Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 180
... pictures of the fat Weary Willie in the funny papers . I looked again , and saw it was my general man De Vega , the great revolutionist , mule - rider and pick - axe importer . When he saw me the general hesitated with his mouth filled ...
... pictures of the fat Weary Willie in the funny papers . I looked again , and saw it was my general man De Vega , the great revolutionist , mule - rider and pick - axe importer . When he saw me the general hesitated with his mouth filled ...
Pagina 235
... picture , and had it hung in a church in the capital . He ordered from a French sculptor a marble group including himself with Napoleon , Alexander the Great , and one or two others whom he deemed worthy of the honour . He ransacked ...
... picture , and had it hung in a church in the capital . He ordered from a French sculptor a marble group including himself with Napoleon , Alexander the Great , and one or two others whom he deemed worthy of the honour . He ransacked ...
Pagina 237
... pictures yet . " Keogh glanced about the studio with the shrewd eye of a connoisseur in business . " Yes , you can do it , " he declared , with many gentle nods of his head . " That big one in the cor- ner with the angels and green ...
... pictures yet . " Keogh glanced about the studio with the shrewd eye of a connoisseur in business . " Yes , you can do it , " he declared , with many gentle nods of his head . " That big one in the cor- ner with the angels and green ...
Pagina 238
... picture is it to be ? " " It's a long story , " said Keogh . " Go ahead with it . If you don't mind , while you talk I'll just keep my eye on these sausages . Let ' em get one shade deeper than a Vandyke brown and you spoil ' em ...
... picture is it to be ? " " It's a long story , " said Keogh . " Go ahead with it . If you don't mind , while you talk I'll just keep my eye on these sausages . Let ' em get one shade deeper than a Vandyke brown and you spoil ' em ...
Pagina 243
... picture painted by the celebrated young American painter and filibuster now sojourning in his down - trodden country . Off you go . " The victoria sped away with the artist . Keogh walked up and down , puffing great clouds of smoke from ...
... picture painted by the celebrated young American painter and filibuster now sojourning in his down - trodden country . Off you go . " The victoria sped away with the artist . Keogh walked up and down , puffing great clouds of smoke from ...
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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
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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.