Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 3
... hand in the coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather ...
... hand in the coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather ...
Pagina 5
... hands at the table of Señora Goodwin . Were you to refer ( with your northern prejudices ) to the vivacious past of Mrs. Goodwin when her audacious and gleeful abandon in light opera captured the mature president's fancy , or to her ...
... hands at the table of Señora Goodwin . Were you to refer ( with your northern prejudices ) to the vivacious past of Mrs. Goodwin when her audacious and gleeful abandon in light opera captured the mature president's fancy , or to her ...
Pagina 12
... humor- ous countenance wearing a look of interest at the unusual influx of life and sound into the street . When the meaning of the disturbance became clear to him he placed a hand beside his mouth and shouted : 12 Cabbages and Kings.
... humor- ous countenance wearing a look of interest at the unusual influx of life and sound into the street . When the meaning of the disturbance became clear to him he placed a hand beside his mouth and shouted : 12 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 13
O. Henry. he placed a hand beside his mouth and shouted : " Hey ! Frank ! " in such a robustious voice that the feeble clamour of the natives was drowned and silenced . Fifty yards away , on the seaward side of the street , stood the ...
O. Henry. he placed a hand beside his mouth and shouted : " Hey ! Frank ! " in such a robustious voice that the feeble clamour of the natives was drowned and silenced . Fifty yards away , on the seaward side of the street , stood the ...
Pagina 17
... ve even failed to misunderstand an order to evacuate in classical Chinese when it was backed up by the muzzle of a breech - loader . This little literary essay I hold in my hands means a game of Fox - 66 17 Fox - in - the - Morning " I.
... ve even failed to misunderstand an order to evacuate in classical Chinese when it was backed up by the muzzle of a breech - loader . This little literary essay I hold in my hands means a game of Fox - 66 17 Fox - in - the - Morning " I.
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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.