Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 40
... white flannel , all made with neatness and style . He sug- gested a stroll , and they walked out to the old Indian well on the hill road . They sat on the curb , and there Geddie made the expected but long - deferred speech . Certain ...
... white flannel , all made with neatness and style . He sug- gested a stroll , and they walked out to the old Indian well on the hill road . They sat on the curb , and there Geddie made the expected but long - deferred speech . Certain ...
Pagina 55
... The doctor drew a handful of capsules filled with a white powder from his trousers pocket . He counted out ten of them into the native's hand , and held up his forefinger impressively . " Take one , " said the doctor , " Smith 55.
... The doctor drew a handful of capsules filled with a white powder from his trousers pocket . He counted out ten of them into the native's hand , and held up his forefinger impressively . " Take one , " said the doctor , " Smith 55.
Pagina 60
... white sands a whiter gig belonging to the yacht was drawn up , guarded by one of the white- ducked crew . Not far away in a pulperia on the shore - following Calle Grande three other sailors swaggered with their cues around Coralio's ...
... white sands a whiter gig belonging to the yacht was drawn up , guarded by one of the white- ducked crew . Not far away in a pulperia on the shore - following Calle Grande three other sailors swaggered with their cues around Coralio's ...
Pagina 63
... white duck , with flowing neckties , and swinging slim bam- boo canes , threaded the grassy by - ways toward the houses of their favoured señoritas . Those who wooed the art of music dragged tirelessly at whining concertinas , or ...
... white duck , with flowing neckties , and swinging slim bam- boo canes , threaded the grassy by - ways toward the houses of their favoured señoritas . Those who wooed the art of music dragged tirelessly at whining concertinas , or ...
Pagina 88
... swam a little sloop , white - winged like some snowy sea fowl . Its course lay within twenty points of the wind's eye ; so it veered in and out again in long , slow strokes like the movements of a graceful skater . 88 Cabbages and Kings.
... swam a little sloop , white - winged like some snowy sea fowl . Its course lay within twenty points of the wind's eye ; so it veered in and out again in long , slow strokes like the movements of a graceful skater . 88 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 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...