Morocco the Piquant: Or, Life in Sunset LandW. Heineman, 1914 - 242 pages |
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Aîsáwà Algeria Allah Ameer American Anghera Arabic Arache Arzila asked Atwil basha Berbers Bigote boat brass carpet Casablanca Cassim century Christian coast colour Consul consular dance dancers decorated djellab Djibel djinnoon dollars embroidery Europe eyes fact father foreign French garment Gibraltar Hamádsha Hamido hand head hills hundred Islam jehad Jewish kaid kesk'soo Khader land leather m'kadem magician Mannesman market-place Marraksh matter Mazagan Meknez mellah Mister Consul Mogador Moghreb Mohammedan Moorish Moors Moroccan Morocco Morocco leather Moslem mosque Mulai Abd-ul-Aziz Mulai el Hafid Mulai el Hassan mules native never North Africa one's pass perhaps political pottery Prophet Rabat Raisuli Riffians saint Shareef Shareefian Sidi Mohamed silver slaves Slawi smile socco Spain Spanish Suetonius sulham Sultan Sultan of Morocco Sûs Tangier Tetuan things throne town tribes ulema Vizier wife woman women Zarhon
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Page 85 - I have eaten your bread and salt, I have drunk your water and wine; The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives that ye led were mine. Was there aught that I did not share In vigil or toil or ease,— One joy or woe that I did not know, Dear hearts across the seas?
Page 73 - Hum deckty hail' for to admire an' for to see, For to be'old this world so wide It never done no good to me, But I can't drop it if I tried!
Page 22 - It's like a book, I think, this bloomin' world, Which you can read and care for just so long, But presently you feel that you will die Unless you get the page you're readin' done, An' turn another — likely not so good ; But what you're after is to turn 'em all.
Page 178 - Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated — so: "Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges — "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!
Page 202 - He is apt to think that what was good enough for his father is good enough for him and continues in the old ways.
Page 189 - Folly cannot be very grievous, because imperceptible ; and I doubt not but there is some truth in that rant of a mad poet, that there is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
Page 190 - ... cessation ; when he hears the interminable beat of the low-voiced drums and the never-ceasing monotony of the shrill pipes ; when he sees the banners of the Prophet, malignant green and red and gold, then this Christian foreigner feels that here is something which he cannot understand : that here are people voicing the ideals of the Mohammedan world, which somehow seems to become suddenly larger, and that he himself has had a mistaken conception of what Mohammedanism means. And when his eyes...
Page 170 - Meknez has in it a certain attractive opalescent effect, which to me is more charming than the cameo-like fineness of the Fassi needlework. The Fez embroidery frequently runs four hundred stitches to the square inch — and the number of stitches is always the same in the same design, no matter how often it may be repeated. Moorish embroidery is the same on both sides, and varies from the complex designs of Fez and...
Page 190 - And when his eyes behold the rise and fall of glittering axes upon shaven heads of man and boy, and he hears the peculiar rattle of contact between head and weapon, and sees the beginning of the red flood, which gradually spreads down over face and neck and garments, witnesses the ecstasies of pain in the name of Allah, then somehow the sun seems to become unbearably hot, the air stifling, the shriek of the pipes and the beat of the drums simply infernal, and with it all comes just a faint impression...
Page 190 - ... of Mohammedans, dancing wildly without cessation ; when he hears the interminable beat of the low-voiced drums and the never-ceasing monotony of the shrill pipes ; when he sees the banners of the Prophet, malignant green and red and gold, then this Christian foreigner feels that here is something which he cannot understand : that here are people voicing the ideals of the Mohammedan world, which somehow seems to become suddenly larger, and that he himself has had a mistaken conception of what...