Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 26
... town in an insignificant republic lying along the by - ways of a second - rate sea . He thought of Gregg , the quaran- tine doctor , who subscribed for the London Lancet , expecting to find it quoting his reports to the home Board of ...
... town in an insignificant republic lying along the by - ways of a second - rate sea . He thought of Gregg , the quaran- tine doctor , who subscribed for the London Lancet , expecting to find it quoting his reports to the home Board of ...
Pagina 29
... town laughed and applauded delight- edly . Every week they expected to see that roll of papers delivered and received in that same manner , and they were never disappointed . Innovations did not flourish in Coralio . The consul re ...
... town laughed and applauded delight- edly . Every week they expected to see that roll of papers delivered and received in that same manner , and they were never disappointed . Innovations did not flourish in Coralio . The consul re ...
Pagina 30
... town . The paper that came first to his hand was one of those bulky mattresses of printed stuff upon which the readers of certain New York journals are supposed to take their Sabbath literary nap . Opening this the consul rested it upon ...
... town . The paper that came first to his hand was one of those bulky mattresses of printed stuff upon which the readers of certain New York journals are supposed to take their Sabbath literary nap . Opening this the consul rested it upon ...
Pagina 33
... , and carried on a lively trade with the interior towns and villages . He had married a native lady of high Castilian descent , but with a tinge of Indian brown showing through her olive cheek . The union The Lotus and the Bottle 33.
... , and carried on a lively trade with the interior towns and villages . He had married a native lady of high Castilian descent , but with a tinge of Indian brown showing through her olive cheek . The union The Lotus and the Bottle 33.
Pagina 51
... towns where there is a harbour . " About " I see a ship out there loading up with bananas , ” said Smith . 66 Any ... town to turn out . If you are going to remain in Coralio a while , Mr. Smith , I'll be glad to take you around to ...
... towns where there is a harbour . " About " I see a ship out there loading up with bananas , ” said Smith . 66 Any ... town to turn out . If you are going to remain in Coralio a while , Mr. Smith , I'll be glad to take you around to ...
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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 laughed 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 White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla
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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...