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" ... were killed in his arms. He lifted his hands to heaven, they were full of blood, and he uttered a funeral prayer for the living and the dead. "
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Page 192
by Edward Gibbon - 1789 - 399 pages
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Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records ..., Volume 10

William Fordyce Mavor - Chronology, Historical - 1804 - 370 pages
...As he was tasting a drop of water, he was pierced in the mouth with a dart, and his son and nephew, two beautiful youths, were killed in his arms. He...were full of blood, and he uttered a funeral prayer both for the living and the dead. In a transport of despair his sister issued from the tent, and adjured...
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Damascus and Palmyra: A Journey to the East, Volume 2

Charles Greenstreet Addison - Middle East - 1838 - 290 pages
...tent. " As he tasted a drop of water, he was pierced in the mouth with a dart; and his son and nephew, two beautiful youths, were killed in his arms. He...and he uttered a funeral prayer for the living and for the dead. In a transport of despair, his sister issued from the tent, and adjured the leader of...
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Damascus and Palmyra: A Journey to the East. With a Sketch of the ..., Volume 2

Charles Greenstreet Addison - Middle East - 1838 - 524 pages
...tent. " As he tasted a drop of water he was pierced in the mouth with a dart; and his son and nephew, two beautiful youths, were killed in his arms. He...and he uttered a funeral prayer for the living and for the dead. In a transport of despair, his sister issued from the tent, and adjured the leader of...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 112

American periodicals - 1872 - 858 pages
...weary and wounded, he seated himself at the door of his tent. He was pierced in the mouth with a dart. He lifted his hands to heaven — they were full of...funeral prayer for the living and the dead.. In a transport of despair, his sister issued from the tent, and adjured the general of the Kufians that...
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Tegg's magazine of knowledge and amusement, Volume 1

1844 - 628 pages
...was pierced in the mouth by a dart : his son and nephew, two beautiful boys, ran to embrace him, and were killed in his arms. He lifted his hands to heaven, they were full of Mood, and he uttered a funeral prayer for the living and the dead. In a paroxysm of grief the princess...
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The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with ..., Volume 6

Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 pages
...tent. As he tasted a drop of water, he was pierced in the mouth with a dart ; and his son and nephew, two beautiful youths, were killed in his arms. He...a funeral prayer for the living and the dead. In a transport of despair his sister issued from the tent, and adjured the general of the Cufians that he...
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History of the Saracen Empire

Edward Gibbon - Caliphs - 1870 - 458 pages
...tent. As he tasted a drop of water, he was pierced in the mouth with a dart ; and his son and nephew, two beautiful youths, were killed in his arms. He...a funeral prayer for the living and the dead. In a transport of despair his sister issued from the tent, and adjured the general of the Cufians, that...
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The Living Age, Volume 112

1872 - 844 pages
...weary and wounded, he seated himself at the door of his tent. He was pierced in the mouth with a dart. He lifted his hands to heaven — they were full of...a funeral prayer for the living and the dead. In a transport of despair, hia sister issued from the tent, and adjured the general of the Kufians that...
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The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 15; Volume 78

1872 - 830 pages
...weary, and wounded, he seated himself at the door of his tent. .He was pierced in the mouth with a dart. He lifted his hands to heaven — they were full of...a funeral prayer for the living and the dead. In a transport of despair, his sister issued from the tent, and adjured the general of the Kufians that...
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Essays in Criticism

Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1875 - 468 pages
...weary, and wounded, he seated himself at the door of his tent. He was pierced in the mouth with a dart. He lifted his hands to heaven — they were full of...a funeral prayer for the living and the dead. In a transport of despair, his sister issued from the tent, and adjured the general of the Kufians that...
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