Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page, 1912 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 3
... sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration , was never after- ward recovered . For a real , a boy will show you his grave . It is back of the ...
... sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration , was never after- ward recovered . For a real , a boy will show you his grave . It is back of the ...
Pagina 4
... the simultaneous loss of her dis- tinguished admirer and the souvenir hundred thou- sand , dropped anchor on this stagnant coast , await- ing a rising tide . --- They say , in Coralio , that she found Cabbages and Kings.
... the simultaneous loss of her dis- tinguished admirer and the souvenir hundred thou- sand , dropped anchor on this stagnant coast , await- ing a rising tide . --- They say , in Coralio , that she found Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 6
... sand . An old half - breed Indian tends the grave with fidelity and the dawdling minuteness of inherited sloth . He chops down the weeds and ever - springing grass with his machete , he plucks ants and scorpions and beetles from it with ...
... sand . An old half - breed Indian tends the grave with fidelity and the dawdling minuteness of inherited sloth . He chops down the weeds and ever - springing grass with his machete , he plucks ants and scorpions and beetles from it with ...
Pagina 31
... sand . Then half- clothed Caribs dashed into the water , and brought in on their backs the Valhalla's purser and the little native officials in their cotton undershirts , blue trou- sers with red stripes , and flapping straw hats . At ...
... sand . Then half- clothed Caribs dashed into the water , and brought in on their backs the Valhalla's purser and the little native officials in their cotton undershirts , blue trou- sers with red stripes , and flapping straw hats . At ...
Pagina 40
... sand brought with it something round and shiny that rolled back again as the wave receded . The next influx beached it clear , and Geddie picked it up . The thing was a long - necked wine bottle of colourless glass . The cork had been ...
... sand brought with it something round and shiny that rolled back again as the wave receded . The next influx beached it clear , and Geddie picked it up . The thing was a long - necked wine bottle of colourless glass . The cork had been ...
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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