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" The contrast between Constantinople and a European city is still more strongly marked at night. By ten o'clock every human voice is hushed... "
Journal of a Tour in the Levant - Página 83
por William Turner - 1820 - 480 páginas
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The new sailing directions for the Mediterranean sea, the Adriatic sea ...

John Purdy - 1826 - 402 páginas
...hide the whole of their face, except the eyes and nose, that a Turk may pass his wife without knowing her. The contrast between Constantinople and an European...not a creature is seen in the streets, except a few pairóles and the innumerable dogs, which, being regarded as unclean animals by the Turks, have no...
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A Hand-book for Travellers in the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor ...

John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - 1845 - 510 páginas
...middle of the streets, and rise only when roused with blows. The contrast between Constantinople and a European city is still more strongly marked at night....not a creature is seen in the streets, except a few patrols and the innumerable dogs who, at intervals, send forth such repeated howlings, that it requires...
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A Tennessean Abroad: Or, Letters from Europe, Africa, and Asia

Randal William McGavock - 1854 - 418 páginas
...fire, and the barking of dogs, Constantinople is the most quiet city at night that I ever visited. By ten o'clock every human voice is hushed ; and not a creature is - seen in the street, except a few watchmen and an occasional wanderer with his paper lantern. No stranger ever leaves...
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A Tennessean Abroad: Or, Letters from Europe, Africa, and Asia

Randal William McGavock - 1854 - 412 páginas
...fire, and the barking of dogs, Constantinople is the most quiet city at night that I ever visited. By ten o'clock every human voice is hushed ; and not a creature is seen in* the street, except a few watchmen and an occasional wanderer with his paper lantern. No .stranger ever...
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A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical: Of the ..., Volumen2

John Ramsay McCulloch - 1866 - 634 páginas
...which women occasionally take the air in the suburbs, and which go only at a foot-pace. The contrast is still more strongly marked at night. By ten o'clock every human voice is hushed.' Constantinople is not a healthy place of residence for strangers ; it is subject to sudden changes...
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The American Travellers' Guides: Hand-books for Travellers ..., Volumen13,Parte2

William Pembroke Fetridge - 1874 - 688 páginas
...The contrast between Constantinople and a European city is still more strongly marked at night; by 10 o?clock every human voice is hushed, and not a creature is seen in the streets except a few patrols, and the innumerable number of dogs, who at intervals send forth such repeated bowlings that...
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Lantern Journeys: A Series of Descriptions of Journeys at Home and Abroad ...

Edward Livingston Wilson - 1878 - 346 páginas
...middle of the streets, and rise only when roused with blows. The contrast between Constantinople and a European city is still more strongly marked at night...not a creature is seen in the streets except a few patrols, and the innumerable dogs, which at intervals send forth such repeated bowlings that it requires...
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Oriental Panorama: British Travellers in 19th Century Turkey

Reinhold Schiffer - 1999 - 460 páginas
...dark. William Turner's remark in 1812 struck a typical note: The contrast between Constantinople and a European city, is still more strongly marked at night....not a creature is seen in the streets, except a few patrols.'" After seven or eight at night, Charles Vane wrote in 1841, all the streets were empty or...
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