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...e in color, a little dulled with time, just as the gilding of the fanciful arabesques shows here and there a patch of red; but this effect harmonizes ... ...de Spaniards and Christians of us against our will, it left us a legacy of Arab cunning; and it may be that I owe my safety to the blood of the Abence... ...an’s heart resolved into an easy, simple action. Oh, Asia! I have read the Arabian Nights, here is their very essence: two flowers, and the question i... ...ardinia sent it to me. He is very proud of it; for this horse, which is of Arab blood, was born in my stables.” This morning, my dear, Henarez was on ... ... is only in me, society cannot hurt him with its lies. Not a muscle of the Arab’s face stirred, not a drop of the blue blood flushed his olive cheek. ... ...kled in his eyes. A power, stronger than passion, checked the impulse. “An Arab cannot take back his word,” he said in a husky voice. “I am your slave... ..., and I read it sobbing, at the risk of making a fright of myself. My dear Arab fell at my feet, declaring that you raved. Then he carried me off to t... ...re Gaston. I have lost control of myself, I tremble before this boy as the Arab hero used to tremble before me. In a word, the balance of love is now ... ...he Thirteen Chaulieu, Eleonore, Duchesse de Eugenie Grandet Dudley, Lady Arabella The Lily of the Valley The Ball at Sceaux The Magic Skin T...

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...ettes modelled by genius pursued by creditors (the real explanation of the Arabian myth), superb sketches by our best artists, lids of chests made int... ...voice, calm as they were, a maternal emotion, and also the gratitude of an Arab, the fidelity of a dog, the friendship of a savage,—not displayed, but... ... hotel Laginski. Malaga, to whom this adventure was like a leaf out of the Arabian Nights, was served by Monsieur and Madame Chapuzot in the double ca...

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...e and deep ha-ha, full of vigorous trees, its parapets bristling with iron arabesques, the innumerable sharp points of which are a warning to evil-doe... ...and Michu, who seemed to have one and the same soul, lived together as the Arab and his horse in the desert. The bailiff knew the modula- tions of the... ...rather to black; white stockings above the hoofs, thin, all nerves like an Arab.” 93 Balzac “Did you ever see an Arab?” “In Egypt—last year. I’ve rid... ...he pocket of his waistcoat, which was closed by a flap embroidered in gold arabesques, a sumptuous snuff-box. While fingering his own pinch and offeri...

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...ke something 61 Balzac to buy snuff?” With all the simplicity of a street Arab, the Colonel ea- gerly held out his hand to the two strangers, who eac...

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...r to us in merit should be like us in outside appearances. The Camel and the Arab AN ARAB CAMEL DRIVER, after completing the loading of his Camel, ask...

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...niless, his clothes had begun to fall in tatters; he had begun to have the look of a street Arab; and captains will have nothing to say to a ragamuffi... ...mething too roguish and wanton in his face, a look too like that of a schoolboy or a street Arab, to have survived much cudgelling. It was plain that ... ...nd keep me awake in bed with all manner of quaint imaginations. Much of the pleasure of the Arabian Nights hinges upon this Asmodean interest; and we ... ...rne, De Musset’s comedies (the one volume open at Carmosine and the other at Fantasio); the Arabian Nights, and kindred stories, in Weber’s solemn vol...

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...ign of triumph they also fired off rifles and pistols. Shamil rode a white Arab steed which pulled at its bit as it ap- proached the house. The horse ...

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...opped the banana he had been munching, and ran to the knee of a grave dark Arab in flowing robes, sitting like a Biblical figure, incon- gruously, on ...

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...ome cav- alry force from French north Africa. He was a handsome dark brown Arab, wearing a long yellow-white robe and a tall cap about which ran a ban... ...stuck into great silver stirrups. He might have ridden straight out of the Arabian nights. He passed thoughtfully, picking his way delicately among th...

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...ation, and he saw The thrilling secrets of the birth of time. Meanwhile an Arab maiden brought his food, Her daily portion, from her father’s tent, ... ...dered, and wan, and panting, she returned. The Poet, wandering on, through Arabie, _140 And Persia, and the wild Carmania... ... dying statue fair and wan, If tears should cease, to weep again: And rare Arabian odours came, Through the myrtle copses steaming thence ... ...that mine enemy had written A book!’—cried Job:—a fearful curse, If to the Arab, as the Briton, _460 ’T was gall... ...t;—Damascus, Hems, Aleppo _580 T remble;—the Arab menaces Medina, The Aethiop has intrenched himself in Sennaar, And kee...

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... my search than to exhibit that object already accomplished. I was like the Arabian who had been Frankenstein 33 buried with the dead and found a p... ... was full of imagination; and very often, in imita tion of the Persian and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and passion. At othe... ...sed it rapturously and called her, as well as I could distinguish, his sweet Arabian. She did not appear to understand him, but smiled. He assisted he... ...mists. Felix seemed peculiarly happy and with smiles of delight welcomed his Arabian. Agatha, the ever gentle Agatha, kissed the hands of the lovely s... ... understood, but I profited by the others. “As night came on, Agatha and the Arabian retired early. When they separated Felix kissed the hand of the s... ...t to his work, and after the usual occupations of Agatha were finished, the Arabian sat at the feet of the old man, and taking his guitar, played som... ...master the language; and I may boast that I im proved more rapidly than the Arabian, who understood very little and conversed in broken accents, whil... ...rs to me. While I listened to the instructions which Felix bestowed upon the Arabian, the strange system of human society was explained to me. I heard... ...el lows. The gentle words of Agatha and the animated smiles of the charming Arabian were not for me. The mild exhorta tions of the old man and the l...

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...sed horses, the famous Limousin breed, which is said to be a legacy of the Arabs when they descended by the Pyrenees into France and were cut to piece... ... the side toward the commons a similar slope, covered with several feet of arable earth, still further supported this great work, which no rush of wat...

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...as in the Gulf of Persia, where five of our men, venturing on shore on the Arabian side of the gulf, were surrounded by the Arabians, and either all k... ...p the Gulf of Persia, and take the way of the caravans, over the desert of Arabia, to Aleppo and Scanderoon; from thence by sea again to Italy, and so... ...ll events; for as the Eastern caravans are subject to be at- tacked by the Arabs, so are these by the T artars. The company consisted of people of sev... ...es, and to encamp all night, just as I have heard they do in the desert of Arabia. I asked our guides whose dominion this was in, and they told me thi...

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...as to hate Boilers,’ he returns with angry emphasis; ‘though I cannot answer for her views about Things; really not understanding what Things are mean... ...ne feeble voice, rising and falling in a cracked, monotonous mutter, could at intervals be faintly heard. In the free outer air, the river, the green ...

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...e of oriental origin, and form- ing, as it does, the subject of a pleasing Arabian romance, as well as being a very romantic thing in itself—hence I a... ...ent Egyptians? What to us are their words or their thoughts? Are we pauper Arabs, without a house of our own, that, with the mummies, we must turn squ...

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...obed, hooded figure, some man in a bathing wrap, absurdly suggestive of an Arab in his bur- nous, came out from one of the nearer bungalows, and stood...

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...tapu. Mr. Regler has seen the two ex- tremes of scepticism and implicit fear. In the tapu grove he found one fellow stealing breadfruit, cheerful and ... ...en the scene to any European who could have beheld them there, in the strong sun and the strong shadow of the banyan, rubbed with saffron to throw in ... ...island life, social or international; but I never heard of any banquet—the child’s presence at the daily board per- haps sufficing. We may find the ra... ...fermentation quickens and grows acid; in twelve hours it will be yeast for bread, in two days more a devilish intoxicant, the coun- sellor of crime. T... ...n their open houses; there was no sound of intercourse or business. In that hour before the shadows, the quarter of the palace and canal seemed like a... ...as the leaves were 235 Robert Louis Stevenson consumed the ashes were buried, the green spray was im- bedded in the gravel, and the ceremony was at a...

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...ey stayed and sent a boat ashore for water, and were nearly captured by an Arab ruse. Here too they got the Purple Death aboard, and sailed with it in...

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...ghbred barb from the Atlas mountains, and a Barbary horse is as good as an Arab. This one of mine will gallop up the mountain roads without turning a ... ... give you any certain informations about them. They were the divinities of Arabia and of the Mamelukes who wished their troopers to believe that the M... ...es down before the voice of Napoleon, who seizes Upper and Lower Egypt and Arabia, far and wide, till we came to the capitals of kingdoms which no lon...

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...But I cannot decide by their appearance whether they are Spaniards, Turks, Arabians, or Indians. As to their language, it is quite incomprehensible.” ... ...h- teen wide, and fifteen high. A luminous ceiling, deco- rated with light arabesques, shed a soft clear light over all the marvels accumulated in thi... ...sight. Its course was N.N.E., in the direction of the Sea of Oman, between Arabia and the Indian Peninsula, which serves as an outlet to the Persian G... ... you suppose, then?” “I suppose that, after visiting the curious coasts of Arabia and Egypt, the Nautilus will go down the Indian Ocean again, perhaps... ...lus soon sank under the waves of that part of the sea. We passed along the Arabian coast of Mahrah and Hadramaut, for a distance of six miles, its und... ...bruary, we entered the Straits of Bab-el-mandeb, the name of which, in the Arab tongue, means The Gate of Tears. To twenty miles in breadth, it is onl... ...it is very dangerous during the Etesian winds and in the rainy season. The Arabian Edrisi portrays it under the name of the Gulf of Colzoum, and relat... ...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 it was so wide that two ... ...ch a passage exists?” “Yes; a subterranean passage, which I have named the Arabian Tunnel. It takes us beneath Suez and opens into the Gulf of Pelusiu...