Uncle Oliver's Travels: PersiaCharles Knight, 1835 |
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Sida 129
... fishing for pearls . J. Is a pearl a fish's eye , uncle ? U. O. No , Jane ; I will tell you all I know about pearls , and about fishing for them , on our next evening . The Arabs contrive to water their vessels from these springs by ...
... fishing for pearls . J. Is a pearl a fish's eye , uncle ? U. O. No , Jane ; I will tell you all I know about pearls , and about fishing for them , on our next evening . The Arabs contrive to water their vessels from these springs by ...
Sida 134
... fish . But besides the large pearl , there are others , of a small size , called " seed pearls , " which are ranged round the lips of the oyster . They are not of much value . It was , perhaps , the existence of these seed - pearls ...
... fish . But besides the large pearl , there are others , of a small size , called " seed pearls , " which are ranged round the lips of the oyster . They are not of much value . It was , perhaps , the existence of these seed - pearls ...
Sida 135
... fishing for pearls is certain and considerable , while the success is uncertain ; and the other is , that the demand for the pearls of the Gulf has declined since the English have been contented with the pearls of Ceylon . H. Are the ...
... fishing for pearls is certain and considerable , while the success is uncertain ; and the other is , that the demand for the pearls of the Gulf has declined since the English have been contented with the pearls of Ceylon . H. Are the ...
Sida 136
... fish- ing ; but I believe the fishery is now quite free to any person who chooses to incur the ex- pense of such a speculation . They proceed in one of these two ways : -in the first , the person engages a boat by the month or for the ...
... fish- ing ; but I believe the fishery is now quite free to any person who chooses to incur the ex- pense of such a speculation . They proceed in one of these two ways : -in the first , the person engages a boat by the month or for the ...
Sida 137
... obtaining presents for finding good pearls . But a more common method of under- taking to fish for pearls is by way of agreement . between two persons , one of whom pays all the expenses of the boat , provisions , & c . PEARLS . 137.
... obtaining presents for finding good pearls . But a more common method of under- taking to fish for pearls is by way of agreement . between two persons , one of whom pays all the expenses of the boat , provisions , & c . PEARLS . 137.
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animals appearance Arabs Ararat Astrabad Bahrein Bakhtegan believe belugas birds bitumen called camel Caracal carry Caspian Sea climate cold colder colour common consider covered Demawend deserts Dillon distance dogs England feet fish flesh flowers Frank ground happen hawks heat Henry horse India isinglass island Ispahan Jane Kazeroon killed King of Persia lake lion live locust look lynx Mianeh miles moun mountains mules mummy never Noah's ark Ormuz oyster passed pearls Persian Gulf person plain plants rivers road rock salt salter sand sandy season seems seen sevrugas sheep ship Shiraz shores side skin snow sometimes sort stone strong summer suppose tains tarantula tell things town travellers trees Turkey Turks U. O. Yes Uncle Oliver valley vessels village wild hogs wind winter
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Sida 241 - Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, • But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die...
Sida 265 - Paradise. To Thessaly I came, and living private, Without acquaintance of more sweet companions Than the old inmates to my love, my thoughts, I day by day frequented silent groves And solitary walks. One morning early This accident encounter'd me: I heard The sweetest and most ravishing contention That art and nature ever were at strife in.
Sida 265 - Into a pretty anger, that a bird, Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect practice ; To end the controversy, in a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly So many voluntaries, and so quick That there was curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines of differing method Meeting in one full centre of delight.
Sida 272 - Onward they came, a dark continuous cloud Of congregated myriads numberless, The rushing of whose wings was as the sound Of a broad river, headlong in its course Plunged from a mountain summit; or the roar Of a wild ocean in the autumn storm, Shattering its billows on a shore of rocks.
Sida 265 - The well-shaped youth could touch, she sung her own ; He could not run division with more art Upon his quaking instrument, than she, The nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to...
Sida 98 - As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapour in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, until when he cometh thereto he findeth it to be nothing.
Sida 265 - Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger ; that a bird, Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect practice : To end the controversy, in a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly, So many voluntaries, and so quick, That there was curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines of differing...
Sida 101 - I applied to the Arabs to be informed in what manner we were to pass the water. Our interpreter, although a Greek, and therefore likely to have been informed of such a phenomenon, was as fully convinced as any of us that we were drawing near to the water's edge, and became indignant when the Arabs maintained that within an hour we should reach Rosetta by crossing the sands in the direct line we then pursued, and that there was no water.
Sida 118 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...
Sida 33 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.