Baedeker

There was a street of columns a hundred and fifty yards in length.

Bliss and Baedeker mention five churches; the Pere Khoury told us he had evidence of the existence of eight, for which almost disproportionate number the bishopric may account.

The piety of to-day takes another form.

Schumacher, in a valuable monograph, eighteen ninety-five, relates that the former Kuri, Pater Bever, describing his ten years' experience among the people, related that the hardest things to teach them had not been to bring their sabres and other weapons into church, and not to greet him, if they chanced to arrive while service was proceeding, with the usual respectful but loud-voiced, "Marhaba, Jakimer"—"May thy path be broad, O priest!" When he enunciated the teaching, "Love your enemies, do good to those that hate you," an old Sheik called out, "Halt, priest! You can preach that to the old women." In certain respects the people of Madaba stand higher than the Christians west of the Jordan, and offences against morality are very rare.

Titanic forces taking birth in diverse seasons, diverse climes, for we are ancients of the earth and in the morning of the times.

Tristram, after his second visit in the year 1872, returned to England, declaring that the whole question continued to be an insoluble mystery.

Even the name gave no clue, and such meaning as it may even have had as Umshita, mother of winter, presumably so called as affording winter shelter for the flocks, is now subtracted, for although the spelling of Mashita or Mishita has been employed up to the present, even by the precise Baedeker in his English edition of 1900, the derivation is now declared fanciful, and Imshada the more accurate rendering of the name.

That the problem is a difficult one is the more obvious from the very fact that it has none of the complications which beset the archaeologist elsewhere.

"However, you won't," said Edith, adroitly changing the subject, seeing her husband get deeper out of his depth.

Most of the evening, Madame Frabelle read up Baedeker to the immense astonishment of Bruce, who had never before thought of regarding the river from the historical and geographical point of view.

The next day, which was fine if not warm, the two started off with a certain amount of bustle and a bundle of rugs.

Madame Frabelle in a short skirt with a maritime touch about the collar and what she called a suitable hat and a dark blue motor veil.

What I Found Out by an English Governess shares a corner with the recreations of a country parson.

They are followed by Villette and Baedeker's Switzerland.

Something will have to be done about it, but I am wondering what is to be done.

If I gave you the impression that my books were precisely arranged in their old shelves, I misled you.

Indeed, the more I survey it, the more I feel that my library is sufficiently ornamental as it stands.

Any reassembling of the books might spoil the color scheme.

Baedeker's Switzerland and Villette are both in red, a color which is nearly caught up again after an interlude in blue by a volume of Browning and Jevons' Elementary Logic.

We had a woman here only yesterday who said, how pretty your books look.

There was a street of columns 150 yards in length.

Bliss and Baedeker mentioned five churches.

The Pere Hurry told us he had evidence of the existence of eight, for which almost disproportionate number the bishopric may account.

The piety of today takes another form.

For various reasons, possibly the accounts of discord with the Bedu, possibly even some diplomacy on the part of the family here, they have not so far arrived, and some two hundred immigrants who came in 1895 were passed on southward.

There seems to be some difference of opinion as to the extent of the population.

Baedeker giving it at three hundred.

Schumacher, whose very interesting monograph is the only other available source of information, at between fifteen and sixteen hundred souls, including some score of fellaheen, who serve as laborers and plowmen, and a few Muslim shopkeepers.

One moment you sauntered on Upper Broadway, and the next on the Corso or Rue de la Paix.

Wyatt beat every journey of Cook's, knocked spots out of Baedeker's books.

He stepped from his doorway direct into Norway.

He hopped in a trice to Ceylon.