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" 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... "
Cabbages and Kings - Page 59
by O. Henry - 1915 - 312 pages
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Cabbages and Kings

O. Henry - New York (N.Y.) - 1904 - 328 pages
...the consultation diagnosed the trouble as a blood clot; another said it was an abscess, but I—" " Don't tell me now, Doc. Don't spoil the story. Wait...the approach of soft-footed night. In the offing the Karlseftn swayed at anchor, her lights seeming to penetrate the water to countless fathoms with their...
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O. Henry Biography

Charles Alphonso Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1916 - 312 pages
...that he never again equalled. Could a Honduran sunset be better photographed than in these words? — The mountains reached up their bulky shoulders to...with their torches the approach of soft-footed night. There is the trick of the diverted and diverting quotation: "Then," says I, "we'll export canned music...
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O. Henry Biography

Charles Alphonso Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1916 - 302 pages
...that he never again equalled. Could a Honduran sunset be better photographed than in these words? — The mountains reached up their bulky shoulders to...with their torches the approach of soft-footed night. There is the trick of the diverted and diverting quotation: "Then," says I, "we'll export canned music...
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Unpopular Review, Volume 7

Henry Holt - Periodicals - 1916 - 486 pages
...never stood still beyond Oporto and El Refugio — ah, Dios! This is how he describes a tropic sunset : The day died in the lagoons and in the shadowed banana...with their torches the approach of soft-footed night. But one catches only fitful glimpses of this more serious O. Henry. It is as if the Momus who ruled...
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O. Henry Biography

Charles Alphonso Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1916 - 302 pages
...bulky shoulders to receive the level gallop of Apollo's homing steeds, the day died in the lagoons 196 and in the shadowed banana groves and in the mangrove...with their torches the approach of soft-footed night. There is the trick of the diverted and diverting quotation: "Then," says I, "we'll export canned music...
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Sidelights on American Literature

Fred Lewis Pattee - American literature - 1922 - 364 pages
...that has never stood still between Oporto and El Refugio — ah, Dios! And here is a tropical sunset: The day died in the lagoons and in the shadowed banana...with their torches the approach of soft-footed night. At times in his earlier South American sketches he caught the very soul of the tropics, "the fetterless,...
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Sidelights on American Literature

Fred Lewis Pattee - American literature - 1922 - 360 pages
...that has never stood still between Oporto and El Refugio— ah, Diosl And here is a tropical sunset: The day died in the lagoons and in the shadowed banana...with their torches the approach of soft-footed night. At times in his earlier South American sketches he caught the very soul of the tropics, "the fetterless,...
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The Complete Works of O. Henry, Volume 2

O. Henry - American fiction - 1911 - 1422 pages
...lagoons and in the shadowed banana groves and in the mangrove swamps, where the great blue crabs VITO ssed a large chateau which showed testimony of recent entertainment. Lights sho ihe highest peaks. Then the brief twilight, ephemeral as the (light of a moth, came and went: the Southern...
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The Complete Works of O. Henry

O. Henry - Short stories, American - 1928 - 1424 pages
...spoil the story. Wait till I come back. I want to hear it as it runs off the reel — is that right?'1 The mountains reached up their bulky shoulders to...with their torches the approach of softfooted night. On the sandy beach, with his back against a cocoanut-tree and the stulis of many cigars lying around...
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