in uni- form came ashore , and a stocky - built man 46 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 54
... crew and passengers of every vessel leaving Coralio for preliminary symptoms . The duties were light , and the salary , for one who lived in Coralio , ample . Surplus time there was in plenty ; and the good doctor added to his gains by ...
... crew and passengers of every vessel leaving Coralio for preliminary symptoms . The duties were light , and the salary , for one who lived in Coralio , ample . Surplus time there was in plenty ; and the good doctor added to his gains by ...
Pagina 60
... crew . Not far away in a pulperia on the shore - following Calle Grande three other sailors swaggered with their cues around Coralio's solitary billiard - table . The boat lay there as if under orders to be ready for use at any moment ...
... crew . Not far away in a pulperia on the shore - following Calle Grande three other sailors swaggered with their cues around Coralio's solitary billiard - table . The boat lay there as if under orders to be ready for use at any moment ...
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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.