Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 4
... say , in Coralio , that she found a prompt and prosperous tide in the form of Frank Goodwin , an American resident of the town , an investor who had grown wealthy by dealing in the products of the coun- try - a banana king , a rubber ...
... say , in Coralio , that she found a prompt and prosperous tide in the form of Frank Goodwin , an American resident of the town , an investor who had grown wealthy by dealing in the products of the coun- try - a banana king , a rubber ...
Pagina 5
... say . Don Frank has lived among them for years , and has com- pelled their respect . His lady is easily queen of what social life the sober coast affords . The wife of the governor of the district , herself , who was of the proud ...
... say . Don Frank has lived among them for years , and has com- pelled their respect . His lady is easily queen of what social life the sober coast affords . The wife of the governor of the district , herself , who was of the proud ...
Pagina 18
... say : They say : " How many We say : ' Only a few , if your legs are long enough . How many comes out ? ' They say : More than you're able to catch . ' And then the game commences . " " I catch the idea , " said Goodwin . " It won't do ...
... say : They say : " How many We say : ' Only a few , if your legs are long enough . How many comes out ? ' They say : More than you're able to catch . ' And then the game commences . " " I catch the idea , " said Goodwin . " It won't do ...
Pagina 21
... say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculp- ture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They say she can look at a man once , and he'll turn monkey and climb trees to pick cocoanuts for her . Think of that president man with Lord ...
... say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculp- ture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They say she can look at a man once , and he'll turn monkey and climb trees to pick cocoanuts for her . Think of that president man with Lord ...
Pagina 24
... say no . Isn't it warm ? I feel just like Mariana in her moated grange - or was it a range ? - it's hot enough . " " No , there's no news to tell , I believe , " said Good- win , with a mischievous look in his eye , " except that old ...
... say no . Isn't it warm ? I feel just like Mariana in her moated grange - or was it a range ? - it's hot enough . " " No , there's no news to tell , I believe , " said Good- win , with a mischievous look in his eye , " except that old ...
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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.