Everyday Life in TurkeyHodder and Stoughton, 1897 - 303 páginas |
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ancient appearance Aristaki Armenian arrived Asia Minor Avircius baby bath beautiful brought called camp carpet Christian Circassian clothes coffee colour cook dancing dervish dinner dirty diwan dogs door dress eyes face feet floor gallery girl glen grave Greek guest-house Hadji hair hand head Hierapolis hill horses husband inscriptions kaftan Kara-Hissar kavass khan Koula Kümbet lady looked mamina milk Mohammedan morning mosque mother mountain mudir Murad muslin narrow night once Phrygian pilaf plain pretty ragged reached remained ride river road rock Rome roof round Sandykli sculpture seated seemed servant shady sheikh side Simav Smyrna stone stopped strangers stream Synnada Tchelebi tent things tombs took town trees Turk Turkey Turkish turned usual veil village W. M. Ramsay wall wanted wife woman women yaila yard young Yuruk zaptieh zeibek
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Página 157 - A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething. As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced; Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: 215 And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.
Página 157 - 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.
Página 157 - mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Página 157 - By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced: Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.
Página 190 - Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw!
Página 108 - ... sons would be born. Professor Ramsay remarks in one of his books of travel, " It is true that legally the Muhammedan wife is her husband's chattel to do with as it seems to him good. I understand that till very recently the British wife occupied much the same position, in the eye of the law, . . . the ordinary Turkish husband does not appear to avail himself oftener of his legal right to tyrannise over his better half than the British husband does ; less so in fact. Cases of brutality on the...
Página 121 - ... when the seas shall boil; and when the souls shall be joined again to their bodies; and when the girl who hath been buried alive shall be asked for what crime she was put to death; and when the...
Página 121 - ... time the same dislike existed in a more repulsive form still, and the practice of burying daughters alive, wad al bendt, as it was called, was very prevalent. ' The best son-in-law is the grave,' said one of their own proverbs, and the father was in most cases the murderer. It is narrated of a certain Othman, that he never shed tears except on one occasion, when his little daughter, whom he was burying alive, wiped the grave-dust from his beard. Against this inhuman practice Mohammed directed...
Página 184 - Nixibis, crossing the Euphrates; and everywhere I found fellow-worshippers. Holding Paul in my hands I followed, while Faith everywhere went in front, and everywhere set before me, as food, the Fish from the fountain, mighty, pure, which a spotless Virgin grasped. And this she (ie Faith) gave to the friends to eat at all times, having excellent wine, giving the mixed cup with bread. These words, I Avircius, standing by, ordered to be written: I was of a truth in my seventy-second year. When he sees...