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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... feet from an unlit pier - the steps of which had been washed away in the gale of the previous night , but will , I am informed , be repaired next season - trusting to Providence to cause us to fall into a dark object beneath believed to ...
... feet from an unlit pier - the steps of which had been washed away in the gale of the previous night , but will , I am informed , be repaired next season - trusting to Providence to cause us to fall into a dark object beneath believed to ...
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... feet . Listen to the last notes of the thrush that sways on the black bough of yonder beech , singing , with a heart touched by the breath of spring , such a song as God alone could teach her . And there , in the new - found light ...
... feet . Listen to the last notes of the thrush that sways on the black bough of yonder beech , singing , with a heart touched by the breath of spring , such a song as God alone could teach her . And there , in the new - found light ...
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... feet above Fiesole , the ancient Etruscan city that preceded Florence , to inspect his vineyard , where he manufactures wine for the English market . The view from this farm is very fine , including as it does Florence spread out like a ...
... feet above Fiesole , the ancient Etruscan city that preceded Florence , to inspect his vineyard , where he manufactures wine for the English market . The view from this farm is very fine , including as it does Florence spread out like a ...
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... feet deep - probably Etruscans drew their water here . Looking downwards I could see the ripple on the face of the pool which shows where the spring flows that has fed it for so many centuries . The well has this peculiarity also - that ...
... feet deep - probably Etruscans drew their water here . Looking downwards I could see the ripple on the face of the pool which shows where the spring flows that has fed it for so many centuries . The well has this peculiarity also - that ...
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... feet , so that nothing of him can be seen save perhaps his eyes as they glitter through the little openings in the hood . Six of them go together , three in front and three behind , and between them is the stretcher , also arched over ...
... feet , so that nothing of him can be seen save perhaps his eyes as they glitter through the little openings in the hood . Six of them go together , three in front and three behind , and between them is the stretcher , also arched over ...
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