Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Meccah and MedinahW. Mullan, 1879 - 518 oldal |
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Abdullah Allah amongst Apostle appeared Arab Arabia Arafat Bedawin Benu bless boy Mohammed building Burckhardt Cairo Caliph called camels Caravan civilised cloth coffee companions crowded Crown 8vo Desert dome door dromedary East eastern Effendi Egypt Egyptian El-Bakia El-Hejaz El-Islam El-Medinah entered eyes face feet Fiumara friends gate ground Haji Wali Hajj hand Haram Hejaz hills Holy hour Hujrah Ihram Indian Jebel Jeddah Kaabah Koran look Madani Maghrabis Masjid Meccah Medinah miles minarets Mohammed's Moslem Mosque mounted Muna Nejd night Ohod party Pasha passed Paternoster Square Peace Persian piastres pilgrimage pilgrims pillars pipe plain pray prayer present Prophet road Saad Shaykh Shaykh Hamid Sherif Shugduf side slave stone stood Suez Sultan tent Thee Thou tomb town traveller tribe Turkish Turks Umar Umrah usual Wady Wahhabis wall whilst Yambu Yemen Zem Zem
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399. oldal - I may truly say that, of all the worshippers who clung weeping to the curtain, or who pressed their beating hearts to the stone, none felt for the moment a deeper emotion than did the Haji from the far north.
388. oldal - ... which filled the other half of the channel. The left side was a precipice, grim and barren, but not so abrupt as its brother. Opposite us the way seemed barred by piles of hills, crest rising above crest into the far blue distance. Day still smiled upon the upper peaks, but the lower slopes and the Fiumara bed were already curtained with grey sombre shade. A damp seemed to fall upon our spirits as we approached this Valley Perilous. I remarked...
103. oldal - Around lie drifted sandheaps, upon which each puff of wind leaves its trace in solid waves, flayed rocks, the very skeletons of mountains, and hard unbroken plains, over which he who rides is spurred by the idea that the bursting of a waterskin, or the pricking of a camel's hoof, would be a certain death of torture, — a haggard land infested with wild beasts, and wilder men,— a region whose very fountains murmur the warning words "Drink and away]
212. oldal - English chapelof-ease to Westminster Abbey. It is a space of about eighty feet in length, tawdrily decorated so as to resemble a garden. The carpets are flowered, and the pediments of the columns are cased with bright green tiles, and adorned to the height of a man with gaudy and unnatural vegetation in arabesque.
395. oldal - An inhabitant of one quarter, passing singly through another, becomes a guest ; once beyond the walls, he is likely to be beaten to insensibility by his hospitable foes. At the Sulaymaniyah we turned off the main road into a by-way, and ascended by narrow lanes the rough heights of Jebel Hindi, upon which stands a small whitewashed and crenellated building called a fort.
12. oldal - ... excitement in chit-chat or small talk, in a novel or a newspaper. But soon the passive fit has passed away ; again a paroxysm of ennui coming on by slow degrees, Viator loses appetite, he walks about his room all night, he yawns at conversations, and a book acts upon him as a narcotic. The man wants to wander, and he must do so or he shall die.
40. oldal - Then you examine his tongue, you feel his pulse, you look learned, and — he is talking all the time — after hearing a detailed list of all his ailments, you gravely discover them, taking for the same as much praise to yourself as does the practising phrenologist for a similar simple exercise of the reasoning faculties. The disease, to be respectable, must invariably be connected with one of the four temperaments, or the four elements, or the
390. oldal - At the beginning of the skirmish I had primed my pistols, and sat with them ready for use. But soon seeing that there was nothing to be done, and wishing to make an impression, — nowhere does Bobadil now " go down " but in the East, — I called aloud for my supper.
388. oldal - Badawin had attacked a party of Meccans with stones, and the news caused men to look exceeding grave. At five PM we entered the wide bed of the Fiumara, down which we were to travel all night. Here the country falls rapidly towards the sea, as the increasing heat of the air, the direction of the watercourses, and signs of violence in the torrent-bed show. The Fiumara varies in breadth from...
145. oldal - The wind, reverberated by the glowing hills, is like the blast of a lime-kiln. All colour melts away with the canescence from above. The sky is a dead milk-white, and the mirror-like sea so reflects the tint that you can scarcely distinguish the line of the horizon. After noon the wind sleeps upon the reeking shore ; there is a deep stillness ; the only sound heard is the melancholy flapping of the sail. Men are not so much sleeping as half senseless : they feel as if a few more degrees of heat would...