"Coastland" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his daily prayer that they might reach the town and its conveniences before his sickness quite disabled the Emir. It seemed as if this prayer was to be answered. They had returned to within a few hours of their starting-place, and had pitched their tent upon the coastland plain at the foot of the hills, when Iskender one morning, in his hiding-place, listened in vain for the accustomed noise of starting. Alarmed at length, he quitted cover, and drew near the tent. Mahmud sat out before ...
— The Valley of the Kings • Marmaduke Pickthall |
