Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 49
... friend ; he may get him , instanter , to a monastery or a dance hall ; he may elope , or hang himself or he may write a song or poem , or kiss his wife unasked , or give his funds to the search of a microbe . Then the peripheral soul ...
... friend ; he may get him , instanter , to a monastery or a dance hall ; he may elope , or hang himself or he may write a song or poem , or kiss his wife unasked , or give his funds to the search of a microbe . Then the peripheral soul ...
Pagina 52
... friends . It stood at a corner of the Street of the Holy Sepul- chre . A grove of small orange - trees crowded against one side of it , enclosed by a low , rock wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered ...
... friends . It stood at a corner of the Street of the Holy Sepul- chre . A grove of small orange - trees crowded against one side of it , enclosed by a low , rock wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered ...
Pagina 69
... friends ? Está bueno . Room Numero 9 and room Numero 10. " Goodwin loosened in his coat pocket the American revolver that he carried , and ascended the steep , dark stairway . In the hallway above , the saffron light from a hanging lamp ...
... friends ? Está bueno . Room Numero 9 and room Numero 10. " Goodwin loosened in his coat pocket the American revolver that he carried , and ascended the steep , dark stairway . In the hallway above , the saffron light from a hanging lamp ...
Pagina 85
... friendship at once . Keogh took the new con- sul about town and presented him to the handful of Americans and the smaller number of French and Germans who made up the " foreign " contingent . Cupid's Exile Number Two 85.
... friendship at once . Keogh took the new con- sul about town and presented him to the handful of Americans and the smaller number of French and Germans who made up the " foreign " contingent . Cupid's Exile Number Two 85.
Pagina 100
... friends , the Señors Americanos . The opera chorus was agitated with esteem , and 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 ...
... friends , the Señors Americanos . The opera chorus was agitated with esteem , and 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 ...
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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...