Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page, 1919 - 312 pagine |
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Pagina 29
... 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 33
... native girls could be compared with her . She had at- tended a convent school in New Orleans for two years ; and when she chose to display her accomplish- ments no one could detect any difference between her and the girls of Norfolk and ...
... native girls could be compared with her . She had at- tended a convent school in New Orleans for two years ; and when she chose to display her accomplish- ments no one could detect any difference between her and the girls of Norfolk and ...
Pagina 34
... of the native women in their huts , the song of the robin , the salt taste of the breeze , the diminu- endo of the faint surf running along the shore- and , gradually , of a white speck , growing to a 34 Cabbages and Kings.
... of the native women in their huts , the song of the robin , the salt taste of the breeze , the diminu- endo of the faint surf running along the shore- and , gradually , of a white speck , growing to a 34 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 47
... native An- churians , and made his way at once toward Goodwin , 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 An- churians , and made his way at once toward Goodwin , 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 ...
Pagina 51
... native high - fliers . " " Thanks , " said the yachtsman , " but I wouldn't put you to the trouble . I'd like to meet the guys you speak of , but I won't be here long enough to do much knocking around . That cool gent on the beach spoke ...
... native high - fliers . " " Thanks , " said the yachtsman , " but I wouldn't put you to the trouble . I'd like to meet the guys you speak of , but I won't be here long enough to do much knocking around . That cool gent on the beach spoke ...
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