With Lawrence in ArabiaGarden City Publishing Company, 1924 - 408 páginas |
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Abdullah Abu el Lissal aëroplanes Akaba Aleppo Allah Allenby Allenby's ancient Arabia Arabian army Arabian Desert Arabian revolution Arabs archæologist attack Auda Abu Tayi Auda's Bagdad battle Bedouin body-guard Cairo camel campaign captured Colonel Lawrence command coöperation Damascus Dead Sea Deraa Djemal East Egypt Emir Feisal enemy fifty fighting followers forces friends garrison German gold Grand Shereef Gulf of Akaba Hauran head Hedjaz Railway Holy Arabia horses Howeitat Jeddah Jerusalem Kaaba killed King Hussein land Lawrence's leaders lives loot Maan machine-guns Mecca Medina Mesopotamia military Mohammed Mohammedan Moslem mountains mounted never night nomad Nuri Ottoman Oxford palace Palestine Pasha Petra Prophet raids Red Sea rence rifles rode Rualla sand sent sheik Shereef Hussein Shereefian sultan Syria Tafileh tent thousand trekked tribe tribesmen troops Turkish army Turkish lines Turks valley village Wadi Wejh Woolley Yenbo young Zeid
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Página 42 - THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Página 342 - Verily those who disbelieve our signs, we will surely cast to be broiled in hell fire; so often as their skins shall be well burned, we will give them other skins in exchange, that they may taste the sharper torment ; for GOD is mighty and wise.
Página 297 - We had won a province when we had taught the civilians in it to die for our ideal of freedom: the presence or absence of the enemy was a secondary matter.
Página 351 - ... to their objective, which is meanwhile bombarded by artillery, aeroplanes, or gunboats. Finally perhaps a village is burnt and the district pacified. It is odd that we don't use poison gas on these occasions. Bombing the houses is a patchy way of getting the women and children. ... By gas attacks the whole population of offending districts could be wiped out neatly; and as a method of government it would be no more immoral than the present system.
Página 281 - ... whose haft stuck hideously into the air from between her naked legs. She had been pregnant, and about her were others, perhaps twenty in all, variously killed, but laid out to accord with an obscene taste. The Zaagi burst out in wild peals of laughter, in which some of those who were not sick joined hysterically. It was a sight near madness, the more desolate for the warm sunshine and the clean air of this upland afternoon. I said: "The best of you brings me the most Turkish dead"; and we turned...
Página 297 - Aleppo railways for the duration of the war, so long as he gave us the other nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of the Arab world. If he showed a disposition to evacuate too soon, as a step to concentrating in the small area which his numbers could dominate effectively, then we would have to try and restore his confidence, not harshly, but by reducing our enterprises against him.
Página 188 - To the same astute and unchanging race, whose relentless code of jurisprudence demanded 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life...
Página 388 - If you succeed, you will have hundreds of miles of country and thousands of men under your control, and for this it is worth bartering the outward show. 12. Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day. A dry irony is the most useful type, and repartee of a personal and not too broad...
Página 26 - plied their book diligently," and know all about some one branch or another of accepted lore, come out of the study with an ancient and owllike demeanor, and prove dry, stockish, and dyspeptic in all the better and brighter parts of life.
Página 375 - Keep always on your guard; never say an unnecessary thing: watch yourself and your companions all the time: hear all that passes, search out what is going on beneath the surface, read their characters, discover their tastes and their weaknesses, and keep everything you find out to yourself.