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...e heat and the knowledge of having lost his money and health and lamed his horses would sober The Boy down, and he would stand steady. In ninety-nine ... ...on; had mastered the thieves’-patter of the changars; had taken a Eusufzai horse-thief alone near Attock; and had stood under the mimbar-board of a Bo... ...for the breakfast-table, and who blacked—actually blacked—the hoofs of his horse like a Lon- don coachman! The turnout of Miss Youghal’s Arab was a wo... ... lights in “Benmore,” with his toes tingling for a waltz and his head in a horse-blanket, is rather amusing. One of these days, Strickland is going to... ...ry with the General for forcing his hand; so he said nothing, but held the horse’s head and pre- pared to thrash the General as some sort of satisfact... ...e laugh, and T rejago, knowing that, for all practical pur- poses, the old Arabian Nights are good guides, went forward to the window, and whispered t...

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...from him named Theseis. The Abantes first used it, not in imitation of the Arabians, as some imagine, nor of the Mysians, but be- cause they were a wa... ...anies, each company consisting of three thousand footmen and three hundred horse. These companies were called legions, because they were the choicest ... ...ered in the circus maximus at all other times, and only at 46 V olume One horse-races is exposed to public view; others merely say that this god had ... ... a gallant man, eager of honor, and of aspiring thoughts, being mounted on horseback, was galloping on before the rest, and mired his horse here, and,... ...ors, and the legions were in- creased to six thousand foot and six hundred horse; then they divided the people into three tribes; the first, from Romu... ...o marched to Tigranes, and Sextilius, also, to disperse a great company of Arabians then on the way to the king. Sextilius fell upon the Arabians in t... ...Medes and Adiabenians, under their respective kings, joined him; when many Arabians came up from the sea be- yond Babylon; and from the Caspian sea, t... ...e help of arms, succeeded in reducing the barbarians. For the kings of the Arabians came to him, tendering what they had, and with them the Sophenians... ...s Media, and making the South and Red Sea his own through the kings of the Arabians. He shattered the power of the kings, and narrowly missed their pe...

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...nstrous pillars–of beauty and strength. The Colonel him self, riding on a horse, at the head of the finest Regiment in the world, would attend to Kim... ... you a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and’ dropping into English–‘nine hundred devils.’ ‘Ah,’ said Ki... ...evils.’ ‘Ah,’ said Kim, ‘I shall remember. A Red Bull and a Colo nel on a horse will come, but first, my father said, will come the two men making re... ...g Haroun al Raschid dreamed of; and he lived in a life wild as that of the Arabian Nights, but missionaries and secretaries of charitable societ ies ... ...He was nearly six feet high, dressed in fold upon fold of dingy stuff like horse blanket ing, and not one fold of it could Kim refer to any known tra... ...e railway station, surrounded with arched clois ters, where the camel and horse caravans put up on their return from Central Asia. Here were all mann...

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...; 3dly, through animal beauty and power so often displayed in the class of horses selected for this mail service; 4thly, through the conscious presenc... ...unced insufferable. The air, the freedom of prospect, the proximity to the horses, the *De non apparentibus, etc. **“Snobs,” and its antithesis, “nobs... ...for the scoundrel who drove,—he might sit where he could find a perch. The horses, therefore, being harnessed, solemnly his imperial majesty ascended ... ...gthened the check-strings into a sort of jury-reins communicating with the horses; with these he drove as steadily as Pekin had any right to expect. T... ...enty, had the ad- vantage. Then the public took to bribing, giving fees to horse- keepers, &c., who hired out their persons as warming-pans on the box... .... But why should that delight me? Had he been one of the Calendars in the “Arabian Nights,” and had paid down his eye as the price of his criminal cur... ...upon that fluctuating mirror—rising (like the mocking mirrors of mirage in Arabian deserts) from the fens of death-most of all are reflected the sweet... ... three Calenders, sons of kings, will be found in most selections from the Arabian Nights. A Calender is one of an order of Dervishes founded in the f...

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...ho was his superior. Young men talk a great deal too much in these days of horses, money, taxes, deputies; French conversation is no longer what it wa... ...ettes modelled by genius pursued by creditors (the real explanation of the Arabian myth), superb sketches by our best artists, lids of chests made int... ...igned by Mademoiselle de Fauveau, which proved that the count- ess rode on horseback. Such is a lady’s boudoir in 1837,—an exhibition of the contents ... ...nt the carriage—’the captain.’ Is there a bill to pay—’the captain.’ If my horse is not properly bitted, they must speak to Captain Paz. In short, it ... ...t was he doing at the stables?” “He was showing them how to groom Madame’s horse,” said the man. “He was not pleased with the way Constantin did it.” ... ...ought in low, and we have paid for this barrack with the profits. He knows horses, and he manages to buy and sell at such advantage that my stable rea... ... hotel Laginski. Malaga, to whom this adventure was like a leaf out of the Arabian Nights, was served by Monsieur and Madame Chapuzot in the double ca...

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...owner as he walked, and against the rough side of his steed when he was on horseback. For our young man had a steed which was the observed of all obse... ...s to perform his eight leagues a day. Unfortunately, the qualities of this horse were so well concealed under his strange-colored hide and his unaccou... ...his unaccountable gait, that at a time when everybody was a connoisseur in horseflesh, the appearance of the aforesaid pony at Meung—which place he ha... ...al from himself the ridiculous appearance that such a steed gave him, good horseman as he was. He had sighed deeply, there- fore, when accepting the g... ...in that pure Bearn patois of which Henry IV could never rid himself, “this horse was born in the house of your father about thir- teen years ago, and ... ...nty which reigns in all the details of human life, and by which, as in the Arabian fable, a single pomegranate seed is sufficient to reconstruct a rui...

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...y—only a theat- rical combat, as you could see by the picture in which the horseman was cantering off at three miles an hour, the bull tripping after ... ...ater in the day, came clattering along a smart rider on a prancing Spanish horse; and in the afternoon a few families might be seen in the queer- est ... ...s on shore, had a store of agreeable legends regarding the bulls, men, and horses that had been killed with unbounded profusion in the late en- tertai... ...ffed out of the bay. THE NEXT STAGE was Gibraltar, where we were to change horses. Before sunset we skirted along the dark savage moun- tains of the ... ...of a sensation. If they love the odd and pictur- esque, if they loved the “Arabian Nights” in their youth, let them book themselves on board one of th... ...that poor little blubbering Mahometan:he will never be able to relish the “Arabian Nights” in the original, all his life long. From this scene we rush... ...ehemet Ali?And which is best, to broil or to fry?If it be but to read the “Arabian Nights” again on getting home, it is good to have made this little ... ... the plain beyond, and that was another famous and brilliant scene of the “Arabian Nights. ”The heaven shone 96 Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to G... ... unintelligible Turkish flourish painted on the stern, and the long-tailed Arabian hi- eroglyphics gilt on the paddle-boxes. Our dear friend and com- ...

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...rd this greatly disputed; and it seems now generally agreed, that one good horse-shoe is worth about 2 1/4 Spital sermons. As Leibnitz, though not mur... ...on for some time from his neighbors, by drawing woollen stockings over his horse’s legs, and in that way muffling the clatter which he must else have ... ...mighty Revolution, snorting, whinnying, throwing up their heels, like wild horses in the boundless pampas, and running races of defiance with snipes, ... ...out of a forest at noon-day, laying his hand upon the bridle of the king’s horse, checking him for a mo- ment to say, “Oh, King, thou art betrayed,” a... ...—she mourned over the excesses of her countrymen—she threw herself off her horse to kneel by the dying English soldier, and to comfort him with such m... ...upon that fluctuating mirror—rising (like the mocking mirrors of mirage in Arabian deserts) from the fens of death—most of all are reflected the sweet... ...agan shows proceeded by day. Not that the masters of the world, who rained Arabian odors and per- fumed waters of the most costly description from a t...

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...royed them; the city of T roy was the first time taken by Hercules for the horses promised him by Laomedon, the second time by Agamemnon, by means of ... ...don, the second time by Agamemnon, by means of the celebrated great wooden horse, and the third time by Charidemus, by occasion of a horse falling dow... ...eing put to flight, he was wounded in many parts of his body, and lost his horse, yet, nevertheless, swam across the river Rhone in his armor, with hi... ...red Lusitania, together with four thou- sand targeteers, and seven hundred horse of the Lusitanians themselves, he made war against four Roman general... ...generals, who commanded a hundred and twenty thousand foot, six thou- sand horse, two thousand archers and slingers, and had cit- ies innumerable in t... ...Pompey having now by his forces under the command of Afranius, subdued the Arabians about the mountain Amanus, himself entered Syria, and finding it d... ...ile the body of the army lay before Tyre, he made an excursion against the Arabians who inhabit the Mount Antilibanus, in which he hazarded his life e... ...a had formed a project of dragging her fleet, and setting it afloat in the Arabian Gulf, thus with her sol- diers and her treasure to secure herself a... ... slavery. But the first galleys which were carried over being burnt by the Arabians of Petra, and Antony not knowing but that the army before Actium s...

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...ongregation, and reigned over Israel. 14 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thous... ...emen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cit ies, and with the king at Jer... ... the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance. 16 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received ... ...ght forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the ... ...cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebano... ... the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and sev... ... LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians: 17 And they came up into Judah, an... ...his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehora... ...Philistines. 7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims. 8 And the Ammonites gave ...

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...Five minutes after the new telegram reached the minis- ter, Debray had the horses put to his carriage, and drove to Danglars’ house. “Has your husband... ...ed to have been installed for the last fifty years; and in the stables the horses replied with neighs to the grooms, who spoke to them with much more ... ...s man over all who surrounded him. At precisely six o’clock the clatter of horses’ hoofs was heard at the entrance door; it was our captain of Spahis,... ... this is magnificent! But tell me, count, will your people take care of my horse?” “Do not alarm yourself, my dear Maximilian — they understand.” “I m... ...of the best riders in France, and M. Debray, who both mount the minister’s Arabians; and close on their heels are the horses of Ma- dame Danglars, who... ...t was an Oriental feast that he offered to them, but of such a kind as the Arabian fairies might be supposed to prepare. Every delicious fruit that th... ... “Count,” added Mercedes with a supplicating glance, “there is a beautiful Arabian custom, which makes eternal friends of those who have together eate... ...ught for Albert. Monte Cristo and Haidee took the beverage in the original Arabian manner, that is to say, without sugar. Haidee took the porcelain cu... ...s pistols and carbine, and Ali, stand- ing near him, held one of the small Arabian hatchets, whose form has not varied since the Crusades. Through one...

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...ch I was almost totally unacquainted, unless by early recollections of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments; and not only did I labour under the incapac... ...ng to a historian of their own country, were wont to rebuke their startled horses. “Do you think,” said they, “that King Rich- ard is on the track, th... ...ed by a solemn oath, that he would cause him to be drawn to pieces by wild horses, if he should ever venture to pollute the Christian camp by his pres... ...o, according to all accounts, was of noble birth, but who, having lost his horse, continued to follow as a foot soldier, took the strange resolution o... ... surface of the plain. The dress of the rider and the accoutrements of his horse were peculiarly unfit for the traveller in such a coun- try. A coat o... ..., indeed, no longer the fanatical savages who had burst from the centre of Arabian deserts, with the sabre in one hand and the Koran in the other, to ... ...hem to the fare of the desert, although, since their Syrian conquests, the Arabian simplicity of life frequently gave place to the most unbounded prof... ...ity there was for judging 104 The Talisman personally of the skill of the Arabian physician, and entered the hut with a stateliness of manner calcula... ...to renew the conversation. No locks were seen under the high bonnet of the Arabian, which hid also part of a brow that seemed lofty and expanded, smoo...

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...wn to my farm, settled my family, bought ploughs, harrows, a cart, waggon- horses, cows, and sheep, and, setting seriously to work, be- came in one ha... ...lves; about twenty-two hogs, among them three sows; two mares, and a stone-horse. For my Spaniards, according to my promise, I engaged three Brazil wo... ...as in the Gulf of Persia, where five of our men, venturing on shore on the Arabian side of the gulf, were surrounded by the Arabians, and either all k... ...ast if I say that thirty thousand German or English foot, and ten thousand horse, well managed, could defeat all the forces of China. Nor is there a f... ..., that though we received sufficient provisions both for ourselves and our horses from the country , as belonging to the manda- rin, yet we were oblig... ... greasy as to testify that his honour must be a most exquisite sloven. His horse was a poor, starved, hob- bling creature, and two slaves followed him...

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...us medicine infused into my liquor. Fifteen hundred of the emperor’s largest horses, each about four inches and a half high, were employed to draw me ... ...resh air. The emperor was already descended from the tower, and advancing on horse back towards me, which had like to have cost him dear; for the beas... ...fore him, reared up on its hinder feet: but that prince, who is an excellent horseman, kept his seat, till his attendants ran in, and held the bridle,... ...stance in their chairs; but upon the accident that happened to the emperor’s horse, they alighted, and came near his person, which I am now going to d... ...be employed to instruct me in their language; and lastly, that the emperor’s horses, and those of the nobility and troops of guards, should be frequen... ...t to the right, like the Europeans, nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians, nor from up to down, like the Chinese, but aslant, from one cor...

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...day’s pro ceedings is a sketch of all three; and here it is. We have four horses, and one postilion, who has a very long whip, and drives his team, s... ... Petersburgh in the circle at Astley’s or Franconi’s: only he sits his own horse instead of standing on him. The immense jack boots worn by these post... ...ands, one boot at a time, which he plants on the ground by the side of his horse, with great gravity, until everything is ready. When it is—and oh Hea... ...bossed by the labours of innumerable pigeons in the stables; makes all the horses kick and plunge; cracks his whip like a mad man; shouts ‘En route—H... ...houts ‘En route—Hi!’ and away we go. He is sure to have a contest with his horse before we have gone very far; and then he calls him a Thief, and a Br... ...n, as silent as tombs. It was all very like one of the descriptions in the Arabian Nights. The three one eyed Calenders might have knocked at any one ...

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...even in modern times, Niebuhr found it the or- dinary costume of the lower Arabians in Hedsjas; and Shaw assures us, that from its commodious shape, i... ...that from its commodious shape, it is still a favor- ite dishabille of the Arabian women when they are behind the curtains of the tent. From this earl... ...and it naturally happened, that, with their lively fancies, some Hebrew or Arabian girl should be prompted to repeat, on her own person, what had so o... ...ter- most row of the Oriental necklace. Philo of Alexandria, and the other Arabian poets, give us some idea of the importance attached by the women of... ...they were used as carpets; sometimes as coverings for the backs of camels, horses, or asses, to render the rider’s seat less incommodious; some- times... ... Charlemagne swam well; Bonaparte not at all. Charlemagne was a first-rate horse- man even amongst the Franks; Napoleon rode ill originally, and no pr... ...nerally, and in the case of cavalcades, the dogs fas- ten chiefly upon the horses. But endless are the compensa- tions which we find in the distributi... ...icion of this hybrid mixture. Vast deserts, which insulate one side of the Arabian peninsula; the sea, which insulates the other sides, have, with oth... ... remote ages with a romantic idea of the bodily proportions in the men and horses composing the elite of the Macedonian army. This was the true secret...

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...e tearing down the Park slopes, after her stag-hounds, and driving her one-horse chaise—a hot, red- faced woman, not in the least resembling that stat... ...de her, her gentlewomen, lap-dogs, and cockatoos on the opposite seat, six horses to her carriage, and servants armed and mounted following it and pre... ...little children. Harry was very glad when a gentleman dressed in black, on horseback, with a mounted servant behind him, came to fetch him away from E... ... cry, Harry thought ’twas only a sham, and sprung quite delighted upon the horse upon which the lackey helped him. He was a Frenchman; his name was Bl... ...pillion behind them, and two or three men with pistols leading the baggage-horses. And all along the road the Frenchman told little Harry stories of b... ...ridden three miles from home. He had not read Monsieur Galland’s ingenious Arabian tales as yet; but be sure that there are other folks who build cast...

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...and to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to ex- press, in the purest French then spoken in France: “There is Monsieur returni... ...“There is Monsieur returning from hunting.” And that was all. Whilst, however, the horses were climbing the steep ac- clivity which leads from the riv... ...ennui extra muros; of the ennui of the interior we will give the reader an idea if he will with us follow the cavalcade to the majestic porch of the c... ...low the cavalcade to the majestic porch of the castle of the states. Monsieur rode a little steady-paced horse, equipped with a large saddle of red Fl... ...d with a large saddle of red Flemish velvet, with stirrups in the shape of buskins; the horse was of a bay color; Monsieur’s pourpoint of crimson velv... ...rd the melancholy moaning of the water which falls back again into the wells — a sad, funereal, solemn sound, which strikes the ear of the child and t...

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...t of steamboating, and some stage coaching, but all the rest of the way was horse back, and it took him three weeks to get to Washington. He saw lot... ... as near as I can remember: He come a loping into Washington, and put up his horse and shoved out to the President’s house with his letter, and they t... ...rk Twain 5 wanted to catch him. Nat ‘most dropped, it made him so sick. His horse was put up, and he didn’t know what to do. But just then along come... ... more they all shouted the more the nigger whooped and yelled and lashed the horses and shouted, “Don’t you fret, I’se gwine to git you dah in time, b... ...allowed they was dates, because he said they answered the description in the Arabian Nights and the other books. Of course they mightn’t be, and they ... ... and he begun to tell about it out of Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain 53 the Arabian Nights. CHAPTER X. THE TREASURE HILL TOM SAID IT HAPPENED LIK... ...d such like monstrous giants, that made Jim’s wool rise, and a raft of other Arabian Nights folks, which the half of them never done the things they l... ... very identical spot the prince flew from on the Bronze Horse. It was in the Arabian Night times, he said. Somebody give the prince a bronze horse wit... ... try the case of the old olives and the new ones, and said it was out of the Arabian Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain 77 Nights, and he would tell me a...

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...t soft, whom have we here?” he said, listening to the trampling of several horses which became then audible. “Never mind whom,” answered Gurth, who ha... ... that loved venerie; A manly man, to be an Abbot able, Full many a daintie horse had he in stable: And whan he rode, men might his bridle hear Gingeli... ... the occasional exhortation and chiding of his companion, the noise of the horsemen’s feet continu- ing to approach, W amba could not be prevented fro... ...urning his head to leer after a cottage maiden who crossed their path. The horsemen, therefore, soon overtook them on the road. Their numbers amounted... ... foreign as their riders. They were of Saracen origin, and consequently of Arabian descent; and their fine slender limbs, small fet- locks, thin manes... ... curiosity could no longer be suppressed.—“Gentle maiden,” be began in the Arabian tongue, with which his Eastern travels had rendered him familiar, a... ...which she continued to hold in her hand, she read written thereupon in the Arabian character, Demand a Champion! The murmuring commentary which ran th... ...iterature, equal to that produced by Mr Galland’s first translation of the Arabian T ales; in which, retaining on the one hand the splendour of Easter... ... the monotonous reflec- tions, and rejected the endless repetitions of the Arabian origi- nal. The tales, therefore, though less purely Oriental than ...