As long as you are journeying in the interior of the Desert you have no particular point to make for as your resting-place. The endless sands yield nothing but small stunted shrubs — even these fail after the first two or three days, and from that time... The Quarterly Review - Page 71edited by - 1845Full view - About this book
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1845 - 618 pages
...sketch of its endless desolation and the tyranny of its sunshine, a most masterly specimen of suggestive description : — ' As long as you are journeying...pass over newly-reared hills — you pass through the valleys that the storm of the last week has dug; and the hills and the valleys are sand, sand,... | |
| Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...of the long, silent years." We have never seen so striking a description of a day in the DESERT. " As long as you are journeying in the interior of the...three days, and from that time you pass over broad plains---you pass over newly reared hills— you pass through valleys that the storm oĦ the last week... | |
| English fiction - 1845 - 618 pages
...valour in pulling it out with the fingers." A sunshiny day in the Desert : — " As long as you arc journeying in the interior of the Desert, you have...your resting-place. The endless sands yield nothing small stunted shrubs ; even these fail after the first two or three days, and from that time you pass... | |
| Alexander William Kinglake - Middle East - 1845 - 450 pages
...there came into my hand (how well I remember it !) the little tin cup half filled with wine and water. As long as you are journeying in the interior of the...Desert you have no particular point to make for as your resting place. The endless sands yield nothing but small stunted shrubs — even these fail after the... | |
| Periodicals - 1845 - 688 pages
...long, silent years." We have never seen so striking a description of a day in the DESERT. " As lone; as you are journeying in the interior of the Desert, you have no particular point to make for as your resting, place. The endless sands yield nothing but small stunted shrubs— even these fail after the... | |
| 1846 - 352 pages
...there came into my hand (how well I remember it!) the little tin cup half filled with wine and water. As long as you are journeying in the interior of the...three days, and from that time you pass over broad plains—you pass over newlyreared hills — you pass through valleys that the storm of the last week... | |
| Theodore Dwight - 1847 - 838 pages
...case, that Adams ought to be regarded as the veritable discoverer. — Charleston paper. Tbe Desert. " As long as you are journeying in the interior of the...desert, you have no particular point to make for as your resting place. The endless sands yield nothing but small stunted shrubs — even these fail after the... | |
| 1848 - 792 pages
...HOLY GHOST, be glory, power, honour, now and ever, world without end. Amen. TRAVELLING IN THE DESERT. As long as you are journeying in the interior of the...desert you have no particular point to make for as your resting place. The endless sands yield nothing but small stunted shrubs — even these fail after the... | |
| Alexander William Kinglake - Middle East - 1849 - 280 pages
...there came into my hand (how well I remember it !) the little tin cup half filled with wine and water. As long as you are journeying in the interior of the...time you pass over broad plains — you pass over newly reared hills — you pass through valleys that the storm of the last week has dug, and the hills... | |
| Virginia De Forrest - Anthologies - 1860 - 368 pages
...mocked at poverty And bade intruding conscience fly Far from his palace door." JOURNEYING IN THE DESERT. As long as you are journeying in the interior of the...make for as your resting-place. The endless sands yielding nothing but small stunted shrubs — even these fail after the first two or three days, and... | |
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