Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 3
... republic , died by his own 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 ...
... republic , died by his own 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 ...
Pagina 16
... republic had decamped from the capital city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore , that he was accompanied in his flight by that winning ad- venturess Isabel Guilbert , the opera singer , whose troupe of performers had been ...
... republic had decamped from the capital city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore , that he was accompanied in his flight by that winning ad- venturess Isabel Guilbert , the opera singer , whose troupe of performers had been ...
Pagina 26
... republic lying along the by - ways of a second - rate sea . He thought of Gregg , the quaran- tine doctor , who subscribed for the London Lancet , expecting to find it quoting his reports to the home Board of Health concerning the ...
... republic lying along the by - ways of a second - rate sea . He thought of Gregg , the quaran- tine doctor , who subscribed for the London Lancet , expecting to find it quoting his reports to the home Board of Health concerning the ...
Pagina 57
... republic of Anchuria you may have my hat . If you won't have another , come out and let's sit in the cool a while . It isn't often we exiles get a chance to talk with somebody from the outside world . " The doctor brought out another ...
... republic of Anchuria you may have my hat . If you won't have another , come out and let's sit in the cool a while . It isn't often we exiles get a chance to talk with somebody from the outside world . " The doctor brought out another ...
Pagina 73
... republic . I was ad- vised by wire of the movements of the in Number 10. " gentleman " May I ask you two or three questions ? I be- lieve you to be a man more apt to be truthful than timid . What sort of a town is this- Coralio , I ...
... republic . I was ad- vised by wire of the movements of the in Number 10. " gentleman " May I ask you two or three questions ? I be- lieve you to be a man more apt to be truthful than timid . What sort of a town is this- Coralio , 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 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.