 | Charles Leonard Irby, James Mangles, John Barker - Egypt - 1823 - 634 pages
...avenue to Petra on this side. It is impossible to conceive any thing more awful or sublime than such an approach; the width is not more than just sufficient...oleander, grow luxuriantly about the road, rendering the passages often difficult; in some places they hang down most beautifully from the cliffs and crevices... | |
 | Charles Leonard Irby, James Mangles, John Barker - Egypt - 1823 - 626 pages
...avenue to Petra on this side. It is impossible to conceive any thing more awful or sublime than such an approach; the width is not more than just sufficient...habitation, added much to the singularity of this scene (71). The tamarisk, the wild fig, and the oleander, grow luxuriantly about the road, rendering the... | |
 | English poetry - 1824 - 856 pages
...yards together, and there is little more light than in a cavern. " The screaming of the eagles, hawks, hawks, and owls, who were soaring above our heads...oleander, grow luxuriantly about the road, rendering the passages often difficult ; in some places they hang down most beautifully from the cliffs and crevices... | |
 | 1824 - 600 pages
...than in a cavern. The screaming of the eagles, hawks, and owls who were soaring above our heads iu considerable numbers, seemingly annoyed at any one...oleander grow luxuriantly about the road, rendering the passages often difficult : in some places, they hang down most beautifully from the cliffs and crevices... | |
 | Science - 1828 - 406 pages
...degree, that, without their absolutely meeting, the sky is intercepted and completely shut out for 100 yards together, and there is little more light than...seemingly annoyed at any one approaching their lonely habitations, added much to the singularity of this scene. The tamarisk, the wild-fig, and the oleander,... | |
 | Science - 1828 - 420 pages
...degree, that, without their absolutely meeting, the sky is intercepted and completely shut out for 100 yards together, and there is little more light than...seemingly annoyed at any one approaching their lonely habitations, added much to the singularity of this scene. The tamarisk, the wild-fig, and the oleander,... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Africa - 1831 - 362 pages
...avenue to Petra on this side. It is impossible to conceive any thing more awful or sublime than such an approach. The width is not more than just sufficient...oleander, grow luxuriantly about the road, rendering the passages often difficult: in some places, they hang down most beautifully from the cliffs and crevices... | |
 | Religion - 1833 - 804 pages
...absolutely meeting, the sky is intercepted and completely shut out for one hundred yards together, ami there is little more light than in a cavern. The screaming...oleander, grow luxuriantly about the road, rendering the passages often difficult ; iii some places, they hang down most beautifully from the clifls and crevices... | |
 | 1835 - 616 pages
...prophetic picture — ' The screaming of the eagles, hawks, and owls, which were soaring above their heads in considerable numbers, seemingly annoyed at...lonely habitation, added much to the singularity of the scene. The fields in the immediate vicinity of Edom are, according to the observation of Burckhardt,... | |
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... yards together, and there is little more light than in a cavern. The screaming of the eagles, hawks, and owls who were soaring above our heads in considerable numbers, seemingly annoyed at any one approaching their lonely habitation, added much to... 
