Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 34
... beach flared their dec- orative green leaves against the slate of an almost qui- escent sea . His senses were cognizant of brilliant scarlet and ochres amid the vert of the coppice , of odours of fruit and bloom and the smoke from Chan ...
... beach flared their dec- orative green leaves against the slate of an almost qui- escent sea . His senses were cognizant of brilliant scarlet and ochres amid the vert of the coppice , of odours of fruit and bloom and the smoke from Chan ...
Pagina 36
... beach under the cocoanuts . The wind was blowing mildly land- ward , and the surface of the sea was rippled by tiny wavelets . A miniature breaker , spreading with a soft " swish " upon the sand brought with it something round and shiny ...
... beach under the cocoanuts . The wind was blowing mildly land- ward , and the surface of the sea was rippled by tiny wavelets . A miniature breaker , spreading with a soft " swish " upon the sand brought with it something round and shiny ...
Pagina 41
... beach . There was a moon , and the sea was glorious . The breeze had shifted , as it did each evening , and was now rushing steadily seaward . Stepping to the water's edge , Geddie hurled the un- opened bottle far out into the sea . It ...
... beach . There was a moon , and the sea was glorious . The breeze had shifted , as it did each evening , and was now rushing steadily seaward . Stepping to the water's edge , Geddie hurled the un- opened bottle far out into the sea . It ...
Pagina 42
... beach . Out of his earliest nap Simon was thus awakened . Just He slipped on his shoes and went outside . landing from one of the Valhalla's boats was the third mate of that vessel , who was an acquaintance of Si- mon's , and three ...
... beach . Out of his earliest nap Simon was thus awakened . Just He slipped on his shoes and went outside . landing from one of the Valhalla's boats was the third mate of that vessel , who was an acquaintance of Si- mon's , and three ...
Pagina 45
... beach with the usual ' crowd of idlers that had gathered to view the steamer . Now that President Miraflores might be expected to reach the borders of his abjured country at any time , the orders were to keep a strict and unrelenting ...
... beach with the usual ' crowd of idlers that had gathered to view the steamer . Now that President Miraflores might be expected to reach the borders of his abjured country at any time , the orders were to keep a strict and unrelenting ...
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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...