英文之旅

Besides many other things, Raggles was a poet. He was called a tramp; but that was only an elliptical way of saying that he was a philosopher, an artist, a traveller, a naturalist and a discoverer.

The Blue Light Drug Store is downtown, between the Bowery and First Avenue, where the distance between the two streets is the shortest.

Willard Greddie, consul for the United States in Coralio, was working leisurely on his yearly report. Goodwin, who had strolled in as he did daily for a smoke on the much coveted porch, had found him so absorbed in his work that he departed after roundly abusing the consul for his lack of hospitality.

Since the bar has been blessed by the clergy, and cocktails open the dinners of the elect, one may speak of the saloon.

Brown as a coffee-berry, rugged, pistoled, spurred, wary, indefeasible, I saw my old friend, Deputy-Marshal Buck Caperton, stumble, with jingling rowels, into a chair in the marshal's outer office.

Inexorably Sam Galloway saddled his pony. He was going away from the Rancho Altito at the end of a three-months' visit.