Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 29
... walked back to the consulate . This home of a great nation's representative was a wooden structure of two rooms , with a native - built gallery of poles , bamboo and nipa palm running on three sides of it . One room was the official ...
... walked back to the consulate . This home of a great nation's representative was a wooden structure of two rooms , with a native - built gallery of poles , bamboo and nipa palm running on three sides of it . One room was the official ...
Pagina 36
... walked on the little strip of beach under the cocoanuts . The wind was blowing mildly land- ward , and the surface of the sea was rippled by tiny wavelets . A miniature breaker , spreading with a soft " swish " upon the sand brought ...
... walked on the little strip of beach under the cocoanuts . The wind was blowing mildly land- ward , and the surface of the sea was rippled by tiny wavelets . A miniature breaker , spreading with a soft " swish " upon the sand brought ...
Pagina 37
... walked back to his house , and set the bottle on his desk . Throwing off his hat and coat , and lighting a lamp - for the night had crowded precipitately upon the brief twilight - he began to examine his piece of sea salvage . By ...
... walked back to his house , and set the bottle on his desk . Throwing off his hat and coat , and lighting a lamp - for the night had crowded precipitately upon the brief twilight - he began to examine his piece of sea salvage . By ...
Pagina 39
... walked out . He followed a street that led him along the border of the little plaza where a band was playing and people were rambling , care - free and indolent . Some timor- ous señoritas scurrying past with fire - flies tangled ip the ...
... walked out . He followed a street that led him along the border of the little plaza where a band was playing and people were rambling , care - free and indolent . Some timor- ous señoritas scurrying past with fire - flies tangled ip the ...
Pagina 40
... walked out to the old Indian well on the hill road . They sat on the curb , and there Geddie made the expected but long - deferred speech . Certain though he had been that she would not say him nay , he was thrilled with joy at the com ...
... walked out to the old Indian well on the hill road . They sat on the curb , and there Geddie made the expected but long - deferred speech . Certain though he had been that she would not say him nay , he was thrilled with joy at the com ...
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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 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
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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.