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... Unpopular Review - Pagina 380a cura di - 1916Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| O. Henry - 1904 - 338 pagine
...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...with their torches the approach of soft-footed night. In the offing the Karlsefin swayed at anchor, her lights seeming to penetrate the water to countless... | |
| O. Henry - 1904 - 330 pagine
...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...with their torches the approach of soft-footed night. In the offing the Karlsefin swayed at anchor, her lights seeming to penetrate the water to countless... | |
| Charles Alphonso Smith - 1916 - 312 pagine
...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...with their torches the approach of soft-footed night. There is the trick of the diverted and diverting quotation: "Then," says I, "we'll export canned music... | |
| Charles Alphonso Smith - 1916 - 302 pagine
...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...with their torches the approach of soft-footed night. There is the trick of the diverted and diverting quotation: "Then," says I, "we'll export canned music... | |
| Charles Alphonso Smith - 1916 - 302 pagine
...bulky shoulders to receive the level gallop of Apollo's homing steeds, the day died in the lagoons 196 and in the shadowed banana groves and in the mangrove...with their torches the approach of soft-footed night. There is the trick of the diverted and diverting quotation: "Then," says I, "we'll export canned music... | |
| O. Henry - 1917 - 306 pagine
...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...with their torches the approach of soft-footed night. In the offing the Karlsefin swayed at anchor, her lights seeming to penetrate the water to countless... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1922 - 364 pagine
...wine that has never stood still between Oporto and El Refugio — ah, Dios! And here is a tropical sunset: The day died in the lagoons and in the shadowed...with their torches the approach of soft-footed night. At times in his earlier South American sketches he caught the very soul of the tropics, "the fetterless,... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1922 - 360 pagine
...of wine that has never stood still between Oporto and El Refugio— ah, Diosl And here is a tropical sunset: The day died in the lagoons and in the shadowed...with their torches the approach of soft-footed night. At times in his earlier South American sketches he caught the very soul of the tropics, "the fetterless,... | |
| O. Henry - 1911 - 1422 pagine
...lagoons and in the shadowed banana groves and in the mangrove swamps, where the great blue crabs VITO ssed a large chateau which showed testimony of recent entertainment. Lights sho ihe highest peaks. Then the brief twilight, ephemeral as the (light of a moth, came and went: the Southern... | |
| O. Henry - 1928 - 1424 pagine
...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...with their torches the approach of softfooted night. On the sandy beach, with his back against a cocoanut-tree and the stulis of many cigars lying around... | |
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