Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 191
... Blythe stepped from the platform with the air of a prince leaving his canopied couch . He never quite lost that air , even at the lowest point of his fall . It is clear that the college of good breeding does not necessarily maintain a ...
... Blythe stepped from the platform with the air of a prince leaving his canopied couch . He never quite lost that air , even at the lowest point of his fall . It is clear that the college of good breeding does not necessarily maintain a ...
Pagina 192
... Blythe had reached rock bottom . Further descent seemed impossible . That last night's slumber in a public place had done for him . As long as he had had a roof to cover him there had remained , unbridged , the space that separates a ...
... Blythe had reached rock bottom . Further descent seemed impossible . That last night's slumber in a public place had done for him . As long as he had had a roof to cover him there had remained , unbridged , the space that separates a ...
Pagina 193
... Blythe walked slowly up the street , keeping a watchful eye for any miracle that might drop manna upon him in his wilderness . As he passed the popu- lar eating house of Madama Vasquez , Madama's boarders were just sitting down to ...
... Blythe walked slowly up the street , keeping a watchful eye for any miracle that might drop manna upon him in his wilderness . As he passed the popu- lar eating house of Madama Vasquez , Madama's boarders were just sitting down to ...
Pagina 194
... Blythe , and her expression turned more shy and embarrassed . " Beelzebub " owed her twenty pesos . He bowed as he had once bowed to less em- barrassed dames to whom he owed nothing , and passed on . Merchants and their clerks were ...
... Blythe , and her expression turned more shy and embarrassed . " Beelzebub " owed her twenty pesos . He bowed as he had once bowed to less em- barrassed dames to whom he owed nothing , and passed on . Merchants and their clerks were ...
Pagina 195
... Blythe's vic- tims who had plunged his hand oftenest into his pocket to aid him . But now it seemed that Keogh , too , had fortified himself against further invasions . His curt greeting and the ominous light in his full , grey eye ...
... Blythe's vic- tims who had plunged his hand oftenest into his pocket to aid him . But now it seemed that Keogh , too , had fortified himself against further invasions . His curt greeting and the ominous light in his full , grey eye ...
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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 Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land laughed looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic 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 took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla
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Pagina 14 - Nibj skedaddled yesterday per jack-rabbit line with all the coin in the kitty and the bundle of muslin he's spoony about. The boodle is six figures short. Our crowd in good shape, but we need the spondulicks. You collar it. The main guy and the dry goods are headed for the briny. You know what to do. BOB.
Pagina 59 - 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 11 - CORALIO reclined, in the mid-day heat, like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem. The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast. It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band. Behind it, and seeming almost to topple, imminent, above it, rose the sea-following range of the Cordilleras.
Pagina 234 - He was the absolute despot and the idol of his people. The wealth of the country poured into his hands. Other presidents had been rapacious without reason. Losada amassed enormous wealth, but his people had their share of the benefits. The joint in his armor was his insatiate passion for monuments and tokens commemorating his glory. In every town he caused to be erected statues of himself bearing legends in praise of his greatness. In the walls of every public edifice, tablets were fixed reciting...