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...France Paris Chateau De Versailles Divonne-les-Bains Chiming clocks: Geneva To be or not to be: England London Brighton Moors’ Last Sigh: Spain Granada Wien on Vespa: Austria Vienna Medieval Magyars: Hungary Budapest Chapter 2 North America Maple Crunch: Canada Bolton, Ontario Niagara, Ontario Montreal Quebec ...

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...A tale of passion set in the bleak Yorkshire moors in mid 19thC, far from the Victorian uprightness, Wuthering Heights depicts the mutual love of Catherine and Heathcliff till destruction rends the narration; yet cruelty is only to be met with forgiveness in the followi...

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...before they succumbed to lobbying and the euphoria of the eradication of the Moslem Moors from Granda in January 1492. He is a deeply controvers...

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...to this kingly office of thy Son, the stones which cover their bones do testify, in the moors and solitudes where they fell martyrs to the doctrine ...

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... the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back f...

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... her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking a...

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... the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back f...

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... her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide eyed and helpless looking a...

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... excited -- A great story teller -- Traffic with the people -- Commerce of the Moors in India -- Offerings of presents to his majesty -- Exchanging ma... ...e South Seas -- His departure on a pirating cruise - - In trouble with Barbary Moors -- Capture of a Spanish vessel -- A strange sight witnessed on th... ... with India and China, until their own country wag invaded by the Norsemen and Moors in about 412 A.D. when Rome capitulated. The Romans continued to ... ...essages were sent that da Gama concluded to land. Along the coast of India the Moors had for many years been the ruling commercial power. Ages before ... ...them. Their condition was hopeless, so they readily entered the service of the Moors or Arabs as soldiers, and speedily found their circumstances grea... ...e hoped for had they remained Pariahs. By the employment of these outcasts the Moors had acquired considerable military, as well as commercial, power ... ... an Arab" was a proverb in Calecut. Although their influence was so great, the Moors were intensely jealous of any interference with their monopoly, a... ...ad been briskly conducted by the men of the fleet, to the great disgust of the Moors, who watched with jealous eyes the progress of their rivals. But ... ...r the capture of the entire fleet, he having learned of its coming through the Moors, who in their light vessels everywhere went before the Portuguese...

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...gh the pollarded garden, its cy- presses like stone columns: we walked the moors until Christmas cold sent us shivering to the big fireplaces where w... ...test diamond is somewhat small, speak to us and it will be remem- bered in moors, fens, and locks. If your crown, coming from a woman’s head, needs a...

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...f our revered nnil honorahlo professor and doss oHicor, Professor Leverett Moors, bo it Resolved: That in behalf of the junior class wo hereby express...

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...sel, being evidently afraid of his crew of more than two hundred Turks and Moors, but sent seven men on board the prize and took it in tow. Curiously ... ...n. M. Dessault is a real personage, and the kindness of the Dey and of the Moors was exactly as related, also the expedi- ent of sending the Marabout ... ...d by Jean Matha for the ransom and rescue of prisoners in the hands of the Moors. A translation of the adventures of the Comtesse de Bourke and her da... ... him. ‘Pardon, pardon, Monsieur; I go to prepare Madame! It’s the accursed Moors. Let me pass—misericorde, what will become of us?’ Arthur struggled o... ...s eagerly drank, and Maitre Hebert uttered a wail of dismay as he saw five Moors gorg- ing large pieces of his finest pate. CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV CHAP... ...nse that he was acting a comedy, and carried her involuntarily back to the Moors whom she had seen in the Cid on the stage. And looking again, she per... ...er their compatriots and their lost home and faith, others out-heroded the Moors themselves in fe- rocity, especially towards the Christian captives; ... ...atter he did not recommend, as he had a crew of full two hundred Turks and Moors, and it would be necessary to keep herself and all her women as close... ...the Mediterranean was, as all knew, the chief occupation of the T urks and Moors of any spirit or enterprise, a T urk being in authority in each vesse...

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...all is Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission,... ...e white enemies of the new regimen were of two classes. In the first stood Moors and the employes of MacArthur, the two chief rivals of the firm, who ... ...rtunity to thrust a stick into the Ger- man wheels. For some while, he and Moors fought their difficult battle in conjunction; in the course of which,... ...able ability and courage. The three names just brought to- gether, Sewall, Moors, and Blacklock, make the head and front of the opposition; if T amase... ... to be vexatious, and cast by Martin into the municipal prison. He sent to Moors, who was his tenant and owed him money at the time, for bail. Moors a... ...ay morning. Whereupon Sewall de- manded the keys from the gaoler, accepted Moors’s verbal recognisances, and set Tamaseu free. Things were now at a de... ... enjoy the fruits of victory in Apia; and one dissident, the unconquerable Moors, stood out alone 51 Robert Louis Stevenson to refuse his taxes. But ... ...r the attack was expressed publicly. Some men with unblacked faces came to Moors’s store for biscuit. A native woman, who was there marketing, inquire... ...from Apia on a day of rain; it was pulled by six oars, three being paid by Moors, three by the MacArthurs; Moors him- self and a clerk of the MacArthu...

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...he said that he would he should have the name Perlesvax, for the Lord of the Moors had reft him of the greater part of the Valleys of Camelot, and the... ...he slew in the forest with his javelin warreth upon her with the Lord of the Moors.” “Damsel,” saith the King, “And God grant me to meet him, right fa... ...red upon of them that would fain reave her thereof by force. The Lord of the Moors and another knight are they that war upon her and would fain reave ... ... already. And now the brother of the knight that he slew and the Lord of the Moors are warring upon me and are fain to reave me of my castle and God c... ...e of the five knights that were with him gave him witting of the Lord of the Moors and the brother of the knight of the Red Shield that had to name Ch... ... make right great joy of that they see him do. They show him the Lord of the Moors that was coming with a full great fellowship of folk. He goeth thit... ...gether so stoutly both of their horses and their bodies that the Lord of the Moors loseth his stirrups and hath the hinder saddlebow to frushed, and f... ...t had overthrown at least a single knight and won his horse. The Lord of the Moors was mounted again on another rich horse and had great shame for tha... ...n the midst of his breast, so that it was all to splintered. The Lord of the Moors likewise again to brast his spear upon him. Messire Gawain draweth ...

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...ish never to hear of being a baron. His relief was to wander away upon the moors, watch the lights and shadows on the wondrous mountains, or dream on ... ...rk and his crew that King Harry is reported to be lurking in some of these moors, and the Countess Clifford being his wife, he fell un- der suspicion ... ...reats against the Talbot if ever he should venture himself on the Cumbrian moors; and still hotter was their wrath, more bitter the tears of the sheph... ...d from the goodwife’s poultry yard at home, but sometimes picked up on the moors, and show- ing the barred black and brown patterns of the hawk’s or t... ... provisions at one of the villages, and Hal was beginning to recognise the moors he had known in earlier childhood, that they perceived a party on the... ...s sight. ‘Ah, it is fine!’ said Anne, ‘it is like the sunrise upon our own moors, when one breathes freely, and the clouds grow white instead of grey.... ...more a valiant trencherman and hunter than aught else. If I had him on the moors and could show him some sport with a red deer, I could turn him round... ...is soul! The King spoke to me of the son of a loyal house living among the moors.’ ‘The King was very good to me,’ faltered Hal, crimson with eagernes... ...ir Giles and young Harry. Are you going back to the wholesome winds of our moors?’ ‘Not yet, holy Mother. It grieves me to see you faring so ill.’ ‘Ah...

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...1293 1293 1293 1293 1293 IN THE early times of Spanish history, before the Moors had been expelled from the peninsula, or the blight of Western gold h... ...tion and learning of the Christian kingdoms were far more derived from the Moors than from the kindred nations of Europe. By the close of the thirteen... ... to be like a broken punch bowl, with the broken part towards the sea. The Moors had fortified the city with a surrounding wall and twenty-six towers,... ... the fortress. Therefore, after summoning T arifa at the head of his 5,000 Moors, he led forth before the gates the boy who had been 113 Yo n g e con... ...thought the enemy had broken in,’ he calmly said, and went back again. The Moors themselves were horrorstruck at the atrocity of their ally, and as th... ... their knighthood should be earned by an expedition to take Ceuta from the Moors. A war with the infidel never came amiss, and was in fact re- garded ... ... renegades, or death put an end to their sufferings. A captivity among the Moors was by no means an uncom- mon circumstance even in the lives of Engli... ...landing of his men, led by his sons, the Infantes Duarte and Henrique. The Moors gave way before them, and they entered the city with 500 men, among t... ... not suffer him to take the oath of allegiance. An attempt was made by the Moors four years later to recover the place; but the Infantes Pedro and Hen...

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.... Now move to war her sable Matadores, In show like leaders of the swarthy Moors. Spadillio first, unconquerable lord! Led off two captive trumps, and...

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...at you run a risk of being lost in the marshes? People familiar with these moors often miss their road on such evenings; and I can tell you there is n... ...at we should appropriate the dairywoman’s cloak, and have a scamper on the moors, under its shelter. A pleasant suggestion—and then, if the surly old ... ...ner or supper. But it was one of their chief amusements to run away to the moors in the morning and remain there all day, and the after punishment gre... ... he rose early; and, as it was a holiday, carried his ill-humour on to the moors; not re-appearing till the family were departed for church. Fast- ing... ...reat cause of alarm that Heathcliff should take a moonlight saunter on the moors, or even lie too sulky to speak to us in the hay-loft. I’ll engage he... ...replied her husband; ‘and I only see two white spots on the whole range of moors: the sky is blue, and the larks are singing, and the becks and brooks... ...s an unnatural dream! The sun set behind the Grange as we turned on to the moors; by that, I judged it to be six o’clock; and my companion halted half... ...the limits of his park and grounds; only varied by solitary rambles on the moors, and visits to the grave of his wife, mostly at evening, or early mor... ...I answered, hastily, ‘that they are not worth the trouble of visiting. The moors, where you ramble with him, are much nicer; and Thrushcross Park is t...

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...ious. Nuno Alfonso was almost as distinguished in the struggle against the Moors in the reign of Alfonso VII as the Cid had been half a century before... ...1236-48 that gave Cordova and Seville to Christian Spain and penned up the Moors in the kingdom of Granada, and his descendants inter- married with so... ..., who had always resisted absolutism as strenuously as they had fought the Moors, had been divested of all political power, a like fate had befallen t... ...bough or branch, and with it did such things that day, and pounded so many Moors, that he got the surname of Machuca, and he and his descen- dants fro... ...not for me.” “Not for me either,” said Sancho, “for more than four hundred Moors have so thrashed me that the drubbing of the stakes was cakes and fan... ... where there are no blankets, nor blanketeers, nor phantoms, nor enchanted Moors; for if there are, may the devil take the whole concern.” “Ask that o... ...lmo, that thine is just now the temper of mind which is always that of the Moors, who can never be brought to see the error of their creed by quotatio... ...emed from his attire to be a Christian lately come from the country of the Moors, for he was dressed in a short-skirted coat of blue cloth with half-s... ...ive thousand regular Turkish soldiers, and more than four hundred thousand Moors and Arabs from all parts of Africa, and in the train of all this grea...

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...ices in the morning’s birth; The grass is bright with rain-drops; on the moors 10 The Hare is running races in her mirth; And with her ... ...troubled me: In my mind’s eye I seem’d to see him pace About the weary moors continually, Wandering about alone and silently. While I these th...

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...ious. Nuno Alfonso was almost as distinguished in the struggle against the Moors in the reign of Alfonso VII as the Cid had been half a century before... ...1236-48 that gave Cordova and Seville to Christian Spain and penned up the Moors in the kingdom of Granada, and his descendants inter- married with so... ..., who had always resisted absolutism as strenuously as they had fought the Moors, had been divested of all political power, a like fate had befallen t... ...bough or branch, and with it did such things that day, and pounded so many Moors, that he got the surname of Machuca, and he and his descen- dants fro... ...not for me.” “Not for me either,” said Sancho, “for more than four hundred Moors have so thrashed me that the drubbing of the stakes was cakes and fan... ... where there are no blankets, nor blanketeers, nor phantoms, nor enchanted Moors; for if there are, may the devil take the whole concern.” “Ask that o... ...lmo, that thine is just now the temper of mind which is always that of the Moors, who can never be brought to see the error of their creed by quotatio... ...emed from his attire to be a Christian lately come from the country of the Moors, for he was dressed in a short-skirted coat of blue cloth with half-s... ...ive thousand regular Turkish soldiers, and more than four hundred thousand Moors and Arabs from all parts of Africa, and in the train of all this grea...