 ... going and returning in single file, the scene glows like Titian's canvas, and moves like the stately procession of the Panathenaic frieze. Later the men drive in the mild grey kine from the moaning plain, the looms are folded up, the coppersmiths...  The Artist - Page 2811880Full view - About this book
 | sir George Christopher M. Birdwood - 1878 - 208 pages
...of the street above the lotuscovered village tank. At half-past three or four in the afternoon, tho whole street is lighted up by the moving robes of...down to draw water from the tank, each with two or th roo water jars on her head : and so going and returning in single file, the scone glows like Titian's... | |
 | George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood - 1880 - 318 pages
...grove of mangoes and palms at the end of the street above the lotus-covered village tank. At half-past three or four in the afternoon the whole street is...with two or three water jars on her head : and so, while they are going and returning in single file, the scene glows like Titian's canvas, and moves... | |
 | Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - 1886 - 472 pages
...grove of mangoes and palms at the end of the street above the lotus-covered village tank. At half-past three or four in the afternoon the whole street is...with two or three water jars on her head : and so, while they are going and returning in single file, the scene glows like Titian's canvas, and moves... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1902 - 354 pages
...groves of mangoes and palms at the end of the street above the lotus-covered village tank. At half-past three or four in the afternoon the whole street is...with two or three water jars on her head ; and so, while they are going and returning in single file, the scene glows like Titian's canvas, and moves... | |
 | Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy - 1909 - 160 pages
...of mangoes and palms at the end of the street above the lotuscovered village tank. AND HANDICRAFT. " At half -past three or four in the afternoon the whole...to draw water from the tank, each with two or three water-jars on her head ; and so, while they are going and returning in single file, the scene glows... | |
 | Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy - 1909 - 166 pages
...grove of mangoes and palms at the end of the street above the lotuscovered village tank. " At half-past three or four in the afternoon the whole street is...to draw water from the tank, each with two or three water-jars on her head; and so, while they are going and returning in single file, the scene glows... | |
 | Edward Gilliat - 1919 - 410 pages
...into fair jewelry, gold and silver earrings, noserings and tinkling ornaments for the feet. . . . At four in the afternoon the whole street is lighted...to draw water from the tank, each with two or three water-jars on her head. . . . Later, the men drive in the mild grey kine from the moaning plain, the... | |
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