 | 1849 - 652 sidor
...more real tombs of the true Believers," said he, " in making sham ones, than you could have defiled between the Zab and Selamiyah. We have killed our...and ourselves in carrying those accursed stones." '—p. 46. Mr. Layard afterwards, during his excavations, did come on some real graves; but as he was... | |
 | 1849 - 742 sidor
...more real tombs of the true believers," said he, "in making sham ones, than you could have defiled between the Zab and Selamiyah. We have killed our...and ourselves in carrying those accursed stones." P. 46. Mr. Layard afterwards, during his excavations, did come on some real graves ; but as he was... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1849 - 608 sidor
...more real tombs of the true believers,' said he, ' in making sham one?, than you could have defiled between the Zab and Selamiyah. We have killed our...and ourselves in carrying those accursed stones.' "—p. 46. Mr. Layard afterwards, during his excavations, did come on some real graves ; but as he... | |
 | 1849 - 638 sidor
...more real tombs of the true believers," said he, " in making sham ones, than you could have defiled between the Zab and Selamiyah. We have killed our...and ourselves in carrying those accursed stones." By a happy accident alone was Mr. Layard enabled to resume. The pasha received sudden dismissal, and... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1849 - 562 sidor
...more real tombs of the true believers," said he, " in making sham ones, than you could have defiled between the Zab and Selamiyah. We have killed our horses and ourselves in carrying these accursed stones." Finding what sort of a person he had to deal with, Mr. Layard easily struck... | |
 | sir Austen Henry Layard - 1851 - 442 sidor
...more real tombs of the true Believers," said he, " in making sham ones, than you could have defiled between the Zab and Selamiyah. We have killed our...severely wounded. He had fallen in with a party of horsemen under Sheikh Abd-ur-rahman of the Abou-Salman Arabs, whose object in crossing the Zab had... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1858 - 450 sidor
...destroyed more real tombs of true believers,' said he, ' in making sham ones, than you could have defiled between the Zab and Selamiyah. We have killed our...ourselves in carrying those accursed stones.' ' • A captain of the irregular troops, whose services were engaged by Dr. Layard. 94 GOD'S ACHE. ' early... | |
 | James Baikie - 1927 - 404 sidor
...have destroyed more real graves of the true Believers in making sham ones, than you could have defiled between the Zab and Selamiyah. We have killed our horses and ourselves in carrying these accursed stones." Such were the methods of Turkish officialdom in 1845 ; and such the joys of... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1849 - 574 sidor
...more real tombs of the true believers," said he, " in making sham ones, than you could 'have defiled between the Zab and Selamiyah. We have killed our horses and ourselves in carrying these accursed stones." Finding what sort of a person he had to deal with, Mr. Layard easily struck... | |
 | Robert Silverberg - 1997 - 420 sidor
...more real tombs of the true Believers," said he, "in making sham ones, than you could have defiled between the Zab and Selamiyah. We have killed our...in, I left the horsemen and returned to the village. . . . I continued to employ a few men to open trenches by way of experiment, and was not long in discovering... | |
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between the Zab and Selamiyah. We have killed our horses and ourselves in carrying those accursed stones." A steady rain setting in, I left the horsemen, and returned to the village. In the evening Daoud Agha brought back with him a prisoner and two of... 
