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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... 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 drifts lie deep . Here I beheld an instance of true politeness . Two Italian gentlemen ...
... 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 drifts lie deep . Here I beheld an instance of true politeness . Two Italian gentlemen ...
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... stone , which was dug up somewhere in the neighbourhood . In front of this court is a well nearly a hundred feet deep - probably Etruscans drew their water here . Looking downwards I could see the ripple on the face of the pool which ...
... stone , which was dug up somewhere in the neighbourhood . In front of this court is a well nearly a hundred feet deep - probably Etruscans drew their water here . Looking downwards I could see the ripple on the face of the pool which ...
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... stone channels are laid upon the surface to carry off flood- water . Vines , it has been proved , are very fastidious as to their supply of moisture , although in some seasons of drought they are much helped by irrigation where this is ...
... stone channels are laid upon the surface to carry off flood- water . Vines , it has been proved , are very fastidious as to their supply of moisture , although in some seasons of drought they are much helped by irrigation where this is ...
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... stones were but as huts , the vast dome of her cathedral as that of a village church . The landscape dominates and dwarfs her . The sweeping circle of black hills ; that mighty mirror of the Arno flashing in the last ray of sunset ...
... stones were but as huts , the vast dome of her cathedral as that of a village church . The landscape dominates and dwarfs her . The sweeping circle of black hills ; that mighty mirror of the Arno flashing in the last ray of sunset ...
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... stone seat and a single slit to furnish it with light and air , through which , looking down , he may see the church of Santa Croce . Here for some forty days Savonarola was incarcerated , and hence from time to time he was led down to ...
... stone seat and a single slit to furnish it with light and air , through which , looking down , he may see the church of Santa Croce . Here for some forty days Savonarola was incarcerated , and hence from time to time he was led down to ...
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