Around the World: A Friendly Guide for the World TravelerHoughton Mifflin, 1925 - 320 páginas |
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... hundred and twenty - five miles to Roosevelt Dam , Tonto Cliff Dwellings , Salt River Gorge , and the Superstition Mountains . Nine hours later , after an experience of a lifetime amid the most brilliantly painted landscape imaginable ...
... hundred and twenty - five miles to Roosevelt Dam , Tonto Cliff Dwellings , Salt River Gorge , and the Superstition Mountains . Nine hours later , after an experience of a lifetime amid the most brilliantly painted landscape imaginable ...
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... hundred thousand square miles , back into its original position and the sea flowed out into what is now the Pacific Ocean . The action of the elements in the æons that followed swept the greater part of the silt deposit away and left ...
... hundred thousand square miles , back into its original position and the sea flowed out into what is now the Pacific Ocean . The action of the elements in the æons that followed swept the greater part of the silt deposit away and left ...
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... hundred and fifty miles long , from eight to thirteen miles wide , and over a mile deep . Light and shadow are its divinities and colors are created there that have no existence in any other por- tion of the known world . To pass that ...
... hundred and fifty miles long , from eight to thirteen miles wide , and over a mile deep . Light and shadow are its divinities and colors are created there that have no existence in any other por- tion of the known world . To pass that ...
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... hundred feet above sea - level , down into the Tuolumne Grove of Big Trees and into Yosemite Valley , thence to San Francisco , and all planned in advance , with tickets issued accordingly . - Now , let us assume you never have seen the ...
... hundred feet above sea - level , down into the Tuolumne Grove of Big Trees and into Yosemite Valley , thence to San Francisco , and all planned in advance , with tickets issued accordingly . - Now , let us assume you never have seen the ...
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... hundred to two thousand feet high . Despite its great elevation , it has never been known to freeze . And , while it has no visible outlet , it's waters are always fresh . Yes it's very much worth while seeing . Even Yellowstone Park ...
... hundred to two thousand feet high . Despite its great elevation , it has never been known to freeze . And , while it has no visible outlet , it's waters are always fresh . Yes it's very much worth while seeing . Even Yellowstone Park ...
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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...