Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 5
... seemed now to be in her favour , whatever they had been in the past . It would seem that the story is ended , instead of begun ; that the close of a tragedy and the climax of a romance have covered the ground of interest ; but , to the ...
... seemed now to be in her favour , whatever they had been in the past . It would seem that the story is ended , instead of begun ; that the close of a tragedy and the climax of a romance have covered the ground of interest ; but , to the ...
Pagina 6
... warmth . She had little education , but a knowl- edge of men and motives that seemed to have come by instinct . Far beyond the common woman was she endowed with intrepid rashness , with a love for the 6 Cabbages and Kings.
... warmth . She had little education , but a knowl- edge of men and motives that seemed to have come by instinct . Far beyond the common woman was she endowed with intrepid rashness , with a love for the 6 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 12
... seemed not to be in- digenous to that tropical soil . The man in the door was Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and protographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy ...
... seemed not to be in- digenous to that tropical soil . The man in the door was Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and protographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy ...
Pagina 32
... seemed like an irritating dream . He hoped Ida would be as happy as he was . The climate as balmy as that of distant Avalon ; the fetterless , idyllic round of enchanted days ; the life among this indolent , romantic people a life full ...
... seemed like an irritating dream . He hoped Ida would be as happy as he was . The climate as balmy as that of distant Avalon ; the fetterless , idyllic round of enchanted days ; the life among this indolent , romantic people a life full ...
Pagina 36
... seemed to be a sheet of paper , much curled from the manipulation it had undergone while being inserted . In the sealing - wax was the impression of a seal probably of a signet - ring , bearing the initials of a monogram ; but the ...
... seemed to be a sheet of paper , much curled from the manipulation it had undergone while being inserted . In the sealing - wax was the impression of a seal probably of a signet - ring , bearing the initials of a monogram ; but the ...
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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
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.