Chapter XXVIII

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

on the subject of; concerning

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

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From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

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From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

having companions or an escort

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

from one side of something to the other

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

touching and pressing; in opposition to

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

a town in Louisiana on the Red River

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

at all times; all the time and on every occasion

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

Belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence or deeply revered.

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

one more of the same kind, or a different one

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

plural of “arab” — a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa

From this reading The water in the pools, even in the rainy season, is there black and putrid; hence the Arabs of the district remove with their flocks to better regions, where the higher mountains run from Assouan to Haimaur.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

a distinct feature or element in a problem

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

an ancient city on the Nile in Egypt; two dams across the Nile have been built nearby

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

exceptionally bad or displeasing

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

enter or assume a certain state or condition

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

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From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

(comparative of “good”) superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another

From this reading The water in the pools, even in the rainy season, is there black and putrid; hence the Arabs of the district remove with their flocks to better regions, where the higher mountains run from Assouan to Haimaur.

in the space, time, or range separating two things

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light

From this reading The water in the pools, even in the rainy season, is there black and putrid; hence the Arabs of the district remove with their flocks to better regions, where the higher mountains run from Assouan to Haimaur.

plural of “black” — the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

fearless and daring

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

plural of “border” — a line that indicates a boundary

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

past form of “call” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war

From this reading THE CAPTIVE.

plural of “caravan” — a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

an eye disease that involves the clouding or opacification of the natural lens of the eye

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

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From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

From this reading The water in the pools, even in the rainy season, is there black and putrid; hence the Arabs of the district remove with their flocks to better regions, where the higher mountains run from Assouan to Haimaur.

extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

past form of “dwindle” — become smaller or lose substance

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

divisible by two

From this reading The water in the pools, even in the rainy season, is there black and putrid; hence the Arabs of the district remove with their flocks to better regions, where the higher mountains run from Assouan to Haimaur.

the organ of sight

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

to a considerable degree; very much

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “a”; a small but indefinite number

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

a formation of aircraft in flight

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

containing flint

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

plural of “flock” — a church congregation guided by a pastor

From this reading The water in the pools, even in the rainy season, is there black and putrid; hence the Arabs of the district remove with their flocks to better regions, where the higher mountains run from Assouan to Haimaur.

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From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

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From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

reflecting light

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

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From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

a small growth of trees without underbrush

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

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From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

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From this reading The water in the pools, even in the rainy season, is there black and putrid; hence the Arabs of the district remove with their flocks to better regions, where the higher mountains run from Assouan to Haimaur.

of comparatively great physical weight or density

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

for this reason

From this reading The water in the pools, even in the rainy season, is there black and putrid; hence the Arabs of the district remove with their flocks to better regions, where the higher mountains run from Assouan to Haimaur.

in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

advanced in complexity or elaboration

From this reading The water in the pools, even in the rainy season, is there black and putrid; hence the Arabs of the district remove with their flocks to better regions, where the higher mountains run from Assouan to Haimaur.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

where you live at a particular time

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

a social unit living together

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

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From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

the act of traveling from one place to another

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

the capital of Sudan located at the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

the land on which real estate is located

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

prefer or wish to do something

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

not compact or dense in structure or arrangement

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

move something or somebody to a lower position

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

having or bringing misfortune

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

(Islam) a messianic leader who (according to popular Muslim belief) will appear before the end of the world and restore justice and religion

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

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From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

equally distant from the extremes

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

move about in a confused manner

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

plural of “mountain” — a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill

From this reading The water in the pools, even in the rainy season, is there black and putrid; hence the Arabs of the district remove with their flocks to better regions, where the higher mountains run from Assouan to Haimaur.

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From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

a surrounding or nearby region

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

a native or inhabitant of Nubia

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

and nothing more

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

the time that has elapsed

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

a point located with respect to surface features of some region

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

plural of “place” — a point located with respect to surface features of some region

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

a small lake

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

plural of “pool” — an excavation that is (usually) filled with water

From this reading The water in the pools, even in the rainy season, is there black and putrid; hence the Arabs of the district remove with their flocks to better regions, where the higher mountains run from Assouan to Haimaur.

plural of “province” — the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

of or relating to or attended by putrefaction

From this reading The water in the pools, even in the rainy season, is there black and putrid; hence the Arabs of the district remove with their flocks to better regions, where the higher mountains run from Assouan to Haimaur.

(of weather) wet by periods of rain

From this reading The water in the pools, even in the rainy season, is there black and putrid; hence the Arabs of the district remove with their flocks to better regions, where the higher mountains run from Assouan to Haimaur.

plural of “region” — the extended spatial location of something

From this reading The water in the pools, even in the rainy season, is there black and putrid; hence the Arabs of the district remove with their flocks to better regions, where the higher mountains run from Assouan to Haimaur.

provide physical relief, as from pain

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

located far away spatially

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract

From this reading The water in the pools, even in the rainy season, is there black and putrid; hence the Arabs of the district remove with their flocks to better regions, where the higher mountains run from Assouan to Haimaur.

a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

an established line of travel or access

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time

From this reading The water in the pools, even in the rainy season, is there black and putrid; hence the Arabs of the district remove with their flocks to better regions, where the higher mountains run from Assouan to Haimaur.

a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

the place where some action occurs

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field

From this reading The water in the pools, even in the rainy season, is there black and putrid; hence the Arabs of the district remove with their flocks to better regions, where the higher mountains run from Assouan to Haimaur.

any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers; many are used medicinally

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

(of something seen or heard) clearly defined

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

the leader of an Arab village or family

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

the display of a motion picture

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

being or characteristic of a single thing or person

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

situated in a particular spot or position

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

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From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

past form of “sprinkle” — distribute loosely

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

not in physical motion

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

plural of “stone” — a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

plural of “swell” — the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

carry out

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading THE CAPTIVE.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading The water in the pools, even in the rainy season, is there black and putrid; hence the Arabs of the district remove with their flocks to better regions, where the higher mountains run from Assouan to Haimaur.

subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

in or at that place or location

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

one of three equal parts of a divisible whole

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

an instance or single occasion for some event

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

a more or less definite period of time now or previously present

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

in the direction of

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

create by training and teaching

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

plural of “traveller” — a person who changes location

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

plural of “tuft” — a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass

From this reading There the desert sand is deep and loose, with sharp flinty stones, in some places sprinkled with glistening rock salt, and showing here and there a grove of dwindled acacias or tufts of colocynth and senna, to relieve the awful dreariness of its aspect.

-ing form of “undergo” — pass through

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

the topmost one of two

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

precisely as stated

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

past form of “visit” — go to see a place, as for entertainment

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

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From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

an act of traveling by water

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

-ing form of “wage” — carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent

From this reading The water in the pools, even in the rainy season, is there black and putrid; hence the Arabs of the district remove with their flocks to better regions, where the higher mountains run from Assouan to Haimaur.

the speaker together with one or more other people

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

in or at the place that

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

an old word meaning “to where”

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

which person or people

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

used to talk about the future, or about willingness

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

in the company of; together with

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

not having, not using, or not accompanied by

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

a unit of language that native speakers can identify

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.

an old word for “yes”

From this reading By this time how weary had the eye--yea, the very soul--of the luckless captive become of the desert scenery, in a land visited only by a few bold travellers, who in times past had accompanied the caravans from one valley to another.

but in spite of that

From this reading We must now change the scene to the Soudan--_Beled-es-Soudan_, or 'The Land of the Blacks,' so called by ancient geographers--whither a single flight of imagination will take us without undergoing a fortnight's voyage by sea to Alexandria, _viâ_ the Bay of Biscay, with its long, heavy swells, and the Mediterranean, which is not always like a mill pond; and then a long and toilsome route across the Lower and Upper Provinces to where the Sheikh Moussa Abu Hagil was journeying towards his remote home, with the luckless Malcolm Skene in his train--a place on the borders of the Nubian Desert, not far from the Nile, in the neighbourhood of the third cataract, and situated about midway between Assouan, the name of which had not, as yet, become a 'household word' with us, and Khartoum, where then the well-nigh despairing Gordon was still waging his desperate defence against the Mahdi.