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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... appear with their names . Thus perhaps I also may be accounted a link in the chain of those who dedicated some of their uncertain days to visiting and describing that grey stretch of moun- tain land which is the cradle of man's hope in ...
... appear with their names . Thus perhaps I also may be accounted a link in the chain of those who dedicated some of their uncertain days to visiting and describing that grey stretch of moun- tain land which is the cradle of man's hope in ...
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... appear , drawn from the vast reservoir of London , and with variations the scene repeats itself . This time we take an active part in the play , and presently steam out into the billows of black mist and are lost behind the curtain of ...
... appear , drawn from the vast reservoir of London , and with variations the scene repeats itself . This time we take an active part in the play , and presently steam out into the billows of black mist and are lost behind the curtain of ...
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... appear , and at this very spot had the wheels become " heated , " and the travellers torn half - awakened from their berths . On the present occasion we met with a somewhat similar experience . Leaving Basle in the hope and ex ...
... appear , and at this very spot had the wheels become " heated , " and the travellers torn half - awakened from their berths . On the present occasion we met with a somewhat similar experience . Leaving Basle in the hope and ex ...
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... appear forests of firs growing tier above tier upon the face of a precipice so steep that almost it might be a titanic wall . Then the pines vanish and are replaced by thousands of delicate birch- trees , hanging like white hair about ...
... appear forests of firs growing tier above tier upon the face of a precipice so steep that almost it might be a titanic wall . Then the pines vanish and are replaced by thousands of delicate birch- trees , hanging like white hair about ...
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... appears a toy town with a toy wood - built church . Next an enor- mous gulf , and in its depths a torrent raging . always a sense of mountains , invisible indeed but over- hanging , impending , vast . And Now a little hut is seen and by ...
... appears a toy town with a toy wood - built church . Next an enor- mous gulf , and in its depths a torrent raging . always a sense of mountains , invisible indeed but over- hanging , impending , vast . And Now a little hut is seen and by ...
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