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Pagina 46
About four o'clock in the afternoon another of those marine monsters , not very familiar in those waters , hove in sight , following the fateful Idalia — a graceful steam yacht , painted a light buff , clean - cut as a steel engraving .
About four o'clock in the afternoon another of those marine monsters , not very familiar in those waters , hove in sight , following the fateful Idalia — a graceful steam yacht , painted a light buff , clean - cut as a steel engraving .
Pagina 77
But why , he angrily asked himself , should he be so well pleased to think this wandering and unscrupulous singer not so black as report had painted her ? A noise in the other room startled them both . The door swung open , and a tall ...
But why , he angrily asked himself , should he be so well pleased to think this wandering and unscrupulous singer not so black as report had painted her ? A noise in the other room startled them both . The door swung open , and a tall ...
Pagina 100
... and then had enough left to purchase the colored vote of his country . Henry and me wondered what his graft was . One evening he told was US . 666 ' Boys , ' said he , “ I've deceived you . You think I'm a painted butterfly ; but in ...
... and then had enough left to purchase the colored vote of his country . Henry and me wondered what his graft was . One evening he told was US . 666 ' Boys , ' said he , “ I've deceived you . You think I'm a painted butterfly ; but in ...
Pagina 103
It's one of my little chores as private secretary to smell out these revolutions and affix the kibosh before they break out and scratch the paint off the government property . That's why I'm down here now in this mildewed coast town .
It's one of my little chores as private secretary to smell out these revolutions and affix the kibosh before they break out and scratch the paint off the government property . That's why I'm down here now in this mildewed coast town .
Pagina 139
... of white paint trimmed with blue . And then Felipe further adorned himself by fastening a handful of brilliant parrot's plumes in his The Admiral 139.
... of white paint trimmed with blue . And then Felipe further adorned himself by fastening a handful of brilliant parrot's plumes in his The Admiral 139.
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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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