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...been the voyage itself, by the happy southern course, to the succession of Mediterranean ports, with the dazzled wind-up at Naples. Two or three other...

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...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extr...

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...esse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac IN A SPANISH CITY on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, ... ...ngerous reefs that stretch far out to sea, with the sparkling waves of the Mediterranean playing over them. So, only from the sea can you discern the ... ...th a thor- oughly Spanish conception. But now surround this picture by the Mediterranean, and a burning sky , imagine a few palms here and there, a fe... ...ette de Navarreins was living, consumed by love, on a ledge of rock in the Mediterranean; but it was in the Pope’s power to dissolve Sister Theresa’s ...

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...ained that the party were to go southward to meet her father at one of the Mediterranean ports, as the English Government were so suspicious of Jacobi... ...her route. Estelle heard this with great satisfaction. ‘We shall go to the Mediterranean Sea and be in danger,’ she said to herself, unfolding the map... ...was more sluggish, but nothing more was wanting in the descent towards the Mediterranean. The accommodation was not of a high order, but when- ever th... ... was near the end of October, the blue expanse of sea was calm as only the Mediterranean can be, so that she trusted that no harm would result to thos... ...terly incomprehensible to the Scot, but which was the lingua Franca of the Mediterranean ports. It resulted in four men being placed on guard at the h... ...ern Telemachus the Janissaries was next in authority to him. Piracy on the Mediterranean was, as all knew, the chief occupation of the T urks and Moor... ...but, unfortu- nately, the man knew very little of the lingua Franca of the Mediterranean, and Arthur knew still less. However, he made out that he was... ...ents Arthur changed places with the former. And thus the hours passed. The Mediterranean may be in our eyes a European lake, but it was quite large en... ...ate payment. He was by this time tolerably versed in the vernacular of the Mediterranean, and a cook’s boy, shipped at Gibraltar, was also supposed to...

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... said the fisherman, going up a hillock to show us an island in the little Mediterranean between the dunes where we were walk- ing and the marshes of ...

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..., I trust, even there you will not forget the “Iberia,” and the delightful Mediterranean cruise we had in her in the Autumn of 1844. Most faithfully y... ...ir cities, and the actual aspect of Nature, along the famous shores of the Mediterranean. CHAPTER I:VIGO THE SUN BROUGHT ALL the sick people out of th... ... the very image of an enormous lion, crouched between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and set there to guard the passage for its British mistress.... ... and Spain, consoled us all by saying that the very minute we got into the Mediterranean we might consider ourselves entirely free from illness; and, ... ...this is almost the only sign of ferocious vitality left in the Turk of the Mediterranean coast, and strangers may enter scores of mosques without mole... ... a man at Beyrout, who had served as a lad on board an English ship in the Mediterranean. Above his tattooage of the five crosses, the fellow had a pi...

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...got on. “As to the captain, he had been for years in coasters, then in the Mediterranean, and last in the West Indian trade. He had never been round t...

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...ed a little, confess- ing that I had spent a little time on the way in the Mediterranean and in the West Indies. I did not want to present myself to t... .... Many a time “the little friend of Baptistin” had the hooded cloak of the Mediterranean sailor thrown over him by their honest hands while dodging at... ...ordi- nary Normans or Bretons, but then, in the whole immense sweep of the Mediterranean shores, you could not find half a dozen men of his stamp. Sta...

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... hear! 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, _30 Lulled by t... ...d bad air of Maremma stretch the whole length of the western shores of the Mediterranean, till broken by the rocks and hills of Spezia. It was a vague... ...ith their one sailor-boy, thought themselves a match for the storms of the Mediterranean, in a boat which they looked upon as equal to all it was put ...

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...ings he did at the Foreign Office—the famous ‘exchange’ with Spain, in the Mediterranean, which took Europe so by surprise and by which she felt injur...

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...rged a little, confessing that I had spent a little time on the way in the Mediterranean and in the West Indies. I did not want to present myself to t... .... Many a time “the little friend of Baptistin” had the hooded cloak of the Mediterranean sailor thrown over him by their honest hands while dodging at...

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...ppointment; and I shall sail in his ship—you’ll see. And when I get to the Mediterranean, I’ll tell you what I’ll do—I shall kill a shark all my own s... ...ll you what I’ll do—I shall kill a shark all my own self!” “A shark in the Mediterranean!” “Well, why shouldn’t they get in by the Straits of Magellan...

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...pushing forth its rusty, aromatic cones from between two blocks of shattered mineral. Azaleas made a big snow-bed just above the well. The shoulder of...

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...he is because I re- ceived the inspiration for him in my early days from a Mediterranean sailor. Those who have read cer- tain pages of mine will see ... ...luable Nostromo, now dismounted and in the checked shirt and red sash of a Mediterranean sailor, bawling orders from the end of the jetty in a stentor... ...roclaimed the unap- proachable style of the famous Capataz de Cargadores—a Mediterranean sailor—got up with more finished splendour than any well-to-d... ...z de Cargadores, the indispensable man, the tried and trusty Nostromo, the Mediterranean sailor come ashore casually to try his luck in Costaguana, ro... ... muscular neck and bronzed chest bare in the open check shirt, resembled a Mediterranean sailor just come ashore from some wine or fruit-laden felucca... ...the red sash and check shirt as he used to appear on the Company’s wharf—a Mediterranean sailor come ashore to try his luck in Costaguana. The dusk of...

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...hoo- ner-yacht Clarissa, with Lord and Lady Esquart, for a voy- age in the Mediterranean: and (behind her hand) that the reason was urgent, inasmuch a... .... She was happily away, borne by a whiter than swan’s wing on the sapphire Mediterranean. Her letters to Emma were peeps of splendour for the invalid:... ...ld be a thunderer on our coasts. I had a trial of my sailing powers in the Mediterranean.’ As she said it, her musings on him then, with the contract ...

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...ting and rule as soldiers and knights. Later, as ships grew seaworthy, the Mediterranean which had been a barrier became a high- way, and at last out ...

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...vilish Egypt; and how is he ever to get back, with England mistress of the Mediterranean?” “Bonaparte’s absence doesn’t trouble me, commandant,” said ...

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...eemed to know all about it. It appears that there’s talk of mobilising the Mediterranean squadron. Darned if I know.” “Might ask that ‘Inter-Ocean’ re...

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...atrix about the grandeur of the ocean, so unlike the smiling beauty of the Mediterranean, from comparing in depth, purity, extent, unchanging and eter...

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... the baby, on the road to and from the nursery con- sulting her on all the Mediterranean climates, and telling her what each doctor had said of Mr. Ra...

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...e of antagonism between Russia and the Catholic countries which border the Mediterranean, in the very unimportant schism which separates the Greek rel...