Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 106
... wall . The governor sat at the other end . Homer P. Mellinger stood at the side of it . I was just wondering how Mellinger was going to handle his crowd , when the home talent suddenly opened the services . " That governor man was ...
... wall . The governor sat at the other end . Homer P. Mellinger stood at the side of it . I was just wondering how Mellinger was going to handle his crowd , when the home talent suddenly opened the services . " That governor man was ...
Pagina 153
... wall and shoot you dead . That is the way they kill traitors . I knew you when you stepped into my boat . I have seen your picture in a book . You are Sabas Placido , traitor to your country . With your face to a wall . So , you will ...
... wall and shoot you dead . That is the way they kill traitors . I knew you when you stepped into my boat . I have seen your picture in a book . You are Sabas Placido , traitor to your country . With your face to a wall . So , you will ...
Pagina 155
... wall . The admiral called a sudden order to his crew . The lithe , silent Caribs made fast the sheets they held , and slipped down the hatchway into the hold of the sloop . When the last one had disappeared , Don Sabas , like a big ...
... wall . The admiral called a sudden order to his crew . The lithe , silent Caribs made fast the sheets they held , and slipped down the hatchway into the hold of the sloop . When the last one had disappeared , Don Sabas , like a big ...
Pagina 190
... wall of the mar- ket . Drawing a blighted silk handkerchief from his pocket , he assiduously rubbed and burnished his glasses . And while doing this he became aware that his bedroom had been invaded , and that polite brown and yellow ...
... wall of the mar- ket . Drawing a blighted silk handkerchief from his pocket , he assiduously rubbed and burnished his glasses . And while doing this he became aware that his bedroom had been invaded , and that polite brown and yellow ...
Pagina 191
... walls . - Blythe shook out his wry clothing , and moved slowly up the Calle Grande through the hot sand . He moved without a destination in his mind . The little town was languidly stirring to its daily life . Golden - skinned babies ...
... walls . - Blythe shook out his wry clothing , and moved slowly up the Calle Grande through the hot sand . He moved without a destination in his mind . The little town was languidly stirring to its daily life . Golden - skinned babies ...
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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...