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" I was not surprised that the Arabs had been amazed and terrified at this apparition. It required no stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of the earth, might well... "
Hogg's Instructor - Page 61
1849
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

Arminianism - 1850 - 704 pages
...was rounded and without ornament at the top." The Arab mind was sufficiently impressed and amazed. " One of the workmen, on catching the first glimpse...off towards Mosul as fast as his legs could carry him." All who saw the head cried out, " There is no God but God, and Mohammed is His Prophet ! " "...
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 24

United States - 1849 - 602 pages
...strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from iho bowels of the earth, miarht well have belonged to one of those fearful beings which are pictured in the traditions 'if the country, as appearing to mortals, slowly ascending from the regions below. One of the workmen,...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volumes 16-17

1849 - 608 pages
...It required no stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. 1 his gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of...pictured in the traditions of the country as appearing to mortitls, slowly ascending from the regions below. One of the workmen, on catching the first glimpse...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 24

United States - 1849 - 596 pages
...stretch of inniginfition to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with nge, thus rising from the bowels of the earth, might well...thrown down his basket and run off towards Mosul, ns fast as his legs could carry him. T learnt this with regret, as I anticipated the consequences....
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Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to ..., Issue 81, Volume 1

Sir Austen Henry Layard - Assyria - 1849 - 468 pages
...apparition. It required no stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of...glimpse of the monster, had thrown down his basket and had run off towards Mosul as fast as his legs could carry him. I learnt this with regret as I anticipated...
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Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the ..., Volume 1

Austen Henry Layard - Assyria - 1849 - 386 pages
...apparition. It required no stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of...glimpse of the monster, had thrown down his basket arid run off' towards Mosul as fast as his legs could carry him. I learnt this with regret, as I anticipated...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 20

American periodicals - 1849 - 638 pages
...stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with ige, thus rising from the bowels of the earth, might well...of the monster, had thrown down his basket and run oil" towards Mosul as fast as his legs could carry him. I learnt this with regret, as I anticipated...
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Stryker's American Register and Magazine, Volume 2

History, Modern - 1849 - 620 pages
...required no stretch of the imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of...ascending from the regions below. One of the workmen, on first catching a glimpse of the monster, had thrown down his basket, and run oft to Mosul as fast as...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 39

1849 - 778 pages
...apparition. It required no stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of...traditions of the country, as appearing to mortals, slowly rising from the regions below. One of the workmen, on catching the first glimpse of the monster, had...
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The Journal of Education for Upper Canada, Volume 2

Education - 1849 - 206 pages
...It required no strength of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of...pictured in the traditions of the country as appearing to monals, slowly ascending from the regions below, ll was sometime before the sheikh could be prevailed...
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