One of the streams, the Lonzua, drives a smooth body of water into the Lake fifty yards broad and ten fathoms deep, bearing on its surface duckweed and grassy islands.
The Chigumokiré coming from the north in front,eastward of Irongwé (the same mountains on which Kangené skulks out ofsight of Mazitu), flows into the Leué, and north of that we have theMando, a little stream, flowing into the Bua.
When hedid so, he was pretty sure to find the black eyes of the head chieftainfixed upon him.
They sat in silence for several minutes, a silence so great that Nathancould hear the woman’s wrist watch ticking distinctly.
“And what can I do for you, esteemed prince? Since I am told you sentfor me just now,” he said, after a few moments’ silence.
She did not consider herself to blame for anything that hadhappened in former years, and she thought that Gavrila Ardalionovitchshould be informed as to the relations which had existed betweenherself and Totski during the last five years
Don’t youever speak to one excepting when you’re absolutely obliged to—onstrictly business! Don’t you ever let me hear of you goin’ to any partywhere there’s girls—while as for loving or kissing ’em—my God, I’ll skinyou alive if I find you up to any such looseness and wickedness.
She turned to the door which presumably led into the front halland thence to the stairs and safety: and had just opened it when therecame the click of a turning key.
FLOWERS grow nearly terminal at the top ofthe branches in whorls, spreading; foot-stalksshort, with three floral leaves.
Goraa vastaan kapinoidessaanhän oli tänään poikennut tavallisesta säännöstänsä ja olisi tuntenuthelpotusta, jos Gora olisi häntä sättinyt.
They’re worryingbecause they may not be aping correctly some one who has thefundamentals and is letting culture take care of itself.
No insane woman ever spoke like that! Only asoul conscious of its own sin, but captivated by a mysterious power,could suffer like this!It was not sympathy which he felt with her; it was much more a livingover the sufferings of the woman.
CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I THE WHITE MOUNTAIN 1 II THE LEFT-HAND LAND 6 III THE CITY OF SATURN 26 IV THE SPIRIT OF OLYMPIA 44 V ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS 60 VI THE LAND OF UZ 72 VII THE EARTHLY PARADISE 88 VIII THE PORT OF THE WILDERNESS 95 IX THE RICHES OF DAMASCUS 110 X THE DESERT CAPITAL 128 XI SOME SALT PEOPLE 144 XII THE CEDARS OF THE LORD 163 XIII THE GIANT STONES OF BAALBEK 184 XIV HAMATH THE GREAT 201THE ILLUSTRATIONS Evening in the harbor of Beirut _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Along the coast north of Beirut 4 Looking up the western slopes of Lebanon 5 Lebanon soldiers 16 Village of Deir el-Kamr 17 Bay of Beirut and Mount Sunnin 26 Pine groves of Beirut 27 Bridge over the Dog River 36 Procession in Beirut 38 Students of the American College 48 Cape of Beirut viewed from Lebanon 49 Old Bridge over the Barada River 70 Cascade in the Yarmuk Valley 71 A caravan 인연터치 82 Damascus—a distant view 83 Damascus—one of the more modern avenues 100 예산 장­마­담­의­ ­돌­아­온­싱­글 A Syrian café 101 Damascus—court of a private residence 112 Damascus—Moslem cemetery 113 Damascus—The Street called Straight 120 Damascus—The Omayyade Mosque 121 Palmyra—General view of the ruins 134 Palmyra—the Triple Gate 135 Funeral procession of the patriarch 160 A summer camp in Lebanon 161 The Cedar Mountain 170 Source of the Kadisha River 171 The oldest Cedar of Lebanon 182 Baalbek—the six great columns 183 Baalbek—the stone in the quarry 198 Hama—the Orontes River 199 MAPS AND PLANS The railway from Beirut to Damascus 62 Cross-section of Syria 64 The Hauran 74 The temples of Baalbek 194SYRIATHE LAND OF LEBANON_Syria, The Land of Lebanon_CHAPTER ITHE WHITE MOUNTAINFar off on the eastern horizon the thin haze of an October dawn gentlyblended into denser masses of silvery white, which rose like dreammountains above the edge of the placid azure sea.
In fact, I have acertain question upon which I much need advice, and do not know whom togo to for it.
"Then said Sigurd, "This is well and intelligently interpreted, and it islikely it will be so.
Prepare,therefore, to give battle to the Vindlanders, when thou hearest mytrumpet.
Thenfor a moment there was silence, then the sound of splashed and dividedwaters, and presently after, a great shout of ecstatic joy, as he swamup-stream with the foamed water standing in a frill round his neck.
And that very day he went down andbought her diamonds, even finer than those he had given her upon theirwedding-day.
Binoin ei tehnyt enää mieli mennä Pareš Babun luo, ja omassaasumuksessa tuntui olo niin yksinäiseltä, että hän lähti jo seuraavanaaamuna varhain Anandamojin luo ja sanoi: »Äiti, jäisin mielelläni tännesinun luoksesi muutamaksi päiväksi.
The coolness and splash of it is I, and the water-herbs that wavein it are I also.
And then, allat once you are talking of this mad project—of these seventy-fivethousand roubles! It all seems so absurd and impossible
And if you are not needed by your 대전 여­성­의­류­카­페 brother man, there is no reason for you to burden the earth with your bodies.
"Look here, Maharani, the thing we call pity is, atbottom, only pity for ourselves.
Minä olen tuntenut Sutšaritan aina niistä ajoista, jolloin hänoli pikku tyttö, ja jos hän olisi joutunut virran vietäväksi, olisinasian tietänyt ennen kuin kukaan teistä enkä olisi minäkään jäänytvälinpitämättömäksi.
Seeing Gania, hesmiled venomously and muttered to himself, “Look at that!”He gazed at Totski and the general with no apparent confusion, and withvery little curiosity
, 34 Solomon, 133, 190 Tamerlane, 91, 137 Tancred, 205 Theodosius the Great, 175 Tiglath-pileser III.
Most of the natives live on two islands, where they cultivate the soil, rear goats, and catch fish.
Johnathan’s ultimateattitude was:He had preserved stainless the morals and directed successfully, thoughthanklessly, the spiritual education of his son for twenty-one wastedyears.
“„So, so,“ sagte der Bursche, dem vor Aufregung die Stimme stockte,„überleg dir es halt, ob du dein Kind bei fremden Leuten als Knechtwissen willst.
In thisnineteenth century she is free to go where she pleases--provided it bein a moral atmosphere--without comment.
He who would create it must do so with the help of hissurroundings, or he will fail.
The night of the bogus autoaccident became but an incident in that sordid recount.
Thebonde was so ill hearing this that he could not row, and the oars hungloose in his hands.
Livingstone expired, besidesmaking models of the "kitanda" on which he was carried, and of thevillage in which his body lay for fourteen days.
Yet none of these,nor the stars, nor the fresh new moon, held the attraction of those dotsof brave, optimistic twinkle where isolated homes were scattered uponthe face of a night-shrouded valley floor.
I shouldn’t wonder if that’s where Georgehas gone, to see his uncle and find out about it.
The music dashed off into one of its loudest pieces, and,as if by enchantment, the newly made bride disappeared behind theladies.
Ashman had ceased paddling, though, under the faint momentum remaining,the canoe continued slowly moving over the lake and gradually drawingnear the rock.
If you could fancysome mighty serpent transformed into a man, preserving in the humanlineaments the old serpent type, you would have a better idea of thatcountenance than long descriptions can convey: the width and flatness offrontal--the tapering elegance of contour disguising the strength of thedeadly jaw--the long, large, terrible eye, glittering and green as theemerald--and withal a certain ruthless calm, as if from theconsciousness of an immense power.
Keller started, gave an astonished look at the speaker, and thumped thetable with his fist.
For the matter of that, I have become unpopular with all mycountrymen because I have not joined them in their carousals.
„Grüß dich Gott, du mein herztausendschöner Schatz! Unddann bist wohl auch du dieselbe dort bei’n Briefkastel g’west?“„Ja, ich hab’ g’schrieb’n.
Hänoli aina pitänyt sellaisia asioita joutavina runollisina vuodatuksina— mutta tänään se koski häneen syvästi, hän ei voinut enää jättääsitä huomioonottamatta.