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Higher and higher the shadows climbed till the tall minaret stood out alone, a sentinel and a flaming sword. A hundred sooty figures toiled and grovelled in the ground. In the sweat of their faces shall they eat bread. The future of Mesopotamia with its enormous productive potentialities is a subject fraught with great interest to all those who have studied her past.
I will plant your standard; and when you see it wave from yon highest minaret, you may gain courage, and rally round it!" One of the officers now came forward: "General," he said, "we neither fear the courage, nor arms, the open attack, nor secret ambush of the Moslems.
A local effort against Nebi Samwil was easily repulsed, but the 60th Division reported that the enemy had in the past few days continued his shelling of the Mosque, and had added to his destruction of that sacred place by demolishing the minaret by gunfire.
The Christian Roman and Byzantine work is round-arched, with single and well-proportioned shafts; capitals imitated from classical Roman; mouldings more or less so; and large surfaces of walls entirely covered with imagery, mosaic, and paintings, whether of scripture history or of sacred symbols. He retains the dome, and adds the minaret. All is done with exquisite refinement.
There was a vulture on top of the minaret, and kites and crows those inevitable harbingers of man were already busy with the day's work. The village Arabs are perfunctory about prayer, unless unctuous strangers are in sight, who might criticize.
Tower and minaret were like inverted cups of ruddy gold, and the streets all velvet dust, as Pango Dooni, guided by Cushnan Di, halted at the wood of wild peaches, and a great thicket near to the Aqueduct of the Failing Fountain, and looked out towards the Palace of the Dakoon.
The temple itself is a monument to the whole, while each minaret commemorates the downfall of some scientific dogma, and the consequent release of the human mind from its thralldom. The limit of man's power over his environment has been extended again and again; and even in your day, Mr.
But I never for an instant have supposed that this concentrated moment of devotion was more holy or more beautiful than when one cry from a minaret hushes a Mohammedan city to prayer, or when, at sunset, the low invocation, "Oh! the gem in the lotus oh! the gem in the lotus," goes murmuring, like the cooing of many doves, across the vast surface of Thibet.
Breathing deep, Lanyard braced knees and feet against the wall, worried, heaved, hauled, squirmed like a mad thing, in the end rolled over the top and fell at length upon the roof, panting, trembling, bathed in sweat, temporarily tormented by impulses to retch. By degrees regaining physical control, he sat up, took his bearings, and crept toward the foot of the minaret.
We occupied fifty-cent seats at the theater occasionally, and often from dizzying heights at the opera would gaze down into the minaret boxes below, while I recalled with a little feeling of triumph that far-distant time when I had sat thus emblazoned and imprisoned. I had cut loose at last. I was proud of myself. In the secret of my soul I strutted. I was like a boy in his first long trousers.
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