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... Look on my works , ye Mighty , and despair ! ' Nothing beside remains . Round
the decay Of that colossal wreck , boundless and bare The lone and level sands
stretch far away . SHELLEY PREFACE THE primary object of this book is to be.
... Look on my works , ye Mighty , and despair ! ' Nothing beside remains . Round
the decay Of that colossal wreck , boundless and bare The lone and level sands
stretch far away . SHELLEY PREFACE THE primary object of this book is to be.
Page 40
Even when you go around to the back of the Citadel and look out of its narrow
postern , the cliffs still seem sufficiently distant to warrant the use of the present
hill as the location for a fort . Time , however , has changed all that - and to - day
the ...
Even when you go around to the back of the Citadel and look out of its narrow
postern , the cliffs still seem sufficiently distant to warrant the use of the present
hill as the location for a fort . Time , however , has changed all that - and to - day
the ...
Page 49
... far away there is a wayside shop for the renovating and reblocking of
tarbushes . It looks like a brass cook - stove adorned with huge , brazen dinner -
bells , but if you watch you will see that each dinner - bell takes apart and that on
the inner ...
... far away there is a wayside shop for the renovating and reblocking of
tarbushes . It looks like a brass cook - stove adorned with huge , brazen dinner -
bells , but if you watch you will see that each dinner - bell takes apart and that on
the inner ...
Page 50
The police are everywhere , but they seem not especially efficient . Yonder is an
incipient street fight . It looks ugly . Two men are vociferating in fluent Arabic , and
each has laid a violent hand on the other ' s robe . Presently they will pull — if it ...
The police are everywhere , but they seem not especially efficient . Yonder is an
incipient street fight . It looks ugly . Two men are vociferating in fluent Arabic , and
each has laid a violent hand on the other ' s robe . Presently they will pull — if it ...
Page 72
A sacred bird in his native land is the shoe - bill , and he looks as if he knew it .
He is the most grotesque creature in the world , and at the same time stately
enough for a khedive . At rest , which is most of the time , he is irresistible . On the
walk ...
A sacred bird in his native land is the shoe - bill , and he looks as if he knew it .
He is the most grotesque creature in the world , and at the same time stately
enough for a khedive . At rest , which is most of the time , he is irresistible . On the
walk ...
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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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