Queer Things about EgyptHurst & blackett, Limited, 1911 - 428 pages This book is filled with varied information about Egypt. Everything is touched upon—the people, their customs, and manner of writing English, descriptions of scenery, history and social conditions—in the manner of a well informed traveler willing to tell all he knows. 1t is an entertaining book, and one which a visitor to Egypt could hardly afford to be without, especially the seekers of recreation in perusing passages of sprightly talk about things new and old, maintained by a man who is likely to have cheered many a table and fireside by his traveler's tales. |
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Page 7
... colour and the pulpit carvings have gone , though a thousand years are beginning to tell their tale on the rich plaster tracery of the windows of the clerestory at the back of the sanctuary . The hardest stone of Gothic church ...
... colour and the pulpit carvings have gone , though a thousand years are beginning to tell their tale on the rich plaster tracery of the windows of the clerestory at the back of the sanctuary . The hardest stone of Gothic church ...
Page 8
... coloured glass set like gems in a delicate filigree of plaster . The sunken floor under the exquisitely graceful dome was inlaid , like the walls , in rare marbles with the choicest taste , and surrounded by four daïses , cut off by the ...
... coloured glass set like gems in a delicate filigree of plaster . The sunken floor under the exquisitely graceful dome was inlaid , like the walls , in rare marbles with the choicest taste , and surrounded by four daïses , cut off by the ...
Page 13
... coloured celluloid bracelets sleeping , with her head thrown back over the stone designed to prevent carriages from going too near the wall . Her mouth was like a black tunnel - you could not see a particle of red on tongue or palate ...
... coloured celluloid bracelets sleeping , with her head thrown back over the stone designed to prevent carriages from going too near the wall . Her mouth was like a black tunnel - you could not see a particle of red on tongue or palate ...
Page 24
... colours . Of course it is an exercise to me to live far away of the men and to need no help from others . Moreover it teaches me how to travel and how to ride camels in the desert and how to run by the dromedary . ' " M. YASSIME ...
... colours . Of course it is an exercise to me to live far away of the men and to need no help from others . Moreover it teaches me how to travel and how to ride camels in the desert and how to run by the dromedary . ' " M. YASSIME ...
Page 33
... coloured kid boots before he has enough to eat - in Cairo . They adore good looks , and especially fair , bright English colouring . We had two friends whom I shall call Berkeley and Perkins . Berkeley , a blue - eyed giant , was one of ...
... coloured kid boots before he has enough to eat - in Cairo . They adore good looks , and especially fair , bright English colouring . We had two friends whom I shall call Berkeley and Perkins . Berkeley , a blue - eyed giant , was one of ...
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