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Shortly after we reached the Esplanade, carriages occupied by the women of the Sultan's harem began to appear, coming out from the palace grounds and driving up and down the roadway. Only a few of the women were closely veiled, a majority of them wearing an apology for veiling, merely a strip of white lace covering the forehead down to the eyebrows.
He was about to speak, to demand an explanation, when there was a second ripping sound. "Look out!" cried Thacher sharply. Andy saw what was happening. The canvas strip that had torn free lengthwise was now splitting its breadth. In another moment a mere filament of cloth would hold Andy suspended. He must act, and act quickly, or take a plunge sixty feet down.
These are some of the obstacles to determining one's position astronomically in an Arctic winter; while in summer, there being no night, one is dependent upon the sun alone. The mean temperature for November was -23.3 degrees and the lowest noted -49 degrees. We ran upon a narrow strip of salt water, apparently an inlet from Cockburn Bay, on the 28th.
It is like breaking up the shrine of the pilgrim; it is robbing a poor traveller of half the reward of his toils; for, strip travelling of its historical illusions, and what a mere fag you make of it! For my part, I gave myself up, during my sojourn in the Alhambra, to all the romantic and fabulous traditions connected with the pile.
Henry I. gave his only daughter Maude in marriage to Henry V., Emperor of Germany, a rebellious son, who had taken advantage of the sentence of excommunication on his father, to strip him of his domains, and absolutely reduce him to beggary.
This strip is about 200 feet wide, 300 long and from 3 to 20 feet deep. What queer turn the flood took to thus spare this section, when the surrounding territory was covered with mud, stones and other material, is a mystery. It is, however, one of the remarkable turns of the flood. The German Catholic Church is standing, but is in an exceedingly shaky condition and may fall at any minute.
The speech was followed by a lively dialogue between Mamcuna and the cacique, after which the latter turned to me and said, as coolly as if he were asking me to be seated: "The queen commands you to strip." "Commands me to strip! What do you mean?" "What I say; you have to strip undress, take off your clothes." "You are joking." "Joking!
They talked, while they dined, of the possibility of the California move, and Wolf afterward went down to the furnace. When the fire was banked for the night, he watched the last of the dinner clearance, and they went across the cold dark strip of land between their house and a neighbour's, to play three exciting rubbers of bridge.
She wouldn't have it in a pocket, would she? Women don't have pockets in their party frocks, do they?" Disregarding his questions she asked one herself: "You say it is a small strip of paper, and that probably it is rolled up into a wad about the size of a hazelnut?" "It was rolled up so when Westerfeltner parted from it that's all I can tell you. Why do you ask that?"
The time and place, abroad, to be fixed in a letter from my hand when I am safe on the Continent, and that letter to contain a strip of paper measuring accurately the length of my sword. Those are my terms. Inform me if you accept them Yes or No."
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