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Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1874)
the long black lashes fell over his
cheek and his mind went wandering over the hills about
San Germano in the fair land of Italy, I used to think
I was looking at the face of him...
in white from head to foot, her dress the finest lawns and laces of exquisite texture; while, by way of contrast or foil to her beauty, an Indian servant, black as an African, and dressed...
in white from head to foot, her dress the finest lawns and laces of exquisite texture; while, by way of contrast or foil to her beauty, an Indian servant, black as an African, and dressed...
Egypt [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1910)
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country Egypt might be, and tried to picture to themselves the scenes so vividly suggested in the Bible story.VERYIt must have been a startling experience for the little shepherd boy, who, stolen from his home among the quiet hills...
country Egypt might be, and tried to picture to themselves the scenes so vividly suggested in the Bible story.VERYIt must have been a startling experience for the little shepherd boy, who, stolen from his home among the quiet hills...
Egypt: Ancient Sites and Modern Scenes [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1910)
mummy lying on its funeral bed. The hill stood out sharply, and the
stone lay scattered about in broad white slabs, stained with black where
the chambers of the mine had exploded. How many more summers...
, then the violated hypogeums, the hill with its bruised and peeled surface, a glimpse of the shining Nile, the coming and going of barges with sails set, an embankment striped with black and green, a line of trees, a...
, then the violated hypogeums, the hill with its bruised and peeled surface, a glimpse of the shining Nile, the coming and going of barges with sails set, an embankment striped with black and green, a line of trees, a...
Five Months at Cairo and in Lower Egypt [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1883)
;
soon, one is alone or
almost alone on deck
to contemplate the picture of Marseilles, set on the shore of
the Mediterranean at the foot of a chain of hills, now...
, and folds, and bluish hills, abrupt heights, sun-reddened slopes, graceful creeks, and symmetrical capes, leave their outlines and shades a long time on the horizon. Nothing is more beautiful than this coast of Provence, and that which follows it as far...
, and folds, and bluish hills, abrupt heights, sun-reddened slopes, graceful creeks, and symmetrical capes, leave their outlines and shades a long time on the horizon. Nothing is more beautiful than this coast of Provence, and that which follows it as far...
Egypt / by Pierre Loti ; translated from the French by W. P. Baines, and with eight illus. in colour by A. Lamplough. [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1909)
rise up, ghostlike and motionless.NIGHTIs that a hill of sand that rises yonder? One can
scarcely tell, for it has as it were no shape, no outline;
rather it seems like a great rosy cloud, or some huge...
in the hollows and far away, this wonderful silver moon reveals even their slightest gestures; for their white robes and black cloaks stand sharply out against the monotonous rose of the desert. At times they call...
in the hollows and far away, this wonderful silver moon reveals even their slightest gestures; for their white robes and black cloaks stand sharply out against the monotonous rose of the desert. At times they call...
Egypt: handbook for travellers [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1898)
As seen by me [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1900)
wheel against the side of it, helpless with laughter.A red Irish face, with a short black pipe in its
mouth, thrust itself out of the tiny window just in front of
me, and a voice with a rich brogue exclaimed...
aristocracy has for Northerners. I once asked an old black mammy in Georgia why the negroes had so little respect for the white ladies of the North. “Case dey don' know how to treat black folks, honey.” “Why don't they...
aristocracy has for Northerners. I once asked an old black mammy in Georgia why the negroes had so little respect for the white ladies of the North. “Case dey don' know how to treat black folks, honey.” “Why don't they...
A Confederate Soldier in Egypt [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1884)
by the
Mokattum and Libyan hills as by nature's sentries. On those hills
the desert winds are broken, and the valley is thus preserved from
the choking drift of sand which would otherwise cover its fair surface...
hills and surveying the seemingly boundless desert through which the Nile courses, the spectator is impressed with the awful grandeur and solitude of the scene. In contemplating, too...
hills and surveying the seemingly boundless desert through which the Nile courses, the spectator is impressed with the awful grandeur and solitude of the scene. In contemplating, too...
Queer things about Egypt [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1911)
, and the
Citadel crowned by the soaring Mosque of Mehemet Ali,
rivalling the marvellous skyline of the Golden Horn.
Behind the mosque and the tombs are the Golden Hills of the
Mokattam range...
, a little to the left of this, and the Sharia-el-Magar, leading down from the shoulder of the Citadel hill. All of them abound in mediæval beauties. The Sharia Serougiya takes you...
, a little to the left of this, and the Sharia-el-Magar, leading down from the shoulder of the Citadel hill. All of them abound in mediæval beauties. The Sharia Serougiya takes you...
Oriental Cairo : the city of the "Arabian nights" [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1911)
by A. & C. Black, too late for me to mention it in the text of my
book. They could not have fitted my text more completely
if they had been executed for it. No one ever caught...