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... soldiers , who are usually drawn up on these occasions in a wavy line , to do honour or to impose upon the awe - stricken feelings of the Elchi Bey . We passed through another court , if I re- member right , till we found a number of ...
... soldiers , who are usually drawn up on these occasions in a wavy line , to do honour or to impose upon the awe - stricken feelings of the Elchi Bey . We passed through another court , if I re- member right , till we found a number of ...
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... soldiers whatever ; fifteen or sixteen cawasses were all the guards that he supported . He smoked the pipe of tranquillity on the carpet of prudence , and the pashalic of Trebizond slum- bered on in the sun ; the houses tumbled down ...
... soldiers whatever ; fifteen or sixteen cawasses were all the guards that he supported . He smoked the pipe of tranquillity on the carpet of prudence , and the pashalic of Trebizond slum- bered on in the sun ; the houses tumbled down ...
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... soldiers were firing as a salute . They fired very well , in very good time , but I observed several petty officers and a number of men busily employed at one gun , the last to the left hand near the corner of the battery . At length ...
... soldiers were firing as a salute . They fired very well , in very good time , but I observed several petty officers and a number of men busily employed at one gun , the last to the left hand near the corner of the battery . At length ...
Page 68
... soldiers of Yezid were reluctant to assail the favourite grandson of the Prophet ; they de- manded of their generals to allow him to draw water from the Euphrates , a permission which would not have been refused to beasts and in- fidels ...
... soldiers of Yezid were reluctant to assail the favourite grandson of the Prophet ; they de- manded of their generals to allow him to draw water from the Euphrates , a permission which would not have been refused to beasts and in- fidels ...
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... soldier , more daring than the rest , gave him a severe wound in the head . Faint with the loss of blood , he staggered to the door of his tent , and with a burst of parental affection , which at such a moment must have been mingled ...
... soldier , more daring than the rest , gave him a severe wound in the head . Faint with the loss of blood , he staggered to the door of his tent , and with a burst of parental affection , which at such a moment must have been mingled ...
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