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Page 50
... pass on wagons or on foot , with the instruments of their handicraft , and are busy with great noise at their work . The carpenters prepare wooden houses , the builders raise walls , the wood - cutters pass with loads of trees , the ...
... pass on wagons or on foot , with the instruments of their handicraft , and are busy with great noise at their work . The carpenters prepare wooden houses , the builders raise walls , the wood - cutters pass with loads of trees , the ...
Page 51
... pass working at their trade , some baking and throwing small loaves among the crowd . They also make for this occasion immense loaves , the size of the cupola of a hamam , covered with sesame and fennel ; these loaves are carried on ...
... pass working at their trade , some baking and throwing small loaves among the crowd . They also make for this occasion immense loaves , the size of the cupola of a hamam , covered with sesame and fennel ; these loaves are carried on ...
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... pass through , a horse with its rider would be unable to pass , so long as the gate that was hammered down with bolts stood . And he brought and hammered down a lower threshold and hinge for the gate , and he cast therein bolts of iron ...
... pass through , a horse with its rider would be unable to pass , so long as the gate that was hammered down with bolts stood . And he brought and hammered down a lower threshold and hinge for the gate , and he cast therein bolts of iron ...
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