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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... 270 29 17 SACRED ROCK THE GOLDEN GATE • 272 " ; " " 279 99 29 VIEW ON THE ROAD TO JERICHO 292 " " THE ONLY HOUSE BY THE DEAD SEA 99 36 292 THE PLACE OF STONING 308 29 A WINTER PILGRIMAGE CHAPTER I MILAN CATHEDRAL SURELY Solomon foresaw ...
... 270 29 17 SACRED ROCK THE GOLDEN GATE • 272 " ; " " 279 99 29 VIEW ON THE ROAD TO JERICHO 292 " " THE ONLY HOUSE BY THE DEAD SEA 99 36 292 THE PLACE OF STONING 308 29 A WINTER PILGRIMAGE CHAPTER I MILAN CATHEDRAL SURELY Solomon foresaw ...
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... roads yellow lines of mud . Yet in its own way it is beautiful , all of it , as the face of Nature is ever beautiful to those who love her , and knowing her moods , can sympathise with them and catch something of their meaning . So ...
... roads yellow lines of mud . Yet in its own way it is beautiful , all of it , as the face of Nature is ever beautiful to those who love her , and knowing her moods , can sympathise with them and catch something of their meaning . So ...
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... up the pass we slept at some village on the road . Here the innkeeper had a pretty servant who -strange entertainment - took us to a charnel - house attached to the church , where amongst many others she MILAN CATHEDRAL 7.
... up the pass we slept at some village on the road . Here the innkeeper had a pretty servant who -strange entertainment - took us to a charnel - house attached to the church , where amongst many others she MILAN CATHEDRAL 7.
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... roads to speak of in the island , except one of a very indifferent character between Larnaca and Nicosia . The Turks , its former masters , never seem to make a road ; they only destroy any that may exist . exist . Now in this respect ...
... roads to speak of in the island , except one of a very indifferent character between Larnaca and Nicosia . The Turks , its former masters , never seem to make a road ; they only destroy any that may exist . exist . Now in this respect ...
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... road . Off we went , my nephew and myself riding our hired mules and the rest of the party upon their smart ponies , which in Cyprus are very good and cheap to buy and feed . I have now had considerable experience of the mule He as an ...
... road . Off we went , my nephew and myself riding our hired mules and the rest of the party upon their smart ponies , which in Cyprus are very good and cheap to buy and feed . I have now had considerable experience of the mule He as an ...
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