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... arms were inlaid with silver highly burnished , and they shone all the more lustrously for being worn along with garments decayed and even tattered ( this careful- ness of his arms is a point of honour with the Os- manlee ; he never ...
... arms were inlaid with silver highly burnished , and they shone all the more lustrously for being worn along with garments decayed and even tattered ( this careful- ness of his arms is a point of honour with the Os- manlee ; he never ...
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... arms and other implements of a campaigning life . There is no scarcity of water along the whole road from . Belgrade to Stamboul , but the habits of our Tatar were formed by his ancestors , and not by himself , so he took good care to ...
... arms and other implements of a campaigning life . There is no scarcity of water along the whole road from . Belgrade to Stamboul , but the habits of our Tatar were formed by his ancestors , and not by himself , so he took good care to ...
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... arms and tawny faces of our men with light so pale and mystic , that the watchful Tatar felt bound to look out for demons , and take proper means for keeping them off . Forthwith he deter- mined that the duty of frightening away our ...
... arms and tawny faces of our men with light so pale and mystic , that the watchful Tatar felt bound to look out for demons , and take proper means for keeping them off . Forthwith he deter- mined that the duty of frightening away our ...
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... arms , soon lay strewed around us in pleasant confusion . Mysseri's canteen , too , began to yield up its treasures , but we relied upon finding some provisions in the village . At first the natives declared that their hens were mere ...
... arms , soon lay strewed around us in pleasant confusion . Mysseri's canteen , too , began to yield up its treasures , but we relied upon finding some provisions in the village . At first the natives declared that their hens were mere ...
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... arm , and cries out " Yumourd- jak ! " ( Plague ! meaning , " There is a present of the plague for you ! " ) This is her notion of a witticism : it is a very old piece of fun , no doubt -quite an oriental Joe Miller ; but the Turks are ...
... arm , and cries out " Yumourd- jak ! " ( Plague ! meaning , " There is a present of the plague for you ! " ) This is her notion of a witticism : it is a very old piece of fun , no doubt -quite an oriental Joe Miller ; but the Turks are ...
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