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... face of the venerable red granite monolith , 67 feet in height , have been greatly filled up by wasps ' or bees ' nests , which look just like mud plastered over the surface . What a tale this obelisk would tell could it speak of the ...
... face of the venerable red granite monolith , 67 feet in height , have been greatly filled up by wasps ' or bees ' nests , which look just like mud plastered over the surface . What a tale this obelisk would tell could it speak of the ...
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... faces . There is the eating , drinking , smoking , and reading of news- papers , and the salutations with your friends on the verandah . Then , for members of the fair sex , and not a few of the men also , there is the shopping in the ...
... faces . There is the eating , drinking , smoking , and reading of news- papers , and the salutations with your friends on the verandah . Then , for members of the fair sex , and not a few of the men also , there is the shopping in the ...
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... faces you as you approach the entrance . The walls are very thick , and passing into the first court of the temple , you see on how great a scale it was constructed . In the hall beyond , four rows of lofty pillars running down each ...
... faces you as you approach the entrance . The walls are very thick , and passing into the first court of the temple , you see on how great a scale it was constructed . In the hall beyond , four rows of lofty pillars running down each ...
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... face , but his destruction , and that of many of the Titanic buildings of Thebes , is pro- bably due to the Persian conqueror Cambyses . As Dean Stanley remarks , with his usual eloquence and correctness , ' nothing which now exists in ...
... face , but his destruction , and that of many of the Titanic buildings of Thebes , is pro- bably due to the Persian conqueror Cambyses . As Dean Stanley remarks , with his usual eloquence and correctness , ' nothing which now exists in ...
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... face of one of the sitting giants which still rests here in grim repose , his lips uttered musical sounds . They are certainly grand figures , with their hands resting on the knees , but no feature of the face can be traced on either ...
... face of one of the sitting giants which still rests here in grim repose , his lips uttered musical sounds . They are certainly grand figures , with their hands resting on the knees , but no feature of the face can be traced on either ...
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