 | 1855 - 498 pages
...hard unbroken plains, over which hewho rides is spurred by the idea that the bursting of a waterskin, or the pricking of a camel's hoof, would be a certain...haggard land, infested with wild beasts and wilder men, — what can be more exciting, what more sublime?" In such places the civilised mind has new sensations... | |
 | Maria Susanna Cummins - 1860 - 296 pages
...flint-strewn expanse beneath, the soul glows amid the grandeur and loneliness with the excitement of treading 'a haggard land, infested with wild beasts and wilder...fountains murmur the warning words, " Drink and away." ' Thus (to quote further from our author), man, ' measuring his puny form with Nature's might,' understands... | |
 | Maria Susanna Cummins - 1860 - 350 pages
...Expanse beneath, the soul glows amid the grandeur and loveliness with the excitement of treading " a haggard land, infested with wild beasts and wilder...fountains murmur the warning words, 'Drink and away.'" Thus (to quote further from our author), man, " measuring his puny form with Nature's might," understands... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 142 pages
...unbroken plains, over which, he who rides is spurred by the idea that the bursting of a water-skin, or the pricking of a camel's hoof, would be a certain death or torture—a haggard land infested with wild beasts and wilder men—a region whose very fountains... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton, Richard Francis Burton - 1879 - 576 pages
...unbroken plains, over which he who rides is spurred by the idea tliat th<> bursting of a water-skin, or the pricking of a camel's hoof, would be a certain...! " What can be more exciting? what more sublime? Alan's heart bounds in his breast at the thought of measuring his puny force with Nature's might, and... | |
 | Alexander Wheelock Thayer - 1883 - 160 pages
...hard, unbroken plains, over which he who rides is spurred by the idea that the bursting of a water-skin or the pricking of a camel's hoof would be a certain...fountains murmur the warning words, ' Drink and away ! ' Let the traveller who suspects exaggeration leave the Suez road for an hour or two, and gallop... | |
 | lady Margaret Stewart Simpson - 1883 - 124 pages
...hard unbroken plains, over which he who rides is spurred by the idea that the bursting of a waterskin, or the pricking of a camel's hoof, would be a certain death of torture ; a region whose very fountains murmur the warning words, " Drink, and away." ' Kings have chosen the sites... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1889 - 1064 pages
...the idea tluvt tlie bursting of a waterskin, or the pricking of a camel's hoof, would be a sertain death of torture ; a haggard land, infested with wild...fountains murmur the warning words, ' Drink and away.' ' , . . We travelled five hours through a country fan1 Palmer's Desert of the Exodus, 1871, pp. 261... | |
 | Lady Isabel Burton - 1893 - 670 pages
...hard unbroken plains, over which he who rides is spurred by the idea that the bursting of a waterskin, or the pricking of a camel's hoof, would be a certain...fountains murmur the warning words, ' Drink and away ! ' Death, and this sense of danger, never absent, invests the scene of travel with a peculiar interest.... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1899 - 1076 pages
...previsions to a caravan of 7,000 to 8, 000 souls. For the most part it is a haggard land, a country of wild beasts and wilder men, a region whose very fountains murmur the warning words, " Drink and away " instead of " Rest and be thankful." In other places it is a desert peopled only with echoes, an abode... | |
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... or the pricking of a camel's hoof, would be a certain death of torture— a haggard land, infested with wild beasts, and wilder men— a region whose very fountains murmur the warning words, "Drink and away! 
