Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 132
... sloop could be manned by a loyal crew and employed as a coast guard to discourage the per- nicious art of smuggling . The collector also ven- tured to nominate one to whom the charge of the boat could be safely intrusted - a young man ...
... sloop could be manned by a loyal crew and employed as a coast guard to discourage the per- nicious art of smuggling . The collector also ven- tured to nominate one to whom the charge of the boat could be safely intrusted - a young man ...
Pagina 134
... fully and completely made could handle a sailboat as well . Five points nearer the wind than the best of them he could sail his sloop . When the elements raged and set other men to cowering , the deficiencies 134 Cabbages and Kings.
... fully and completely made could handle a sailboat as well . Five points nearer the wind than the best of them he could sail his sloop . When the elements raged and set other men to cowering , the deficiencies 134 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 135
... sloop . When the outcome of Don Sabas ' little pleasantry arrived in the form of the imposing and preposterous commission , the collector smiled . He had not ex- pected such prompt and overwhelming response to his recommendation . He ...
... sloop . When the outcome of Don Sabas ' little pleasantry arrived in the form of the imposing and preposterous commission , the collector smiled . He had not ex- pected such prompt and overwhelming response to his recommendation . He ...
Pagina 136
... of this great republic , and gives you absolute com- mand of the naval forces and fleet of our country . You may think , friend Felipe , that we have no navy -but yes ! The sloop the Estrella del Noche , 136 Cabbages and Kings.
... of this great republic , and gives you absolute com- mand of the naval forces and fleet of our country . You may think , friend Felipe , that we have no navy -but yes ! The sloop the Estrella del Noche , 136 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 137
O. Henry. -but yes ! The sloop the Estrella del Noche , that my brave men captured from the coast smugglers , is to be placed under your command . The boat is to be devoted to the services of your country . You will be ready at all times ...
O. Henry. -but yes ! The sloop the Estrella del Noche , that my brave men captured from the coast smugglers , is to be placed under your command . The boat is to be devoted to the services of your country . You will be ready at all times ...
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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.