item: #1 of 6 id: 17278 author: Jessup, Henry Harris title: The Women of the Arabs date: None words: 100061 flesch: 76 summary: Until recently in Syria women were poisoned, thrown down wells, beaten to death, or cast into the sea, and the government made no inquisition into the matter. Paradise is thus held up to the women as the reward of obedience to their husbands, and this is about the sum and substance of what the majority of Moslem women know about religion. keywords: american; arabic; arabs; bedawin; beirût; bible; boys; brother; chapter; children; christian; church; damascus; daughter; day; days; druze; education; english; family; father; female; forest; friends; girls; god; good; great; greek; head; home; house; husband; instruction; land; language; lebanon; life; lord; love; man; miriam; miss; mission; missionary; mohammed; moslem; mother; mrs; native; new; night; people; place; present; protestant; pupils; room; school; seminary; sheikh; smith; syria; teachers; thought; time; tripoli; village; way; whiting; wife; women; work; world; years cache: 17278.txt plain text: 17278.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 19378 author: Pickthall, Marmaduke William title: Oriental Encounters: Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 date: None words: 58606 flesch: 84 summary: But the experience of other, older men must weigh with me.' 'Let other men judge people as they find them, and do thou likewise,' said Suleymân. keywords: allah; chapter; cook; country; day; days; english; eyes; father; friend; god; good; half; hand; head; honour; house; judge; land; life; lord; man; men; money; mountain; night; people; place; rashîd; room; round; servant; set; sheykh; son; story; suleymân; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; trees; village; water; way cache: 19378.txt plain text: 19378.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 38319 author: Wilkins, Louisa Jebb title: By Desert Ways to Baghdad date: None words: 77694 flesch: 80 summary: Are they wicked men, then? No, they are good men as a rule, but in our country we do not understand the people who do not do what others do. They were partners mostly of city men, who provided the seed and the stock and took two-thirds of the produce in payment. keywords: ali; arten; black; camp; city; cook; country; dark; day; days; desert; door; end; eyes; face; feet; fire; good; hassan; head; horses; hours; house; ladies; land; left; life; line; look; man; men; mud; night; pasha; people; place; plain; raft; ride; river; road; rock; room; round; sense; silence; sun; tent; time; town; turkish; village; walls; water; way; white; women; zaptiehs cache: 38319.txt plain text: 38319.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 40285 author: Rihbany, Abraham Mitrie title: The Syrian Christ date: None words: 76515 flesch: 73 summary: _See_ Bible. _See_ Bible. keywords: american; bible; book; bread; chapter; children; christ; day; days; east; eat; family; father; god; good; gospel; hand; heaven; home; house; jesus; life; like; lord; love; man; master; means; men; mother; oriental; passage; people; place; saying; sheep; shepherd; social; son; speech; syrian; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; verse; version; water; way; wife; woman; word cache: 40285.txt plain text: 40285.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 44122 author: Nelson, William S. title: Silver Chimes in Syria: Glimpses of a Missionary's Experiences date: None words: 28411 flesch: 71 summary: It was a practice with us for many years to arrange a special evangelistic medical trip in the spring of the year. The Orontes is quite wide and deep near its mouth and we crossed it on just such a wire ferry as I had seen many years before on the Connecticut River in Massachusetts. keywords: aleppo; boys; building; church; city; day; days; friends; hamath; home; homs; house; life; man; men; missionary; money; new; people; place; road; school; service; syria; time; town; tripoli; turkish; village; way; work; years cache: 44122.txt plain text: 44122.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 8884 author: Burckhardt, John Lewis title: Travels in Syria and the Holy Land date: None words: 235494 flesch: 69 summary: Proceeding a little farther, we came to the high borders of a broad valley, called El Ghoeyr (Arabic), (diminutive of Arabic El Ghor) to the S. of Wady Dhana. [p.149]direction came in an hour and a half to the Christian village Kefrbehoun Arabic]; and in two hours, to a hillock in the plain called Tel Afyoun [Arabic], i.e. the opium-hill, with an ancient well. keywords: akaba; aleppo; arabic; arabs; arabs el; bedouins; breadth; bridge; building; cairo; camels; castle; chain; chief; christians; church; city; close; columns; convent; country; damascus; date; day; days; deir; deir el; desert; direction; distance; distant; district; djebel; djebel el; door; druses; eastern; egypt; el sheikh; emir; encampment; end; entrance; evening; families; family; farther; feet; fine; following; foot; gate; great; greek; ground; guide; hadj; half; haouran; having; high; hill; hours; house; inhabitants; inscriptions; journey; kerek; lake; ledja; left; length; man; men; miles; monks; morning; mountain; near; neighbourhood; north; northern; number; order; paces; parts; pasha; peninsula; people; piastres; place; plain; point; present; principal; quarter; red; remains; return; right; river; rivulet; road; rock; route; ruins; sea; sheikh; shore; sides; sinai; south; spot; spring; square; stands; stone; suez; summer; summit; syria; tel; temple; time; town; trees; tribe; turks; upper; valley; valley el; village; village el; visit; wady el; wall; water; way; wells; west; western; winter; years cache: 8884.txt plain text: 8884.txt