A Winter Pilgrimage: Being an Account of Travels Through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus, Accomplished in the Year 1900Longmans, Green, and Company, 1904 - 376 pages |
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... ANCIENT SLUICE GATE AT ACHERITOU DESDEMONA'S Tower , FamaGUSTA · RUINS OF ANCIENT CHURCH , Famagusta ST . HILARION MONASTERY OF BELLA PAIS HEIGHTS OF HILARION VENETIAN FORTRESS , KYRENIA . DOOR OF ST . NICHOLAS , NICOSIA OUR CAVALCADE ...
... ANCIENT SLUICE GATE AT ACHERITOU DESDEMONA'S Tower , FamaGUSTA · RUINS OF ANCIENT CHURCH , Famagusta ST . HILARION MONASTERY OF BELLA PAIS HEIGHTS OF HILARION VENETIAN FORTRESS , KYRENIA . DOOR OF ST . NICHOLAS , NICOSIA OUR CAVALCADE ...
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... ancient door from the busy piazza where electric cars glide up and down continually like mis- shapen boats with bells fixed in front of them , and pushing aside the heavy curtain of leather , of a sudden we stood in another world . Life ...
... ancient door from the busy piazza where electric cars glide up and down continually like mis- shapen boats with bells fixed in front of them , and pushing aside the heavy curtain of leather , of a sudden we stood in another world . Life ...
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... ancient city , which is built among the hill - tops about three miles to the north - east of Florence . At each of these villas I found the most lovely satisfying sunshine , in which a man might bask like a lizard till at length the ...
... ancient city , which is built among the hill - tops about three miles to the north - east of Florence . At each of these villas I found the most lovely satisfying sunshine , in which a man might bask like a lizard till at length the ...
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... ancient chandeliers are capable of easy adaptation to the use of gas . As a consequence they are now becoming very rare . Why do not the Arts and Crafts add the education of the taste of the British lamp - maker to the list of their ...
... ancient chandeliers are capable of easy adaptation to the use of gas . As a consequence they are now becoming very rare . Why do not the Arts and Crafts add the education of the taste of the British lamp - maker to the list of their ...
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... ancient Etruscan studying that view from this very standpoint , can have felt no need of Florence to complete the scene , and were she rased now to the earth as in the middle days one of her rulers would have rased her , she would ...
... ancient Etruscan studying that view from this very standpoint , can have felt no need of Florence to complete the scene , and were she rased now to the earth as in the middle days one of her rulers would have rased her , she would ...
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