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... feel here , as elsewhere in the East , that the national character and manners are in- fluenced by the desert , as those of maritime races by the sea . This fateful repose , this strange stillness , this uni- versal melancholy in men's ...
... feel here , as elsewhere in the East , that the national character and manners are in- fluenced by the desert , as those of maritime races by the sea . This fateful repose , this strange stillness , this uni- versal melancholy in men's ...
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... feeling , sympathetic reader , you must recall the change of horses at La Storta , the last post to Rome , and gild the sensation with oriental glory . We paced through the outskirts of the city . The streets were narrow and dirty as we ...
... feeling , sympathetic reader , you must recall the change of horses at La Storta , the last post to Rome , and gild the sensation with oriental glory . We paced through the outskirts of the city . The streets were narrow and dirty as we ...
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... I was not sorry to feel that I was lying on the desert . Once at midnight in a ship at sea , I awoke and was conscious of the gentle rocking of the ocean . I knew that the moon was bright upon the canvass above , ENCAMPING . 37.
... I was not sorry to feel that I was lying on the desert . Once at midnight in a ship at sea , I awoke and was conscious of the gentle rocking of the ocean . I knew that the moon was bright upon the canvass above , ENCAMPING . 37.
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... feeling of life , and the faith that life always inspires . But when I stretched myself upon the desert , and perceived its slight unevenness , like the undulation of the sea , stiffened forever , and heard only the breathing of camels ...
... feeling of life , and the faith that life always inspires . But when I stretched myself upon the desert , and perceived its slight unevenness , like the undulation of the sea , stiffened forever , and heard only the breathing of camels ...
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... feel the full force of the name , " ship of the desert , " applied to the camel . For not only is he the means of navigation , but his roll is like that of a vessel , and his long , flexible neck like a pliant bowsprit . The resemblance ...
... feel the full force of the name , " ship of the desert , " applied to the camel . For not only is he the means of navigation , but his roll is like that of a vessel , and his long , flexible neck like a pliant bowsprit . The resemblance ...
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