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...nism was interwoven with the whole moral be- ing of a people, as it was in Egypt, or with the political ten- ure and hopes of a people, as it was in R... ...the birth of Christ, you find people still consulting the local Oracles of Egypt, in places sheltered from the point-blank range of the state artiller... ...ely, from about 404 to 420 A. D.) first witnessed those uproars of ruin in Egypt and Alexandria—fire racing along the old carious timbers, battering-r... ...h by his own sabre, whilst angrily sabring a ridiculous quadruped whom the Egyptian priests had put forward as a god, he felt quite at his ease so lon... ...haps the reader will thank us for rehears- ing the main steps by which the Ottoman power had flowed and ebbed. The foundations of this empire were lai... ...inople, put an end to the Roman empire; and before his death he placed the Ottoman power in Europe pretty nearly on that basis to which it had again f... ...George came forward as the asserter of Servian independence, and drove the Ottomans out of that prov- ince. Personally he was not finally successful. ... ...een partially kept alive by the existence of a native militia, to whom the Ottoman government, out of mere necessity, had commit- ted the local defenc... ...ke; next a cannonade announcing the approach of the Pacha; and, lastly, an Ottoman brig of war, which saluted the fort and cast anchor before the town...

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..., to which Bessie and the bitter Miss Abbot had left me riveted, was a low ottoman near the marble chimney- piece; the bed rose before me; to my right... ...d vine-leaves, beneath which glowed in rich contrast crim- son couches and ottomans; while the ornaments on the pale 106 Jane Eyre Pariain mantelpiec... ...me of them threw themselves in half-reclin- ing positions on the sofas and ottomans: some bent over the tables and examined the flowers and books: the... ...etter than she does Mr. Roch- ester. Henry Lynn has taken possession of an ottoman at the feet of Louisa: Adele shares it with him: he is trying to ta... ...favours of them—but I shall advertise.” “You shall walk up the pyramids of Egypt!” he growled. “ At your peril you advertise! I wish I had only offere... ...tle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so bloom- ing and glowing... ...wamped—delicious poison canker- ing them: now I see myself stretched on an ottoman in the drawing-room at Vale Hall at my bride Rosamond Oliver’s feet...

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...a broiled fowl than I will. It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummi... ...complexion was darkened like a French grenadier’s, who has alike fought in Egypt and Siberia. Her venerable bows looked bearded. Her masts—cut somewhe... ...le generally, were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only ... ...tous in their sequential issues, that whaling may well be regarded as that Egyptian mother, who bore offspring themselves pregnant from her womb. It w... ...d up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck 117 Herman Melville seemed prepared to endure for ... ...covering the flight of his ladies. In truth, this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman, swimming about over the watery world, 377 Herman Melville surroun... ...by all the solaces and endearments of the harem. The contrast between this Ottoman and his con- cubines is striking; because, while he is always of th... ...d Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, fors... ...but some have surmised that the man who first thus en- titled this sort of Ottoman whale, must have read the memoirs of Vidocq, and informed himself w...

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...a broiled fowl than I will. It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummi... ...complexion was darkened like a French grenadier’s, who has alike fought in Egypt and Siberia. Her vener able bows looked bearded. Her masts — cut som... ...ple generally,were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only ... ...tous in their sequential issues, that whaling may well be regarded as that Egyptian mother, who bore offspring themselves pregnant from her womb. It w... ...ed up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come, an... ... covering the flight of his ladies. In truth, this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman, swimming about over the watery world, surroundingly accompanied by... ...by all the solaces and endearments of the harem. The contrast between this Ottoman and his concubines is striking; because, while he is always of the ... ...d Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, for ... ...f, but some have surmised that the man who first thus entitled this sort of Ottoman 378 Chapter 88 Schools and Schoolmasters whale, must have read the...

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...bly—and there the combined unknowns do malignant things with their legs to ottomans, and take as much as pos- sible out of the splendid furniture. And... ...orthy 332 Our Mutual Friend soul, taking her comfortable place on a large ottoman in the centre of the room, and drawing her arm through Bella’ s; ‘a... ...se you look so white.’ ‘Do I? I have had a busy evening.’ She was on a low ottoman before the fire, with a little shining jewel of a table, and her bo... ...n Harmon’s, if it had been his happy privilege to take his place upon that ottoman, and draw his arm about that waist, and say , ‘I hope the time has ... ...in her wilful inconsistent way . Left alone, she threw herself back on her ottoman, and said, ‘I didn’t know the lovely woman was such a Dragon!’ Then... ...w better than to go and help Little Eyes, it’s a pity they ever got out of Egypt. Over and above that,’ she added, ‘he wouldn’ t take your help if you...

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...ning to Georges, “monsieur has been to the East?” “Yes, monsieur; first to Egypt, then to Greece, where I served under Ali, pacha of Janina, with whom... ... two or three dashing fellows,— Selves, Besson, and others, who are now in Egypt,—and we entered the service of pacha Mohammed; a queer sort of fellow... ...smoking a narghile twice a-day, and that’s very costly.” “How did you find Egypt?” asked the count. “Egypt? Oh! Egypt is all sand,” replied Georges, b... ... of the Nile. Draw a green line down a sheet of yellow paper, and you have Egypt. But those Egyptians—fellahs they are called—have an immense advantag... ... us. There are no gendarmes in that country. You may go from end to end of Egypt, and you won’t see one.” “But I suppose there are a good many Egyptia... ...is made a prefect; and the prime minister comes down to be a foot-boy. The Ottomans have no system of promotion and no hierarchy. From a cavalry offic...

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...hancellor that we should give up (presumably to Germany) Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt, and suchlike key possessions. It seemed to excite several of our pol... ... us to see just how the fact that we are, for example, so deeply rooted in Egypt looks to an outside intelligence. Of course the Ger- man imperialist ... ...nsider our position. Our 28 In the Fourth Year argument is that in India, Egypt, Africa and elsewhere, we stand for order and civilization, we are th... ...no doubt, if we do re- ally play the part of honest trustees, to remain in Egypt and in India under existing conditions; it is even possible for us to... ...ng them in alphabetical order—the Africander, the Briton, the Belgian, the Egyptian, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Indian the Portuguese—might all b... ...urs turn their backs with an equal resolution, and that is the fate of the Ottoman Empire. What in plain English are we up to there? Whatever happens,...

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...s Malta, four days further on in the Midland Sea, and ready to spring upon Egypt or pounce upon Syria, or roar so as to be heard at Marseilles in case... ... standards of one of the English regi- ments, who pursued and conquered in Egypt the remains of the haughty and famous French republican army, at whos... ...ife and death had removed two of our company:one was left behind to die in Egypt, with a mother to bewail his loss, another we buried in the dismal la... ... which is all but boiling. This has its charms; but I could not relish the Egyptian shampooing. A hideous old blind man (but very dexterous in his art... ...folio, and remove the cause of the disturbance, and lost my drawing of the Ottoman Porte. I don’t think I have anything more to say about the city whi... ...en in the spelling-books; else I would tell you that the government of the Ottoman Porte seems to be as rotten, as wrinkled, and as feeble as the old ... ...hey had torn down the coats-of-arms of the gentry, the heroes of Malta and Egypt were busy devising heraldry for themselves, and were wild to be baron...

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...netian conqueror. He returns to restore his palazzo with the spoils of the Ottoman Empire. He can quit the women of the East for the doubly masked int... ... which the original subject is repeated with more vehement expression. All Egypt appeals to Moses for help.” The Duchess had taken advantage of the pa... ...eep!” she added passionately. “They have done much ill. Expiate your sins, Egyptians, expiate the crimes of your maddened Court! With what amazing ski... ... that Nature is wrapped in the deepest shades? There are no palm-trees, no Egyptian palaces, no landscape. And what a healing to your soul will the de... ... here reaches its climax; no musician can get beyond this. Do not you hear Egypt waking up after its long torpor? Joy comes in with the day. In what c... ...ll indeed be a desert to her! “After this comes the fierce conflict of the Egyptians and the Hebrews. All their joy is spoiled, their march stopped by...

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...tly, of highly developed terri- tories of alien language and race, such as Egypt; and, sec- ondly, of barbaric and less-developed territories, such as... ...is, London, or Petrograd. It is a long, long way from the Danube to either Egypt or Mesopotamia, and there—and there—Bloch is waiting. I do not think ... ...-Croatia, to a Bulgaria, to a Germany, to a Poland. Poland and Armenia and Egypt destroyed, subjugated, in- vincible, I would take as typical of what ... ...are so inevitable—the integration of a modernised Bengal, of China, and of Egypt, for example—that the question before us is practically reduced to wh... ...ca or to the natural extension of the French and Italian languages through Egypt. I guess, however, that it will be an Islamic and not a Christian cul... ...e trend of events in Asia Minor, the break- ing up and decapitation of the Ottoman Empire and the Euphrates invasion, points to a great revival of Mes...

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...my friends, and I will teach you.” Ned and Conseil seated themselves on an ottoman, and 141 Jules Verne the first thing the Canadian asked was: “Sir,... ...e, then?” “I suppose that, after visiting the curious coasts of Arabia and Egypt, the Nautilus will go down the Indian Ocean again, perhaps cross the ... ...passage of the Israel- 157 Jules Verne ites and of the catastrophe to the Egyptians, I will ask whether you have met with the traces under the water ... ... the sand would bring to light a large number of arms and instru- ments of Egyptian origin.” “That is evident,” I replied; “and for the sake of archae... ...rks of an ali- mentary canal to the waters of the Nile across the plain of Egypt, looking towards Arabia. It took four days to go up this canal, and i... ...ed- ben-Abdallah, who had revolted against him. During the expedition into Egypt, your General Bonaparte discov- ered traces of the works in the Deser... ...aloon to the library. My companions were silent. I soon threw myself on an ottoman, and took a book, which my eyes overran me- chanically. A quarter o...

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...r cries that never vary, to hold his tongue, to hunt, or fight for Rome or Egypt, but always at heart—a huckster still. At midnight he returns—a man, ... ..., all would have chilled love to death had not Paquita been there, upon an ottoman, in a loose voluptuous wrapper, free to scatter her gaze of gold an...

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...nly general able to save the nation is, un- luckily, down in that devilish Egypt; and how is he ever to get back, with England mistress of the Mediter... ...hing patriarchal about them, bore no little resemblance to the Flight into Egypt as we see it represented by the sombre brush of Rembrandt. Galope-Cho... ...lish women that we are!” she replied gaily. Francine left her lying on the ottoman and went away con- vinced that, whether her mistress were loved or ... ...y and passionate existence between four walls without even moving from the ottoman on which her very life is burning itself away. She had reached the ... ...er head caused her an acute pain she could not endure, and she fell on the ottoman. Corentin stood looking at her for a moment with his arms folded, h...

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...in, like salted fish in their bar- rel;—or weltering, shall I say, like an Egyptian pitcher of tamed vipers, each struggling to get its head above the... ...habilable globe. Walking by the light of Oriental, Pelasgic, Scandinavian, Egyptian, Otaheitean, Ancient and Modern researches of every conceivable ki... ...CE “For long years,” writes Teufelsdrockh, “had the poor He- brew, in this Egypt of an Auscultatorship, painfully toiled, baking bricks without stubbl... ...‘A Dressing-room splendidly furnished; violet-colored curtains, chairs and ottomans of the same hue. Two full- length Mirrors are placed, one on each ... ...esting them of their property very much in the nature of a spoiling of the Egyptians. “The only thing about the work, tending to prove that it is what...

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...he saints, in their own fashion, and said that all they admired in Mary of Egypt was her fashion of paying the 25 Droll Stories – Vol. 2 boatmen. Fro... ...know the legend of your ancestors, who were thought much of by the ancient Egyptians, who held them in great veneration, and adored them like other sa... ...nd placed him on the door the granary, after the 84 Balzac fashion of the Ottoman Porte, where my good Panurge was within an ace of being spitted. At... ...rbs, alchemising all languages since the Deluge, of the Hebrew, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Greeks, Latins, and of T urnus, the ancient founder of T ours; a... ...ow very well. Now if this etymology of the street harass you, and also the Egyptian nun, I will lend you a curious and antique parch- ment, found by m... ...ac man; to have belonging to him merchant galleys of all kinds, going into Egypt with the permission of the Sultan, and he trafficking in precious art...

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...open and there was a long buff and crimson-striped shape, by day indeed an ottoman, but by night—. Could an ottoman crouch and stir in the flicker of ... ...ld an ottoman crouch and stir in the flicker of a passing candle? Could an ottoman come after you noiselessly, and so close that you could not even tu... ... know better, to regard a role played by Joseph during his earlier days in Egypt as a ridiculous one. This point of view became very inoppor- tunely d... ...round the world,” he cried with a note of acute distress. “I want to go to Egypt and India and see what is happening in the East, all this wonderful w... ...s had been the role of the Jews—stew- ardship. Since the days of Joseph in Egypt….” Then in a lower voice he went on to speak of the deficien- cies of...

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...e bust. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 42 What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt’s King Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking... ...as open’d wide, And a magnificent large hall display’d The Asian pomp of Ottoman parade. I won’t describe; description is my forte, But ever... ...rather rough, To poor Katinka: ‘Spain ‘s an island near Morocco, betwixt Egypt and Tangier.’ Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Six” 155 Dudu said noth... ...nderneath her chair, Or rather sofa (for it was all pillow, A low soft ottoman), and black despair Stirr’d up and down her bosom like a bill... ...oping Conceal’d her features better than a veil; And one hand o’er the ottoman lay drooping, White, waxen, and as alabaster pale: Would th... ... ‘And wonder what old world such things could see, Or hieroglyphics on Egyptian stones, The pleasant riddles of futurity— Guessing at what... ...ath given the power (Though less than that of Memnon’s statue, warm In Egypt’s rays, to harp at a fix’d hour) To this grey ruin, with a voice ...

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...bye.” 51 Melville CHAPTER X. In the Cabin STOOLS, settees, sofas, divans, ottomans; occupying them are clusters of men, old and young, wise and simpl... ...ns. A thousand pities that you should ever have been in the hands of these Egyptians.” But again came nothing but the dumb-show look, as much as to sa... ... because, as before said, I con- jecture him to be what, among the ancient Egyptians—” “Pray, now,” earnestly deprecated the cosmopolitan, “pray, now,... ...ated the cosmopolitan, “pray, now, why disturb the repose of those ancient Egyptians? What to us are their words or their thoughts? Are we pauper Arab... ... Charlie!” “Pish! we were boys.” “Then lucky the fate of the first-born of Egypt, cold in the grave ere maturity struck them with a sharper frost.— Ch...

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...s in reality the drawing-room; in which drawing-room the box was the chief ottoman or sofa; whilst it appeared that the inside which had been traditio... ...re also blockheads. Now, as the Pharaohs and the crocodile domineered over Egyptian soci- ety , this accounts for a singular mistake that prevailed th... ...rence. 13 27 LUXOR occupies part of the site of ancient Thebes, capital of Egypt; its antiquities are famous. 14 9 BUT ON OUR SIDE … WAS A TOWER OF MO...

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... some the garrets, was really the drawing- room, and the box was the chief ottoman or sofa in that draw- ing-room; whilst it appeared that the inside,... ... blockheads. Now, as the Pharaohs and the croco- 101 dile domineered over Egyptian society, this accounts for a singular mistake that prevailed on th... ...han in the Roman era. The reader must not look to single cases, as that of Egypt or other parts of Africa, but take the whole collectively. On that sc... ...l nations that lived round the great pond of the Mediterranean. In Athens, Egypt, Palestine, Asia Minor, everywhere, the ancients went to bed, like go...