American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 48Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1856 - American periodicals |
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... miles ; the hills , or rather the line of elevated ridges which disappear in a plateau at the southward and westward , sweeping around Silistria in the form of an amphitheatre . What would otherwise be a continuous but elevated plateau ...
... miles ; the hills , or rather the line of elevated ridges which disappear in a plateau at the southward and westward , sweeping around Silistria in the form of an amphitheatre . What would otherwise be a continuous but elevated plateau ...
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... miles , and in my opinion were a capital temptation to those who get a living by practis- ing upon the Greek verb kleptein . The magnificent horses promised the day before , which were to rival the swift coursers of the Hafter , I found ...
... miles , and in my opinion were a capital temptation to those who get a living by practis- ing upon the Greek verb kleptein . The magnificent horses promised the day before , which were to rival the swift coursers of the Hafter , I found ...
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... miles of desert without a single tributary . The Jordan is worthy to be called a river only when swollen by the winter rains ; the Eurotas of Sparta is a mere mountain - brook . The Simois , and that stream on the plain of Troy which ...
... miles of desert without a single tributary . The Jordan is worthy to be called a river only when swollen by the winter rains ; the Eurotas of Sparta is a mere mountain - brook . The Simois , and that stream on the plain of Troy which ...
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... miles in the interior , had been occupied by the Russians , and presented a scene of the utmost desolation . Hordes of marauding Bashi - Bazouks had swept away the little left after the forages of the Cossacks . The Bulgarian cabins had ...
... miles in the interior , had been occupied by the Russians , and presented a scene of the utmost desolation . Hordes of marauding Bashi - Bazouks had swept away the little left after the forages of the Cossacks . The Bulgarian cabins had ...
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... miles distant , visible on a clear day . With how many months of weary and intensely anxious vigil is that bleak and isolated observatory asso- ciated ; and how vividly the terrible ordeal through which the scanty and famished army ...
... miles distant , visible on a clear day . With how many months of weary and intensely anxious vigil is that bleak and isolated observatory asso- ciated ; and how vividly the terrible ordeal through which the scanty and famished army ...
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