Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 15
... lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent career of President Miraflores had excited a shrewd suspicion in Goodwin's mind that the government was near a dissolution from another cause than that of a revolution , and now ...
... lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent career of President Miraflores had excited a shrewd suspicion in Goodwin's mind that the government was near a dissolution from another cause than that of a revolution , and now ...
Pagina 29
... on the side of the gallery facing the sea a spot famous as the coolest in Coralio . The break- fast consisted of shark's fin soup , stew of land crabs , - breadfruit , a boiled iguana steak , aguacates , a The Lotus and the Bottle 29.
... on the side of the gallery facing the sea a spot famous as the coolest in Coralio . The break- fast consisted of shark's fin soup , stew of land crabs , - breadfruit , a boiled iguana steak , aguacates , a The Lotus and the Bottle 29.
Pagina 31
... lands . Among the guests were Mrs. Cumberland Payne and Miss Ida Payne , of Norfolk . The writer , with the fatuous presumption that was demanded of him by his readers , had concocted a ro- mance suited to their palates . He bracketed ...
... lands . Among the guests were Mrs. Cumberland Payne and Miss Ida Payne , of Norfolk . The writer , with the fatuous presumption that was demanded of him by his readers , had concocted a ro- mance suited to their palates . He bracketed ...
Pagina 32
... land of the lotus . He could never forget Ida , of course ; but there was no longer any pain in thinking about her . When they had had that misunderstanding and quarrel he had im- pulsively sought this consulship , with the desire to re ...
... land of the lotus . He could never forget Ida , of course ; but there was no longer any pain in thinking about her . When they had had that misunderstanding and quarrel he had im- pulsively sought this consulship , with the desire to re ...
Pagina 34
... land like a dark , jagged crystal , and above it a pale ceiba - tree rose almost to the clouds . The waving cocoanut palms on the beach flared their dec- orative green leaves against the slate of an almost qui- escent sea . His senses ...
... land like a dark , jagged crystal , and above it a pale ceiba - tree rose almost to the clouds . The waving cocoanut palms on the beach flared their dec- orative green leaves against the slate of an almost qui- escent sea . His senses ...
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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 Seņor Goodwin seņorita 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.