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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... hands and discover their tezkerehs in inaccessible pockets , which they did that the account given in those documents of their objects , occu- pations , past history , and personal appearance might be verified by a drowsy Turk seated in ...
... hands and discover their tezkerehs in inaccessible pockets , which they did that the account given in those documents of their objects , occu- pations , past history , and personal appearance might be verified by a drowsy Turk seated in ...
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... hand . There , heedless of the bitter wind and weather she stands , like the wife of Lot , stone- still and white with snow . We rush past her into mile upon mile of tunnel , to pull up at last by some little mountain station where the ...
... hand . There , heedless of the bitter wind and weather she stands , like the wife of Lot , stone- still and white with snow . We rush past her into mile upon mile of tunnel , to pull up at last by some little mountain station where the ...
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... hands like to the officers of some gorgeous , magic incantation , till at length - let him confess it - the mind of the observer softens and he understands , even sympathises with , much at which he has been wont to smile , and ...
... hands like to the officers of some gorgeous , magic incantation , till at length - let him confess it - the mind of the observer softens and he understands , even sympathises with , much at which he has been wont to smile , and ...
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... hands upon which even in that half light the blue veins showed , and on the worn features so purified by time , loss , and sorrow that no beauty of their youth could rival them to - day . A pathetic sight indeed , rightly studied and ...
... hands upon which even in that half light the blue veins showed , and on the worn features so purified by time , loss , and sorrow that no beauty of their youth could rival them to - day . A pathetic sight indeed , rightly studied and ...
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... hand clasps the book she reads . Her robe has caught upon a corner of the chair so that her mantle is strained tight . What under ordinary conditions would be a woman's first instinctive thought ? Doubtless to free it with the hand that ...
... hand clasps the book she reads . Her robe has caught upon a corner of the chair so that her mantle is strained tight . What under ordinary conditions would be a woman's first instinctive thought ? Doubtless to free it with the hand that ...
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