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Eight hundred thousand pounds were given to the crusaders, a like sum to the Venetians, with the one hundred thousand pounds due to them. These sums had been collected in hard cash from a city where the inhabitants were hostile, and where they had in their wells and cisterns an easy means of hiding their treasures of gold, silver, and precious stones a means traditionally well known in the East.
'Blessed are the men who, passing through the valley of weeping, make it a well. They gather their tears, as it were, into the cisterns by the wayside, and draw refreshment and strength from their very sorrows, and then, when thus we in our wise husbandry have irrigated the soil with the gathered results of our sorrows, the heavens bend over us, and weep their gracious tears, and 'the rain also covereth it with blessings. No chastisement for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness.
Then he said: "Where did you say that you were when that happened the kissing, I mean?" "In a cave," said Phillips. "In a huge cave. I had helped her to climb up on to the cisterns, and " "Cisterns!" said Gorman. "What the devil did you put cisterns into a cave for?" "We didn't put them. They were there. Galvanized iron cisterns. Huge things.
In every street of the different rings there are suitable fountains, which send forth their water by means of canals, the water being drawn up from nearly the bottom of the mountain by the sole movement of a cleverly contrived handle. There is water in fountains and in cisterns, whither the rain-water collected from the roofs of the houses is brought through pipes full of sand.
Three thousand trees have been cut down at Maschala, and at Ubada the granaries have been looted and the cisterns filled up! At Tedes they have carried off fifteen hundred gomors of meal; at Marrazana they have killed the shepherds, eaten the flocks, burnt your house your beautiful house with its cedar beams, which you used to visit in the summer!
In however adulterated a guise, the Catholics do get a draught of devotion to slake the thirst of their souls, and methinks it must needs do them good, even if not quite so pure as if it came from better cisterns, or from the original fountain-head. Arriving at St.
He has the Mystic temperament only, and that undoubtedly gives him a strength far beyond the strength of those who have it not. The true Mystic, realising God, has no need of any Scriptures, for he has touched the source whence all Scriptures flow. The value of cisterns, of reservoirs, is past, when a man is seated beside an ever-flowing spring.
He wondered whether the cave which the Queen had been forbidden to enter was the same cave which contained the iron cisterns. The Queen, sitting at her window, heard von Moll leave the house and go down the steps towards the landing place. Smith was with him, seeing him safely to the boat which waited for him. "So," said von Moll, "I telegraph to Berlin and I forward your letters."
They are afterwards dried, folded, and pressed by putting them between two boards, the upper board of which is loaded with one or more large stones. "In the English method the pulp is prepared by the mill and put into cisterns; the frames are made of fine wire, and the workman stands by the cistern and takes up the pulp on the frames.
For twenty miles from Pleasant Hill toward Natchitoches there was little or no water; and at Pleasant Hill itself we had exhausted the wells and reduced the store in cisterns during our stay. This, as it affected movements and positions of troops, should be borne in mind. Leaving Green, I returned to Mansfield, stopping on the road to select my ground for the morrow.
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