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Pagina 81
... cross - legged in them , and work and trade and smoke long pipes , and smell like - like Turks . That covers the ground . Crowding the narrow streets in front of them are beggars , who beg forever , yet never collect anything ; and ...
... cross - legged in them , and work and trade and smoke long pipes , and smell like - like Turks . That covers the ground . Crowding the narrow streets in front of them are beggars , who beg forever , yet never collect anything ; and ...
Pagina 88
... cross cut high up in one of the pillars . I suppose he meant me to understand that the institution was there before the Turkish occupation , and I thought he made a re- mark to that effect ; but he must have had an im- pediment in his ...
... cross cut high up in one of the pillars . I suppose he meant me to understand that the institution was there before the Turkish occupation , and I thought he made a re- mark to that effect ; but he must have had an im- pediment in his ...
Pagina 95
... crosses the line ! His neighbors would snatch the balance of his hair off in a second . So it is said . But they don't look it . They sleep in the streets these days . They are my compass my guide . When I see the dogs sleep placidly on ...
... crosses the line ! His neighbors would snatch the balance of his hair off in a second . So it is said . But they don't look it . They sleep in the streets these days . They are my compass my guide . When I see the dogs sleep placidly on ...
Pagina 105
Mark Twain. was getting discouraged . Whenever , hereafter , I see the cross - legged Grand Turk smoking his narghili , in pretended bliss , on the outside of a paper of Con- necticut tobacco , I shall know him for the shameless humbug ...
Mark Twain. was getting discouraged . Whenever , hereafter , I see the cross - legged Grand Turk smoking his narghili , in pretended bliss , on the outside of a paper of Con- necticut tobacco , I shall know him for the shameless humbug ...
Pagina 147
... cross- legged Turks smoking the famous narghili , and the crowds drifting to and fro in the fanciful costumes of the East , is a genuine revelation of the Orient . The picture lacks nothing . It casts you back at once into your ...
... cross- legged Turks smoking the famous narghili , and the crowds drifting to and fro in the fanciful costumes of the East , is a genuine revelation of the Orient . The picture lacks nothing . It casts you back at once into your ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 179 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care. And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day. Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Pagina 143 - Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Pagina 306 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
Pagina 315 - And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Pagina 312 - And they went to bury her : but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
Pagina 160 - If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.
Pagina 313 - And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seaside for multitude.
Pagina 236 - And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
Pagina 315 - So we boiled my son, and did eat him : and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
Pagina 238 - At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down : At her feet he bowed, he fell : Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.