 | Washington Irving - England - 1901 - 142 pages
...swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmin and amber, which had been presented to a stadt-holder of Holland, at the conclusion of a treaty with one of the petty Barbary powers." In Turkey the jasmin wood is made into pipestems which are highly prized. The flowers of this jasmin are... | |
 | Thomas Lansing Masson, Thomas L. Masson - American wit and humor - 1903 - 216 pages
...swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmine and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholde'r of Holland at the conclusion, of a treaty with one...in a black frame against the opposite wall of the council chamber. Nay, it has even been said that when any deliberation of extraordinary length and... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - Readers - 1903 - 504 pages
...eagle's claws. Instead of a scepter he swayed a long Turkish pipe wrought 25 with jasmine and amber. In this stately chair would he sit, and this magnificent...right knee with a constant motion, and fixing his eyes for hours together upon a little print of Amsterdam, which hung in a black frame against the opposite... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - Readers - 1903 - 504 pages
...eagle's claws. Instead of a scepter he swayed a long Turkish pipe wrought •£, with jasmine and amber. In this stately chair would he sit, and this magnificent...right knee with a constant motion, and fixing his eyes for hours together upon a little print of Amsterdam, which hung in a black frame against the opposite... | |
 | Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - American literature - 1904 - 478 pages
...swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmin and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland, at the conclusion of a treaty with one...in a black frame against the opposite wall of the council chamber. Nay, it has even been said that when any deliberation of extraordinary length and... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - American essays - 1904 - 462 pages
...swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmine and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland at the conclusion of a treaty with one...shaking his right knee with a constant motion, and f1xing his eye for hours together upon a little print of Amsterdam, which hung in a black frame against... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - Readers - 1904 - 296 pages
...eagle's claws. Instead of a scepter he swayed a long Turkish pipe wrought 2r, with jasmine and amber. In this stately chair would he sit, and this magnificent...right knee with a constant motion, and fixing his eyes for hours together upon a little print of Amsterdam, which hung in a black frame against the opposite... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - Readers - 1904 - 296 pages
...eagle's claws. Instead of a scepter he swayed a long Turkish pipe wrought 25 with jasmine and amber. In this stately chair would he sit, and this magnificent...right knee with a constant motion, and fixing his eyes for hours together upon a little print of Amsterdam, which hung in a black frame against the opposite... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - Readers - 1904 - 296 pages
...eagle's claws. Instead of a scepter he swayed a long Turkish pipe wrought 25 with jasmine and amber. In this stately chair would he sit, and this magnificent pipe would he smoke, shaking 213 his right knee with a constant motion, and fixing his eyes for hours together upon a little print... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - Wit and humor - 1905 - 316 pages
...swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmine and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland at the conclusion of a treaty with one...in a black frame against the opposite wall of the council chamber. Nay, it has even been said that when any deliberation of extraordinary length and... | |
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Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagle's claws. Instead of a sceptre he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmin and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland, at the conclusion... 
