Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 79
... followed by outnumbering officers struggling into their gold lace and epaulettes ; the barefooted policemen ( the only capables in the lot ) , and ruffled citizens of every hue and description . They say that the countenance of the dead ...
... followed by outnumbering officers struggling into their gold lace and epaulettes ; the barefooted policemen ( the only capables in the lot ) , and ruffled citizens of every hue and description . They say that the countenance of the dead ...
Pagina 100
... followed us from house to house . There was a different kind of drink to be had with every tune . The natives had acquirements of a pleasant think in the way of a drink that gums itself to the recollection . They chop off the end of a ...
... followed us from house to house . There was a different kind of drink to be had with every tune . The natives had acquirements of a pleasant think in the way of a drink that gums itself to the recollection . They chop off the end of a ...
Pagina 120
... followed and stood by her side . She leaned to him , and rested in the protection of his strength , as she had always rested since that dark night on which he had first made himself her tower of refuge . Thus they stood for a little ...
... followed and stood by her side . She leaned to him , and rested in the protection of his strength , as she had always rested since that dark night on which he had first made himself her tower of refuge . Thus they stood for a little ...
Pagina 123
... followed them upstairs , leaving Estebán , who had come up , to watch outside . The barber had told me that he had shaved the beard from the president's face that night ; therefore I was prepared , when I entered the rooms , to find him ...
... followed them upstairs , leaving Estebán , who had come up , to watch outside . The barber had told me that he had shaved the beard from the president's face that night ; therefore I was prepared , when I entered the rooms , to find him ...
Pagina 159
... followed after the others , and stood with them upon the deck of the Salvador . The sailors that steadied El Nacional shoved her off . The jabbering Caribs hauled away at the rigging ; the sloop headed The Flag Paramount 159.
... followed after the others , and stood with them upon the deck of the Salvador . The sailors that steadied El Nacional shoved her off . The jabbering Caribs hauled away at the rigging ; the sloop headed The Flag Paramount 159.
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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
Brani popolari
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.