Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 12
... door of a small wooden building and looked out . Above the door was a sign that read " Keogh and Clancy " — a nomenclature that seemed not to be in- digenous to that tropical soil . The man in the door was Billy Keogh , scout of fortune ...
... door of a small wooden building and looked out . Above the door was a sign that read " Keogh and Clancy " — a nomenclature that seemed not to be in- digenous to that tropical soil . The man in the door was Billy Keogh , scout of fortune ...
Pagina 13
... door of this building tumbled Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with Willard Ged- die , the consul , on the back porch of the consulate , which was conceded to be the coolest spot in Coralio . " Hurry up , " shouted Keogh ...
... door of this building tumbled Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with Willard Ged- die , the consul , on the back porch of the consulate , which was conceded to be the coolest spot in Coralio . " Hurry up , " shouted Keogh ...
Pagina 20
... door and expelled a tremendous sigh . " What's the trouble , Billy ? " asked Goodwin , pausing . " That's the first time I ever heard you sigh . " " " Tis the last , " said Keogh . " With that sorrow- ful puff of wind I resign myself to ...
... door and expelled a tremendous sigh . " What's the trouble , Billy ? " asked Goodwin , pausing . " That's the first time I ever heard you sigh . " " " Tis the last , " said Keogh . " With that sorrow- ful puff of wind I resign myself to ...
Pagina 40
... door that night he was happier than he had ever been before . " Here in this hollow lotus land , ever to live and lie reclined " seemed to him , as it has seemed to many mariners , the best as well as the easiest . His future would be ...
... door that night he was happier than he had ever been before . " Here in this hollow lotus land , ever to live and lie reclined " seemed to him , as it has seemed to many mariners , the best as well as the easiest . His future would be ...
Pagina 50
... door . 66 " Keep your seat , old man , " said the visitor , with an airy wave of his large hand . My name's Smith ; and I've come in a yacht . You are the consul - is that right ? A big , cool guy on the beach directed me here . Thought ...
... door . 66 " Keep your seat , old man , " said the visitor , with an airy wave of his large hand . My name's Smith ; and I've come in a yacht . You are the consul - is that right ? A big , cool guy on the beach directed me here . Thought ...
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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.