| John Murray - 1919 - 1012 pages
...other places of pilgrimage, so much so that rinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred...through the press of holy mendicants and not less holy hulls. The broad and stately llights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places... | |
| Charles Henshaw Ward - 1920 - 584 pages
...of human beings were 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. (3) The traveler could scarcely make his way through the press of holy mendicants and not less holy... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1921 - 542 pages
...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 traveler could scarcely make his way through the press of holy mendicants and not less holy bulls.... | |
| Alden Hyde Clark - 1922 - 222 pages
...Macaulay says about Benares, and I am sure you will feel that it applies to what you are seeing today. "The traveller could scarcely make his way through...mendicants and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges... | |
| 1924 - 1010 pages
...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...mendicants and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges... | |
| Warner Taylor - 1927 - 668 pages
...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...mendicants and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges... | |
| James Kennedy - 1993 - 428 pages
...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....press of holy mendicants and not less holy bulls. The firoad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing places... | |
| William Ferguson Beatson Laurie - 1999 - 398 pages
...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...mendicants, and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately flights of steps, which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges,... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer - 2000 - 768 pages
...million of human beings was crowded into thai labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred...mendicants, and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges,... | |
| 1842 - 576 pages
...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...mendicants, and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges,... | |
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