Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page, 1919 - 312 pagine |
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Pagina 6
... sand . An old half - breed Indian tends the grave with fidelity and the dawdling minuteness of inherited sloth . chops down the weeds and ever - springing grass with his machete , he plucks ants and scorpions and beetles from it with ...
... sand . An old half - breed Indian tends the grave with fidelity and the dawdling minuteness of inherited sloth . chops down the weeds and ever - springing grass with his machete , he plucks ants and scorpions and beetles from it with ...
Pagina 28
... sand . Then half - clothed Car- ibs dashed into the water , and brought in on their backs the Valhalla's purser and the little native offi- cials in their cotton undershirts , blue trousers with red stripes , and flapping straw hats ...
... sand . Then half - clothed Car- ibs dashed into the water , and brought in on their backs the Valhalla's purser and the little native offi- cials in their cotton undershirts , blue trousers with red stripes , and flapping straw hats ...
Pagina 36
... sand brought with it something round and shiny that rolled back again as the wave receded . The next influx beached it clear , and Ged- die picked it up . The thing was a long - necked wine bottle of colourless glass . The cork had been ...
... sand brought with it something round and shiny that rolled back again as the wave receded . The next influx beached it clear , and Ged- die picked it up . The thing was a long - necked wine bottle of colourless glass . The cork had been ...
Pagina 47
... sands . The new - comer seemed to turn a disapproving eye upon the rather motley congregation of native An- churians , and made his way at once toward Goodwin , who was the most conspicuously Anglo - Saxon figure present . Goodwin ...
... sands . The new - comer seemed to turn a disapproving eye upon the rather motley congregation of native An- churians , and made his way at once toward Goodwin , who was the most conspicuously Anglo - Saxon figure present . Goodwin ...
Pagina 48
... sand to the con- sulate , his haberdashery creating violent discord against the smooth tropical blues and greens . Geddie was lounging in his hammock , somewhat pale of face and languid in pose . On that night when the Valhalla's boat ...
... sand to the con- sulate , his haberdashery creating violent discord against the smooth tropical blues and greens . Geddie was lounging in his hammock , somewhat pale of face and languid in pose . On that night when the Valhalla's boat ...
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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 fruit Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny 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 revolution 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 tion took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla