Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 7
... tropic stars where Melpomene once stalked austere . Now to cause laughter to echo from those lavish jungles and frown- ing crags where formerly rang the cries of pirates ' victims ; to lay aside pike and cutlass and attack with quip and ...
... tropic stars where Melpomene once stalked austere . Now to cause laughter to echo from those lavish jungles and frown- ing crags where formerly rang the cries of pirates ' victims ; to lay aside pike and cutlass and attack with quip and ...
Pagina 9
... tropics from their centuries ' sleep . Gener- ally he wears a shamrock , which he matches pridefully against the extravagant palms ; and it is he who has driven Melpomene to the wings , and set Comedy to dancing before the footlights of ...
... tropics from their centuries ' sleep . Gener- ally he wears a shamrock , which he matches pridefully against the extravagant palms ; and it is he who has driven Melpomene to the wings , and set Comedy to dancing before the footlights of ...
Pagina 19
... five miles breadth of allu- vial coast . Here was the flora of the tropics in its rankest and most prodigal growth . Spaces here and there had been wrested from the jungle and planted with " Fox - in - the - Morning " 19.
... five miles breadth of allu- vial coast . Here was the flora of the tropics in its rankest and most prodigal growth . Spaces here and there had been wrested from the jungle and planted with " Fox - in - the - Morning " 19.
Pagina 26
... tropics a paradox that may be allowed between Cancer and Capricorn . ― So many thousand bunches of bananas , so many thousand oranges and cocoanuts , so many ounces of gold dust , pounds of rubber , coffee , indigo and sarsa- parilla ...
... tropics a paradox that may be allowed between Cancer and Capricorn . ― So many thousand bunches of bananas , so many thousand oranges and cocoanuts , so many ounces of gold dust , pounds of rubber , coffee , indigo and sarsa- parilla ...
Pagina 33
... tropic nights - with all he was more than content . there was Paula Brannigan . Also , Geddie intended to marry Paula - if , of course , she would consent ; but he felt rather sure that she would do that . Somehow , he kept postponing ...
... tropic nights - with all he was more than content . there was Paula Brannigan . Also , Geddie intended to marry Paula - if , of course , she would consent ; but he felt rather sure that she would do that . Somehow , he kept postponing ...
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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.