Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 45
... means of escape for the fugi- tives ; and an eye was kept even on the sloops and dories that belonged to the sea - going contingent of Coralio . Goodwin and Zavalla moved everywhere , but without ostentation , watching the loopholes of ...
... means of escape for the fugi- tives ; and an eye was kept even on the sloops and dories that belonged to the sea - going contingent of Coralio . Goodwin and Zavalla moved everywhere , but without ostentation , watching the loopholes of ...
Pagina 51
... mean passengers on the steamers . ple land in Coralio . An investor 66 " I suppose you No ; very few peo- No ; very — now and then tourists and sight - seers generally go further down the coast to one of the larger towns where there is ...
... mean passengers on the steamers . ple land in Coralio . An investor 66 " I suppose you No ; very few peo- No ; very — now and then tourists and sight - seers generally go further down the coast to one of the larger towns where there is ...
Pagina 54
... mean the consul , told me you hung out at this caravansary . My name's Smith ; and I came in a yacht . Taking a cruise around , looking at the mon- keys and pineapple - trees . Come inside and have 54 Cabbages and Kings.
... mean the consul , told me you hung out at this caravansary . My name's Smith ; and I came in a yacht . Taking a cruise around , looking at the mon- keys and pineapple - trees . Come inside and have 54 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 58
... means , " said the doctor , " get your busi- ness attended to , and then return . I shall wait up for you . You see , one of the most prominent physi- cians at the consultation diagnosed the trouble as a blood clot ; another said it was ...
... means , " said the doctor , " get your busi- ness attended to , and then return . I shall wait up for you . You see , one of the most prominent physi- cians at the consultation diagnosed the trouble as a blood clot ; another said it was ...
Pagina 59
... means of the great lighters heaped full from the piles of fruit ranged upon the shore . On the sandy beach , with his back against a cocoa- nut - tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing ...
... means of the great lighters heaped full from the piles of fruit ranged upon the shore . On the sandy beach , with his back against a cocoa- nut - tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing ...
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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...