Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 93
... dollars the crowd fought for the tickers . The man happened to find a valise full of them handy , and he passed them out like putting hot biscuits on a plate . The backs were hard to unscrew , but the crowd put its ear to the case , and ...
... dollars the crowd fought for the tickers . The man happened to find a valise full of them handy , and he passed them out like putting hot biscuits on a plate . The backs were hard to unscrew , but the crowd put its ear to the case , and ...
Pagina 107
... dollars in money of your country . You can do nothing against us , but you can be worth that for us . Go back to the capital and obey our instructions . Take that money now . We trust you . You will find with it a paper giving in detail ...
... dollars in money of your country . You can do nothing against us , but you can be worth that for us . Go back to the capital and obey our instructions . Take that money now . We trust you . You will find with it a paper giving in detail ...
Pagina 123
... dollars belonging to the government , accompanied by Señorita Isabel Guilbert , the opera singer . The Government , offi- cially and personally , is loathe to believe , " con- cluded Colonel Falcon , with a smile , " that our late ...
... dollars belonging to the government , accompanied by Señorita Isabel Guilbert , the opera singer . The Government , offi- cially and personally , is loathe to believe , " con- cluded Colonel Falcon , with a smile , " that our late ...
Pagina 167
... , ' says I , haughty . I'll pay my own passage . ' A hundred and eighty dollars I had in my inside pocket , and ' twas no common filibuster I was goin ' to be , filibusterin ' for me board The Shamrock and the Palm 167.
... , ' says I , haughty . I'll pay my own passage . ' A hundred and eighty dollars I had in my inside pocket , and ' twas no common filibuster I was goin ' to be , filibusterin ' for me board The Shamrock and the Palm 167.
Pagina 168
... dollars , first cabin and ate at table with the officer crowd . Down on the lower deck was a gang of second - class passengers , about forty of them , seemin ' to be Da- goes and the like . I wondered what so many of them were goin ...
... dollars , first cabin and ate at table with the officer crowd . Down on the lower deck was a gang of second - class passengers , about forty of them , seemin ' to be Da- goes and the like . I wondered what so many of them were goin ...
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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 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 Walrus White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla
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Pagina 10 - His Nibs 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 to know what to do. BOB.
Pagina 90 - Gallia in tres partes divisa est'; which is the same as to say, "We will need all of our gall in devising means to tree them parties.
Pagina 55 - 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 7 - 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.