Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
Dall'interno del libro
Risultati 1-5 di 17
Pagina 19
... sail from here and Solitas and Alazan . They're the only points we'll have to guard . It's as easy as a chess problem fox to play , and mate in three moves . Oh , goosey , goosey , gander , whither do you wander ? By the blessing of the ...
... sail from here and Solitas and Alazan . They're the only points we'll have to guard . It's as easy as a chess problem fox to play , and mate in three moves . Oh , goosey , goosey , gander , whither do you wander ? By the blessing of the ...
Pagina 31
... sail the next day on a six weeks ' cruise along the Central American and South American coasts and among the Bahama Is- lands . Among the guests were Mrs. Cumberland Payne and Miss Ida Payne , of Norfolk . The writer , with the fatuous ...
... sail the next day on a six weeks ' cruise along the Central American and South American coasts and among the Bahama Is- lands . Among the guests were Mrs. Cumberland Payne and Miss Ida Payne , of Norfolk . The writer , with the fatuous ...
Pagina 57
... sails as soon as she gets her bananas loaded , which will be about daylight in the morning , and she got everything ready this afternoon . No , sir , there was no passenger list . Like that Three- Star ? A French schooner landed two ...
... sails as soon as she gets her bananas loaded , which will be about daylight in the morning , and she got everything ready this afternoon . No , sir , there was no passenger list . Like that Three- Star ? A French schooner landed two ...
Pagina 66
... sailing have yet to be made . ” At that moment there came along one Estebán Delgado , a barber , an enemy to existing government , a jovial plotter against stagnation in any form . This barber was one of Coralio's saddest dogs , often ...
... sailing have yet to be made . ” At that moment there came along one Estebán Delgado , a barber , an enemy to existing government , a jovial plotter against stagnation in any form . This barber was one of Coralio's saddest dogs , often ...
Pagina 88
... sail at six in the morning . There were no loiterers on the beach . So bright was the moonlight that the two men could see the small pebbles shining on the beach where the gentle surf wetted them . Then down the coast , tacking close to ...
... sail at six in the morning . There were no loiterers on the beach . So bright was the moonlight that the two men could see the small pebbles shining on the beach where the gentle surf wetted them . Then down the coast , tacking close to ...
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
Parole e frasi comuni
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
Brani popolari
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.