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Word: alhambra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...before you, in front of the fire, in a French plaid breakfast-jacket, large checked trousers, silk socks and pumps, only stopping now and then to light a caporal, he will tell you long yarns of his experiences at the Mabille, the Students' Balls, the Argylle Rooms, or the Alhambra; and when you get up to go, he will close his remarks by deprecating the utter dulness of America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ANGLO-AMERICAN. | 5/7/1875 | See Source »

...places in this little world of ours are more attractive than Granada. The crumbling walls of the Alhambra; the splendid relics of the greatness of the old Moorish kings; the quaint gardens of the Generaliffe; the grand views of the snowy Sierra on the one hand and of the olive-clad plains of Andalusia on the other; the great shapeless cathedral, where the Catholic kings sleep beneath the tattered standards of the Conquest; the quaint, dirty buildings; the quainter, dirtier peasantry; and, quaintest and dirtiest of all, the dark-eyed gypsies of sleepy old Spain; it is the home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXTRACT FROM A LETTER. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

...medicine was small, consisting of a flask of cognac, and a small bottle of laudanum, - the latter to be used in case of toothache. I began with the cognac. The pains were unabated, and before long I was in so uncomfortable a condition that my interest in the Alhambra itself almost vanished. I could think of nothing but number one and number one's stomach. That organ was evidently not susceptible to the influence of cognac, so I turned to my only other resource, the laudanum. For a whole day I took microscopic doses at stated intervals, with no apparent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXTRACT FROM A LETTER. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

...started away. Granada was charming, but it was sleepy, and its sleepiness was too suggestive. I longed for new scenes; so with a shorter mustache - of course I had to cut off the other side to match - and a more serious disposition, I prepared to bid farewell to the Alhambra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXTRACT FROM A LETTER. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

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