Under Egyptian Palms: Or, Three Bachelors' Journeyings on the NileChapman and Hall, 1869 - 308 Seiten |
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... Sometimes these men were asleep , and we had to poke them up . We inspected the little saloons , sat on the divans , edged our way into the tiny cabins , kicked about on the beds , opened drawers , shut windows , peeped into cupboards ...
... Sometimes these men were asleep , and we had to poke them up . We inspected the little saloons , sat on the divans , edged our way into the tiny cabins , kicked about on the beds , opened drawers , shut windows , peeped into cupboards ...
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... sometimes call a cat by its name with a coolness that would confuse even a cabman - finally a storm . But quiet came at last ; the contract was drawn up . Boat , ten sailors , steersman , and captain were made over to us at so many ...
... sometimes call a cat by its name with a coolness that would confuse even a cabman - finally a storm . But quiet came at last ; the contract was drawn up . Boat , ten sailors , steersman , and captain were made over to us at so many ...
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... Sometimes , in mere excess of blood , they will get up a quarrel , and even fight - if they be first sure some one is near at hand to interfere . This friendly act every passing Moslem would feel it his duty to perform , and give each a ...
... Sometimes , in mere excess of blood , they will get up a quarrel , and even fight - if they be first sure some one is near at hand to interfere . This friendly act every passing Moslem would feel it his duty to perform , and give each a ...
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... Sometimes , in long walks , he will lay bare to you his private history , will relate stories of sister or mother , and amuse you with family incidents and manners of home ; or , leaping into the dimly defined future , conduct you to ...
... Sometimes , in long walks , he will lay bare to you his private history , will relate stories of sister or mother , and amuse you with family incidents and manners of home ; or , leaping into the dimly defined future , conduct you to ...
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... perforce leave out . English manners and language are not always of the best in the East , and example in this world goes for so much - for more sometimes than precept - that you cannot wonder at an Arab boy's swearing . It is.
... perforce leave out . English manners and language are not always of the best in the East , and example in this world goes for so much - for more sometimes than precept - that you cannot wonder at an Arab boy's swearing . It is.
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Under Egyptian Palms: Or, Three Bachelors' Journeyings on the Nile Howard Hopley Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2019 |
Under Egyptian Palms: Or, Three Bachelors' Journeyings on the Nile Howard Hopley Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2019 |
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Allah amid Arabs backsheesh bank beneath birds boat breast broad Cairo Caliph camels candles cast Cataract chamber chiboukes cliff clustering columns Copts crag crocodile dahabeeyah dancing dark deck deep desert divans donkey donkey-boy dragoman dusky dust Egypt Egyptian eyes fancy feet fell felucca flabella flashing followed fragments fugleman gardens Girgeh girls gorgeous Hadji hand Haroun head Herodotus hills hither Isis island Karnac kawass khamsas land landscape Latakia legs light look Luxor moonlight morning mountain mummy Mustapha necklace never night Nile Nubian Osiris painted palm passed Pharaoh Phila Philæ piastres pillars plain pleasant Professor river rock round Saïd sail sailors sakias sand scene sculptured sepulchre Sethi shadows shore sight sleep Smith smoking solemn song splendour spoonbills stood strange stream sunny Syene temple Theban Thebes thick thing tombs traveller trees turban village wall wandered watch wild wind women
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Seite 33 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Seite 76 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, — A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Seite 251 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
Seite 60 - PRAISE be to God, the Lord of all creatures, the most merciful, the king of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship, and of thec do we beg assistance.
Seite 301 - Soft hour ! which wakes the wish and melts the heart Of those who sail the seas, on the first day When they from their sweet friends are torn apart; Or fills with love the pilgrim on his way As the far bell of vesper makes him start, Seeming to weep the dying day's decay...
Seite 63 - Nilus gins to swell With timely pride above the Aegyptian vale, His fattie waves do fertile slime outwell, And overflow each plaine and lowly dale: But, when his later spring gins to avale, Huge...
Seite 129 - twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Seite 230 - It is shaped, sir, like itself; and it is as broad as it hath breadth: it is just so high as it is, and moves with its own organs: it lives by that which nourisheth it; and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates.
Seite 304 - In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land : whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, " Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Seite 70 - SAGES of old contended that no sin was ever committed whose consequences rested on the head of the sinner alone ; that no man could do ill and his fellows not suffer. They illustrated it thus :—" A vessel sailing from Joppa, carried a passenger, who, beneath his berth, cut a hole through the ship's side. When the men of the watch expostulated with him, "What doest thou, O miserable man?" the offender calmly replied, " What matters it to you? The hole I have made lies under my own berth.