Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 13
... eye . When the telegram had been delivered , and the bearer of it dismissed with a gratuity , the re- lieved populace returned to the contiguities of shade from which curiosity had drawn it - the women to their baking in the mud ovens ...
... eye . When the telegram had been delivered , and the bearer of it dismissed with a gratuity , the re- lieved populace returned to the contiguities of shade from which curiosity had drawn it - the women to their baking in the mud ovens ...
Pagina 14
... eye politic in An- churia was an active one . The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on their guard . But Englehart was a diplomatist . There existed but one code upon which he might make requisition with promise of safety the great and ...
... eye politic in An- churia was an active one . The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on their guard . But Englehart was a diplomatist . There existed but one code upon which he might make requisition with promise of safety the great and ...
Pagina 24
... eye , " except that old Geddie is getting grumpier and crosser every day . If something doesn't happen to relieve his mind I'll have to quit smoking on his back porch - and there's no other place available that is cool enough . " " He ...
... eye , " except that old Geddie is getting grumpier and crosser every day . If something doesn't happen to relieve his mind I'll have to quit smoking on his back porch - and there's no other place available that is cool enough . " " He ...
Pagina 35
... eyes upon the beautiful white yacht as she drew swiftly near , and came opposite to Coralio . Then , sitting upright , he saw her float steadily past and on . Scarcely a mile of sea had separated her from the shore . He had seen the ...
... eyes upon the beautiful white yacht as she drew swiftly near , and came opposite to Coralio . Then , sitting upright , he saw her float steadily past and on . Scarcely a mile of sea had separated her from the shore . He had seen the ...
Pagina 37
... eyes as he set the bottle down , and laid three cigars side by side on his desk . He fetched his steamer chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably . He would smoke those three cigars while considering the problem . For ...
... eyes as he set the bottle down , and laid three cigars side by side on his desk . He fetched his steamer chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably . He would smoke those three cigars while considering the problem . For ...
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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.