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  • Higuerota soared out of the shadows of rock and earth like a frozen bubble under the moon.

    Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

  • Getting up early for a turn in the market-place while the gigantic shadow of Higuerota was still lying upon the fruit and flower stalls piled up with masses of gorgeous colouring, attending easily to current affairs, welcomed in houses, greeted by ladies on the Alameda, with his entry into all the clubs and a footing in the Casa Gould, he led his privileged old bachelor, man-about-town existence with great comfort and solemnity.

    Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

  • Amongst them the white head of Higuerota rises majestically upon the blue.

    Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

  • His hand grasped the barrel of the gun grounded on the threshold; he did not look up once at the white dome of Higuerota, whose cool purity seemed to hold itself aloof from a hot earth.

    Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

  • Whole families had been moving from the first towards the spot in the Higuerota range, whence the rumour of work and safety had spread over the pastoral

    Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

  • He spent the night there, arriving just too late to see the last dying glow of sunlight upon the snowy flank of Higuerota.

    Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

  • They swathe in sombre tatters the naked crags of precipices above the wooded slopes, hide the peaks, smoke in stormy trails across the snows of Higuerota.

    Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

  • Indian market-women had opened their mat parasols on the plaza, when the snows of Higuerota gleamed pale over the town on a yet black sky, the appearance of a phantom-like horseman mounted on a silver-grey mare solved the problem of labour without fail.

    Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

  • Higuerota soared out of the shadows of rock and earth like a frozen bubble under the moon.

    Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

  • Page each afternoon the Garibaldino could be seen at one or another of them with his big bush of white hair, his arms folded, his legs crossed, leaning back his leonine head against the side, and looking up the wooded slopes of the foothills at the snowy dome of Higuerota.

    Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

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