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Page 94
... Lugareños . Now we go . " I saw , as in a dream of stress and violence , some men making ready to cast off the schooner , and then , in a supreme effort , an effort of lusty youth and strength , which I remember to this day , I ...
... Lugareños . Now we go . " I saw , as in a dream of stress and violence , some men making ready to cast off the schooner , and then , in a supreme effort , an effort of lusty youth and strength , which I remember to this day , I ...
Page 133
... Lugareños of the bay . I have known him come like this before . " I remembered that in the morning , while dressing , I had glanced out of the narrow outside window of my room , and had seen a brown , mounted figure passing on the sands ...
... Lugareños of the bay . I have known him come like this before . " I remembered that in the morning , while dressing , I had glanced out of the narrow outside window of my room , and had seen a brown , mounted figure passing on the sands ...
Page 164
... Lugareños , stood on the beach , also , watching the mules , and exchanging loud jocular shouts with the blacks . Rio Medio , the dead , forsaken , and dese- crated city , was lying , as bare as a skeleton , on the sands . They were ...
... Lugareños , stood on the beach , also , watching the mules , and exchanging loud jocular shouts with the blacks . Rio Medio , the dead , forsaken , and dese- crated city , was lying , as bare as a skeleton , on the sands . They were ...
Page 180
... Lugareños , They were besieging the Casa from afar . They had established a sort of camp at the end of the street , and they prowled about amongst the old , barricaded houses in their pointed hats , in their rags and finery ; women ...
... Lugareños , They were besieging the Casa from afar . They had established a sort of camp at the end of the street , and they prowled about amongst the old , barricaded houses in their pointed hats , in their rags and finery ; women ...
Page 303
... Lugareños had already lighted a fire . Very near the brink , too . It was burning some thirty feet above my head ; and the sheer wall on the other side caught up and sent across into my face the crackling of dry branches , the loud ...
... Lugareños had already lighted a fire . Very near the brink , too . It was burning some thirty feet above my head ; and the sheer wall on the other side caught up and sent across into my face the crackling of dry branches , the loud ...
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Page 41 - Here's the mahn ye were speerin' after. Here's Macdonald." It was the voice of Barnes, and the voice of the every day. I discovered that I had been tremendously upset. The pulses in my temples were throbbing, and I wanted to shut my eyes — to sleep! I was tired; Romance had departed. Barnes and the Macdonald he had found for me represented all the laborious insects of the world; all the ants who are forever hauling immensely heavy and immensely unimportant burdens up weary hillocks, down steep...