Sketches in EgyptDoubleday & McClure Company, 1899 - 114 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Sketches in Egypt (Classic Reprint) <span dir=ltr>Charles Dana Gibson</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2016 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Assiût Assuan beggars Bisharin biyeh boat Cairo camels Canal CHAPTER SECOND YOME cheerful choice of subject Christmas Cook's steamer crew dahabiyeh December December 23 deck dervishes dinner donkey-boys donkeys dragoman Edfu Egyptian policemen EIRA decide Elephantine English Esneh fatal bend feeling fish-market friends Ghesiri Ghezireh Gardens Gizeh side granite Grenfell Hill guide-books imitation of Monte Karnak and Thebes Khedival Sporting Club king Komombos looked Lower Egypt Luxor Maou Memnon morning Mount Etna mouskie mummy natives night Nile Nile's valley Nitocris o'clock obelisk office in Bowl once pany's office Pharaohs Philæ Port Saïd post-boat pyramids Rameses river river's bank sakichs Sakkara Salem SECOND YOME Egypt-bound Seti Sheik el Sadat Shepheard's SKETCHES IN EGYPT Slipper Bazaar soon after Mount spent with Baedeker stopped sugar-cane temple things tombs tourists SOM EIRA travelers are pretty Turk Upper Egypt valley at Thebes wait YOME Egypt-bound tourists
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 48 - He superintended our meals, and always suggested the next day's program during dinner; so with our coffee we would read aloud Charles Dudley Warner's and Miss Edwards's opinions of our next stoppingplace.
עמוד 92 - ... that his carefully prepared plans should have been interfered with. How impressive it would be to find at the end of the long subterranean passage the king whose one wish had been to lie there. He must have visited it often before his death. He might have superintended its building and criticised the drawings that decorate its walls. But the sarcophagus is now empty, and its lid is broken, and the king's new friends have put him in a cheap wooden house ; and written on a piece of cardboard and...