 Moslem artisans home-returning from their work. To the mere Moslem observer, they were carpenters, masons, labourers, and tradesmen of all kinds. We passed many a meditating Cairene, to whom there was nothing but the monotony of an old story in that evening...  Nile Notes of a Howadji - Page 6by George William Curtis - 1851 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 584 pages
...pass many a meditating Cairene, with whom it is nothing but the monotony of an old story. But we see all the pageantry of oriental romance quietly donkeying...equestrians, the peaked toe of the red slipper resting on the shovelstirrup. It is a fair festal evening. The whole world is masquerading, and so well that... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, John Gardner Wilkinson - Egypt - 1873 - 546 pages
...rene, to whom there was nothing but tlie monotony of an old story in that evening and in that rood. But we saw all the pageantry of Oriental romance quietly donkeying into Cairo. " I saw Fadladeen with a gorgeous turban, and a long lash. His chibouque, bound with coloured silk... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...from their werk. To the mere Moslem observer, they were carpenters, masons, laborers, and tradesmen of all kinds. We passed many a meditating Cairene, to...but the monotony of an old story in that evening and in that road. But we saw all the pageantry of Oriental romance quietly donkeying into Cairo. " I saw... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Egypt - 1875 - 546 pages
...meditating Cairone, to whom there was nothing but 1 1. c monotony of an old story in that evening and in that road. But we saw all the pageantry of Oriental romance quietly donkeying into Cairo. " I saw Fadladeen with a gorgeous turban, and a long lash. His chibouque, bound with coloured silk... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Egypt - 1875 - 620 pages
...meditating Caircne, to whom there was nothing but tl.e monotony of an old story in that evening and in that road. But we saw all the pageantry of Oriental romance quietly donkcying into Cairo. " I saw Fadladeen with a gorgeous turban, and a long lash. His chiIxuique, bound... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - Great Britain - 1878 - 378 pages
...their work. To the mere Moslem observer, they were carpenters, masons, labourers, and tradesmen of all kinds. We passed many a meditating Cairene, to...but the monotony of an old story in that evening and in that road. Hut we saw all the pageantry of Oriental romance quietly donkeying into Cairo. I saw... | |
 | sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1878 - 626 pages
...meditating Cairene, to whom there was nothing but the monotony of an old story in that evening and in that road. But we saw all the pageantry of Oriental romance quietly donkeying into Cairo. I saw Fadladeen with a gorgeous turban and a long sash. His chibouque, bound with coloured silk and... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1880 - 370 pages
...were carpenters, masons, labourers, and tradesmen of all kinds. We passed many a meditating Cairenc, to whom there was nothing but the monotony of an old story in that evening and in that road. But we saw all the pageantry of Oriental romance quietly donkeying into Cairo. " I saw... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 794 pages
...still advancing, step by step, towards the time when it will become clearer. 113 THE CAIRO CRIES. BIT we saw all the pageantry of oriental romance quietly...swaying and waving like huge phantoms of the twilight, hoisted with strange, gay trappings, curbed by tawny turbaned equestrians, the peaked toe of the red... | |
 | George William Curtis - Egypt - 1856 - 384 pages
...from their work. To the mere Muslim observer, they were carpenters, masons laborers, and tradesmen of all kinds. We passed many a meditating Cairene, to...saw all the pageantry of oriental romance quietly donkey ing into Cairo. Camels, too, swaying and waving like huge phantoms of the twilight, horses with... | |
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