Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 76
... valise , which she handed to the American with an air of patient contempt . Goodwin set the valise quickly upon the table and began to unfasten the straps . The lady stood by , with an expression of infinite scorn and weariness upon her ...
... valise , which she handed to the American with an air of patient contempt . Goodwin set the valise quickly upon the table and began to unfasten the straps . The lady stood by , with an expression of infinite scorn and weariness upon her ...
Pagina 79
... valise , he closed it , leaned far out of the window and dropped it into a thick orange - tree in the little inclosure below . the They will tell you in Coralio , as they delight in telling the stranger , of the conclusion of that ...
... valise , he closed it , leaned far out of the window and dropped it into a thick orange - tree in the little inclosure below . the They will tell you in Coralio , as they delight in telling the stranger , of the conclusion of that ...
Pagina 80
... valise containing Anchuria's surplus capital , which the president was known to have carried with him , but all in vain . In Coralio Señor Goodwin himself led the searching party which combed that town as care- fully as a woman combs ...
... valise containing Anchuria's surplus capital , which the president was known to have carried with him , but all in vain . In Coralio Señor Goodwin himself led the searching party which combed that town as care- fully as a woman combs ...
Pagina 93
... valise full of them handy , and he passed them out like putting hot biscuits on a plate . The backs were hard to unscrew , but the crowd put its ear to the case , and they ticked mollifying and agreeable . Three of these watches were ...
... valise full of them handy , and he passed them out like putting hot biscuits on a plate . The backs were hard to unscrew , but the crowd put its ear to the case , and they ticked mollifying and agreeable . Three of these watches were ...
Pagina 115
... valise of money they saw nothing . Madame Timotea Ortiz , the proprietress of the hotel in which the game of Fox - in - the - Morning had been played out , told of the coming of the two guests to her house . " To my house they came ...
... valise of money they saw nothing . Madame Timotea Ortiz , the proprietress of the hotel in which the game of Fox - in - the - Morning had been played out , told of the coming of the two guests to her house . " To my house they came ...
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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...