Complete Writings of O. Henry [i.e. W.S. Porter]Doubleday, Page, 1917 |
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Pagina 40
... painted a light buff , clean - cut as a steel engraving . The beautiful vessel hovered off shore , see - sawing the waves as lightly as a duck in a rain barrel . A swift boat manned by a crew in uni- form came ashore , and a stocky ...
... painted a light buff , clean - cut as a steel engraving . The beautiful vessel hovered off shore , see - sawing the waves as lightly as a duck in a rain barrel . A swift boat manned by a crew in uni- form came ashore , and a stocky ...
Pagina 66
... ment treasury . But why , he angrily asked himself , should he be so well pleased to think this wandering and unscrupulous singer not so black as report had painted her ? A noise in the other room startled them both . 66 CABBAGES AND KINGS.
... ment treasury . But why , he angrily asked himself , should he be so well pleased to think this wandering and unscrupulous singer not so black as report had painted her ? A noise in the other room startled them both . 66 CABBAGES AND KINGS.
Pagina 86
... painted butterfly ; but in fact I'm the hardest worked man in this country . Ten years ago I landed on its shores ; and two years ago on the point of its jaw . Yes , I guess I can get the decision over this ginger cake commonwealth at ...
... painted butterfly ; but in fact I'm the hardest worked man in this country . Ten years ago I landed on its shores ; and two years ago on the point of its jaw . Yes , I guess I can get the decision over this ginger cake commonwealth at ...
Pagina 88
... paint off the government property . That's why I'm down here now in this mildewed coast town . The governor of the district and his crew are plotting to uprise . I've got every one of their names , and they're invited to listen to the ...
... paint off the government property . That's why I'm down here now in this mildewed coast town . The governor of the district and his crew are plotting to uprise . I've got every one of their names , and they're invited to listen to the ...
Pagina 119
... paint trimmed with blue . And then Felipe further adorned him- self by fastening a handful of brilliant parrot's plumes in his cap . Again he tramped with his faith- ful crew to the collector's office and formally notified him that the ...
... paint trimmed with blue . And then Felipe further adorned him- self by fastening a handful of brilliant parrot's plumes in his cap . Again he tramped with his faith- ful crew to the collector's office and formally notified him that the ...
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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,...