A Winter Pilgrimage: Being an Account of Travels Through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus, Accomplished in the Year 1900, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1902 - 355 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 monks who , under the Italian law abolishing the religious establishments , are , I believe , not allowed to recruit their numbers ; a vast pile of rambling buildings fortified for defence , it stands supreme upon a cypress ...
... ancient monks who , under the Italian law abolishing the religious establishments , are , I believe , not allowed to recruit their numbers ; a vast pile of rambling buildings fortified for defence , it stands supreme upon a cypress ...
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... ancient chapel of a private family which has become extinct- that of the Cardinal Luperelli - Pitti in Cortona . Thus they found their way into the market . They are , I imagine , sixteenth - century work , though here I may be mistaken ...
... ancient chapel of a private family which has become extinct- that of the Cardinal Luperelli - Pitti in Cortona . Thus they found their way into the market . They are , I imagine , sixteenth - century work , though here I may be mistaken ...
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