Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 95
... , hanging onto the rear step , this town of Solitas will wake up and ask if anybody spoke . " The captain went ashore with us , and offered to conduct what he seemed to like to call the obsequies The Phonograph and the Graft 95.
... , hanging onto the rear step , this town of Solitas will wake up and ask if anybody spoke . " The captain went ashore with us , and offered to conduct what he seemed to like to call the obsequies The Phonograph and the Graft 95.
Pagina 96
... steps upon the stage and looks this country in the eye will be converted to the hypothesis that he's but a fly in the Elgin creamery . Ye'll be standing knee deep in the surf waiting for me , and your machine for making Hamburger steak ...
... steps upon the stage and looks this country in the eye will be converted to the hypothesis that he's but a fly in the Elgin creamery . Ye'll be standing knee deep in the surf waiting for me , and your machine for making Hamburger steak ...
Pagina 110
... step - lad- der through it without striking against anything . All Mellinger and me had to do was to follow . " It took us just three minutes to get out of that street around to military headquarters , where Mel- linger had things his ...
... step - lad- der through it without striking against anything . All Mellinger and me had to do was to follow . " It took us just three minutes to get out of that street around to military headquarters , where Mel- linger had things his ...
Pagina 162
... steps , smoking his short pipe . His mood was the gossip's ; the others were re- duced , by the humidity , to the state of disability de- sirable in an audience . Clancy was an American with an Irish diathesis and cosmopolitan ...
... steps , smoking his short pipe . His mood was the gossip's ; the others were re- duced , by the humidity , to the state of disability de- sirable in an audience . Clancy was an American with an Irish diathesis and cosmopolitan ...
Pagina 171
... steps out of the ranks and goes up to that General De Vega man , who was smokin ' a cigar and gazin ' upon the scene with satisfactions and glory . He smiles at me polite and devilish . Plenty work , ' says he , for big , strong mans in ...
... steps out of the ranks and goes up to that General De Vega man , who was smokin ' a cigar and gazin ' upon the scene with satisfactions and glory . He smiles at me polite and devilish . Plenty work , ' says he , for big , strong mans in ...
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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.