 | 1846 - 782 pages
...for thousands of years since, to little copper-coloured Sanscrit children, listening to their mother under the palm-trees by the banks of the yellow Jumna...her nose. The very same tale has been heard by the Northmen Vikings as they lay on their shields on deck ; and by the Arabs, couched under the stars on... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1846 - 828 pages
...for thousands of years since, to little copper-coloured Sanscrit children, listening to their mother under the palm-trees by the banks of the yellow Jumna...her nose. The very same tale has been heard by the Northmen Vikings as they lay on their shields on deck ; and by the Arabs, couched under the stars on... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1829 - 688 pages
...thousands of years since, to the little copper-coloured Sanscrit children, listening to their mother under the palm-trees by the banks of the yellow Jumna...her nose. The very same tale has been heard by the Northmen Vikings as they lay in their shields on deck ; and by the Arabs, couched under the stars on... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1889 - 532 pages
...for thousands of years since, to little copper-colored Sanscrit children, listening to their mother under the palm-trees by the banks of the yellow Jumna...Vikings as they lay on their shields on deck ; and by the Arabs, couched under the stars on the Syrian plains when the flocks were gathered in, and the... | |
 | Montrose Jonas Moses - Children's literature - 1907 - 296 pages
...Sanscrit children, listening to their mother under the palm-trees by the banks of the yellow Jumna—their Brahmin mother, who softly narrated them through the...her nose. The very same tale has been heard by the Northmen Vikings as 19 they lay on their shields on deck; and by Arabs couched under the stars on the... | |
 | Detroit Public Library - 1917 - 820 pages
...for thousands of years since, to little copper-colored Sanscrit children, listening to their mother under the palm-trees by the banks of the yellow Jumna...Vikings as they lay on their shields on deck ; and by Arabs couched under tr(e stars on the Syrian plains when the flocks were gathered in and the mares... | |
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Vikings as they lay in their shields on deck ; and by the Arabs, couched under the stars on the Syrian plains when the flocks were gathered in, and the mares were picketed by the tents. 