 I was not surprised that the Arabs had been amazed and terrified at this apparition. It required no stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of the earth, might well...  The United States Democratic Review - Page 3581849Full view - About this book
 | 1845 - 624 pages
...stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of the earth, might well...had thrown down his basket and run off towards Mosul as fast as his legs could carry him. I learned this with regret, as I anticipated the consequences.... | |
 | Arminianism - 1850 - 704 pages
...was rounded and without ornament at the top." The Arab mind was sufficiently impressed and amazed. " One of the workmen, on catching the first glimpse...had thrown down his basket and run off towards Mosul as fast as his legs could carry him." All who saw the head cried out, " There is no God but God, and... | |
 | United States - 1849 - 602 pages
...strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from iho bowels of the earth, miarht well have belonged to one of those fearful beings which are pictured in the traditions 'if the country, as appearing to mortals, slowly ascending from the regions below. One of the workmen,... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pages
...stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. 1 his gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of the earth, might well...pictured in the traditions of the country as appearing to mortitls, slowly ascending from the regions below. One of the workmen, on catching the first glimpse... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - Assyria - 1849 - 408 pages
...stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of the earth, might well...had thrown down his basket and run off towards Mosul as fast as his legs could carry him. I learnt this with regret, as I anticipated the consequences.... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 896 pages
...stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic bead, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of the earth, might well...had thrown down his basket and run off towards Mosul as fast as his legs could carry him. I learned this with regret, as I anticipated tbe consequences.... | |
 | 1849 - 492 pages
...stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of the earth, might well...had thrown down his basket and run off towards Mosul as fast as his legs could carry him. I learned this with regret, as I anticipated the consequences.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1849 - 608 pages
...stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. 1 his gigantic head, Munched with age, thus rising from the bowels of the earth, might well...had thrown down his basket and run off towards Mosul as fast as his legs could carry him. I learnt this with regret, as 1 anticipated the consequences.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 742 pages
...stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of the earth, might well...had thrown down his basket and run off towards Mosul as fast as his legs could carry him. I learnt this with regret, as I anticipated the consequences.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 638 pages
...stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with ige, thus rising from the bowels of the earth, might well...of the monster, had thrown down his basket and run oil" towards Mosul as fast as his legs could carry him. I learnt this with regret, as I anticipated... | |
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