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Page ix
All we know of their dwellings we learn from their tombs , when they had left off
building mountains of stone , and taken to hewing mausoleums — some of the
dimensions of cathedrals — out of the living rock . It would be worth while going
to ...
All we know of their dwellings we learn from their tombs , when they had left off
building mountains of stone , and taken to hewing mausoleums — some of the
dimensions of cathedrals — out of the living rock . It would be worth while going
to ...
Page xix
EGYPTIAN WOMAN WITH HER SHAWL OVER THE BURDEN ON HER HEAD
27 TO SHIELD HER FROM THE FIERCE SUN On the road from Karnak to Luxor .
In the background are camels carrying stones for building . 36 AT LUXOR ...
EGYPTIAN WOMAN WITH HER SHAWL OVER THE BURDEN ON HER HEAD
27 TO SHIELD HER FROM THE FIERCE SUN On the road from Karnak to Luxor .
In the background are camels carrying stones for building . 36 AT LUXOR ...
Page 7
The hardest stone of Gothic church - builders would have stood no longer than
this marvellous stucco . The mosque is of vast extent , one of the largest in the
world , and every roof and every pier is standing in its place , though it was ...
The hardest stone of Gothic church - builders would have stood no longer than
this marvellous stucco . The mosque is of vast extent , one of the largest in the
world , and every roof and every pier is standing in its place , though it was ...
Page 10
... embroideries , precious stones , laces , and antiquities arrange their wares in
foreign ways for the foreigners to buy . ... a captive from Acre ; the exquisite
minarets present a diapering of hoary stone , like the handiwork of the lacemaker
or the ...
... embroideries , precious stones , laces , and antiquities arrange their wares in
foreign ways for the foreigners to buy . ... a captive from Acre ; the exquisite
minarets present a diapering of hoary stone , like the handiwork of the lacemaker
or the ...
Page 13
Under an arch by the Beit - el - Kadi at Cairo , I came upon a seller of magenta -
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
...
Under an arch by the Beit - el - Kadi at Cairo , I came upon a seller of magenta -
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
...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Queer Things about Egypt |
| Author | Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Hurst & Blackett, Limited, 1911 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 16 Mar 2012 |
| Length | 428 pages |
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