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... fall down sheer four thousand feet ! For the remainder of the journey I need not say I contented myself by noticing things inside the carriage . Our scientific friends made observations with aneroids and thermometers , and found that ...
... fall down sheer four thousand feet ! For the remainder of the journey I need not say I contented myself by noticing things inside the carriage . Our scientific friends made observations with aneroids and thermometers , and found that ...
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... fall of the Nile , which does undoubtedly rise and fall , we believed in it , and returned to Fowler's to dinner . There everything was first - rate , and a Mr. Smart , well known at Alexandria and Cairo , kindly took me for my second ...
... fall of the Nile , which does undoubtedly rise and fall , we believed in it , and returned to Fowler's to dinner . There everything was first - rate , and a Mr. Smart , well known at Alexandria and Cairo , kindly took me for my second ...
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... into this in utter despair , I was rallied from my grief by a general fall and smash , and lay like Marcus amid the ruins of a cane- bottomed chair , and an old looking - glass which CHAP . VI . ] 51 AGRA . - THE TAJ .
... into this in utter despair , I was rallied from my grief by a general fall and smash , and lay like Marcus amid the ruins of a cane- bottomed chair , and an old looking - glass which CHAP . VI . ] 51 AGRA . - THE TAJ .
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... fall in with the procession of the " Mohurrun " or Mahometan . Festival in honour of Hussein and Hassan , the two sons of Ali , one of whom the historian of that religion describes as being killed at Kubela . It lasts ten days , and my ...
... fall in with the procession of the " Mohurrun " or Mahometan . Festival in honour of Hussein and Hassan , the two sons of Ali , one of whom the historian of that religion describes as being killed at Kubela . It lasts ten days , and my ...
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... fall in galloping across country , and much injured his arm , and so was unable to bear the shaking of the carriage . He met us on the steps of Gindry Park , however , where I arrived after a pleasant green drive of eight miles ...
... fall in galloping across country , and much injured his arm , and so was unable to bear the shaking of the carriage . He met us on the steps of Gindry Park , however , where I arrived after a pleasant green drive of eight miles ...
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