A gallows was erected on the plain to the north side of the fort, facing the native bazaars, and at a distance of some 300 yards.

Here is the entrance, a heavy Saracenic arch, opening upon the crowded bazaar.

There was a busy and crowded bazaar, long streets of shops and houses, and hundreds of boats lying in the stream beside the numerous ghats, taking in and discharging their cargoes.

The life of the scholar is easy, the way of knowledge is long, the contrast exquisite between the foul lanes and noisy bazaars outside and this cool heaven of learning.

Out of this we passed through another, devoted to saddles and bridles; then another, full of spices, and at last reached the grand bazaar, where all the richest stuffs of Europe and the East were displayed in the shops.

Darjeeling is not a large town, but it is filled with interesting people, and on Sunday a market is held in the principal bazaar which is declared to be the most picturesque and fascinating in all India.

Early in February the great Anti-Corn Law League bazaar was held at Manchester, and a few days later Peel carried his sliding scale: 20s.

At length the glittering haul is pulled up high and dry on the beach, the fish are divided among the men, the women fill their baskets, and away they hie to the nearest bazaar, or if it be not bazaar or market day, they hawk the fish through the nearest villages, like our fish-wives at home.

" "New or old," I added, "I am afraid is like the others we have seen, a wall of earth, a few dozen gateways cut in the wall, no monuments or buildings of note, and the eternal bazaars of the East.

The girls of the Tea Club made the tea-cloth that they had proposed, and they also brought offerings of pin-cushions, and doilies and centre-pieces, until Patty's room began to look like a booth at a fancy bazaar.

At that period also pleasure-palaces were erected for the sovereign people; circuses, theaters, baths wherein were collected statues, paintings, animals, musicians, acrobats, all the treasures and all the oddities of the world; pantheons of opulence and curiosity; genuine bazaars where the liking for what was novel, heterogeneous, and fantastic ousted the feeling of appreciation for simple beauty.

My anti-leave-taking foible is certainly not so much affected when I quit the residence of an hotelthat public homethat wearisome resting-placethat epitome of the worldthat compound of gregarious incompatibilitiesthat bazaar of characterthat proper resort of semi-social egotism and unamalgable individualitiesthat troublous haven, where the vessel may ride and tack, half-sheltered, but finds no anchorage.

My anti-leave-taking foible is certainly not so much affected when I quit the residence of an hotelthat public homethat wearisome resting-placethat epitome of the worldthat compound of gregarious incompatibilitiesthat bazaar of characterthat proper resort of semi-social egotism and unamalgable individualitiesthat troublous haven, where the vessel may ride and tack, half-sheltered, but finds no anchorage.

With the exception of the "Maidan Shah," or "Square of the King"a large open space in the centre of the city, surrounded by modern two-storied housesthe streets of Ispahán are narrow, dirty, and ill-paved, and its bazaar, which adjoins the Maidan Shah, very inferior in every way to those of Teherán or Shiráz.

With chairpoles backing into one shop or running ahead into another, with raucous cries from the coolies, he swung round countless corners, bewildered in a dark, leprous, nightmare bazaar.

A quarter of a mile from the landing-place, clustered at the foot of a steep little hilla spur from the higher rangeslies the village of Bandipur, dirty and picturesque, with, its rickety-looking wooden houses, and its crowded little bazaar.

And then the fashion will become popular with the less aristocratic portion of the community, and you will see crowds of servant-girls and street-loungers around the windows of our magnificent coffin-bazaars, and hear from them such exclamations as these: "Oh! do look here, Matilda!

A mean, poor-looking bazaar, narrow tortuous streets, knee-deep in dust or mud, as the case may be, and squalid, filthy houses, form a striking contrast to the broad, well-kept avenues, gilded domes, and beautiful gardens which encircle the city.

We climbed through perhaps a dozen of these boats before we landed on the pier, and in three minutes' walk we were in the rug bazaars of Smyrna.

The first hundred yards of "city," consisting of a highly-seasoned bazaar paved with the accumulated filth of ages, was enough to satisfy our thirst for sight-seeing, and after a visit to the post-office we trudged back through a most oppressive grey haze to the boat.

An anti-slavery bazaar or fair which I visited this day, furnished ample testimony of the zeal of the female friends of the oppressed slave in this district.

Farewell to the gay gardens, the spicy bazaars, to the plash of fountains and the gleam of golden-tipped minarets!

The gallant half-dozen having reported to the 156th Brigade that Askalon was open to themthe Brigade occupied the place at noonrode across the sand-dunes to the important native town of Mejdel, where there was a substantial bazaar doing a good trade in the essentials for native existence, beans and cereals in plenty, fruit, and tobacco of execrable quality.

In a rage she got out and walked, past a kaleidoscopic pattern of tiny bazaars, shooting-galleries, paper icebergs, and cardboard mountains.

Following this, we came to an uncovered bazaar, with rude shops on either side, protected by mats stretched in front and supported by poles.