The Flamingo's Nest: A Honolulu StoryLederer, Street and Zeus, 1917 - 369 páginas |
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The Flamingo's Nest: A Honolulu Story (Classic Reprint) Roger Sprague No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Agamemnon answered beneath blue boat bungalow California cane cane-fields Cape Horn captain Coburn Carding Carding's carry chair Charley Deane cliff climbed clouds cocoa-palms coral Cosmos Club crater dark deep delightful Diamond Head dividends Firefly followed Frank Atten green ground hand Hawaii Hawaiian Hawaiian Islands heard hills Honolulu harbor hurried island Japanese Japs Kenneth Crane Koko Head Koreans land lieutenant Sherrill light looked machine mainland manager Manoa valley miles minute Miss Burl morning native night officers Pali palms party Pearl City Pearl Harbor plain plantation president president's prisoners professor Burl reef rest road rose Royal Hawaiian band seemed shade shore side slopes stockholders stood Sugar Company swinging seat There's thing thought tourists trade-wind trail trees tropical turned verandah walked walls Wanto watched waves
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Página 83 - Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Página 55 - Altama murmurs to their woe. Far different there from all that charm'd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing.
Página 73 - On ! on ! through meadows, managed like a garden, A paradise of hops and high production ; For, after years of travel by a bard in Countries of greater heat, but lesser suction, A green field is a sight which makes him pardon The absence of that more sublime construction, Which mixes up vines — olives — precipices — Glaciers — volcanoes — oranges and ices.
Página 55 - Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake...
Página 317 - Ours - the fresh turf, and not the feverish bed. While gasp by gasp he falters forth his soul, Ours with one pang - one bound - escapes control.
Página 53 - Progress is a grand word,' he says at last, ' but how few they are who have the elements of progress in their nature ! To go up like a rocket and come down like a stick seems the natural tendency of human genius.
Página 249 - I move that we resolve ourselves into a Committee of the Whole and proceed to consider the report of the committee on Miscellaneous Subjects.
Página 97 - Connecticut, and he would like to say a few words to you in regard to the questions that will be asked of you and the way that he would like to have them answered.
Página 53 - As to his good humor, every one knows that a man can smile and smile and be a villain still.
Página 92 - ... object. Even as the fire when it prevails upon those things that are in his way ; by which things indeed a little fire would have been quenched, but a great fire doth soon turn to its own nature, and so consume whatsoever comes in his way : yea by those very things it is made greater and greater. II. Let nothing be done rashly, and at random, but all things according to the most exact and perfect rules of art. III. They seek for themselves private retiring places, as country villages, the sea-shore,...