Nile Notes of a HowadjiHarper & brothers, 1856 - 320 страница |
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... oriental romance quietly donkeying into Cairo . Camels , too , swaying and waving like huge phantoms of the twilight , horses with strange gay trappings curbed by tawny , turbaned equestrians , the peaked toe of the red slipper resting ...
... oriental romance quietly donkeying into Cairo . Camels , too , swaying and waving like huge phantoms of the twilight , horses with strange gay trappings curbed by tawny , turbaned equestrians , the peaked toe of the red slipper resting ...
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... oriental life , —like a good genius revealing to ardent lovers the very hallowed heart of the hareem , -we should have understood those cries . We should have heard " Sycamore figs -0 Grapes " -meaning that said figs were offered , and ...
... oriental life , —like a good genius revealing to ardent lovers the very hallowed heart of the hareem , -we should have understood those cries . We should have heard " Sycamore figs -0 Grapes " -meaning that said figs were offered , and ...
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... oriental freight mostly , while others are already down , still as sphinxes . The rest sway their curved necks silently , and glance contemptuously at the world . . The drivers , in dark turbans and long white robes , coax and command ...
... oriental freight mostly , while others are already down , still as sphinxes . The rest sway their curved necks silently , and glance contemptuously at the world . . The drivers , in dark turbans and long white robes , coax and command ...
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... oriental days , you will decline no invitation , but you will grow gradually deaf to all entreaties of friends or dragomen to sally forth and hear music . You will remind him that you did not come to the East to go to Bedlam . This want ...
... oriental days , you will decline no invitation , but you will grow gradually deaf to all entreaties of friends or dragomen to sally forth and hear music . You will remind him that you did not come to the East to go to Bedlam . This want ...
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... Oriental , " Consoler of the embar- rassed , O Pips ! " The century has seen the failure of the Eastern experiment , headed as it is not likely to be headed again , by an able and wise leader . Mehemet Ali had mastered Egypt and Syria ...
... Oriental , " Consoler of the embar- rassed , O Pips ! " The century has seen the failure of the Eastern experiment , headed as it is not likely to be headed again , by an able and wise leader . Mehemet Ali had mastered Egypt and Syria ...
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