The Sphynx is grand in its loneliness; it is imposing in its magnitude; it is impressive in the mystery that hangs over its story.
The Venetian gondola is as free and graceful, in its gliding movement, as a serpent.
The Coliseum is over one thousand six hundred feet long, seven hundred and fifty wide, and one hundred and sixty-five high. Its shape is oval.
Now we will descend into the crypt, under the grand altar of Milan Cathedral, and receive an impressive sermon from lips that have been silent and hands that have been gestureless for three hundred years.
We anchored in the open roadstead of Horta, half a mile from the shore. The town has eight thousand to ten thousand inhabitants.
Tangier is a foreign land if ever there was one, and the true spirit of it can never be found in any book save The Arabian Nights.
From my window here in Bellaggio, I have a view of the other side of the lake now, which is as beautiful as a picture.
No--Pompeii is no longer a buried city. It is a city of hundreds and hundreds of roofless houses
The Golden Horn is a narrow arm of the sea, which branches from the Bosporus
Ruined Pompeii is in good condition compared to Sebastopol.
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