Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 33
... tropic nights - with all he was more than content . there was Paula Brannigan . - Also , Geddie intended to marry Paula if , of course , she would consent ; but he felt rather sure that she would do that . Somehow , he kept postponing ...
... tropic nights - with all he was more than content . there was Paula Brannigan . - Also , Geddie intended to marry Paula if , of course , she would consent ; but he felt rather sure that she would do that . Somehow , he kept postponing ...
Pagina 89
... tropics , the mystery that attends unknown sails , and the prestige of drifting music on moonlit waters gave it an anodynous charm . Johnny Atwood felt it , and thought of Dalesburg ; but as soon as Keogh's mind had ar- rived at a ...
... tropics , the mystery that attends unknown sails , and the prestige of drifting music on moonlit waters gave it an anodynous charm . Johnny Atwood felt it , and thought of Dalesburg ; but as soon as Keogh's mind had ar- rived at a ...
Pagina 112
... tropics ever since . They say Mellinger never travelled a mile after that without his phonograph . I guess it kept him re- minded about his graft whenever he saw the siren voice of the boodler tip him the wink with a bribe in its hand ...
... tropics ever since . They say Mellinger never travelled a mile after that without his phonograph . I guess it kept him re- minded about his graft whenever he saw the siren voice of the boodler tip him the wink with a bribe in its hand ...
Pagina 126
... tropics , where flamed in his bosom a fire that was seldom quenched . In Coralio they called him a beachcomber ; but he was , in reality , a categorical idealist who strove to an- amorphosize the dull verities of life by the means of ...
... tropics , where flamed in his bosom a fire that was seldom quenched . In Coralio they called him a beachcomber ; but he was , in reality , a categorical idealist who strove to an- amorphosize the dull verities of life by the means of ...
Pagina 146
... the sea . In two hours El Nacional entered the river's mouth . The banks were crowded with a disposition of formidable trees . The sumptuous undergrowth of the tropics overflowed the land , and drowned itself 146 Cabbages and Kings.
... the sea . In two hours El Nacional entered the river's mouth . The banks were crowded with a disposition of formidable trees . The sumptuous undergrowth of the tropics overflowed the land , and drowned itself 146 Cabbages and Kings.
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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
Brani popolari
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.