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...d to be near Erik. At last, Erik stepped out of the tub and collected thick Turkish towels from the dressing room. He brought them to the tub’s edg... ...lls. One never knew what one would find. Fruits and vegetables, meats and cheeses: the finest foods in season. There were booksellers, weavers, ... ...e of his sandalwood soap there, and I gave a bar to Gilbert along with some Turkish towels. “Are you sure, Madame Claire? It’s your bath. I should ...

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... an assembly in years: Scythian, Etruscan, VOICES FROM THE PAST 16 Turkish, Negro. Bowls of incense sent threads to the ceiling. Wisps floated... .... Then there are the new girls: Heptha, with copper hair... Myra, who is Turkish... Helen, a scatterbrained darling... Ah, but each is exquisite in ... ...ting around us, light finning through stalls, over herbs, nuts, wines and cheeses...the smells made me hungry. Together we ate Cappian cheese, tangy ... ...ere, the other way...those three boats...see the red shields at the bow...Turkish pirates...they’re attacking Mytilene. I’ll row for the beach. Hang ... ...ing, P VOICES FROM THE PAST 72 threw open the door and beat off a Turkish spear. Catching two men by surprise, he wounded one in the neck an... ...shield high on his arm. Long after dusk, men scouted the streets, all the Turkish boats at sea: the town buzzed with shouts and whistles: a drum thr...

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... an assembly in years: Scythian, Etruscan, VOICES FROM THE PAST 20 Turkish, Negro. Bowls of incense sent threads to the ceiling. Wisps floated... .... Then there are the new girls: Heptha, with copper hair... Myra, who is Turkish... Helen, a scatterbrained darling... Ah, but each is exquisite in ... ...ting around us, light finning through stalls, over herbs, nuts, wines and cheeses...the smells made me hungry. Together we ate Cappian cheese, tangy ... ...ere, the other way...those three boats...see the red shields at the bow...Turkish pirates...they’re attacking Mytilene. I’ll row for the beach. Hang ... ...ing, P VOICES FROM THE PAST 76 threw open the door and beat off a Turkish spear. Catching two men by surprise, he wounded one in the neck an... ...shield high on his arm. Long after dusk, men scouted the streets, all the Turkish boats at sea: the town buzzed with shouts and whistles: a drum thr...

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...everal, of the castle knappen, and a few peasant women who offered yarn or cheeses as equivalents for money, but were told with some insolence to go a... ...the stony glare of his light gray eyes, “know that thy villain father is a Turkish slave, unless he be—as I hope—where his mongrel son may find him.” ... ... devil!” burst out Theurdank. “Well! that might have been a pretty mess! A Turkish slave, saidst thou! What year chanced all this matter—thy grandfath... ...gain?” whispered Christina. “Not he, of course, save that it was a year of Turkish in- roads. He will speak more perchance to-morrow. Mother, not a wo... ...owed sight again to find himself among a herd of his fellow Germans in the Turkish camp. They were the prisoners of the terrible T urkish raid of 1475...

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... and sweltering. The houses, high and vast, dirty to excess, rotten as old cheeses, and as thickly peopled. All up the hills that hem the city in, the... ...our; with red caps, blue caps, green caps, great beards, and no beards; in Turkish turbans, glazed En glish hats, and Neapolitan head dresses. There ...

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...of Don John of Austria; but on the morning of the 7th of October, when the Turkish fleet was sighted, he was lying below ill with fever. At the news t... ...e freedom would be within their grasp, they found themselves surrounded by Turkish troops, horse and foot. The Dorador had revealed the whole scheme ... ...at had brought him there, he raised himself, stopping half-way bent like a Turkish bow without power to bring himself upright, but with all his pains ... ...ny free; for there were fifteen thousand Christians, all at the oar in the Turkish fleet, that regained their longed-for liberty that day. They carrie... ...terns. There I saw and observed how the opportunity of capturing the whole Turkish fleet in harbour was lost; for all the marines and janizzaries that... ...e heaps of corn one sees on the threshing-floors. There was a wall made of cheeses arranged like open brick-work, and two cauldrons full of oil, bigge...

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...ands and the African Shore, was surprised in the Grey of the Morning, by a Turkish Rover of Sallee, who gave Chase to us with all the Sail she could m... ... I fill’d with Provision, viz. Bread, Rice, 36 ROBINSON CRUSOE three Dutch Cheeses, five Pieces of dry’d Goat’s Flesh, which we liv’d much upon, and a ...

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...nts of ale at 9s. 6d. a dozen; a lot of codfish and herrings; 200 boxes of cheeses and a large assortment of butter; some tongues; straw hats and line... ...is, I am well aware, less graceful, and I believe less comfortable, than a Turkish fez and turban; nevertheless I prefer my English hat. New York I re...

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...e heaps of corn one sees on the threshing-floors. There was a wall made of cheeses arranged 123 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. like open brick-work, a... ... two lines of fair damsels all clad in mourning, and with white turbans of Turkish fashion on their heads. Behind, in the rear of these, there came a ... ...essel, about six-and- thirty in number, all smart fellows and most of them Turkish mus- keteers. He asked which was the rais of the brigantine, and wa...

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...presented the boat to Rafael Mendoza. It was Rafael Mendoza that saved the Turkish monarchy after the battle of Nezeeb. By sending three millions of p... ... his belle cousine. It may have been the red fezzes in the carriage of the Turkish ambassador which frightened the prince’s grays, or Mrs. Champignon’... ...fle. Half a drum of best Turkey figs. Some bits of broken bread; two Dutch cheeses (whole); the crust of an old Stilton; and about an ounce of almonds... ... devoured every morsel of the garrison larder, with the excep- tion of the cheeses, the olives, and the wine, which were locked up in my own apartment... ...were without food, I knew my duty as an officer, and had put the two Dutch cheeses into the two guns, and had crammed the contents of a bottle of oliv... ...le of olives into each swivel. They advanced,—whish! went one of the Dutch cheeses,— bang! went the other. Alas! they did little execution. In their f... ...tern of Peterwaradin for two hours against seven hun- 245 Burlesques dred Turkish janissaries, who were assailing it. Those deeds which had made the ... ...e the Pope of Rome. 273 Burlesques “And then there’s Sultan Saladin, That Turkish Soldan full of sin; He has a hundred wives at least, By which his p... ...me de Flicflac appeared as Queen Elizabeth; and Lady Blanche Bluenose as a Turkish princess. An alderman of Lon- don and his lady; two magistrates of ...

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...’t, ’ said Zhílin, ‘we’ll sleep in the forest. See here, I have saved some cheeses. What’s the good of sitting and moping here? If they send your rans... ...her plait dangled above the pit. Her eyes gleamed like stars. She drew two cheeses out of her sleeve and threw them to him. Zhílin took them and said,... ...a seized hold of him and felt about with her hands for a place to put some cheeses she had brought. He took them from her. ‘Thank you, my little one. ... ...one, chose a dark spot, and sat down to rest. He rested and ate one of the cheeses. Then he found a stone and set to work again to knock off the shack... ...ians. Efím entered the Holy Gates with the crowd. A monk led them past the Turkish sentinels, to the place where the Saviour was taken down from the c...