Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page for Review of Reviews, 1904 - 312 pagine |
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Pagina 19
... five days down from San Mateo . We've got plenty of time to set our outposts . There's only three places on the coast where they can hope to sail from— here and Solitas and Alazan . They're the only points we'll have to guard . It's as ...
... five days down from San Mateo . We've got plenty of time to set our outposts . There's only three places on the coast where they can hope to sail from— here and Solitas and Alazan . They're the only points we'll have to guard . It's as ...
Pagina 27
... five years , everyone in Coralio could name you each in- coming steamer by the note of her siren . The consul sauntered by a roundabout , shaded way to the beach . By reason of long practice he gauged his stroll so accurately that by ...
... five years , everyone in Coralio could name you each in- coming steamer by the note of her siren . The consul sauntered by a roundabout , shaded way to the beach . By reason of long practice he gauged his stroll so accurately that by ...
Pagina 28
... five yards of rolling surf between them and dry sand . Then half - clothed Car- ibs dashed into the water , and brought in on their backs the Valhalla's purser and the little native offi- cials in their cotton undershirts , blue ...
... five yards of rolling surf between them and dry sand . Then half - clothed Car- ibs dashed into the water , and brought in on their backs the Valhalla's purser and the little native offi- cials in their cotton undershirts , blue ...
Pagina 51
... five American chaps that are good to know , besides the native high - fliers . " 66 Thanks , " said the yachtsman , " but I wouldn't put you to the trouble . I'd like to meet the guys you speak of , but I won't be here long enough to do ...
... five American chaps that are good to know , besides the native high - fliers . " 66 Thanks , " said the yachtsman , " but I wouldn't put you to the trouble . I'd like to meet the guys you speak of , but I won't be here long enough to do ...
Pagina 53
... five guest - rooms which were rarely put to their destined use . Sometimes a fruit - grower , riding in from his plantation to confer with his agent , would pass a melancholy night in the dismal upper story ; sometimes a minor native ...
... five guest - rooms which were rarely put to their destined use . Sometimes a fruit - grower , riding in from his plantation to confer with his agent , would pass a melancholy night in the dismal upper story ; sometimes a minor native ...
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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 Frank Goodwin friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land 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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Cabbages and Kings Complete authorized edition of the works of O. Henry, O. Henry O. Henry popular edition The complete edition of O. Henry, O. Henry Volume 10 di Works, William Sidney Porter |
| Autore | O. Henry |
| Editore | Doubleday, Page for Review of Reviews, 1904 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | la University of Michigan |
| Digitalizzato | 12 mar 2008 |
| Lunghezza | 312 pagine |
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