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The sun beats upon the shelterless town until it becomes a great cauldron within its amphitheatre of hills. During the Greater Pilgrimage the cauldron seethes with heat and humanity, and surges over into Mina and Arafat. In the daytime Mecca is limitless heat and noise, but under the stars it has all the magic of a dream-city in a country of wide horizons.
But the Khan, indicating with a sweep of his arm the limitless time at their disposal, declared that a matter so trifling could very well wait till the Presence and the officer Sahibs had refreshed themselves. "It is well known among our people, Hazúr," he concluded, "that your Honour regardeth not food or rest when work remaineth to be done.
The rest vanished; there only remained, up yonder, as in a limitless heaven, the extraordinary creations of the master's art. That which at first surprised one was that the painter should have been the sole artisan of the mighty work. No marble cutters, no bronze workers, no gilders, no one of another calling had intervened.
In this way, economists said, an immense field was opened for production and consumption, and in this way an era of limitless wealth for mankind was at hand. However, these great hopes vanished as fast as technical knowledge spread abroad.
If that were so, then she wished that her spirit might go with his spirit, up through all that limitless blue, away and away and away, and never stop, and never tire and never feel anything but friendship like warm, bright sunshine! Down at the cabin a sound a cry, a shout startled her. She brushed her hand across her eyes and looked down.
According to our view, on the other hand, Brahman, which has for its body all sentient and non-sentient beings, whether in their subtle or their gross state, is always in its effected as well as in its causal condition free from all shadow of imperfection, and a limitless ocean as it were of all exalted qualities.
He tasted for the first time since his return to France a few minutes of delicious peace away from his restless and artificial life, as he lay pressed to his old mother's heart, in the deep silence of night and of the country which one feels hovering over him in limitless space; the only sounds the beating of that old faithful heart and the swing of the pendulum of the ancient clock in the corner.
What lay before him was a brief pilgrimage perchance numbering only a few years here on earth, and the limitless eternity which would never end. How small and trivial was the former in comparison with the latter, which had no termination!
They saw only a limitless plain of grey about them, and heard a murmur as of the sea rolling around it. "This gaol is too big," whispered Eve, and they took hands. The man trembled. Together they moved into the fog, seeking an outlet. At the end of an hour or so they stumbled on a seat, and sat down for awhile to share the bread and sausage, and drink the gin.
The annual epidemic was on the decline, and the season of business and pleasure in the "Crescent City" was about commencing. Already the up-river steamers were afloat on all the tributary streams of the mighty Mississippi, laden with the produce of its almost limitless valley, and converging towards the great Southern entrepot of American commerce.
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