 ... prays with his face to Mecca, the drums, a.nd banners, and gaudy idols, the devotee swinging in the air, the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks...  Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome - Page 639by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 898 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1842 - 654 pages
...tracery of the mosque, where the imaum prayed with his face to Mecca ; the drums, and banners, and guady idols ; the devotee swinging in the air; the graceful...elephants with their canopies of state ; the gorgeous palankin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady — all those things were to him as... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...the thatched roof of the peasant's hut, and the rich tracery of the mosque, where the imaum prayed with his face' to Mecca; the drums, and banners, and...elephants with their canopies of state; the gorgeous palankin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady—all those things were to him as the... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...the thatched roof of the peasant's hut, and the rich tracery of the mosque, where the imaum prayed with his face to Mecca; the drums, and banners, and...elephants with their canopies of state ; the gorgeous palankin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady — all those things were to him as... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...; the thatched roof of the peasant's hut, and the rich tracery of the mosque where the imaum prayed with his face to Mecca ; the drums, and banners, and...the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river side ; the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect; the turbans and the flowing... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1851 - 902 pages
...; the thatched roof of the peasant's hut, and the rich tracery of the mosque where the imaum prayed with his face to Mecca ; the drums, and banners, and...the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river side ; the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect ; the turbans and the flowing... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1851 - 882 pages
...; the thatched roof of the peasant's hut, and the rich tracery of the mosque where the imaum prayed with his face to Mecca ; the drums, and banners, and...the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river side ; the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect ; the turbans and the flowing... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...the air ; the graceful maiden, with the pitcher oa her head, descending the steps to the river side ; ruins.6 I confess I feel a degree of disgust, almost...Whig party, about one hundred and sixty of whom l litter of the lady, all these things were to him as the ob jects amid which his own life had been passed,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 pages
...the peasant's hut, and the rich tracery of the mosque, where the imaum prayed with his face toward Mecca; the drums, and banners, and gaudy idols ; the...the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river side; the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect; the turbans and the flowing... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pages
...the peasant's hut, and the rich tracery of the mosque, where the imaum prayed with his face toward Mecca ; the drums, and banners, and gaudy idols ;...the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river side ; the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect ; the turbans and the flowing... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 pages
...crowds assemble, the thatched roof of the peasant's hut, the rich tracery of the mosque where the imaum prays with his face to Mecca, the drums, and banners,...streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the M 4 spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin... | |
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