Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page, 1912 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 8
... tropic stars where Melpomene once stalked austere . Now to cause laughter to echo from those lavish jungles and frowning 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 frowning crags where formerly rang the cries of pirates ' victims ; to lay aside pike and cutlass and attack with quip and ...
Pagina 10
... tropics from their centuries ' sleep . Gene- rally he wears a shamrock , which he matches pride- fully against the extravagant palms ; and it is he who has driven Melpomene to the wings , and set Comedy to dancing before the footlights ...
... tropics from their centuries ' sleep . Gene- rally he wears a shamrock , which he matches pride- fully against the extravagant palms ; and it is he who has driven Melpomene to the wings , and set Comedy to dancing before the footlights ...
Pagina 21
... tropics in its rankest and most prodigal growth . Spaces here and 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 ...
... tropics in its rankest and most prodigal growth . Spaces here and 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 ...
Pagina 28
... 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 sar- saparilla ...
... 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 sar- saparilla ...
Pagina 36
... tropic nights with all he was more than - was content . Also , there was Paula Brannigan . Geddie intended to marry Paula - if , of course , she would consent ; but he felt rather sure that she would do that . Somehow , he kept ...
... tropic nights with all he was more than - was content . Also , there was Paula Brannigan . Geddie intended to marry Paula - if , of course , she would consent ; but he felt rather sure that she would do that . Somehow , he kept ...
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admiral aguardiente American Anchuria Atwood banana beach Beelzebub Billy Keogh Blythe boat bottle captain Caribs Casa Morena chair cigar Clancy coast cocoanut Colonel Falcon consul Coralio crew Dalesburg Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional eyes face Felipe flag Frank Goodwin friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land laugh looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number O'Day Olivarra orange Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores Rosine sail sand sausage 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 Walrus White Winchester rifles word yacht Zavalla