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Page 35
The tawny cliffs behind afford an appropriate desert setting . The pyramids of
Ghizeh may be descried , dim and majestic , to the west , behind a foreground of
waving palms . It is almost a pity not to have this the first view of Cairo — the view
...
The tawny cliffs behind afford an appropriate desert setting . The pyramids of
Ghizeh may be descried , dim and majestic , to the west , behind a foreground of
waving palms . It is almost a pity not to have this the first view of Cairo — the view
...
Page 48
And behold , he is pleased , for the price was about quadruple what he expected
to get , and even though he must share it with the rapacious dragoman who
brought milady thither , he can still afford to smile . Sit down , then , before
Mahmoud ...
And behold , he is pleased , for the price was about quadruple what he expected
to get , and even though he must share it with the rapacious dragoman who
brought milady thither , he can still afford to smile . Sit down , then , before
Mahmoud ...
Page 74
But as they tower out of the yellow sands against the cloudless blue of an
Egyptian day , they afford a delight to the eyes . To this pleasant prospect the
weavers , or rather spinners , plying their craft over the desert plain add not a little
.
But as they tower out of the yellow sands against the cloudless blue of an
Egyptian day , they afford a delight to the eyes . To this pleasant prospect the
weavers , or rather spinners , plying their craft over the desert plain add not a little
.
Page 85
An open road leads southward for a space along an unattractive line of dust -
hills to a starveling town in the midst of which lie the Coptic churches — and the
latter afford the chief attraction of the place . The distance to them is not great , but
...
An open road leads southward for a space along an unattractive line of dust -
hills to a starveling town in the midst of which lie the Coptic churches — and the
latter afford the chief attraction of the place . The distance to them is not great , but
...
Page 93
... provision therefor . Naturally the most impressive works of this kind were those
of the monarchs and of the wealthy men who could afford the greater
magnificence and the greater THE OLD RELIGION 93.
... provision therefor . Naturally the most impressive works of this kind were those
of the monarchs and of the wealthy men who could afford the greater
magnificence and the greater THE OLD RELIGION 93.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Egyptian Days |
| Author | Philip Sanford Marden |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1912 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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