Littell's Living Age, Volume 192Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1892 |
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Page 59
... side , glittering in the sun like a sheet of glass . According to the accounts of the guides who had accom . panied us , this vast deposit of salt was in reality of the consistency of ice , and , like the latter , formed a coat of ...
... side , glittering in the sun like a sheet of glass . According to the accounts of the guides who had accom . panied us , this vast deposit of salt was in reality of the consistency of ice , and , like the latter , formed a coat of ...
Page 60
... side of this must constitute a regular morass , to judge from the skeletons lying about of animals who had wandered off the track , and , apparently sinking into it , had been unable to extricate themselves again , and thus died as they ...
... side of this must constitute a regular morass , to judge from the skeletons lying about of animals who had wandered off the track , and , apparently sinking into it , had been unable to extricate themselves again , and thus died as they ...
Page 61
... side , a plant a secret , and preserves it in a locked- solid , homogeneous mass of the purest up conservatory . His wife , however , who salt such as , in any other country than is made miserable by his absorption of Persia , would ...
... side , a plant a secret , and preserves it in a locked- solid , homogeneous mass of the purest up conservatory . His wife , however , who salt such as , in any other country than is made miserable by his absorption of Persia , would ...
Page 69
... side of the English . This step effectively tied the hands of the khedive needed very considerable courage , for the and done nothing themselves . At the English have never really shown their crucial moment the French refused to co ...
... side of the English . This step effectively tied the hands of the khedive needed very considerable courage , for the and done nothing themselves . At the English have never really shown their crucial moment the French refused to co ...
Page 81
... side ; indeed . A cleverer man , this Lord Gran- dirty lumber on all sides of path : guin- ville , than I had quite perceived before . gette ( coarse dirty old house , ditto wooden After his departure , wrote to Chelsea , to balcony ...
... side ; indeed . A cleverer man , this Lord Gran- dirty lumber on all sides of path : guin- ville , than I had quite perceived before . gette ( coarse dirty old house , ditto wooden After his departure , wrote to Chelsea , to balcony ...
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Page 444 - Though the waters thereof rage and swell : and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same.
Page 142 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.