| Edward H. Hilton - 1894 - 254 pages
...paroquets of bright colours flitting about. And, in one place, there was an immense Immmam, or Turkish bath of white marble the arches intersecting each other...Cornelian and blood-stone; and, in every corner of the place, there were little fountains; even during the hot winds, they say, it is cool from the quantity... | |
| Henry Morris - Governors - 1896 - 186 pages
...about. In one palace there was an immense bntbroona of white marble, the arches intersecting each other4 and the marble inlaid with cornelian and bloodstone;...corner of the palace there were little fountains." She prouounces it a very garden of delights. Very different were the scenes tliey beheld on their starting... | |
| Edith E. Cuthell - India - 1905 - 330 pages
...In one palace an uncommon bathroom, white marble arches intersecting each other in all directions, marble inlaid with cornelian and bloodstone, and in every corner of the palace little fountains." Can you wonder that, remembering this glowing description, nothing would do but... | |
| Henry George Keene - Allahabad (India) - 2000 - 134 pages
...intersecting one nnnther . . . and the marble inlaid with cornelian and bloodstuue; in every corner . . . there were little fountains; even during the hot winds,...say it is cool from the quantity of water playing." These buildings were the last captured in Ilavelock's advance. The enemy however reoccupied them between... | |
| Sidney Hay - History - 2001 - 248 pages
...of bright colours flitting about. And in one place there was an 102 immense hammam or Turkish bath of white marble, the arches intersecting each other...winds, they say, it is cool from the quantity of water in the fountains playing ; and in the verandah there were fifty trays of fruits and flowers laid out... | |
| P. C. Mukherji - Architecture - 2003 - 284 pages
...white marble, the archea intersecting each other in all directions, and the marble inlaid with coruehon and bloodstone ; and in every corner of the palace there were little fountains ; .yen during the ht winds, they say, it is cool from the quantity of water playing. Hon'ble Miss Eden'a... | |
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