The Cradle of the Blue Nile: A Visit to the Court of King John of Ethiopia, Band 2J. Murray, 1877 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abyssinian Africa Alegas Ambachara appeared Arab Atbara baggage Basha beautiful Berber Blue Nile boat bush Cairo camels camp chief colour crocodiles dahabeah dark Dedjatch desert dollars dromedary Egypt Egyptian Ethiopia eyes feet finjal fire followed French consul Galabat Galla Gondar Graign grass halt hand head heard hippopotamus hippos horse Ismael Jiddah journey Katarif Khartum Khedive King Yohannes king's kuarie Lake Tzana leave letters look Maderakal Mahometan Majesty Massowah merchant miles mimosa morning mountains mules Mustafa naphteñas native never night Nubian Pacha passed plain present reached Red Sea returned riding rifle river rock rode round royal sand seemed sent Sheik shore shot shoum side silver skin slave trade soldiers soon Soudan spear stones stood Suakin sword tent Theodorus told traveller trees Upper Nubia village Wakhni White Nile wild Wito
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 271 - When dried to summer dust ; till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth : If you had been in Turkey or in Spain, Or with a...
Seite 158 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore ; There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar : I love not man the less, but nature more...
Seite 294 - I'll not hurt thee, says my uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room, with the fly in his hand,— I'll not hurt a hair of thy head: — Go, says he, lifting up the sash, and opening his hand as he spoke, to let it escape; go, poor devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? — This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
Seite 170 - And never can be sunder'd without tears. And he that shuts Love out, in turn shall be Shut out from Love, and on her threshold lie Howling in outer darkness. Not for this Was common clay ta'en from the common earth, Moulded by God, and temper'd with the tears Of angels to the perfect shape of man.
Seite 314 - Whosoever believeth in God and the day of resurrection must respect his guest, and the time of being kind to him is one day and one night, and the period of entertaining him is three days, and after that, if he doth it longer, he benefiteth him more.
Seite 301 - ... tis thou who enlargest the soul, — and openest all its powers to receive instruction and to relish virtue. — He that has thee, has little more to wish for ; — and he that is so wretched as to want thee, — wants everything with thee.
Seite 134 - You may break, you may ruin the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Seite 21 - Then having passed through all the doors, she stood before the king, who sat upon his royal throne, and was clothed with all his robes of majesty, all glittering with gold and precious stones ; and he was very dreadful.
Seite 192 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Seite 259 - ... expect that age will perform the promises of youth and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, attend to the history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia.