A Nile novel, by George Fleming, Volumen1 |
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afraid answered Bell Arthur asked Bell Assuan awfully beautiful believe Bell's blue boat Cairo Captain Blake Cataract charming colour cried curious dahabeah dark dear deck dragoman dress Egypt Egyptian eyes face father feel feet fellow Flossy George Ferris Gerty Ghawazee girl give glance ground half hand heard Herodotus hieroglyphs hills idea Karnak Kate kind Kom Ombos laughing letter light Livingston look Luxor Meredith Miss Campbell Miss Hamlyn Miss Horton moonlight never nice Nile Nubia once one's Osiris pale palms papa poor Princess propylon remarked remember river rose ruins sail sailors sand seemed shadow shining sigh silence sitting slowly smile sorry speaking Sphynx spoke stood sudden suddenly suppose sure sweet talking tell temple Thebes thing thought to-night told Tom Campbell turned voice waiting walk wall wind wish woman wonder
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Página 96 - The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace — all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least.
Página 232 - And if we comfort not each other, what Shall comfort us, in the dark days to come ? Not the light laughter of the world, and not The faces and the firelight of fond home. And so I write to you ; and write, and write, For the mere sake of writing to you, dear.
Página 114 - I wonder why? the water surely cannot reach to here ? " " It does at the overflow," answered Livingston, " all this part of the temple is covered a foot or two deep when the Nile is at its height. That is the reason the pillars are so stained and eaten about the base, and so sunken in places. Some day the water will conquer, and the pride of Karnak will reel and fall prone upon the earth." ""Tis fled. The mighty columns are but sand, And lazy snakes trail o'er the level ruins,' " quoted Tom Campbell...
Página 112 - the whole history of the fall of man is," as says Sharpe in a work on Egypt, "of Egyptian origin. The temptation of woman by the serpent and of man by the woman, the sacred tree of knowledge, the cherubs guarding with flaming swords the door of the Garden, the warfare declared between the woman and the serpent, may all be seen upon the Egyptian sculptured monuments.
Página 272 - Lend me your wings for a day.' The dove replied : ' Thy affair is vain.' — I said : ' Some other day, That I may soar through the sky and see the face of the Beloved,— I shall obtain love enough for a year and will return, O dove ! in a day...
Página 250 - Hamlyn, so you need not look so incredulous, — that "the name that can be named is not the Eternal Name.
Página 61 - Brutus unter uns war', Den Casar fand' er nimmermehr ? ' I should not be surprised if that had something to do with it. Do you know," she went on, laughing nervously, "I don't believe I am half so courageous as I used to be ? I should really like to run away and hide myself somewhere to avoid meeting papa this morning. What on earth do you suppose he will say to me about last night ? " " Don't distress yourself about that, dear. Mr. Livingston has made it all right.
Página 59 - ... as for being able to write back that he need not be alarmed : it was nothing more serious than a mere flirtation you had already put an end to. You know yourself, Bell, what your father is when he gets into one of his rages. I declare, if you had not promised me never to mention poor George Ferris's name before him, I do not know whether I should have had the courage to come back with you at all ! Your father was so particular in his orders about the way you were to be chaperoned while he was...
Página 127 - I,m glad I came here alone with you., ' Yes ; I am glad we saw it together,, answered Bell. CHAPTER VI. DE PROFUNDIS. ' This world is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, — our life's star, — Huth had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.
Página 111 - ... with hieroglyphs and beautiful with never-ending lines of ancient gods and goddesses ; clambering over fallen blocks and prostrate capitals, until they emerged on a wide uneven expanse of glaring white sand, across which a hundred narrow foot-tracks led to that farther temple where stands the famous Hall of Columns. A long triple row of gigantic pillars opens out, like the solemn aisle of a -pine wood, on either side of 'the soft wet path, at the farther end of which, obelisk after obelisk rises...