Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 39
... playing and people were rambling , care - free and indolent . Some timor- ous señoritas scurrying past with fire - flies tangled in the jetty braids of their hair glanced at him with shy , flattering eyes . The air was languorous with ...
... playing and people were rambling , care - free and indolent . Some timor- ous señoritas scurrying past with fire - flies tangled in the jetty braids of their hair glanced at him with shy , flattering eyes . The air was languorous with ...
Pagina 61
... play . He comes no more to Coralio nor to Doctor Gregg , who sits in vain , wagging his redun- dant beard , waiting to enrich his derelict audience with his moving tale of trepanning and jealousy . But prosperously to the lucidity of ...
... play . He comes no more to Coralio nor to Doctor Gregg , who sits in vain , wagging his redun- dant beard , waiting to enrich his derelict audience with his moving tale of trepanning and jealousy . But prosperously to the lucidity of ...
Pagina 70
... played in it . " Good evening , " he said . us come to business at once . " Now , madame , let You will observe that I mention no names , but I know who is in the next room , and what he carries in that valise . That is the point which ...
... played in it . " Good evening , " he said . us come to business at once . " Now , madame , let You will observe that I mention no names , but I know who is in the next room , and what he carries in that valise . That is the point which ...
Pagina 82
... scenes of Dales- burg life . It was while playing the part of Cupid's exile that Johnny added his handiwork to the long list of casu- alties along the Spanish Main by his famous ma- nipulation 82 CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER.
... scenes of Dales- burg life . It was while playing the part of Cupid's exile that Johnny added his handiwork to the long list of casu- alties along the Spanish Main by his famous ma- nipulation 82 CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER.
Pagina 89
... playing with spirit the familiar air of " Home , Sweet Home . ” It was a scene set for the land of the lotus . The authority of the sea and the tropics , the mystery that attends unknown sails , and the prestige of drifting music on ...
... playing with spirit the familiar air of " Home , Sweet Home . ” It was a scene set for the land of the lotus . The authority of the sea and the tropics , the mystery that attends unknown sails , and the prestige of drifting music on ...
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Parole e frasi comuni
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
Brani popolari
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...