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...tricately pierced marble screens, courts, fountains and exquisite gardens. Magnificent domes and minarets crowned its roof, Its pearl-pink beauty m...

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... before our vision with its walled cities, castellated battlements, glittering minarets, frowning donjons, ponderous draw-bridges and armored knights,...

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...oats with real Turks on board came up to the ship. There lay the town with minarets and cypresses, domes and castles; great guns were firing off, and ... ...he seventeenth century. The vast groves and towers, domes and quays, tall minarets and spired spread- ing mosques of the three cities, rise all aroun... ...e and sump- tuous—the Mosque of Sultan Achmed, with its six gleaming white minarets and its beautiful courts and trees. Any infidels may enter the cou... ... The houses a great heap of sun-baked stones, surmounted here and there by minarets and countless little whitewashed domes; a few date-trees spread ou... ... ascended to-day. Y ou see the city stretching beneath it, with a thousand minarets and mosques,—the great river curling through the green plains, stu... ...hapes of the domes, the beautiful fancies and caprices in the forms of the minarets, which violate the rules of proportion with the most happy daring ... ...he Caliphs. Every one of these edifices, with their domes, and courts, and minarets, is strange and beautiful. In one of them there was an encamp- men...

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...ucy, of summer evenings, when Sol descending lingered fondly yet about the minarets of the Foundling, and gilded the grassplots of Mecklenburgh Square...

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...re im- mediately expected. The weather was clear, and slightly chilly. The minarets of the town loomed above the houses in the pale rays of the sun. A... ...oke cautiously. “A curious place, this India?” “Oh, very curious. Mosques, minarets, temples, fakirs, pa- godas, tigers, snakes, elephants! I hope you... ...untry of the Khandeish, with its straggling villages, above which rose the minarets of the pagodas. This fertile territory is watered by numerous smal... ...body of the rajah, which was to be burned with his wife. The pagoda, whose minarets loomed above the trees in the deepening dusk, stood a hundred step...

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...en it was dawn Shibli Bagarag awoke and looked inland, and saw plainly the minarets of a city shining in the first beams, and the front of yellow moun... ... the light with screams and mad flutters, till the streets and mosques and minarets and bright domes and roofs and cupolas of the City of Shagpat were...

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...e rounded domes of its mosques, the elegant points 153 Jules Verne of its minarets, its fresh and verdant terraces. But it was only a vision! The Nau... ...English after taking possession in 1839. I caught a glimpse of the octagon minarets of this town, which was at one time the richest commercial magazin...

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... white to grey . To the right of the road could be seen the saklyas and minarets of the aoul Benerdzhik, on the left lay some fields, and beyond th...

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..., interspersed with palms and other trees here and there, with mosques and minarets rising above them, and with a crown of strong fortifications. The ...

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...ll the world has to show seemed to pass before her in a chaos of palms and minarets, charging cavalry regiments, roaring lions, comic policemen and sc...

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...of a commonplace little house, two doors above the Russian church with its minarets like inverted balloons K. D. B. and the captain halted. For a few ...

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...ion down the stages of a vast and various descent, on the bazaars and tall minarets of the town, on jagged rocks and precipices, on slopes of oak fore... ...ress and plane trees, a winding river with many wooden bridges, clustering minarets of pink and white, a hilly cemetery, and scattered patches of sold...

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...gossiped or meditated. Never did a mountain seem so close; its big sides seemed at one’s very elbow, and its majestic dome, and the lofty cluster of s... ... of one pinnacle took the shapely, clean-cut form of a rabbit’s head, in the inkiest silhouette, while it rested against the moon. The unillumined pea...

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...ing, the gunners stood with lighted matches. The copper- clad domes of the minarets began to glow with the rising sunbeams; the muezzins were on the r...

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...in the underways,” that Graham did not heed at the time. But he marked the minarets and towers and slender masses that streamed skyward above the city...

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...ads, formed itself into the fantastic forms of writhed pillars, domes, and minarets. Another shrill yell was heard from the bosom of this cloudy taber...

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...ations: the Post Office with its shingle-tortured man- sard, the red brick minarets of hulking old houses, factories with stingy and sooted windows, w...

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... with unnatural pity. 154 V olume One 16. 16. 16. 16. 16. Amid the aereal minarets on high, The Ethiopian vultures fluttering fell From their long li...

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... was born.” She showed him an Eastern town with flat roofs and cupolas and minarets. In the foreground was a group of palm-trees, and under them were ...

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...e garden looks fresh and pretty. Beyond the paling the tops of a couple of minarets can he seen, shewing that there it a valley there, with the little...

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...icturesque. On every hand was a wilderness of balco- nies, of verandas, of minarets, of shrines, and fantastically carved oriels. Bazaars abounded; an... ...attering and shrieking, about the cornices of the mosques, or clung to the minarets and oriels. From the swarming streets to the banks of the river, t...

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...f Dis is nam’d, With its grave denizens, a mighty throng.” I thus: “The minarets already, Sir! There certes in the valley I descry, Gleaming verm...

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...azure sea. Right in front, a dark brown fortress girdles white mosques and minarets. Rich and green, our mountain capes here join to form a setting fo...

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... miracle in mid-air, glittering in the red sunlight with a hundred oriels, minarets, and pinnacles; and seeming the phantom handiwork, conjointly, of ...

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...he idols are fed with incense by the streams of Ching- wang-foo; where the minarets soar sparkling above the cy- presses, their reflections quivering ...

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...ed and remote. And far beyond, like clouds upon the border of the sky, towered minarets of white, where the Sierra’s eternal snows flashed austerely th...

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...f Dis is nam’d, With its grave denizens, a mighty throng.” I thus: “The minarets already, Sir! There certes in the valley I descry, Gleaming verm...

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...ng mount Ararat! You foot worn pilgrim welcoming the far away sparkle of the minarets of Mecca! You sheiks along the stretch from Suez to Bab el mande...

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...once palm trees and firs, tigers on the right, a lion to the left, T artar minarets on the horizon; the whole framed by a very neat virgin forest, and...