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" Daoud Agha confessed to me on our way that he had received orders to make graves on the mound, and that his troops had been employed for two nights in bringing stones from distant villages for that purpose.* " We have destroyed more real tombs of the... "
Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean ... - Pagina 46
door Austen Henry Layard - 1854
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

1850 - 704 pagina’s
...have destroyed more real tombs of the true Believers," said their captain, "than you could have denied between the Zab and Selamiyah. We have killed our...and ourselves in carrying those accursed stones." It was necessary now to proceed with caution ; but the discovery of more sculptures was an irresistible...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volumes 16-17

1849 - 608 pagina’s
...more real tombs of the true believers,' said he, ' in making sham ones, than you could have denied between the Zab and Selamiyah. We have killed our horses and ourselves in carrying those accursed •tones.' " — p. 46. Mr. Layard afterwards, during his excavations, did come on some real graves...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 21

1849 - 742 pagina’s
...opposition to my proceedings chiefly came. — Pp. 44, 45. But how came the tombstones there ? — Daoad Agha confessed to me on our way that he had received...and ourselves in carrying those accursed stones." P. 46. Mr. Layard afterwards, during his excavations, did come on some real graves ; but as he was...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 66;Volume 84

1849 - 652 pagina’s
...to make graves on the mound, and that his troops had been employed for two nights in bringing stonea from distant villages for that purpose. " We have...and ourselves in carrying those accursed stones." ' — p. 46. Mr. Layard afterwards, during his excavations, did come on some real graves ; but as he...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 20

1849 - 638 pagina’s
...he had not noted. Daoud Agha had been at work during the night. He confessed the trick afterwards. " We have destroyed more real tombs of the true believers,"...and ourselves in carrying those accursed stones." By a happy accident alone was Mr. Layard enabled to resume. The pasha received sudden dismissal, and...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 17

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1849 - 608 pagina’s
...troops had been employed for two nights in bringing stones from distant villages for that purpose. ' VVe have destroyed more real tombs of the true believers,'...our horses and ourselves in carrying those accursed •tones.' "—p. 46. Mr. Layard afterwards, during his excavations, did come on some real graves ;...
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Stryker's American Register and Magazine, Volume 2

1849 - 620 pagina’s
...distant villages for that purpose. "We have destroyed," said he, " more real tombs of true believers in making sham ones, than you could have defiled between...We have killed our horses and ourselves in carrying these accursed stones." Continuing to employ a few men to open trenches by way of experiment, several...
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Sharpe's London Magazine, Volume 9

1849 - 292 pagina’s
...Mr. Layard, " more real tombs of the true believers in making sham ones than you eould have denied between the Zab and Selamiyah. We have killed our horses and ourselves in earrying these aeeursed stones." It was now time to get rid of these petty annoyanees, and having aseertained...
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Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit of the ..., Volume 1

Austen Henry Layard - 1850 - 384 pagina’s
...inducing the Pasha's Cawass to countenance the employment of a few workmen to guard the sculptures during the day ; and as Daoud Agha considered that...ourselves in carrying those accursed stones." A steady ra:n setting in, I left the horsemen and returned to the village. In the evening Daoud Agha brought...
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A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh, Nummer 82

Sir Austen Henry Layard - 1851 - 442 pagina’s
...ascertain the existence of the graves, and also to draw one of the bas-reliefs, which had been uncovered, I rode to the ruins on the following morning, accompanied...severely wounded. He had fallen in with a party of horsemen under Sheikh Abd-ur-rahman of the Abou-Salman Arabs, whose object in crossing the Zab had...
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