Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page, 1912 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 32
... native - built gallery of poles , bamboo and nipa palm running on three sides of it . One room was the official apart- ment , furnished chastely with a flat - top desk , a ham- mock , and three uncomfortable cane - seated chairs ...
... native - built gallery of poles , bamboo and nipa palm running on three sides of it . One room was the official apart- ment , furnished chastely with a flat - top desk , a ham- mock , and three uncomfortable cane - seated chairs ...
Pagina 36
... native girls could be compared with her . She had attended a convent school in New Orleans for two years ; and when she chose to display her accom- plishments no one could detect any difference be- tween her. 36 Cabbages and Kings.
... native girls could be compared with her . She had attended a convent school in New Orleans for two years ; and when she chose to display her accom- plishments no one could detect any difference be- tween her. 36 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 37
... native costume , with bare shoulders and flowing sleeves Bernard Brannigan was that merchant of Coralio . Besides his store , he maintained a train of pack mules , and carried on a lively trade with the interior towns and villages . He ...
... native costume , with bare shoulders and flowing sleeves Bernard Brannigan was that merchant of Coralio . Besides his store , he maintained a train of pack mules , and carried on a lively trade with the interior towns and villages . He ...
Pagina 38
... native women in their huts , the song of the robin , the salt taste of the breeze , the diminuendo of the faint surf running along the shore — and , gradually , of a white speck , growing to a blur , that intruded itself upon the drab ...
... native women in their huts , the song of the robin , the salt taste of the breeze , the diminuendo of the faint surf running along the shore — and , gradually , of a white speck , growing to a blur , that intruded itself upon the drab ...
Pagina 51
... native Anchurians , and made his way at once toward Good- win , who was the most conspicuously Anglo - Saxon figure present . Goodwin greeted him with courtesy . Conversation developed that the newly landed one was named Smith , and ...
... native Anchurians , and made his way at once toward Good- win , who was the most conspicuously Anglo - Saxon figure present . Goodwin greeted him with courtesy . Conversation developed that the newly landed one was named Smith , and ...
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