Complete Works, Volume 5Estes & Lauriat, 1882 |
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... towers and castles , that for ages had frowned defiance to the battering - rams and catapults of classic tactics , were toppled down by the lombards of the Spanish engineers . It was one of the cases in which history rises supe- rior to ...
... towers and castles , that for ages had frowned defiance to the battering - rams and catapults of classic tactics , were toppled down by the lombards of the Spanish engineers . It was one of the cases in which history rises supe- rior to ...
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... towers a garrison of forty thousan men ; but possessing also its harem , the voluptuous abode of the Moorish monarchs , laid out with courts and gardens , fountain and baths , and stately halls , decorated in the most costly style of ...
... towers a garrison of forty thousan men ; but possessing also its harem , the voluptuous abode of the Moorish monarchs , laid out with courts and gardens , fountain and baths , and stately halls , decorated in the most costly style of ...
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... towers . Its elevation above the sea , and the neighborhood of the Sierra Nevada crowned with perpetual snows , tempered the fervid rays of summer ; so that , while other cities were panting with the sultry and stifling heat of the ...
... towers . Its elevation above the sea , and the neighborhood of the Sierra Nevada crowned with perpetual snows , tempered the fervid rays of summer ; so that , while other cities were panting with the sultry and stifling heat of the ...
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... towers of refuge for the peasantry : every pass of the mountain had its castle of de- fence , every lofty height its watchtower . As the Christian cavaliers passed under the walls of the fortresses , lances and scimetars flashed from ...
... towers of refuge for the peasantry : every pass of the mountain had its castle of de- fence , every lofty height its watchtower . As the Christian cavaliers passed under the walls of the fortresses , lances and scimetars flashed from ...
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... towers and bulwarks . The only ascent to this cragged fortress was by roads cut in the rock , so rugged in many places as to resemble broken stairs . In a word , the impregnable security of Zahara had become so prover- bial throughout ...
... towers and bulwarks . The only ascent to this cragged fortress was by roads cut in the rock , so rugged in many places as to resemble broken stairs . In a word , the impregnable security of Zahara had become so prover- bial throughout ...
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Common terms and phrases
alcayde Alcazaba alfaquis Alhama Alhambra Alonzo de Aguilar Andalusia arms army artillery attack Ballymahon banner battle battlements Baza beheld Boabdil Boabdil el Chico brother captives Castilian Castilian sovereigns castle cavaliers CHAPTER chivalry Christian Christian camp Cid Hiaya commanders Cordova count de Cabra Cura defence Don Alonzo Dordux duke el Chico El Zagal encampment enemy faith fight fire foot force fortress Fray Antonio Agapida friends frontier garrison gates gave Gibralfaro Goldsmith Gomeres Granada Guadix guard Hamet el Zegri hand heart height holy horse Illora infidels inhabitants Isabella Jaen Johnson king Ferdinand kingdom kingdom of Granada lance los Palacios Loxa marques of Cadiz monarch Moorish Moors mountains Muley Abul Hassan night noble Palacios passed peril Pulgar queen received retreat Ronda royal sallied sent siege soldiers Spanish spirit steed surrender sword tion towers town troops valiant valley valor vega Velez Malaga walls warriors wounded Xenel Zagal Zahara
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