Complete Writings of O. Henry [i.e. W.S. Porter]Doubleday, Page, 1917 |
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Pagina 3
... never afterward recovered . For a real , a boy will show you his grave . It is back of the town near a little bridge that spans a man- grove swamp . A plain slab of wood stands at its head . Some one has burned upon the headstone with a ...
... never afterward recovered . For a real , a boy will show you his grave . It is back of the town near a little bridge that spans a man- grove swamp . A plain slab of wood stands at its head . Some one has burned upon the headstone with a ...
Pagina 6
... never saw that unfortunate statesman in life or in death , and why that one was wont to walk in the twilight , casting from a distance looks of gentle sadness upon that unhonoured mound . Elsewhere than at Coralio one learns of the im ...
... never saw that unfortunate statesman in life or in death , and why that one was wont to walk in the twilight , casting from a distance looks of gentle sadness upon that unhonoured mound . Elsewhere than at Coralio one learns of the im ...
Pagina 15
... never been introduced to by writers of imagination . The maga- zines invented it , but I never knew before that Presi- dent Norvin Green had stamped it with the seal of his approval . " Tis now no longer literature , but lan- guage ...
... never been introduced to by writers of imagination . The maga- zines invented it , but I never knew before that Presi- dent Norvin Green had stamped it with the seal of his approval . " Tis now no longer literature , but lan- guage ...
Pagina 18
... has wrapped up and carried off ? " " Isabel Guilbert ? " said Goodwin , laughing . " No , I never did . From what I've heard of her , though , I imagine that she wouldn't stick at anything to carry her 18 CABBAGES AND KINGS.
... has wrapped up and carried off ? " " Isabel Guilbert ? " said Goodwin , laughing . " No , I never did . From what I've heard of her , though , I imagine that she wouldn't stick at anything to carry her 18 CABBAGES AND KINGS.
Pagina 19
... never saw her either , " went on Keogh ; " but they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculp- ture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They say she can look at a man once , and he'll turn monkey and climb trees to pick cocoanuts ...
... never saw her either , " went on Keogh ; " but they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculp- ture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They say she can look at a man once , and he'll turn monkey and climb trees to pick cocoanuts ...
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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,...