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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... 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 chill left his bones . There I was told ...
... 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 chill left his bones . There I was told ...
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... hill . Its interior with the halls , chapels , crypts , and columned galleries need not be de- scribed . Indeed , quaint as they are , there is something better here - the view from certain windows and cloisters . This prospect is quite ...
... hill . Its interior with the halls , chapels , crypts , and columned galleries need not be de- scribed . Indeed , quaint as they are , there is something better here - the view from certain windows and cloisters . This prospect is quite ...
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... hills with patches of oak scrub which is used for firewood . My host's farm is approached up a steep and constant ... hill facing south - east , which 22 A WINTER PILGRIMAGE.
... hills with patches of oak scrub which is used for firewood . My host's farm is approached up a steep and constant ... hill facing south - east , which 22 A WINTER PILGRIMAGE.
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... hill facing south - east , which seems to be the aspect preferred , the shale soil , mixed with what looked to me like light loam covered with a good spit of turf , is trenched to a depth of a little over three feet . First a foot or so ...
... hill facing south - east , which seems to be the aspect preferred , the shale soil , mixed with what looked to me like light loam covered with a good spit of turf , is trenched to a depth of a little over three feet . First a foot or so ...
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... hills , to feast the eyes upon that glorious view , to watch the vines put forth their tender leaves , to see the tiny clusters form and in autumn to gather the rich harvest all in the glow of a glorious sun - what more could be asked ...
... hills , to feast the eyes upon that glorious view , to watch the vines put forth their tender leaves , to see the tiny clusters form and in autumn to gather the rich harvest all in the glow of a glorious sun - what more could be asked ...
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