 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,...  Cabbages and Kings - Pagina 11di O. Henry - 1904 - 266 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Crystal Ray Ross - 1925 - 200 pagine
...rencontre un débris si magnifique « qu'on le dirait d'opéra ». — Et voici maintenant 0 Henry : * « Coralio reclined in the mid-day heat like some vacuous...«emerald band. Behind it and seeming almost to topple, immi« nent above it rose the sea following range of the Cordilleras. In « front the sea was spread,... | |
 | O. Henry - 1928 - 1424 pagine
...all, here seem« to be Life, itself, with talk enough to weary the most garrulous of Walruses. ' ' FOX-IN-THE-MORNING ' ' CORALIO reclined, in the mid-day...mountains. The waves swished along the smooth beach; the parrote screamed in the orange and ceiba-trees; the palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like... | |
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