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...nd streans eddying in silver; over huge mounds of sand, where the tents of Bedouins stood in white clusters; over lakes smooth as the cheeks of sleepi... ... fire to the solitudes of the Desert afar, and the wild Arab and wandering Bedouins and caravans of pilgrimage. Distant cities asked the reason of tha...

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...ed Georges. “There are many more Abyssinians, and Giaours, and Vechabites, Bedouins, and Cophs. But all that kind of animal is very uninteresting, and...

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...e spoke volumes. “It is possible that you have asked assistance from these Bedouins?” said du Tillet, “these cut-throats of commerce, full of infamous...

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...of Jerusalem. This travelling through the desert un- der the protection of Bedouins was, in idea, pleasant enough; and I must here declare that I did ... ...without settling the bill.” I could not contest the point, so I ordered my Bedouins for the appointed day, exactly as I would send for a ticket- porte... ...ses and an Arab groom at five in the morning, and we were to encounter our Bedouins outside the gate of St. Stephen, down the hill, where the road tur... ...agoman how it had come to pass that our party was to be enlarged. “But the Bedouins will expect full pay for both,” said he, alarmed. Men in that clas... ...st stage, we would bribe him to make an exchange. And then we started. The Bedouins were not with us, but we were to meet them, as I have said before,... ...d our faces steadily towards the mountains of Moab. Hitherto we had met no Bedouins, and I interrogated my dragoman about them more than once; but he ... ... very hard bargain. He wanted forty shillings, the price of a pair of live Bedouins, for the ac- commodation, and declared that, even then, he should ... ...self a Latin or Roman Catholic. At the tail of the line we encountered two Bedouins, who were in charge of the caravan, and Joseph at once addressed t... ...n, back to Jerusalem and thence to Jaffa. I had much to tell also of those Bedouins; how they were essentially true to us, but teased us almost to fre...

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...ct men’s gaze, to excite desires and evil thoughts? Paris is a desert with Bedouins; Paris is the only place in the world where those who must work fo...

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...gel, and I am sure I do not know what I — sabring right and left among the Bedouins — can have done to merit your being revealed to me, unless, indeed...

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...as Carlyle self, “the respect due unto thee.” In a life-and-death war with Bedouins, cruel things could not fail; but neither are acts of mercy, of no...

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...ies perhaps sufficed as the common attire of both sexes amongst the Hebrew Bedouins. It extended downwards to the knees, and upwards to the hips, abou... ...was a practice of Patriarchal descent amongst both the African and Asiatic Bedouins, to suspend rings of iron, wood, or braided hair, from the nostril... ...origin in a circumstance of their early nomadic life. It is usual with the Bedouins to lead the camel, when disposed to be restive, by a rope or a bel... ...all spectacles that could be offensive to female delicacy. From the Hebrew Bedouins, this custom passed to all the nations of Asia; Medes, Persians, L...

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...p, out pops the head of a slatternly woman from the countess’s window. The Bedouins camp within Pharaoh’s palace walls, and the old war-ship is given ...

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...ere stalking silent, wrapped in their many- coloured sleeping clothes like Bedouins in Bible pictures. It was mortal still and solemn and chilly, and ...

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...bands of straw. At all the more public pumps there is much cooling of bare feet, together with much bubbling and gurgling of drinking with hand to spo...

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...wooden cabins, and some made of reeds, showed the quarter inhabited by the Bedouins. Soon Djeddah was shut out from view by the shadows of night, and ...

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...ses set over the Jews at their departure out of Egypt. The religion of the Bedouins, as the Sire de Joinville reports, amongst other things, en- joine... ...de Joinville, as credible a witness as any other whatever, tells us of the Bedouins, a nation amongst the Saracens, with whom the king St. Louis had t...

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...ed thousand francs within a year.” “I see no harm in getting it out of the Bedouins,” said the Alsatian calmly. “It was always done under the Empire—”...

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...on by the old travellers, and which throws a gloom over the spirits of all Bedouins, and of every cafila or cara- van. We all know what a sensation of...

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...nearly the whole of India in the ninth. The simple shepherds and wandering Bedouins of Arabia, are transformed, as if by a magician’s wand, into the f...