Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 135
... admiral . The collector waited in his official quarters . His office was in the Calle Grande , and the sea breezes hummed through its windows all day . The col- lector , in white linen and canvas shoes , philandered with papers on an ...
... admiral . The collector waited in his official quarters . His office was in the Calle Grande , and the sea breezes hummed through its windows all day . The col- lector , in white linen and canvas shoes , philandered with papers on an ...
Pagina 136
... Admiral of this great republic , and gives you absolute com- mand of the naval forces and fleet of our country . You may think , friend Felipe , that we have no navy -but yes ! The sloop the Estrella del Noche , 136 Cabbages and Kings.
... Admiral of this great republic , and gives you absolute com- mand of the naval forces and fleet of our country . You may think , friend Felipe , that we have no navy -but yes ! The sloop the Estrella del Noche , 136 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 137
... Admiral - I do not know but it is a very high honour that has descended upon you . I now hand you your commission . When you are ready for the boat I will give orders that she shall be made over into your charge . That is as far as my ...
... Admiral - I do not know but it is a very high honour that has descended upon you . I now hand you your commission . When you are ready for the boat I will give orders that she shall be made over into your charge . That is as far as my ...
Pagina 138
... admiral of the navy . Somewhere Felipe had raked together a pitiful semblance of a military uniform — a pair of red trousers , a dingy blue short jacket heavily ornamented with gold braid , and an old fatigue cap that must have been ...
... admiral of the navy . Somewhere Felipe had raked together a pitiful semblance of a military uniform — a pair of red trousers , a dingy blue short jacket heavily ornamented with gold braid , and an old fatigue cap that must have been ...
Pagina 139
... admiral , " he said to the col- lector's lady . Being on land he could bring himself to no more exuberant expression of sentiment . At sea with the flag at the masthead of his navy , some more eloquent exposition of feelings might be ...
... admiral , " he said to the col- lector's lady . Being on land he could bring himself to no more exuberant expression of sentiment . At sea with the flag at the masthead of his navy , some more eloquent exposition of feelings might be ...
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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 Seņor Goodwin seņorita 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...