Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 100Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1920 - American literature |
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Page 34
... seen prove it beyond all question . When daylight came , the hilltop was found to be strewn with the bodies of nine other bandits , while trails of blood showed that many more of them had dragged themselves off into the bushes . Among ...
... seen prove it beyond all question . When daylight came , the hilltop was found to be strewn with the bodies of nine other bandits , while trails of blood showed that many more of them had dragged themselves off into the bushes . Among ...
Page 43
... seen through the crepuscle of wire mosquito - netting is my dim moon of poetry , and in winter the red - shaded electrolier , slanting on powdered faces and " permanent waves , " gives me spicy morsels of cherry - colored life . I do ...
... seen through the crepuscle of wire mosquito - netting is my dim moon of poetry , and in winter the red - shaded electrolier , slanting on powdered faces and " permanent waves , " gives me spicy morsels of cherry - colored life . I do ...
Page 49
... seen through toppling waves and the quiver of sun through a glass of wine . For the day there would be copy of one's favorite poem . Once in a while , for the sake of auld acquaintance , one would put up a gingerbread man ; a Jim Crow ...
... seen through toppling waves and the quiver of sun through a glass of wine . For the day there would be copy of one's favorite poem . Once in a while , for the sake of auld acquaintance , one would put up a gingerbread man ; a Jim Crow ...
Page 90
... seen Titi- huti , and his koekoe , his spirit , was set aflame . " I needed no description by the tuhuka to bring before me Titihuti , to see that maddening , matchless child - woman , nor to know the desperate plight of a white who ...
... seen Titi- huti , and his koekoe , his spirit , was set aflame . " I needed no description by the tuhuka to bring before me Titihuti , to see that maddening , matchless child - woman , nor to know the desperate plight of a white who ...
Page 91
... seen . Never before or since that night have I known a girl to do what she did . Her kahu of tapa was as red as the sun when the sea swallows it , and hung over one shoulder , so that her bosom , as white as the ripe cocoanut , gleamed ...
... seen . Never before or since that night have I known a girl to do what she did . Her kahu of tapa was as red as the sun when the sea swallows it , and hung over one shoulder , so that her bosom , as white as the ripe cocoanut , gleamed ...
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