Gleanings from the Desert of ArabiaC.K. Paul & Company, 1881 - 399 pagini |
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Pagina 53
... powerful arms are red , his general appearance is inflammatory : we heard afterwards he is the Armenian prize - fighter and is good against ten ordinary men . We enter through a crooked passage into a spacious court ; water or some ...
... powerful arms are red , his general appearance is inflammatory : we heard afterwards he is the Armenian prize - fighter and is good against ten ordinary men . We enter through a crooked passage into a spacious court ; water or some ...
Pagina 78
... powerful man , about thirty or thirty - five years of age , broad shouldered , and with a ruddy com- plexion ; he was of the build and stamp to be seen frequently among brewers ' men . Although a native of Antioch , he lived principally ...
... powerful man , about thirty or thirty - five years of age , broad shouldered , and with a ruddy com- plexion ; he was of the build and stamp to be seen frequently among brewers ' men . Although a native of Antioch , he lived principally ...
Pagina 95
... powerful of all the surrounding nations . Tradition speaks of their conquests ; their armies were composed of immense numbers of horsemen , clothed in shirts of mail . They inhabited Al - Ahkaf , a region in Hadra- maut , lying between ...
... powerful of all the surrounding nations . Tradition speaks of their conquests ; their armies were composed of immense numbers of horsemen , clothed in shirts of mail . They inhabited Al - Ahkaf , a region in Hadra- maut , lying between ...
Pagina 111
... powerful prince , successful in war , and built that celebrated reservoir in the neighbourhood of Saba , or Mareb , which city he also built . As it would appear the former name of the city was Mareb , it is possible Abd Shems may have ...
... powerful prince , successful in war , and built that celebrated reservoir in the neighbourhood of Saba , or Mareb , which city he also built . As it would appear the former name of the city was Mareb , it is possible Abd Shems may have ...
Pagina 162
... if he contested with the powerful , it was to overcome ; when he contended in the race , he excelled ; when he took captives , he released them . " " More bountiful than Kaab " is another proverb . 162 Gleanings from the Desert of Arabia .
... if he contested with the powerful , it was to overcome ; when he contended in the race , he excelled ; when he took captives , he released them . " " More bountiful than Kaab " is another proverb . 162 Gleanings from the Desert of Arabia .
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