The Fayoum: Or, Artists in EgyptH. S. King & Company, 1873 - 298 páginas |
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... began to recognize each other here and there in the crowd , and to be satisfied that , as yet , we had lost no victims by the way . We had left the Choubra route , and the tumult of horsemen , dromedaries , vehicles , and foot ...
... began to recognize each other here and there in the crowd , and to be satisfied that , as yet , we had lost no victims by the way . We had left the Choubra route , and the tumult of horsemen , dromedaries , vehicles , and foot ...
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... began a series of circuits which would have disconcerted Ariadne . Always at full trot , we literally engulphed ourselves in an interminable series of little streets , each more strange than its predecessor , which we learned would lead ...
... began a series of circuits which would have disconcerted Ariadne . Always at full trot , we literally engulphed ourselves in an interminable series of little streets , each more strange than its predecessor , which we learned would lead ...
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... began to climb the heaps of sand and small stones swept to- gether by the wind in this place , heaps under which a third of the bases of the Pyramids are buried , and which now look like their pedestals . On turning a.
... began to climb the heaps of sand and small stones swept to- gether by the wind in this place , heaps under which a third of the bases of the Pyramids are buried , and which now look like their pedestals . On turning a.
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... began a process of gradual excavation , and each huge sarcophagus sank down of itself into the place assigned to it . Could anything be more simple ? Now , their extraction would be a mathematical impossibility , as Cambyses knew very ...
... began a process of gradual excavation , and each huge sarcophagus sank down of itself into the place assigned to it . Could anything be more simple ? Now , their extraction would be a mathematical impossibility , as Cambyses knew very ...
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... began to see close to us the palm - trees , which we had been so long looking at in the distance , that we had begun to think we were deceived by a mirage . In our natural anxiety to shorten our route we had prolonged it to an extent ...
... began to see close to us the palm - trees , which we had been so long looking at in the distance , that we had begun to think we were deceived by a mirage . In our natural anxiety to shorten our route we had prolonged it to an extent ...
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