 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1855 - 554 pages
...slippers teems with pleasing ideas of humility. A dagger, a brass inkstand and peaholder stuck in the belt, and a mighty rosary, which on occasion might...which in these lands should never be entrusted to b<jv. or bag. A common cotton purse secured in a breast pocket, (for Egypt now abounds in that civilized... | |
 | 1855 - 554 pages
...slippers teems with pleasing ideas of humility. A dagger, a brass inkstand and penholder stuck in the belt, and a mighty rosary, which on occasion might...the proper method of carrying money, which in these lauds should never be entrusted to box or bag. A common cotton purse secured in a breast pocket, (for... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1855 - 424 pages
...slippers teems with pleasing ideas of humility. A dagger*, .1 brass inkstand and pen -holder stuck in the belt, and a mighty rosary, which on occasion might...in a breast pocket, (for Egypt now abounds in that civilised animal the pickpocket f,) contained silver pieces and small change. J My gold, of which I... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1857 - 458 pages
...slippers teems with pleasing ideas of humility. A daggerf, a brass inkstand and pen-holder stuck in the belt, and a mighty rosary, which on occasion might...never be entrusted to box or bag. A common cotton * Almost all Easterns sleep under a sheet, which becomes a kind of respirator, defending them from... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton, Richard Francis Burton - 1879 - 576 pages
...slippers teems with pleasing ideas of humility. Л dagger, a brass inkstand and pen-holder stuck in the belt, and a mighty rosary, which on occasion might...not omit to mention the proper method of carrying inonuy, which in tli ese lands should never be entrusted to box or bag. A common cotton purse secured... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 478 pages
...slippers teems with pleasing ideas of humility. A dagger, a brass inkstand and penholder stuck in the belt, and a mighty rosary, which on occasion might have been converted into a weapon of offense, completed my equipment. I must not omit to mention the proper method of carrying money, which... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 468 pages
...slippers teems with pleasing ideas of humility. A dagger, a brass inkstand and penholder stuck in the belt, and a mighty rosary, which on occasion might have been converted into a weapon of offense, completed my equipment. I must not omit to mention the proper method of carrying money, which... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - 1904 - 510 pages
...slippers teems with pleasing ideas of humility. A dagger, a brass inkstand and penholder stuck in the belt, and a mighty rosary, which on occasion might have been converted into a weapon of offense, completed my equipment. I must not omit to mention the proper method of carrying money, which... | |
 | Richard F. Burton, Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1994 - 490 pages
...;" whereas, amongst the soi-disant civilised, Nature has no deadlier enemy than Custom. stuck in the belt, and a mighty rosary, which on occasion might...in a breast pocket (for Egypt now abounds in that civilised animal, the pickpocket1), contained silver pieces and small change." My gold, of which I... | |
 | Mary S. Lovell - 2000 - 948 pages
...carried a dagger and a brass ink-stand and pen-holder, which were stuck into his belt. In his pocket was a 'mighty rosary which on occasion might have been converted into a weapon of defence'. Small coins and some silver were contained in a cotton purse in the pocket of his robe, but... | |
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A dagger,13 a brass inkstand and pen-holder stuck in the belt, and a mighty rosary, which on occasion might have been converted into a weapon of offence, completed my equipment. I must not omit to mention the proper method of carrying money, which in... 