 | Savary (M., Claude Etienne) - Egypt - 1834 - 598 pages
...latter noise, until I was directed to notice the women ; who emitted a sound like that of whistling, with the lips circular and the tongue vibrating; as...would speak by their organs, uttering human sounds." Page 25. the musician thumped the tambourine, the dancers quickened their pace, while shouts, jesting,... | |
 | Missions - 1811 - 632 pages
...was directed to notice the women; who emitted a sound like that of whistling, with the lipscircular, and the tongue vibrating, — as if a serpent would...the idol was placed on a stupendous car or tower, •bout GO feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned .slowly... | |
 | English literature - 1812 - 1020 pages
...latter noise, until I was directed to notice the women ; who emitted a bound like that of whistling, with the lips cir.cular, and- the tongue vibrating: as if a serpent would speak by their organs, tittering human sounds." " The throne of the idol was placed on a stupendous car or tower, about 60... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Asia - 1811 - 290 pages
...latter noise, until I \vas directed to notice the women ; who " emitted a sound like that of whistling, with the lips " circular, and the tongue vibrating...in height, resting on " wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they " turned slowly under the pondefous machine. Attached " to it were six cables,... | |
 | 1811 - 550 pages
...latter noise, until I was directed to notice the women ; who emitted a sound like that of whistling, with the lips circular, and the tongue vibrating :...feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables, of... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Asia - 1811 - 432 pages
...latter noise, until I was directed to notice the women ; who emitted a sound like that of whistling, with the lips circular and the tongue vibrating :...feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables, of... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Sermons - 1811 - 302 pages
...who emitted a sound like that of whistling, with the lips circular, and the tongue vibrating: as it' a serpent would speak by their organs, uttering human...feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables, of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1811 - 622 pages
...never heard before. It continued equable for a few minutes, and then gradually died away." — ' " The throne of the idol was placed on a stupendous...feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables, of... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Asia - 1811 - 304 pages
...latter noise, until I was directed to notice the women ; who emitted a sound like that of whistling, with the lips circular and the tongue vibrating :...would speak by their organs, uttering human sounds.' 1 The throne of the idol was placed on a stupendous car or tower about sixty feet in height, resting... | |
 | 1811 - 600 pages
...approbation, united with a kind of histting.' This latter part of the sound was made by the women, <• with the lips circular, and the tongue vibrating, as if a serpent would speak by their organs.' And what, at last, is that transcendant object which can attract rational beings from all parts of... | |
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The throne of the idol was placed on a stupendous car or tower about sixty feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables, of the size and length of... 
