American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 48Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1856 - American periodicals |
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... earth , and joined by means of cross- pieces , between which are interwoven the pliant twigs of the willow . The frame - work is done by the awkward native carpenters , after the posts are driven into the earth , and not while they are ...
... earth , and joined by means of cross- pieces , between which are interwoven the pliant twigs of the willow . The frame - work is done by the awkward native carpenters , after the posts are driven into the earth , and not while they are ...
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... earth in the direction of Mecca , performed the impressive devotions which characterize the followers of Mohammed . There was the absorption peculiar to the Ottoman worship of to - day , and not the fervor of the Janissaries kneeling in ...
... earth in the direction of Mecca , performed the impressive devotions which characterize the followers of Mohammed . There was the absorption peculiar to the Ottoman worship of to - day , and not the fervor of the Janissaries kneeling in ...
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... earth - fortification , was defended by no more than six guns . Never was there offered a better position for bom- barding a city than from the plateau which stretches away from the Tabia , and affords a commanding point of rare ...
... earth - fortification , was defended by no more than six guns . Never was there offered a better position for bom- barding a city than from the plateau which stretches away from the Tabia , and affords a commanding point of rare ...
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... earth on the following day . - ' Prayer is better than sleep . ' The Turks rise early , in order to in- voke the Prophet . The Cawas of Ibrahim the khan - keeper , led to my quarters by some mysterious agency , woke me at an early hour ...
... earth on the following day . - ' Prayer is better than sleep . ' The Turks rise early , in order to in- voke the Prophet . The Cawas of Ibrahim the khan - keeper , led to my quarters by some mysterious agency , woke me at an early hour ...
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... earth . The earlier migrations crept slowly along their banks , and much of the commerce of the world still flows in their channels . The familiar and high - sounding names of Eastern rivers are apt , however , to give a wrong ...
... earth . The earlier migrations crept slowly along their banks , and much of the commerce of the world still flows in their channels . The familiar and high - sounding names of Eastern rivers are apt , however , to give a wrong ...
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