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... Acheron led through inaccessible ravines to the infernal regions . Little wonder that the shrine which thus embodied their faith in the higher powers that rule all things should have been the resort of Greeks from all parts of Hellas ...
... Acheron led through inaccessible ravines to the infernal regions . Little wonder that the shrine which thus embodied their faith in the higher powers that rule all things should have been the resort of Greeks from all parts of Hellas ...
Page 194
... Acheron . Time slips away too fast amid the memories of such a past ; and when the captain of our escort warned us that , if we tarried longer , we should not reach our destination before night- fall , it was with a sigh of impatient ...
... Acheron . Time slips away too fast amid the memories of such a past ; and when the captain of our escort warned us that , if we tarried longer , we should not reach our destination before night- fall , it was with a sigh of impatient ...
Page 204
... Acheron , which were once the strong- holds of the Suliotes , and the Turkish fort , which still mounts guard over their ruins , marked our destination . Whether we had missed the proper track , I know not ; but as we scrambled down the ...
... Acheron , which were once the strong- holds of the Suliotes , and the Turkish fort , which still mounts guard over their ruins , marked our destination . Whether we had missed the proper track , I know not ; but as we scrambled down the ...
Page 208
... held the fort where we were now standing in front of them every coign of vantage occupied by Ali's victorious troops , behind them the sheer precipices of the Acheron . Their position was hopeless ; 208 ' TWIXT GREEK AND TURK .
... held the fort where we were now standing in front of them every coign of vantage occupied by Ali's victorious troops , behind them the sheer precipices of the Acheron . Their position was hopeless ; 208 ' TWIXT GREEK AND TURK .
Page 209
... Acheron ; and when the report of the explosion announced the final disaster , it is told that they raised their voices in a last chant of desperate triumph , and taking their children in their arms , flung themselves headlong over the ...
... Acheron ; and when the report of the explosion announced the final disaster , it is told that they raised their voices in a last chant of desperate triumph , and taking their children in their arms , flung themselves headlong over the ...
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Twixt Greek and Turk: Or, Jotting During a Journey Through Thessaly ... Valentine Chirol No preview available - 1999 |
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Acheron Albanian already ancient Blackwood's Magazine brigands Bulgarian century chiftlik Christian Church CLASSICS FOR ENGLISH cliffs cloth Constantinople Crown 8vo Dervish descendants district Dodona Edinburgh Elassona empire ENGLISH READERS Engravings Epirus Fcap fustanellas Government Greece Greek Greek clergy Gulf hand Hellenic hills History houses Illustrations JOHN Kalabaka Kathrakia Kosana land landowners Larissa late League LL.D lofty Macedonia Maps Meteora Metzovo military monastery Monastir Moslem moun Mount Mount Olympus mountains Mussulman northern numerous officials Olympus Ottoman Parga Pasha peasantry peasants peninsula Perlepe Pindus plain of Thessaly Poems population Porte Portrait post 8vo precipitous present Professor prosperity province race ridge rise road rocks Roman ruins Salemvria Salonica scarcely Scotland Second Edition side slopes Suli Suliote Sultan Tchamis Thessaly Third Edition tion town Trikalla Turkey Turkish Turkish rule Turks University of Edinburgh Vale of Tempe valley villages Volo vols vrykolakas Wallachs walls waters
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