Wayfarers in the Libyan Desert |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Allah animals appears Arabs backsheesh bas-reliefs bazaar beasts beautiful Bedouins blue bursum Cairo camels camp canals caravan caravan travels charm color cook dancing dark dead distance donkey boys dragoman dromedary dust East Egypt Egyptian eyes face Fadlallah Fayoum Feddamin feet fellaheen flowers GARDEN OF ALLAH gardens glowing goats gold golden graceful green ground heads hills hour houses Ibraheen Bey jars Jemha king Kismet kitchen tent lake land leaves Libyan Desert light look lunch marabout MARABOUT'S TOMB March mastabas Mecca Medun miles Muhommed native night Nile once palm trees pass Pharaohs Photo pink prickly pears pyramid quivers Reshid rises road robes rose sacred Saïd Sakhara sand sand-cart seems Senouris shadows shining Sidi Okba silence slave slender Snefroui soft spirit stretch sunset temple things Toulba village voice walk WATER BUFFALO Wayfarers wind women wonder
Popular passages
Page 55 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 111 - Nothing but ruin, utter ruin, to the North, to the South, to the East, to the West, will follow the prosecution of this contest.
Page 110 - God is great. God is great. ... I bear witness that there is no god but God. ... I bear witness that Mohammed is the Apostle of God. . . . Come to prayer ! Come to prayer ! . . . God is great. God is great. There is no god but God." He circled round the minaret. He cried to the Nile. He cried to the colossi sitting in their plain, and to the yellow precipices of the mountains of Libya. He cried to Egypt : "Come to prayer! Come to prayer! There is no god but God.
Page 188 - Emu, with cinnamon wood, khesyt wood, with two kinds of incense, eye-cosmetic, with apes, monkeys, dogs, and with skins of the southern panther, with natives and their children. Never was brought the like of this for any king who has been since the beginning.
Page 38 - Memphis occupy a space half a day's journey every way;" and that "they still offer to the eyes of the spectator a collection of marvels which strike the mind with wonder, and which the most eloquent man might in vain attempt to describe.
Page 141 - Where we set up steam-machines, the fellah scratches the ground with a match.
Page 41 - The pious Egyptian believed that he did a good work in obeying this injunction. Not only did he thus assist in sending the dead a provision to the other world , but he procured merit for...
Page 189 - I have made for him a Punt in his garden, just as he commanded me. ... It is large enough for him to walk abroad in...
Page 188 - very heavily with marvels of the country of Punt; all goodly fragrant woods of god's land, heaps of myrrh resin...
Page 41 - Ye priests, celebrant and initiated in the mysteries, O! Ye lay prophets, O! Ye officials, O! Ye dwellers in your cities, all who may be in this temple, and who passing by may recite this formula, if you desire that Osiris Khontamentit may never cease to offer you his festival cakes, or if you desire that the jackal Uapuatitu, your god whose love is sweet, should make your heart glad like the heart of a king, for ever and ever, if you love life and...