Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 38
... yacht was passing and the wind blowing fairly toward the shore . As soon as Geddie reached this conclusion a wrinkle came between his brows and a stubborn look settled around his mouth . He sat looking out through the 38 Cabbages and Kings.
... yacht was passing and the wind blowing fairly toward the shore . As soon as Geddie reached this conclusion a wrinkle came between his brows and a stubborn look settled around his mouth . He sat looking out through the 38 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 41
... shore , flashing and turning as it went . The wind was carrying it out to sea . Soon it became a mere speck , doubtfully discerned at irregular intervals ; and then the mystery of it was swallowed up by the greater mystery of the ocean ...
... shore , flashing and turning as it went . The wind was carrying it out to sea . Soon it became a mere speck , doubtfully discerned at irregular intervals ; and then the mystery of it was swallowed up by the greater mystery of the ocean ...
Pagina 42
... shore , swimmin ' like mad after a bottle that was floatin ' in the water , outward bound . We lowered the gig and started for him . He nearly had his hand on the bottle , when he gave out and went under . We pulled him out in time to ...
... shore , swimmin ' like mad after a bottle that was floatin ' in the water , outward bound . We lowered the gig and started for him . He nearly had his hand on the bottle , when he gave out and went under . We pulled him out in time to ...
Pagina 44
... and collateral . The president would , without doubt , move as secretly as possible , and endeavour to board a vessel by stealth from some secluded point along the shore . On the fourth day after the receipt of Englehart's telegram 44 ...
... and collateral . The president would , without doubt , move as secretly as possible , and endeavour to board a vessel by stealth from some secluded point along the shore . On the fourth day after the receipt of Englehart's telegram 44 ...
Pagina 45
... shores might now be considered a possible means of escape for the fugi- tives ; and an eye was kept even on the sloops and dories that belonged to the sea - going contingent of Coralio . Goodwin and Zavalla moved everywhere , but ...
... shores might now be considered a possible means of escape for the fugi- tives ; and an eye was kept even on the sloops and dories that belonged to the sea - going contingent of Coralio . Goodwin and Zavalla moved everywhere , but ...
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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.