Around the World: A Friendly Guide for the World TravelerHoughton Mifflin, 1925 - 320 páginas |
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... remains were based upon one of the immemorial , unwritten laws of the land : that which made it an offense punishable by death for any one to be caught looking down from an elevation of any kind upon a procession of royalty or the ...
... remains were based upon one of the immemorial , unwritten laws of the land : that which made it an offense punishable by death for any one to be caught looking down from an elevation of any kind upon a procession of royalty or the ...
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... remains in the middle of a forty - acre field However " Where the rain may rain upon it , Where the sun may shine upon it , Where the lamb hath lain upon it , And the bee may dine upon it . " it's not so bad when one gets back to his ...
... remains in the middle of a forty - acre field However " Where the rain may rain upon it , Where the sun may shine upon it , Where the lamb hath lain upon it , And the bee may dine upon it . " it's not so bad when one gets back to his ...
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... remains that he figures largely in the national belief in demoniac possession and they take mighty good care not to give him any reason for hard feelings of any kind . Pilgrims from all over the kingdom , old and young , rich and poor ...
... remains that he figures largely in the national belief in demoniac possession and they take mighty good care not to give him any reason for hard feelings of any kind . Pilgrims from all over the kingdom , old and young , rich and poor ...
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... remains of the most terrific battle - field ever known prior to the Great World War . No one would dream that there had ever been a town on that peninsula ; that when Russia established herself there , she brought along with her ...
... remains of the most terrific battle - field ever known prior to the Great World War . No one would dream that there had ever been a town on that peninsula ; that when Russia established herself there , she brought along with her ...
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... remains to show how bravely the old fabric defended attack from the sea as well as the land . Shanhaikwan is situated about halfway between the sea and the hills which begin to rise sharply from the level of the plain . The old Wall ...
... remains to show how bravely the old fabric defended attack from the sea as well as the land . Shanhaikwan is situated about halfway between the sea and the hills which begin to rise sharply from the level of the plain . The old Wall ...
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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...