 It was commonly believed that half a million of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines and minarets and balconies and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely make...  India on the March - Page 13by Alden Hyde Clark - 1922 - 179 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pages
...shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely make his way through...mendicants and not less holy bulls. The broad and stcitely flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the... | |
 | Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 544 pages
...is exceedingly dense. and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely make his way through...which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathI ing-places along the Ganges, were worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerable multitude... | |
 | 1868 - 598 pages
...shrines and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely make his way through...which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing places along the Ganges, were worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerable multitude of... | |
 | Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 452 pages
...is exceedingly dense. and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely make his way through...mendicants, and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately nights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges,... | |
 | Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 456 pages
...is exceedingly dense. and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely make his way through...mendicants, and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately nights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges,... | |
 | Edward Thomson - 1870 - 276 pages
...minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveler could scarcely make his way through the press of holy...not less holy bulls. The broad and stately flights 4^f steps which descended from these swarming haunts, and the bathing places along the Ganges, were... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 pages
...shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely make his way through...mendicants and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately nights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges were... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1873 - 494 pages
...balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarce make his way through the press of holy mendicants and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately nights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 pages
...shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely make his way through...these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Granges were worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerable multitude of worshippers. The schools... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 876 pages
...shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely make his way through the press of holy mendicants and not less holy bolls. The broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places... | |
| |
