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After that we started again, and came to a vast plain of white sand and rock, which lasted until we reached Jayrud. It was about fifteen hours' ride from Damascus. A little way outside Jayrud we were caught in a sand-storm, which I shall never forget. Richard and I were both well mounted. When it came on, he made a sign in which direction I was to go.
Of such lustrous beauty was she that beside her, the Princess Goorelka as Shibli Bagarag first beheld her, would have paled like a morning moon; even Noorna had waned as Both a flower in fierce heat; and the Queen of Enchantments was but the sun behind a sand-storm, in comparison with that effulgent damsel on the length of the purple couch.
Interesting was it to note that his energy was all-sufficient; the Berliners seemed to regard his activity as Arabs regard a sand-storm, as predestined and irresistible, and the universal verdict now justifies his course, both on sanitary and artistic grounds. The same thing may be said, on the whole, of the influence he has exerted on the great adornments of his capital city.
Another later telegram proclaimed that the Canal had been reached, British men-of-war sunk, the Englishmen routed with a loss to the Turks of five men and two camels, "which were afterwards recovered." "But," added the telegram, "a terrible sand-storm having arisen, the glorious army takes it as the wish of Allah not to continue the attack, and has therefore withdrawn in triumph."
One question was piled upon the other by the enthusiastic girl Slim had tried to stop her talking that he might answer her, but he might as well have tried to check a sand-storm. Out of breath and puffing, he finally gasped: "Whoa! whoa! Yes'm. I've heard of them Kansas cyclones, but I ain't never got hit with one afore." Polly started all over again.
Settling a mental debate about a backward flight, he drove across the land so foreign to his eyes and affections, and breasted a strong tide of wishes that it were in a contrary direction. He would rather have looked upon the desert under a sand-storm, or upon a London suburb yet he looked thirstingly.
She rode beside him, still as the desert before the sand-storm breaks, her soul seared with white-hot iron that knows no saving grace of sob or tear. She rode as Boadicea might have ridden to battle; there was not a yielding line in her body. But over and over in her woman’s heart there rang the cry: "I am so tired! If the long night would but come!" Peter drew out his watch.
They were nearly starving and terribly exhausted, having been lost in a sand-storm for three days and nights. Pitying their sufferings, Domini insisted on entertaining them. The men must sup with the Arabs, the officer must dine with herself and Androvsky. The officer accepted with gratitude, and went off to make his toilet.
As Frank was about to raise the glass to his eye, the doctor, who was some little distance in advance, checked his camel for them to come up alongside, and pointed the while away to where in the distance about a dozen column-like clouds were spinning round as if upon pivots, while they advanced as if to cross their course. "A sand-storm," said the professor.
A sand-storm, unprotected as we are " "Men with stern work to do cannot have time to fear the future!" Leclair grew silent. Rrisa alone was speaking, now. With a call of "Ya Latif!" He ended with another prostration and the usual drawing down of the hands over the face.
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