To Bagdad and BackCentury Company, 1928 - 298 páginas |
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Página 6
... sheik and yashmak of the harem fluttered in the breeze , and the shield and the lance of the bedouin glinted in the setting sun over the narrow sidewalks in front of the shops of the haggling Arab traders . Stirred with the emotions ...
... sheik and yashmak of the harem fluttered in the breeze , and the shield and the lance of the bedouin glinted in the setting sun over the narrow sidewalks in front of the shops of the haggling Arab traders . Stirred with the emotions ...
Página 6
... sheik and yashmak of the harem fluttered in the breeze, and the shield and the lance of the bedouin glinted in the setting sun over the narrow sidewalks in front of the shops of the haggling Arab traders. Stirred with the emotions ...
... sheik and yashmak of the harem fluttered in the breeze, and the shield and the lance of the bedouin glinted in the setting sun over the narrow sidewalks in front of the shops of the haggling Arab traders. Stirred with the emotions ...
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... sheik dropped in for a bit of amusement , expressing his approval by throwing coins at the dancers - the rotund ladies being the favorites . Inside were a score of dancers , who were swaying to and fro to the tune of an Arabic jazz band ...
... sheik dropped in for a bit of amusement , expressing his approval by throwing coins at the dancers - the rotund ladies being the favorites . Inside were a score of dancers , who were swaying to and fro to the tune of an Arabic jazz band ...
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... sheik friends called " physiologic incompatability . " Here was a restful sight after the squalid gaudiness of the bazaar . The thou- sands of brown fleeces , among which now and then appeared an animal of pure white , and occasionally ...
... sheik friends called " physiologic incompatability . " Here was a restful sight after the squalid gaudiness of the bazaar . The thou- sands of brown fleeces , among which now and then appeared an animal of pure white , and occasionally ...
Página 18
... sheik , these occasions are far apart . For the most part they are middle - aged , or elderly men . They are very often stout and seem to possess a round and full Falstaffian form . All in all , I hardly think they would cause any ...
... sheik , these occasions are far apart . For the most part they are middle - aged , or elderly men . They are very often stout and seem to possess a round and full Falstaffian form . All in all , I hardly think they would cause any ...
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Página 148 - Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.
Página 16 - Awake! for morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight: And lo! the hunter of the east has caught The sultan's turret in a noose of light.
Página 98 - I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Página 296 - Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again: How oft hereafter rising shall she look Through this same Garden after me - in vain!
Página 111 - 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!
Página 296 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Página 84 - And those who husbanded the Golden grain, And those who flung it to the winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd As, buried once, Men want dug up again.
Página 136 - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went...
Página 250 - Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd, Man's Forgiveness give — and take ! KUZA-NAMA LIX Listen again.
Página 84 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep ; And Bahrain, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, and he lies fast asleep.