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Pagina 40
He was charmed at the sight of her costume — a flounced muslin dress , with a
little jacket of white flannel , all made with neatness and style . He suggested a
stroll , and they walked out to the old Indian well on the hill road . They sat on the
...
He was charmed at the sight of her costume — a flounced muslin dress , with a
little jacket of white flannel , all made with neatness and style . He suggested a
stroll , and they walked out to the old Indian well on the hill road . They sat on the
...
Pagina 55
Mi mujer está enferma en la casa , " said the man , thus endeavouring to convey
the news , in the only language open to him , that his wife lay ill in her palm -
thatched hut . The doctor drew a handful of capsules filled with a white powder
from ...
Mi mujer está enferma en la casa , " said the man , thus endeavouring to convey
the news , in the only language open to him , that his wife lay ill in her palm -
thatched hut . The doctor drew a handful of capsules filled with a white powder
from ...
Pagina 60
On the white sands a whiter gig belonging to the yacht was drawn up , guarded
by one of the whiteducked crew . Not far away in a pulperia on the shore -
following Calle Grande three other sailors swaggered with their cues around
Coralio ' s ...
On the white sands a whiter gig belonging to the yacht was drawn up , guarded
by one of the whiteducked crew . Not far away in a pulperia on the shore -
following Calle Grande three other sailors swaggered with their cues around
Coralio ' s ...
Pagina 63
The town had begun the tepid round of its nightly diversions . A few leisurely
dandies , clad in white duck , with flowing neckties , and swinging slim bamboo
canes , threaded the grassy by - ways toward the houses of their favoured
señoritas .
The town had begun the tepid round of its nightly diversions . A few leisurely
dandies , clad in white duck , with flowing neckties , and swinging slim bamboo
canes , threaded the grassy by - ways toward the houses of their favoured
señoritas .
Pagina 88
So bright was the moonlight that the two men could see the small pebbles
shining on the beach where the gentle surf wetted them . Then down the coast ,
tacking close to shore , slowly swam a little sloop , white - winged like some
snowy sea ...
So bright was the moonlight that the two men could see the small pebbles
shining on the beach where the gentle surf wetted them . Then down the coast ,
tacking close to shore , slowly swam a little sloop , white - winged like some
snowy sea ...
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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...
Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Cabbages and Kings Watermark edition |
| Autore | O. Henry |
| Editore | Doubleday, Page, 1904 |
| Lunghezza | 312 pagine |
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