Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page, 1919 - 312 pagine |
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Pagina 68
... aguardiente , " said Madama , with pride , " is the best . It grows , in beautiful bottles , in the dark places among the banana - trees . Si , Señor . Only at midnight can they be picked by sailor - men who bring them , before daylight ...
... aguardiente , " said Madama , with pride , " is the best . It grows , in beautiful bottles , in the dark places among the banana - trees . Si , Señor . Only at midnight can they be picked by sailor - men who bring them , before daylight ...
Pagina 116
... aguardiente , which is the best . To their rooms they ascended - Numero Nueve and Numero Diez . Later came Señor Goodwin , who ascended to speak with them . Then I heard a great noise like that of a canon , and they said that the pobre ...
... aguardiente , which is the best . To their rooms they ascended - Numero Nueve and Numero Diez . Later came Señor Goodwin , who ascended to speak with them . Then I heard a great noise like that of a canon , and they said that the pobre ...
Pagina 127
... aguardiente por acá . " " Now , what do you want to see me about ? " asked Goodwin , when the drinks were before them . " Confound it , old man , " drawled Blythe , " why do you spoil a golden moment like this with business ? I wanted ...
... aguardiente por acá . " " Now , what do you want to see me about ? " asked Goodwin , when the drinks were before them . " Confound it , old man , " drawled Blythe , " why do you spoil a golden moment like this with business ? I wanted ...
Pagina 195
... aguardiente . In two of the pulperias his courageous petition for drink was met with a refusal so polite that it stung worse than abuse . The third establish ment had acquired something of American methods ; and here he was seized ...
... aguardiente . In two of the pulperias his courageous petition for drink was met with a refusal so polite that it stung worse than abuse . The third establish ment had acquired something of American methods ; and here he was seized ...
Pagina 200
... all out at the elbows , and I'd sell my mother's prayer - book for three fingers of aguardiente . I'm not putting on the screws hard . It ought to be worth a thousand to you for me to have slept on 200 Cabbages and Kings.
... all out at the elbows , and I'd sell my mother's prayer - book for three fingers of aguardiente . I'm not putting on the screws hard . It ought to be worth a thousand to you for me to have slept on 200 Cabbages and Kings.
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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 dark Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional Estebán eyes face Felipe flag friends fruit Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Karlsefin lady land looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic revolution Rosine sail sand says seemed Señor Goodwin señorita shoes shore sloop smile smoke Spanish Spanish Main steamer steps stood street tell there's thing thousand tintype tion took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla