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The setting out of the great caravan which bears this cloth to its destination is celebrated by a general festival, during the continuance of which the fanaticism of the Mohammedans fully displays itself.
The great city of Thebes stood to Ethiopia, as well as to Egypt, in the same relation as that occupied by Rome to mediæval Christendom: the construction of her temples and palaces, and the vast population of priests and their thousands of attendants, in addition to the presence of the court, must have attracted thither multitudes of merchants, artists, artisans, and indeed travellers from all parts; for it was the centre in those days of civilisation and commerce; and it was easy of access, for an opening in the Arabian Sea afforded communication with the port of Kosseir on the Red Sea; while on the other side, the city was the best starting-point for the caravan routes across the desert to the three chief oases (the Greater, the Lesser, and that of Ammon), and to the interior of Africa.
But if you come across some of the old-time caravan roads, or a place where there has been an encampment, then, however wild the surroundings and otherwise far away from civilized life, you will very likely find a{82} Sparrow or two looking after some of the droppings from the nose-bags.
The Turks have a proverb "The dog barks, but the caravan passes on"; and in this case the necessity for ending the existing state of affairs was so overwhelming, that the appeals, threats, and forebodings of the opponents of reform were powerless to prevent, or even retard, its progress.
But there was recompense in the joy with which Herbert would come home of a night and tell me of these changes, little imagining that he told me no news, and would sketch airy pictures of himself conducting Clara Barley to the land of the Arabian Nights, and of me going out to join them (with a caravan of camels, I believe), and of our all going up the Nile and seeing wonders.
"I am a scientist and a virtuous woman," Abra cried in Natabean, but her cries went unheeded as the moon and its caravan of stars crossed the blue desert.
He was following the old idea of controlling and taking toll from the caravan routes, money being his prime objective in the Crusade.
You must join us for a few weeks of thrilling caravan travel.
" She has a point: The dogs bark, the caravan passes.
txt Kosovo update: 1) NATO admitted that one of its planes bombed a caravan of ethnic Albanians.
" NATO said the plane's crew mistook the caravan for a Serbian military convoy.
When NATO bombs what it thought was a military convoy and instead hits a caravan of civilian refugees, killing scores, it's a man-bites-dog story.
You'll spend the whole trip with your eyes glued to the road and occasionally your rearview mirror, in which a caravan of Italian drivers will be tailgating you.
" On the hostility she was said to have generated, Brown said: "The dogs bark and the caravan moves on, right?
She seems unsure whether to stay on message--"The dogs bark and the caravan moves on," she told London's Sunday Telegraph --or to make negative campaigning an issue.
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