Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 28
... night a sloop or two would be making strange trips in and out along the shore ; and in the morning the stock of Three- Star Hennessey , wines and drygoods in Coralio would be found vastly increased . It has also been said that the ...
... night a sloop or two would be making strange trips in and out along the shore ; and in the morning the stock of Three- Star Hennessey , wines and drygoods in Coralio would be found vastly increased . It has also been said that the ...
Pagina 33
... nights - with all he was more than content . there was Paula Brannigan . Also , Geddie intended to marry Paula - if , of course , she would consent ; but he felt rather sure that she would do that . Somehow , he kept postponing his ...
... nights - with all he was more than content . there was Paula Brannigan . Also , Geddie intended to marry Paula - if , of course , she would consent ; but he felt rather sure that she would do that . Somehow , he kept postponing his ...
Pagina 37
... night had crowded precipitately upon the brief twilight - he began to examine his piece of sea salvage . By holding the bottle near the light and turning it judiciously , he made out that it contained a double sheet of note - paper ...
... night had crowded precipitately upon the brief twilight - he began to examine his piece of sea salvage . By holding the bottle near the light and turning it judiciously , he made out that it contained a double sheet of note - paper ...
Pagina 40
... night he was happier than he had ever been before . " Here in this hollow lotus land , ever to live and lie reclined " seemed to him , as it has seemed to many mariners , the best as well as the easiest . His future would be an ideal ...
... night he was happier than he had ever been before . " Here in this hollow lotus land , ever to live and lie reclined " seemed to him , as it has seemed to many mariners , the best as well as the easiest . His future would be an ideal ...
Pagina 46
... night . The Karlsefin had come , he said , from New York , to which port her latest load of oranges and cocoanuts had been con- veyed . Two or three of the freighter sloops were en- gaged to assist in the work , for the captain was anx ...
... night . The Karlsefin had come , he said , from New York , to which port her latest load of oranges and cocoanuts had been con- veyed . Two or three of the freighter sloops were en- gaged to assist in the work , for the captain was anx ...
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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.