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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... harbour . At length the ordeal was done with and we were informed that we might embark . That is to say , we were graciously permitted to leap five feet from an unlit A pier — the steps of which had been washed away MILAN CATHEDRAL.
... harbour . At length the ordeal was done with and we were informed that we might embark . That is to say , we were graciously permitted to leap five feet from an unlit A pier — the steps of which had been washed away MILAN CATHEDRAL.
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... feet . Listen to the last notes of the thrush that sways on the black bough of yonder beech , singing , with a heart touched by the breath of spring , such a song as God alone could teach her . And there , in the new - found light ...
... feet . Listen to the last notes of the thrush that sways on the black bough of yonder beech , singing , with a heart touched by the breath of spring , such a song as God alone could teach her . And there , in the new - found light ...
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... feet above Fiesole , the ancient Etruscan city that preceded Florence , to inspect his vineyard , where he manufactures wine for the English market . The view from this farm is very fine , including as it does Florence spread out like a ...
... feet above Fiesole , the ancient Etruscan city that preceded Florence , to inspect his vineyard , where he manufactures wine for the English market . The view from this farm is very fine , including as it does Florence spread out like a ...
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... feet deep - probably Etruscans drew their water here . Looking downwards I could see the ripple on the face of the pool which shows where the spring flows that has fed it for so many centuries . The well has this peculiarity also — that ...
... feet deep - probably Etruscans drew their water here . Looking downwards I could see the ripple on the face of the pool which shows where the spring flows that has fed it for so many centuries . The well has this peculiarity also — that ...
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... feet . First a foot or so of broken rock is laid in the bottom of the trench for drainage before it is filled up with the soil and turf . This is the most important requisite . More than twenty years ago at Pretoria in the Transvaal I ...
... feet . First a foot or so of broken rock is laid in the bottom of the trench for drainage before it is filled up with the soil and turf . This is the most important requisite . More than twenty years ago at Pretoria in the Transvaal I ...
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