Complete Writings of O. Henry [i.e. W.S. Porter]Doubleday, Page, 1917 |
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Pagina 14
... lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent career of President Miraflores had excited a shrewd suspicion in Goodwin's mind that the government was near a dissolution from another cause than that of a revolution , and now ...
... lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent career of President Miraflores had excited a shrewd suspicion in Goodwin's mind that the government was near a dissolution from another cause than that of a revolution , and now ...
Pagina 26
... land crabs , breadfruit , a boiled iguana steak , aguacates , a freshly cut pineapple , claret and coffee Geddie took his seat , and unrolled with luxurious laziness his bundle of newspapers . Here in Coralio for two days or longer he ...
... land crabs , breadfruit , a boiled iguana steak , aguacates , a freshly cut pineapple , claret and coffee Geddie took his seat , and unrolled with luxurious laziness his bundle of newspapers . Here in Coralio for two days or longer he ...
Pagina 27
... lands . Among the guests were Mrs. Cumberland Payne and Miss Ida Payne , of Norfolk . The writer , with the fatuous presumption that was demanded of him by his readers , had concocted a ro- mance suited to their palates . He bracketed ...
... lands . Among the guests were Mrs. Cumberland Payne and Miss Ida Payne , of Norfolk . The writer , with the fatuous presumption that was demanded of him by his readers , had concocted a ro- mance suited to their palates . He bracketed ...
Pagina 28
... land of the lotus . He could never forget Ida , of course ; but there was no longer any pain in thinking about her . When they had had that misunderstanding and quarrel he had impulsively sought this consulship , with the desire to ...
... land of the lotus . He could never forget Ida , of course ; but there was no longer any pain in thinking about her . When they had had that misunderstanding and quarrel he had impulsively sought this consulship , with the desire to ...
Pagina 30
... land like a dark , jagged crystal , and above it a pale ceiba - tree rose almost to the clouds . The waving cocoanut palms on the beach flared their dec- orative green leaves against the slate of an almost qui- escent sea . His senses ...
... land like a dark , jagged crystal , and above it a pale ceiba - tree rose almost to the clouds . The waving cocoanut palms on the beach flared their dec- orative green leaves against the slate of an almost qui- escent sea . His senses ...
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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,...