"Belgrade" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... day, experienced seamen, English, Turks, Italians, at home on all seas, adventure themselves with much anxiety in this rock-strewn channel. Here the majority of shipwrecks occur. Here in the Crimean War the splendid Turkish man-of-war "Silistria" was lost. She had been ordered to Belgrade, and might have given a new turn to affairs if she had not received a thrust in the ribs from one of the Reskival rocks, so enthusiastic in their peace policy that they obliged her to ...
— Timar's Two Worlds • Mr Jkai
... many foreign elements, the most constant impression is one of a multiplied body politic. Belgrade is said to have more cripples than any other capital of Europe. And Berlin comes second. It is a one-eyed city, a city of one-legged men, a city of men with beetling brows and contracted eyes, a city of unrelenting cobble-stones ...
— Europe—Whither Bound? - Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 • Stephen Graham
... while a certain quantity of light would be admitted at the same time. The danger arising from the rains could be avoided to a great extent by giving them a slightly oblique direction. To this very day the Turkish bath-houses over the whole of the Levant from Belgrade to Teheran, are almost universally lighted by these small circular openings, which are pierced in great numbers through the low domes, and closed with immovable glasses. Besides which we can point to similar arrangements ...
— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot
... from God; that old (age) God gave. I wish to go unto Bukarest - from Bukarest, the good country, (it is) a far way unto (my) house. I am sick. Why do you not go to the great physician Because I have no money I can't go Belgrade (is) six miles of land from Colosvar; there is my son. May God help the gentlemen that they let me out (from) in the prison. On the tree (is) the nest of the bird, where makes eggs the female bird. Where is your house? ...
— The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain • George Borrow |
