Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 13
... stood the abode of the consul for the United States . Out from the door of this building tumbled Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with Willard Ged- die , the consul , on the back porch of the consulate , which was conceded to ...
... stood the abode of the consul for the United States . Out from the door of this building tumbled Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with Willard Ged- die , the consul , on the back porch of the consulate , which was conceded to ...
Pagina 15
... stood to win a concession to 30,000 manzanas of the finest coffee lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent career of President Miraflores had excited a shrewd suspicion in Goodwin's mind that the government was near a ...
... stood to win a concession to 30,000 manzanas of the finest coffee lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent career of President Miraflores had excited a shrewd suspicion in Goodwin's mind that the government was near a ...
Pagina 41
... stood still , watching it . The moonlight was so bright that he could see it bobbing up and down with the little waves . Slowly it receded from the shore , flashing and turning as it went . The wind was carrying it out to sea . Soon it ...
... stood still , watching it . The moonlight was so bright that he could see it bobbing up and down with the little waves . Slowly it receded from the shore , flashing and turning as it went . The wind was carrying it out to sea . Soon it ...
Pagina 52
... stood at a corner of the Street of the Holy Sepul- chre . A grove of small orange - trees crowded against one side of it , enclosed by a low , rock wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered adobe ...
... stood at a corner of the Street of the Holy Sepul- chre . A grove of small orange - trees crowded against one side of it , enclosed by a low , rock wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered adobe ...
Pagina 65
... stood as an agent for the people of Anchuria , and but for political reasons he would have demanded then and there the money . It was the design of his party to secure the imperilled fund , to restore it to the treasury of the country ...
... stood as an agent for the people of Anchuria , and but for political reasons he would have demanded then and there the money . It was the design of his party to secure the imperilled fund , to restore it to the treasury of the country ...
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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.