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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... travel consecrated by decades of publication . Still let me do so , and before we leave it , look round the station . It is a horrible , reeking place , Heaven The knows , on such a morning as this of A WINTER PILGRIMAGE.
... travel consecrated by decades of publication . Still let me do so , and before we leave it , look round the station . It is a horrible , reeking place , Heaven The knows , on such a morning as this of A WINTER PILGRIMAGE.
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... round it have melted like last night's snow . Some it has borne away ; some , friends and spectators , having waved their last farewell , are departed upon their affairs . Now a new train arrives ; other crowds appear , drawn from the ...
... round it have melted like last night's snow . Some it has borne away ; some , friends and spectators , having waved their last farewell , are departed upon their affairs . Now a new train arrives ; other crowds appear , drawn from the ...
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... round about it , adorned in the centre with an old effigy of a lion in stone , which was dug up somewhere in the neighbourhood . In front of this court is a well nearly a hundred feet deep - probably Etruscans drew their water here ...
... round about it , adorned in the centre with an old effigy of a lion in stone , which was dug up somewhere in the neighbourhood . In front of this court is a well nearly a hundred feet deep - probably Etruscans drew their water here ...
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... round and round and drives a simple crushing - mill . The raw resulting oil is divided into three grades or qualities , of which the second is best for lamps , and the third mixed with water is used by the poor . This season the olive ...
... round and round and drives a simple crushing - mill . The raw resulting oil is divided into three grades or qualities , of which the second is best for lamps , and the third mixed with water is used by the poor . This season the olive ...
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... round to see the brethren of the Miseri- cordia at their work of mercy . These are they who , drawn from every rank of society , for more than five centuries have laid out the dead , or carried the sick of Florence to where they might ...
... round to see the brethren of the Miseri- cordia at their work of mercy . These are they who , drawn from every rank of society , for more than five centuries have laid out the dead , or carried the sick of Florence to where they might ...
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