 | 1843 - 588 ページ
...Mrs. Courtenay did not reveal it in words, for during the time, short in that climate, which passed between the setting of the sun, and the rising of the moon in its brilliancy with its host of attendant stars, she only betrayed this restless feeling by occasional... | |
 | David Urquhart - 1838 - 506 ページ
...Highlander wears his little knife for hamstringing deer. There was scarcely an interval of darkness between the setting of the sun and the rising of the moon, so brilliant were the stars ; and when the orb of Diana arose, the rays she shot might even have made... | |
 | 1843 - 378 ページ
...nothing for it but to proceed downwards to the monastery. There was scarcely an interval of darkness between the setting of the sun and the rising of the moon, so brilliant were the stars ; and when the orb of Diana arose, the rays she shot, might even have made... | |
 | 1843 - 346 ページ
...nothing for it but to proceed downwards to the monastery. There was scarcely an interval of darkness between the setting of the sun and the rising of the moon, so brilliant were the stars ; and when the orb of Diana arose, the rays she shot might even have made... | |
 | S. Warrand - 1843 - 574 ページ
...Mrs. Courtenay did not reveal it in words, for during the time, short in that climate, which passed between the setting of the sun and the rising of the moon in its brilliancy with its host of attendant stars, she only betrayed this restless feeling by occasional... | |
 | 1852 - 348 ページ
...learned much more than the time of day by measuring the sharp line of shadow drawn on the glaring sands of the desert, by the mute and immovable Pyramid of...then may it refuse to show the hours. From making dkls, in imitation of these natural ones, to making clocks, in which the circumstance of the shadow... | |
 | 1852 - 342 ページ
...learned much more than the time of day by measuring the sharp line of shadow drawn on the glaring sands of the desert, by the mute and immovable Pyramid of...Between the setting of the sun and the rising of the mpon, the great dial may rest ; but only then may it refuse to show the hours. From making dials, in... | |
 | John Lang - 1859 - 420 ページ
...hour for me to come to the purdah behind which she sat ; and the Brahmins had told her that it must be between the setting of the sun and the rising of the moon, which was then near her full ; in other words, between half-past five and half-past six o'clock. This... | |
 | John Lang - 1861 - 478 ページ
...hour for me to come to the purdah behind which she sat ; and the Brahmins had told her that it must be between the setting of the sun and the rising of the moon, which was then near her full ; in other words, between half-past five and half-past six o'clock. This... | |
 | George Clifford Whitworth, Whitworth, George Clifford, d. 1917 - 1885 - 410 ページ
...fortnight from the full moon to the new moon, in which period there is a daily lengthening time of darkness between the setting of the sun and the rising of the moon. See £uklapaksh. Krita. [Sanskrit, from kri, to do.] Accomplished, performed ; the side of the die... | |
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