Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 244
... picture . " Keogh hung his head . Self - abasement was easy to read in his downcast countenance . " I'm failing , Carry , " he said , sorrowfully . " I'm not fit to handle these man's - size schemes any longer . Peddling oranges in a ...
... picture . " Keogh hung his head . Self - abasement was easy to read in his downcast countenance . " I'm failing , Carry , " he said , sorrowfully . " I'm not fit to handle these man's - size schemes any longer . Peddling oranges in a ...
Pagina 245
... picture , I thought you wanted a Smashed Oats or a Hair Tonic poster painted on a range of mountains or the side of a continent . Well , either of those jobs would have been Art in its highest form compared to the one you've steered me ...
... picture , I thought you wanted a Smashed Oats or a Hair Tonic poster painted on a range of mountains or the side of a continent . Well , either of those jobs would have been Art in its highest form compared to the one you've steered me ...
Pagina 246
... picture would have to have the soul of a dog , and would deserve to go down into oblivion ' without even a tin can tied to his tail to sound his memory . " Little beads of moisture crept out all over Billy Keogh's brow . The stub of his ...
... picture would have to have the soul of a dog , and would deserve to go down into oblivion ' without even a tin can tied to his tail to sound his memory . " Little beads of moisture crept out all over Billy Keogh's brow . The stub of his ...
Pagina 247
... picture . That five thou- sand meant three years of foreign study to me , and I'd almost sell my soul for that . " " Now it ain't as bad as that , " said Keogh , sooth- ingly . " It's a business proposition . It's so much paint and time ...
... picture . That five thou- sand meant three years of foreign study to me , and I'd almost sell my soul for that . " " Now it ain't as bad as that , " said Keogh , sooth- ingly . " It's a business proposition . It's so much paint and time ...
Pagina 248
... picture . That's why I've lived on fried sausages , and tried to keep true to myself . I persuaded myself to do this portrait for the chance it might give me to study abroad . But this howling , screaming caricature ! Good Lord ! can't ...
... picture . That's why I've lived on fried sausages , and tried to keep true to myself . I persuaded myself to do this portrait for the chance it might give me to study abroad . But this howling , screaming caricature ! Good Lord ! can't ...
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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.