Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 96
... change . " Then we got the consul full of red wine , and struck him for a horoscope . He was a thin , young- ish kind of man , I should say past fifty , sort of French - Irish in his affections , and puffed up 96 Cabbages and Kings.
... change . " Then we got the consul full of red wine , and struck him for a horoscope . He was a thin , young- ish kind of man , I should say past fifty , sort of French - Irish in his affections , and puffed up 96 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 115
... young lady señorita of much beauty that I could see even in so small a light . But the money , señor , or the thing in which it was carried that I did not see . " The comandante and other officers gave testi- mony that they had been ...
... young lady señorita of much beauty that I could see even in so small a light . But the money , señor , or the thing in which it was carried that I did not see . " The comandante and other officers gave testi- mony that they had been ...
Pagina 132
... young man of Coralio , Felipe Carrera - not , be it understood , one of extreme wisdom , but loyal and the best sailor along the coast . It was upon this hint that the Minister of War acted , executing a rare piece of drollery that so ...
... young man of Coralio , Felipe Carrera - not , be it understood , one of extreme wisdom , but loyal and the best sailor along the coast . It was upon this hint that the Minister of War acted , executing a rare piece of drollery that so ...
Pagina 135
... a fire of choice Castilian imprecations . Two rooms opened into the collector's . In one the clerical force of young men of variegated complexions transacted with glitter and parade their several duties . Through the The Admiral 135.
... a fire of choice Castilian imprecations . Two rooms opened into the collector's . In one the clerical force of young men of variegated complexions transacted with glitter and parade their several duties . Through the The Admiral 135.
Pagina 227
... young scamp . If I had not managed this enterprise with good business judgment my entire stock of goods might have been a complete loss . Now , how do you propose to dispose of the rest of it ? " When the second invoice of cockleburrs ...
... young scamp . If I had not managed this enterprise with good business judgment my entire stock of goods might have been a complete loss . Now , how do you propose to dispose of the rest of it ? " When the second invoice of cockleburrs ...
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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.