minarets

Not a line is straight; the tall dead walls of the mosques slope over their massy buttresses, and the thin minarets seem about to fall across your path.

"Ruffian Dick" walks Old Cairo by Night 2004

Not a line is straight; the tall dead walls of the mosques slope over their massy buttresses, and the thin minarets seem about to fall across your path.

"Ruffian Dick" walks Old Cairo by Night 2004

Not a line is straight; the tall dead walls of the mosques slope over their massy buttresses, and the thin minarets seem about to fall across your path.

The Sudden Curve: 2004

This entire passage borrows heavily from Franklin's description, in which he writes: the ascent to the minarets is by a winding stair-case ... at the top the spectator is gratified by

Notes 2002

The result was a victory for the Swiss People's Party which called minarets symbols of Muslim political power which threatens to transform Switzerland into an Islamic nation.

CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2009 2009

"The minarets are our bayonets, the domes are our helmets, the mosques are our barracks, the believers are our soldiers."

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

It was, ironically, an excerpt from standard grade-school textbooks: "The domes of the mosques are helmets/And the minarets are our bayonets."

Eyes On Turkey 2007

If he proceed to the top of one of the minarets, which is reached by a steep, dark spiral stair, he will have a most commanding and extensive view of the city, the river, and the country for many miles around.

Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 James Kennedy 1857

The referendum by the nationalist Swiss People's Party labelled minarets as symbols of rising Muslim political power that could one day transform Switzerland into an Islamic nation.

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The referendum by the nationalist Swiss People's Party labelled minarets as symbols of rising Muslim political power that could one day transform Switzerland into an Islamic nation

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