Around the World: A Friendly Guide for the World TravelerHoughton Mifflin, 1925 - 320 páginas |
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Página ix
... GATE PEKING CITY WALL 90 CHINA'S GREAT WALL 114 RUINS OF THE FAMOUS YELLOW TEMPLE ON THE PEKING PLAIN 122 THE MOST DISTINCTIVE PAGODA IN ALL CHINA 126 ONE OF THE GATES IN THE ANCIENT CITY WALL OF MANILA AND A NATIVE ' TAXI ' 150 ...
... GATE PEKING CITY WALL 90 CHINA'S GREAT WALL 114 RUINS OF THE FAMOUS YELLOW TEMPLE ON THE PEKING PLAIN 122 THE MOST DISTINCTIVE PAGODA IN ALL CHINA 126 ONE OF THE GATES IN THE ANCIENT CITY WALL OF MANILA AND A NATIVE ' TAXI ' 150 ...
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... grandeur of the going - down - of - the - sun through the Golden Gate . A short run in a taxi to the heights of the city suffices for this glorious adventure which has no parallel on either the Pacific BLUE PETER AT THE FORE 5.
... grandeur of the going - down - of - the - sun through the Golden Gate . A short run in a taxi to the heights of the city suffices for this glorious adventure which has no parallel on either the Pacific BLUE PETER AT THE FORE 5.
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... Gate of the Eternal and should be entered with reverence . Appropriate as is the notice , it would be less of an anti- climax if the native custodians of the shrine would remove the near - by sign prohibiting visitors from taking any ...
... Gate of the Eternal and should be entered with reverence . Appropriate as is the notice , it would be less of an anti- climax if the native custodians of the shrine would remove the near - by sign prohibiting visitors from taking any ...
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... gates opened , the air seemed filled with a most peculiar musical hum , unlike anything we had ever heard , accompanied by certain distinct staccato notes of varying intensity , more suggestive of a xylophone than anything else , and ...
... gates opened , the air seemed filled with a most peculiar musical hum , unlike anything we had ever heard , accompanied by certain distinct staccato notes of varying intensity , more suggestive of a xylophone than anything else , and ...
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... gates . Furthermore , it is considered good form to make a visit to the place . Of course , a man accompanied by a woman may possibly over- hear some remarks , in perfectly good English , from the habitués , that he would ordinarily ...
... gates . Furthermore , it is considered good form to make a visit to the place . Of course , a man accompanied by a woman may possibly over- hear some remarks , in perfectly good English , from the habitués , that he would ordinarily ...
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beautiful Benares boat British Buddha built Canton carved century China Chinese colored coolies cryptomerias dollars El Aguila Emperor exquisite face fact feet high Filipino five gates Gautama Buddha Government hand Heaven hills Hindu holy Hongkong hundred and fifty hundred feet imagine India interesting island Jain Japan Japanese Jeypore Korean Kublai Khan Kyoto lake Lake Lanao look magnificent Manila marble miles morning Moro mosque Mount Abu mountain native never night Nikko opium Orient pagoda Palace Peking Philippines priests Quézon railway Rajput ride river road royal sacred Sandakan shrine side Siva Siva's southern spot Sri Rangam stands steamer stone street Sulu summit temple there's thing thousand feet tion Tokyo tomb tower Towers of Silence town train traveler trees trip twenty-five Udaipur walls wonderful worship worth
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Página 190 - Fifteen men on the dead man's chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Página 71 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend ; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie. Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End! Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after some TO-MORROW stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries, " Fools ! your Reward is neither Here nor There.
Página 160 - From The Virgins my mid-sea course was ta'en "Over a thousand islands lost in an idle main, " Where the sea-egg flames on the coral and the long-backed breakers croon "Their endless ocean legends to the lazy, locked lagoon.
Página 120 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Página 180 - When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Página 13 - twill all be well." "Well," murmur'd one, "Let whoso make or buy, My Clay with long Oblivion is gone dry: But fill me with the old familiar Juice, Methinks I might recover by and by.
Página 1 - I'd sell my tired soul for the bucking beam-sea roll Of a black Bilbao tramp, With her load-line over her hatch, dear lass, And a drunken Dago crew, And her nose held down on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail From Cadiz south on the Long Trail - the trail that is always new.
Página 51 - When You and I behind the Veil are past, Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last, Which of our Coming and Departure heeds As the Sea's self should heed a pebble-cast.
Página 89 - It would be easy to raise in China an army of a million men — nay, of ten millions — tested by competitive examination as to their capacity to go to sleep across three wheelbarrows, with head downwards, like a spider, their mouths wide open and a fly inside I Beside this, we must take account of the fact that in China breathing seems to be optional.
Página 44 - And have ye not read this Scripture ; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner...