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And oh, what a Babel-like jargon of tongues alongside with a hundred church bells ringing and clanging around and the fierce though harmless quarrelling of the Maltese boatmen! And, when under a powerful sun such as one can experience at Malta in, say, July, and before we reach the top, how often do Byron's truthful words occur to us: "Adieu, ye joys of La Valette! Adieu, scirocco, sun, and sweat!
Take the mild, soft, relaxing climate even the scirocco does not touch me. Also, every evening at half-past eight, Robert and I are sitting under the moon in the great piazza of St. Mark, taking excellent coffee and reading the French papers. If it were possible to draw more largely on Mrs.
This is the melodrama of Venetian moonlight; and if a single impression of the night has to be retained from one visit to Venice, those are fortunate who chance upon a full moon of fair weather. Yet I know not whether some quieter and soberer effects are not more thrilling. To-night, for example, the waning moon will rise late through veils of scirocco.
But these very conditions have entailed certain drawbacks drawbacks which Buckle would have lovingly enumerated to prove their influence upon the habits and disposition of the Tarentines. That marine situation . . . only think of three thousand years of scirocco, summer and winter! It is alone enough to explain molle Tarentum enough to drain the energy out of a Newfoundland puppy!
In a tempest they thundered by, in a whirlwind, a scirocco of tan; her cheeks bore the kiss of an Eastern sun, and the sand-storms of her native desert were her satellites. What was Coralie, with her pink silk, her golden hair and slender limbs, beside this magnificent, full-figured Cleopatra? In a twinkling we were scouring the desert she and I and the two coal-black horses.
As to how far that was the result of his broken rest he did not know, but he feared that it was one more of those scirocco days that threatened.
She looked out to sea, and added: "I think the wind is changing to scirocco. They may be later." "He's gone down again!" "I never saw you so interested in a diver before," said the mother. "What made you begin to look at the boy?" "He was singing. I heard him, and his voice made me feel " She paused. "What?" said her mother. "I don't know. Un poco diavolesca, I'm afraid. One thing, though!
The insufficient gas lamps flickered in the wind as though they would go out, and the few pedestrians who hurried along clung closely to the wall as though it offered them some protection from the moist scirocco.
At morn 'tis not with empty hands The country pays its call, but some Bring honey in its native comb, Or cones of cheese; some think as good A sleepy dormouse from the wood; And honest tenants' big girls bring Baskets with "mother's offering." The visit to the country in the season of the "mad star" and the scirocco was as necessary to the ancient Roman as is his villeggiatura to the modern.
And we plodded through the dreary dull-grey scene of drizzling scirocco Till, when all veiled sank in darkling air, Naught but the welkin and the wave was there. Next morning showed us to port the Cone of Maritimo: it outlies Marsala, whose wine caused the blinding of Polyphemus, and since that time has brought on many an attack of liver. The world then became to us pontus et aer.
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