He ran aft, drew in the sheet, and filled on the long tack toward the Contra Costa Hills.
This was sharply impressed upon us when he went about under the Contra Costa Hills and passed us on the other tack fully one hundred feet dead to windward.
Ferdinand da
Costa. That's the engineer he has now.
At an altitude of five hundred feet, the pigeon drove on over the town of Berkeley and lifted its flight to the Contra
Costa hills.
I could make out the Selby Smelter on the Contra
Costa shore and the Mare Island lighthouse.
He married Beryl Garcia, one of the beauties of
Costa Rica, and, having purloined a considerable sum of public money, he changed his name to Vandeleur and fled to England, where he established a school in the east of Yorkshire.
There's the Alameda & Contra
Costa Land Syndicate, the Consolidated Street Railways, the Yerba Buena Ferry Company, the United Water Company, the Piedmont Realty Company, the Fairview and Portola Hotel Company, and half a dozen more that I've got to refer to a notebook to remember.
Began in the Contra
Costa in Oakland when I was eleven, shakin' out for the mangle.
Settle this thing to-morrow with my steward, Antonio
Costa. He will come to you.
Can you blame me for quittin'the dirty game?--Why, I'd sooner fight before broke-down old plugs of work-horses that's candidates for chicken-meat, than before them rotten bunches of stiffs with nothin' thicker'n water in their veins, an' Contra
Costa water at that when the rains is heavy on the hills."
Asmunsen, the owner of a large granite quarry in Contra
Costa County.
Another heading was "Argentine," another "
Costa Rica," and another "San Paulo," each with pages of signs and figures after it.