Complete Writings of O. Henry [i.e. W.S. Porter]Doubleday, Page, 1917 |
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Pagina 3
... Anchuria , that President Miraflores , of that volatile republic , died by his own hand in the coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the incon- veniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred ...
... Anchuria , that President Miraflores , of that volatile republic , died by his own hand in the coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the incon- veniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred ...
Pagina 6
... Anchuria , she yielded the key to her resolute heart . How , then , do we find her ( as the Coralians would have told you ) the wife of Frank Goodwin , and happily living a life of dull and dreamy inaction ? The underlying threads reach ...
... Anchuria , she yielded the key to her resolute heart . How , then , do we find her ( as the Coralians would have told you ) the wife of Frank Goodwin , and happily living a life of dull and dreamy inaction ? The underlying threads reach ...
Pagina 12
... who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist and " good people . " That he was a man of resource and imagination was 12 CABBAGES AND KINGS.
... who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist and " good people . " That he was a man of resource and imagination was 12 CABBAGES AND KINGS.
Pagina 13
... An- churia was an active one . The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on their guard . But Englehart was a diplomatist ... Anchuria , and he had not reached that enviable pinnacle without having well exercised the arts of foresight and ...
... An- churia was an active one . The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on their guard . But Englehart was a diplomatist ... Anchuria , and he had not reached that enviable pinnacle without having well exercised the arts of foresight and ...
Pagina 14
... Anchurian linguists who had applied to it in vain their knowledge of Spanish and elemental English , conveyed a stimulating piece of news to Goodwin's understanding . It informed him that the president of the republic had decamped from ...
... Anchurian linguists who had applied to it in vain their knowledge of Spanish and elemental English , conveyed a stimulating piece of news to Goodwin's understanding . It informed him that the president of the republic had decamped from ...
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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 Coralio crew Dalesburg Dicky Doctor Gregg dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional Estebán eyes face Felipe flag Frank Goodwin friends Geddie graft grass Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native navy never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores republic Rosine sail says seemed Señor Goodwin señorita shoes shore sloop smile Smith 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
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Pagina 51 - 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 209 - Hie old boy doesn't draw badly at all. But, ye goddesses of Art! listen to the monstrosity he expects me to paint. He wants himself in the centre of the canvas, of course. He is to be painted as Jupiter sitting on Olympus, with the clouds at his feet. At one side of him stands George Washington, in full regimentals, with his hand on the president's shoulder. An angel with outstretched wings hovers overhead, and is placing a laurel wreath on the president's head, crowning him — Queen of the May,...