Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 79
... began to come over the mended telegraph wire ; and the story of the flight from the capital was given out to the public . In San Mateo the revolu- tionary party had seized the sceptre of government , without opposition , and the vivas ...
... began to come over the mended telegraph wire ; and the story of the flight from the capital was given out to the public . In San Mateo the revolu- tionary party had seized the sceptre of government , without opposition , and the vivas ...
Pagina 83
... began , as trouble often begins instead of ending , with a romance . In Dalesburg there was a man named Elijah Hemstetter , who kept a general store . His family consisted of one daughter called Rosine , a name that atoned much for ...
... began , as trouble often begins instead of ending , with a romance . In Dalesburg there was a man named Elijah Hemstetter , who kept a general store . His family consisted of one daughter called Rosine , a name that atoned much for ...
Pagina 128
... began to enter the state of a true idealist . " I must trot along in a minute or two , " hinted Goodwin . " Was there anything in particular ? " Blythe did not reply at once . " Old Losada would make it a hot country , " he re- marked ...
... began to enter the state of a true idealist . " I must trot along in a minute or two , " hinted Goodwin . " Was there anything in particular ? " Blythe did not reply at once . " Old Losada would make it a hot country , " he re- marked ...
Pagina 130
... began to lay their plans for a re - succession . Thus the game of Anchurian politics began , like a Chinese comedy , to unwind slowly its serial length . Here and there Mirth peeps for an instant from the wings and illumines the florid ...
... began to lay their plans for a re - succession . Thus the game of Anchurian politics began , like a Chinese comedy , to unwind slowly its serial length . Here and there Mirth peeps for an instant from the wings and illumines the florid ...
Pagina 145
... One morning the telegraph key began clicking , and pres- ently the operator called , loudly : " One telegram for el Almirante , Don Señor Felipe Carrera ! " There was a shuffing sound , a great rattling of The Flag Paramount 145.
... One morning the telegraph key began clicking , and pres- ently the operator called , loudly : " One telegram for el Almirante , Don Señor Felipe Carrera ! " There was a shuffing sound , a great rattling of The Flag Paramount 145.
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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.