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" ... with horror. The blackness of the wall, the faint light given by the candles or torches for want of air, the different objects that surrounded me, seeming to converse with each other, and the Arabs with the candles or torches in their hands, naked... "
Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 398
1823
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A Geographical Reader

James Johonnot - Geography - 1882 - 452 pages
...the wall, the faint light given by the candles or torches for want of air, the different objects that surrounded me, seeming to converse with each other,...covered with dust, themselves resembling living mummies, absolutely formed a scene that can not be described. In such a situation I found myself several times,...
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Egypt: as seen in Scripture and on the monuments

1882 - 410 pages
...the faint light given by the candles or torches for want of air, the different objects that surround me seeming to converse with each other, and the Arabs,...covered with dust, themselves resembling living mummies, absolutely formed a scene that cannot be described. In such a situation I found myself several times,...
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Modern Achievement, Volume 8

Success - 1902 - 532 pages
...faint light given by the candles or torches for want of air; the different objects that were around me seeming to converse with each other; and the Arabs with the torches or candles in their hands, naked and covered with dust, themselves resembling living mummies,...
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A Fronded Isle: And Other Essays

Edward Verrall Lucas - English essays - 1928 - 266 pages
...and the Arab guides, naked and covered with dust, themselves resembling living mummies, absolutely formed a scene that cannot be described. In such a situation I found myself several times, and when exhausted, fainting and nearly overcome, I sought a resting place, and found one, my weight bore...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 29

Literature - 1851 - 648 pages
...different objects that surrounded rne, seeming to converse with each other, and the Arabs with the camlles or torches in their hands, naked and covered with dust, themselves resembling living mummies, absolutely furmed a scene that cannot be described. In sucha situation I found THE CHILD COMMODORE....
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No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century

Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 482 pages
...the wall, the faint light given by the candles or torches for want of air, the different objects that surrounded me, seeming to converse with each other,...covered with dust, themselves resembling living mummies, absolutely formed a scene that cannot be described. [Quoted in Hamilton-Paterson and Andrews, pp. 185-86]...
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The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt ...

Brian Fagan - History - 2004 - 324 pages
...the wall, the faint light given by the candles or torches for want of air, the different objects that surrounded me, seeming to converse with each other,...covered with dust, themselves resembling living mummies, absolutely formed a scene that cannot be described.5 One eventually became inured to the dust and mummies....
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The Select Magazine for the Instruction and Amusement of Young ..., Volume 3

1823 - 434 pages
...impressed me with horror. The blackness of the wall, the faint light given by the candles or torches for want of air, the different objects which surrounded...often returned exhausted and fainting; till at last I became inured to it, and indifferent to what I suffered, except from the dust, which never tailed...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 24

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 596 pages
...the wall, the faint light given by the candles or torches for want of air, the different objects that surrounded me, seeming to converse with each other,...with dust, themselves resembling li-ving mummies, absolutely formed a scene that cannot he described. In such a situation I found myself several times,...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 24

1821 - 602 pages
...torches in their hands, naked and covered with dust, themselves resembling living mummies, absolutely formed a scene that cannot be described. In such a...often returned exhausted and fainting, till at last I became inured to it, and indifferent to what I suffered, except from the dust, which never failed...
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