Geographical and Industrial Studies; Asia

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Ginn, 1916 - 450 sivua
 

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Sivu 17 - WHEN I WAS A BACHELOR" WHEN I was a bachelor I lived by myself; And all the bread and cheese I got I put upon the shelf. The rats and the mice They made such a strife, I was forced to go to London To buy me a wife. The streets were so bad, And the lanes were so narrow, I was forced to bring my wife home In a wheelbarrow.
Sivu 73 - You are all too anxious to awake us and start us on a new road, and you will do it ; but you will all regret it, for, once awaking and started, we shall go fast and far — farther than you think — much farther than you want I
Sivu 251 - It appeared to me pretty much like the embarkation of the wise men of Gotham, who went to sea in a bowl...
Sivu 205 - ... many-voiced, colourful. Rippling with the currents of the South and Eastern trade. Here are Persian carpets, ivory and peach-bloom. Tints to fill the heart of any child of man, Here are copper rose-bowls, leopard-skins, emeralds, Scarlet slippers curly-toed and beads from Kordofan. Water-sellers pass with brazen saucers tinkling; Hajjis in the doorways tell their amber beads; Buy a lump of turquoise, a scimitar, a neckerchief Worked with rose and saffron for a lovely lady's needs. Here we pass...
Sivu 179 - It would stretch in a straight line entirely across the United States from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico.
Sivu 374 - Singapore, we should need a row of buildings each one hundred feet long, one hundred feet wide, and one hundred feet high, stretching for a third of a mile along the water front.
Sivu 205 - ... bazaar: Dive in from the sunlight, smiting like a falchion, Underneath the awnings to the sudden shade. Saunter through the packed lane, many-voiced, colourful. Rippling with the currents of the South and Eastern trade. Here are Persian carpets, ivory and peach-bloom. Tints to fill the heart of any child of man, Here are copper rose-bowls, leopard-skins, emeralds, Scarlet slippers curly-toed and beads from Kordofan.
Sivu 72 - ... take on the general appearance of Western society until there has occurred a far-reaching readjustment between population and opportunities. On the one hand, the Chinese will have to build railroads, open mines, sink petroleum wells, harness water-power, erect mills, adopt machinery, reforest their mountains, construct irrigation works, introduce better breeds of domestic animals and plants, and apply science to the production of food.
Sivu 190 - When we awake, the first thing we do is to look out of the window to get a glimpse of the country through which we are passing.

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