 | 1849 - 720 pages
...— its receding rays were gradually withdrawn, like a transparent veil of light, from the landscape. Over the pure cloudless sky was the glow of the last light. The great mound threw its dark shadow far across the plain. In the distance, and beyond the Zab, Keshaf,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1860 - 796 pages
...; its receding rays were gradually withdrawn, like a transparent veil of light from the landscape. Over the pure cloudless sky was the glow of the last light. The great mouiul threw its dark shadow far across the plain. In the distance, and beyond the Zab, Eeshaf,... | |
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... of light from the landscape. Over the pure cloudless sky was the glow of the last light. The great mound threw its dark shadow far across the plain. In the distance, and beyond the Zab, Keshaf, another venerable ruin, rose indistinctly into the evening... 
