Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 37
... smoke those three cigars while considering the problem . For it amounted to a problem . He almost wished that he had not found the bottle ; but the bottle was there . Why should it have drifted in from the sea , whence come so many ...
... smoke those three cigars while considering the problem . For it amounted to a problem . He almost wished that he had not found the bottle ; but the bottle was there . Why should it have drifted in from the sea , whence come so many ...
Pagina 41
... ; and then the mystery of it was swallowed up by the greater mystery of the ocean . Geddie stood still upon the beach , smoking and looking out upon the water . - " Simon ! Oh , Simon ! wake up The Lotus and the Bottle 41.
... ; and then the mystery of it was swallowed up by the greater mystery of the ocean . Geddie stood still upon the beach , smoking and looking out upon the water . - " Simon ! Oh , Simon ! wake up The Lotus and the Bottle 41.
Pagina 52
... occupied the ground floor . On the bottles of brandy , anisada , Scotch " smoke " and in- expensive wines behind the little counter the dust lay thick save where the fingers of infrequent customers had left 52 Cabbages and Kings.
... occupied the ground floor . On the bottles of brandy , anisada , Scotch " smoke " and in- expensive wines behind the little counter the dust lay thick save where the fingers of infrequent customers had left 52 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 54
... smoked , while he stroked his beard . Surprise came into his pale blue eyes when he caught sight of Smith in his unusual and prismatic clothes . - " You're Dr. Gregg is that right ? " said Smith , feeling the dog's head pin in his tie ...
... smoked , while he stroked his beard . Surprise came into his pale blue eyes when he caught sight of Smith in his unusual and prismatic clothes . - " You're Dr. Gregg is that right ? " said Smith , feeling the dog's head pin in his tie ...
Pagina 105
... smoked meerschaum to a patent - leather polish . They were as polite as wax , being devas- tated with enjoyments to give Señor Mellinger the good evenings . I understood their Spanish talk — I ran a pumping engine two years in a Mexican ...
... smoked meerschaum to a patent - leather polish . They were as polite as wax , being devas- tated with enjoyments to give Señor Mellinger the good evenings . I understood their Spanish talk — I ran a pumping engine two years in a Mexican ...
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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...