The Howadji in SyriaA travel memoir of an author dazzled by the sights and people of Syria. He describes the beauty of the scenery and the good, noble qualities of the people. |
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... of plaster palaces , and the hareems of pachas rose irregularly beyond , cool with dark green blinds , and relieving the slim minarets that played , fountains of grace , in the brilliant air 1 CHAPTER PAGE I -GRAND CAIRO.
... of plaster palaces , and the hareems of pachas rose irregularly beyond , cool with dark green blinds , and relieving the slim minarets that played , fountains of grace , in the brilliant air 1 CHAPTER PAGE I -GRAND CAIRO.
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George William Curtis. played , fountains of grace , in the brilliant air . It was a great metropolis , but silent as Venice . Only the ha - ha of the donkey - boys , the guttural growl of the camels , or the sharp crack of the runner's ...
George William Curtis. played , fountains of grace , in the brilliant air . It was a great metropolis , but silent as Venice . Only the ha - ha of the donkey - boys , the guttural growl of the camels , or the sharp crack of the runner's ...
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... grace of costume ; nowhere else is poetry the language of trade . His gravity becomes tragic , then , when it seems to you a vague con- sciousness of inadequacy to his position , the wise si- lence of a witless man . -We have , then , a ...
... grace of costume ; nowhere else is poetry the language of trade . His gravity becomes tragic , then , when it seems to you a vague con- sciousness of inadequacy to his position , the wise si- lence of a witless man . -We have , then , a ...
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... grace of the grove of minarets clustering in the glowing sunset , re- vealed the image of an eastern poet's mind , and the voice of the muezzin that vibrated to our ears and died in a tranquil heaven , touched them as tenderly as the ...
... grace of the grove of minarets clustering in the glowing sunset , re- vealed the image of an eastern poet's mind , and the voice of the muezzin that vibrated to our ears and died in a tranquil heaven , touched them as tenderly as the ...
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... grace and beauty , and the carriage of his neck and head is comically conceited , beyond words . My camel never suggested a pleasurable emotion to me but once , and that was on this first morning , when , as we moved from the camp , he ...
... grace and beauty , and the carriage of his neck and head is comically conceited , beyond words . My camel never suggested a pleasurable emotion to me but once , and that was on this first morning , when , as we moved from the camp , he ...
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