Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 57
... soon as she gets her bananas loaded , which will be about daylight in the morning , and she got everything ready this afternoon . No , sir , there was no passenger list . Like that Three- Star ? A French schooner landed two slooploads ...
... soon as she gets her bananas loaded , which will be about daylight in the morning , and she got everything ready this afternoon . No , sir , there was no passenger list . Like that Three- Star ? A French schooner landed two slooploads ...
Pagina 64
... soon to its close . Goodwin , at his deliberate gait , passed the long , low cuartel where Coralio's contingent of Anchuria's military force slumbered , with its bare toes pointed heavenward . There was a law that no civilian might come ...
... soon to its close . Goodwin , at his deliberate gait , passed the long , low cuartel where Coralio's contingent of Anchuria's military force slumbered , with its bare toes pointed heavenward . There was a law that no civilian might come ...
Pagina 89
... soon as Keogh's mind had ar- rived at a theory concerning the peripatetic solo he sprang to the railing , and his ear - rending yawp fractured the silence of Coralio like a cannon shot . " Mel - lin - ger a - hoy ! " The sloop was now ...
... soon as Keogh's mind had ar- rived at a theory concerning the peripatetic solo he sprang to the railing , and his ear - rending yawp fractured the silence of Coralio like a cannon shot . " Mel - lin - ger a - hoy ! " The sloop was now ...
Pagina 111
... soon as I can make a stake honest . ' 66 - Me and Henry laid low until the day the steamer came back . When we saw the captain's boat on the beach we went down and stood in the edge of the water . The captain grinned when he saw us ...
... soon as I can make a stake honest . ' 66 - Me and Henry laid low until the day the steamer came back . When we saw the captain's boat on the beach we went down and stood in the edge of the water . The captain grinned when he saw us ...
Pagina 116
... soon came to the reasonable con- clusion that if anyone in Coralio could furnish a clue to the vanished money , Frank Goodwin must be the man . But the wise secretary pursued a different course in seeking information from the American ...
... soon came to the reasonable con- clusion that if anyone in Coralio could furnish a clue to the vanished money , Frank Goodwin must be the man . But the wise secretary pursued a different course in seeking information from the American ...
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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.