The morning land [sketches of Turkey, the Holy land, and Egypt].Macmillan & Company, 1870 |
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... head - brush shaped heads grow distinct and clear as we pass on to the Delta country . There is a look of Holland , doubtless , in the dykes , in the windmills , in every knoll and bank , in the vessels whose hulls are hidden from view ...
... head - brush shaped heads grow distinct and clear as we pass on to the Delta country . There is a look of Holland , doubtless , in the dykes , in the windmills , in every knoll and bank , in the vessels whose hulls are hidden from view ...
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... heads ; and men , women , children - half - naked often , bare- foot always have all got rich colours in their ragged attire , glaring , not inharmoniously , against their dusty skins . There is not a cloud in the sky , not a ripple on ...
... heads ; and men , women , children - half - naked often , bare- foot always have all got rich colours in their ragged attire , glaring , not inharmoniously , against their dusty skins . There is not a cloud in the sky , not a ripple on ...
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... heads and children in their arms , picked their way amidst the mules and donkeys . There were buffaloes drinking at the water's edge . In little pools , off the main stream of the canal , men were washing their feet and faces in ...
... heads and children in their arms , picked their way amidst the mules and donkeys . There were buffaloes drinking at the water's edge . In little pools , off the main stream of the canal , men were washing their feet and faces in ...
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... heads to the ground ; even amid the rattle of the trains you can catch the sing - song sound of their droning chant , and louder than the chant - louder even than the rattle of the train - booms the croaking of whole choruses of frogs ...
... heads to the ground ; even amid the rattle of the trains you can catch the sing - song sound of their droning chant , and louder than the chant - louder even than the rattle of the train - booms the croaking of whole choruses of frogs ...
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... head straight up in the air in a way I do not note to be the fashion now . Possibly , however , the artificer sacrificed the interests of abstract truth to the consideration , that an outstretched neck would be broken in the ark before ...
... head straight up in the air in a way I do not note to be the fashion now . Possibly , however , the artificer sacrificed the interests of abstract truth to the consideration , that an outstretched neck would be broken in the ark before ...
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