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" ... sight, impressed me with horror. The blackness of the wall ; the faint light given by the candles or torches for want of air; the different objects that surrounded me seeming to converse with each other ; and the Arabs with the candles or torches... "
The Edinburgh annual register - Page 355
1823
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for ..., Volume 91, Part 1

1821 - 712 pages
...each other, and the Arab guides, nakfJ and covered with dust, themselves resembling living mummit-s, absolutely formed a scene that cannot be described. In such a situation I fouud myself Kferal times, and when exhausted, finitine, ud nearly overcome, I sought a resting-plan,...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 14

1824 - 494 pages
...surrounded me, seeming to converse with each other, and the Arabs with the candles or torches in their hands naked and covered with dust, themselves resembling...such a situation I found myself several times, and often returned exhausted and fainting, till at last I became inured to it and indifferent to what I...
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Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids ...

Giovanni Battista Belzoni - 1820 - 566 pages
...me, seeming to converse with each other, and the .Arabs with the candles or torches in their hands, naked and covered with dust, themselves resembling...such a situation I found myself several times, and often returned exhausted and fainting, till at last I became inured to it, and indifferent to what...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 91, Part 1; Volume 129

1821 - 766 pages
...each other, and the Arab guides, naked and covered with dust, themselves resembling living mammies, absolutely formed a scene that cannot be described....on the body of an Egyptian, and it crushed like a band- box. 1 naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support...
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Quarterly Review, Volume 24

1821 - 602 pages
...me, seeming to converse with each other, and the Arabs with the candles or torches in their hands, naked and covered with dust, themselves resembling...such a situation I found myself several times, and often returned exhausted and fainting, till at last I became inured to it, and indifferent to what...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 24

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 602 pages
...me, seeming to converse with each other, and the Arabs with the candles or torches in their hands, naked and covered with dust, themselves resembling...such a situation I found myself several times, and often returned exhausted and fainting, till at last I became inured to it, and indifferent to what...
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Il Conte di Carmagnola: tragedia di Alessandro Manzoni, Milano, 1820 ...

1821 - 598 pages
...me, seeming to converse with each other, and the Arabs with the candles or torches in their hands, naked and covered with dust, themselves resembling...such a situation I found myself several times, and often returned exhausted and fainting, till at last I became inured to it, and indifferent to what...
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The London Magazine, Volume 3

1821 - 746 pages
...surrounded me, seeming to conTerse with each other, and the Arabs with the candles or torches in their hands and that I was unable to make them otherwise, kindly...seminary were taught to compose English themes. often returned exhausted and fainting, till at last I became inured to it, and indifferent to what...
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Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the ..., Volume 1

Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Mrs. Belzoni (Sarah) - 1822 - 486 pages
...me, seeming to converse with each other, and the Arabs with the candles or torches in their hands, naked and covered with dust, themselves resembling...such a situation I found myself several times, and qften returned exhausted and fainting, till at last I became inured to it, and indifferent to what...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 14

1823 - 784 pages
...glass. After getting through these passages, some of them 200 or 300 yards long, you generally und a more commodious spot, perhaps high enough to allow...Egyptian, and it crushed like a band-box. I naturally liad recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support ; so that I sunk altogether...
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