Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 14
... friend in Coralio . This could not have been accomplished in either Spanish or English , for the eye politic in An- churia was an active one . The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on their guard . But Englehart was a diplomatist ...
... friend in Coralio . This could not have been accomplished in either Spanish or English , for the eye politic in An- churia was an active one . The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on their guard . But Englehart was a diplomatist ...
Pagina 27
... friend . He had just written : " Most unaccountable is the supineness of the large exporters in the United States in permitting the French and German houses to practically control the trade interests of this rich and productive country ...
... friend . He had just written : " Most unaccountable is the supineness of the large exporters in the United States in permitting the French and German houses to practically control the trade interests of this rich and productive country ...
Pagina 32
... friends to whom he still wrote . Still he could not repress a little thrill of satisfaction at knowing that she had not yet married Tolliver or anyone else . But evidently Tolliver had not yet abandoned hope . Well , it made no ...
... friends to whom he still wrote . Still he could not repress a little thrill of satisfaction at knowing that she had not yet married Tolliver or anyone else . But evidently Tolliver had not yet abandoned hope . Well , it made no ...
Pagina 42
... friend to Mr. Geddie , and bring ' em here at once . " " Saints of the skies ! " said Simon , sleepily , " noth- ing has happened to Mr. Geddie ? " " He's under that tarpauling , " said the mate , point- ing to the boat , " and he's ...
... friend to Mr. Geddie , and bring ' em here at once . " " Saints of the skies ! " said Simon , sleepily , " noth- ing has happened to Mr. Geddie ? " " He's under that tarpauling , " said the mate , point- ing to the boat , " and he's ...
Pagina 48
... friends had toiled for hours to preserve the little spark of life that remained to him . The bottle , with its impotent message , was gone out to sea , and the problem that it had provoked was reduced to a simple sum in addition one and ...
... friends had toiled for hours to preserve the little spark of life that remained to him . The bottle , with its impotent message , was gone out to sea , and the problem that it had provoked was reduced to a simple sum in addition one and ...
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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.