Complete Writings of O. Henry [i.e. W.S. Porter]Doubleday, Page, 1917 |
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Pagina 3
... coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the incon- veniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thousand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a ...
... coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the incon- veniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thousand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a ...
Pagina 4
... coast , await- ing a rising tide . They say , in Coralio , that she found a prompt and prosperous tide in the form of Frank Goodwin , an American resident of the town , an investor who had grown wealthy by dealing in the products of the ...
... coast , await- ing a rising tide . They say , in Coralio , that she found a prompt and prosperous tide in the form of Frank Goodwin , an American resident of the town , an investor who had grown wealthy by dealing in the products of the ...
Pagina 5
... coast affords . The wife of the governor of the district , herself , who was of the proud Castilian family of Monteleon y Dolorosa de los Santos y Mendez , feels honoured to unfold her nap- kin with olive - hued , ringed hands at the ...
... coast affords . The wife of the governor of the district , herself , who was of the proud Castilian family of Monteleon y Dolorosa de los Santos y Mendez , feels honoured to unfold her nap- kin with olive - hued , ringed hands at the ...
Pagina 7
... coast that is curved like lips set for smiling . For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . That segment of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting to the sea a formidable border of tropical jungle topped by ...
... coast that is curved like lips set for smiling . For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . That segment of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting to the sea a formidable border of tropical jungle topped by ...
Pagina 10
... coast . It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band . Behind it , and seeming al- most to topple , imminent , above it , rose the sea- following range of the Cordilleras . In front the sea was spread , a smiling jailer , but even ...
... coast . It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band . Behind it , and seeming al- most to topple , imminent , above it , rose the sea- following range of the Cordilleras . In front the sea was spread , a smiling jailer , but even ...
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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,...