Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
Dall'interno del libro
Pagina 4
... banana king , a rubber prince , a sarsaparilla , indigo , and mahogany baron . The Seņorita Guil- bert , you will be told , married Seņor Goodwin one month after the president's death , thus , in the 4 Cabbages and Kings.
... banana king , a rubber prince , a sarsaparilla , indigo , and mahogany baron . The Seņorita Guil- bert , you will be told , married Seņor Goodwin one month after the president's death , thus , in the 4 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 20
O. Henry. there had been wrested from the jungle and planted with bananas and cane and orange groves . The rest was a riot of wild vegetation , the home of monkeys , tapirs , jaguars , alligators and prodigious reptiles and insects ...
O. Henry. there had been wrested from the jungle and planted with bananas and cane and orange groves . The rest was a riot of wild vegetation , the home of monkeys , tapirs , jaguars , alligators and prodigious reptiles and insects ...
Pagina 26
... bananas , so many thousand oranges and cocoanuts , so many ounces of gold dust , pounds of rubber , coffee , indigo and sarsa- parilla — actually , exports were twenty per cent . greater than for the previous year ! A little thrill of ...
... bananas , so many thousand oranges and cocoanuts , so many ounces of gold dust , pounds of rubber , coffee , indigo and sarsa- parilla — actually , exports were twenty per cent . greater than for the previous year ! A little thrill of ...
Pagina 34
... banana plants interposed their broad shields between him and the sun . The gentle slope from the consulate to the sea was covered with the dark - green foliage of lemon - trees and orange - trees just bursting into bloom . A lagoon ...
... banana plants interposed their broad shields between him and the sun . The gentle slope from the consulate to the sea was covered with the dark - green foliage of lemon - trees and orange - trees just bursting into bloom . A lagoon ...
Pagina 46
... bananas heaped upon the shore and row them out to the steamer . The Karlsefin had no passenger list , and was soon done with the attention of the authorities . The purser declared that the steamer would remain at anchor until morning ...
... bananas heaped upon the shore and row them out to the steamer . The Karlsefin had no passenger list , and was soon done with the attention of the authorities . The purser declared that the steamer would remain at anchor until morning ...
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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.