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" ... and lemonade — parties of playful children, apparently quite indifferent to the dense atmosphere which made me struggle for breath — and, to crown all, the sudden bursting forth of a chorus of voices into one of the wildest and shrillest of Turkish... "
The Beauties of the Bosphorus - Page 11
by Miss Pardoe (Julia) - 1840 - 164 pages
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The Monthly Review

Books - 1837 - 656 pages
...voices into one of the wildest and shrillest of Turkish melodies, that was caught up and flung back by the echoes of the vast hall, making a din worthy of...reality, or the mere creation of a distempered brain." Before leaving the seclusions and the pastimes of the Turkish females, let us introduce the account...
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The City of the Sultan, and Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1836, Volume 1

Miss Pardoe (Julia) - Turkey - 1837 - 578 pages
...voices into one of the wildest and shrillest of Turkish melodies, that was caught up and flung back by the echoes of the vast hall, making a din worthy of...reality, or the mere creation of a distempered brain. Beside every fountain knelt, or sat, several ladies, attended by their slaves, in all the various stages...
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The City of the Sultan: And Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Volume 1

Miss Pardoe (Julia) - Istanbul (Turkey) - 1838 - 350 pages
...voices into one of the wildest and shrillest of Turkish melodies, that was caught up and flung back by the echoes of the vast hall, making a din worthy of...semblance of a phantasmagoria, almost leaving me in douht whether that on which I looked were indeed reality, or the mere creation of a distempered brain....
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The Recreation

Voyages and travels - 1846 - 460 pages
...voices into one of the wildest and shrillest of Turkish melodies, that was caught up and flung back by the echoes of the vast hall, making a din worthy of...reality, or the mere creation of a distempered brain. THE FESTIVAL OF KOURBAN BAIRAM. THE troops presented a better appearance in line than I had expected,...
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The City of the Sultan, and Domestic Manners of the Turks: With a Steam ...

Miss Pardoe (Julia) - Turkey - 1854 - 380 pages
...voices into one of the wildest and shrillest of Turkish melodies, that was caught up and flung back by the echoes of the vast hall, making a din worthy of...phantasmagoria, almost leaving me in doubt whether that on whichl looked were indeed reality, or tae mere creation of a distempered brain. Beside every fountain...
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