Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 79
... began to come over the mended telegraph wire ; and the story of the flight from the capital was given out to the public . In San Mateo the revolu- tionary party had seized the sceptre of government , without opposition , and the vivas ...
... began to come over the mended telegraph wire ; and the story of the flight from the capital was given out to the public . In San Mateo the revolu- tionary party had seized the sceptre of government , without opposition , and the vivas ...
Pagina 83
... began , as trouble often begins instead of ending , with a romance . In Dalesburg there was a man named Elijah Hemstetter , who kept a general store . His family consisted of one daughter called Rosine , a name that atoned much for ...
... began , as trouble often begins instead of ending , with a romance . In Dalesburg there was a man named Elijah Hemstetter , who kept a general store . His family consisted of one daughter called Rosine , a name that atoned much for ...
Pagina 128
... began to enter the state of a true idealist . " I must trot along in a minute or two , " hinted Goodwin . " Was there anything in particular ? " Blythe did not reply at once . " Old Losada would make it a hot country , " he re- marked ...
... began to enter the state of a true idealist . " I must trot along in a minute or two , " hinted Goodwin . " Was there anything in particular ? " Blythe did not reply at once . " Old Losada would make it a hot country , " he re- marked ...
Pagina 130
... began to lay their plans for a re - succession . Thus the game of Anchurian politics began , like a Chinese comedy , to unwind slowly its serial length . Here and there Mirth peeps for an instant from the wings and illumines the florid ...
... began to lay their plans for a re - succession . Thus the game of Anchurian politics began , like a Chinese comedy , to unwind slowly its serial length . Here and there Mirth peeps for an instant from the wings and illumines the florid ...
Pagina 145
... One morning the telegraph key began clicking , and pres- ently the operator called , loudly : " One telegram for el Almirante , Don Seņor Felipe Carrera ! " There was a shuffling sound , a great rattling of The Flag Paramount 145.
... One morning the telegraph key began clicking , and pres- ently the operator called , loudly : " One telegram for el Almirante , Don Seņor Felipe Carrera ! " There was a shuffling sound , a great rattling of The Flag Paramount 145.
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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...