Cabbages and KingsMcClure, Phillips & Company, 1905 - 344 pagine |
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admiral aguardiente American Anchuria Atwood banana beach Beelzebub Billy Keogh Blythe boat bottle captain Caribs Casa Morena Castilian chair cigar Clancy coast cocoanut Colonel Falcon consul Coralio crew Dalesburg dark Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink eyes face Felipe flag Frank Goodwin friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala Guilbert hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic revolution Rosine sail sand says seemed Senor Goodwin 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 yacht Zavalla
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Pagina 1 - The time has come,' the Walrus said, ' To talk of many things: Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax Of cabbages - and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings.โ
Pagina 105 - we'll export canned music to the Latins; but I'm mindful of Mr. Julius Caesar's account of 'em where he says : " Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est; " which is the same as to say, " We will need all of our gall in devising means to tree them parties.โ
Pagina 65 - 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...โ