Under the Palms in Algeria and Tunis ...Hurst and Blackett, 1868 |
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... walls bear indistinct traces of ancient frescoes . This may be all very well for travellers new to such relics of antiquity , but for those who remember Pompeii's long paved streets , and the house of Diomed , the whole thing is a ...
... walls bear indistinct traces of ancient frescoes . This may be all very well for travellers new to such relics of antiquity , but for those who remember Pompeii's long paved streets , and the house of Diomed , the whole thing is a ...
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... wall , and wander through the streets ! A farmer told us that he was one night returning from a visit in the country , and suddenly came on two lions , male and female , who were taking a stroll in the moonlight , not twenty paces from ...
... wall , and wander through the streets ! A farmer told us that he was one night returning from a visit in the country , and suddenly came on two lions , male and female , who were taking a stroll in the moonlight , not twenty paces from ...
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... return from unending brown to quiet green , we made the best of our way to the water's edge , no easy matter where the luxurious vegetation is divided into square plots , or date- 26 GARDENS . gardens , by rough mud walls ,
... return from unending brown to quiet green , we made the best of our way to the water's edge , no easy matter where the luxurious vegetation is divided into square plots , or date- 26 GARDENS . gardens , by rough mud walls ,
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Lewis Wingfield. 26 GARDENS . gardens , by rough mud walls , well fringed with prickly bushes . Our doctor tried to ... wall runs a dyke of , water , which serves in some sort as protection , as well as for purposes of irrigation , to the ...
Lewis Wingfield. 26 GARDENS . gardens , by rough mud walls , well fringed with prickly bushes . Our doctor tried to ... wall runs a dyke of , water , which serves in some sort as protection , as well as for purposes of irrigation , to the ...
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... wall or window . There is a general absence of windows , by the way , in all Arab habitations ; in this climate they are obliged to leave their doors wide open , and that serves every purpose of light and air . The few shops in ...
... wall or window . There is a general absence of windows , by the way , in all Arab habitations ; in this climate they are obliged to leave their doors wide open , and that serves every purpose of light and air . The few shops in ...
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Էջ 280 - Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted: it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.