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| "The thatched roofs are replaced by roofs of shingle that shine like silver in the sun" | [6] |
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| "Very different are the mountain villages from those of the plain. The cottages are less miserable" | [6] |
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| "Many a hearty welcome has been given me in these little villages" | [7] |
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| "Square, high buildings with an open gallery round the top" | [7] |
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| "It is especially in the Dobrudja that these different nationalities jostle together" | [10] |
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| "It had kept the delightful appearance of having been modelled bya potter's thumb" | [14] |
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| "Primitive strongholds, half tower, half peasant-house" | [14] |
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| "Richer and more varied are the peasants' costumes" | [14] |
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| "With an open gallery round the top formed by stout short columns" | [15] |
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| "Composed of a double colonnade.... Behind these colonnades arethe nuns' small cells: tiny domes, little chambers" | [15] |
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| "A convent ... white and lonely, hidden away in wooded regionsgreener and sweeter than any other in the land" | [18] |
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| "This porch is decorated all over with frescoes" | [22] |
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| "Some were so old, so bent, that they could no more raise their headsto look up at the sky above" | [23] |
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| "Strange old monks inhabited it" | [23] |
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| "Silent recluses, buried away from the world" | [23] |
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| "An indescribable harmony makes its lines beautiful" | [26] |
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| "A lonely little cemetery, filled with crosses of wood" | [30] |
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| "On lonely mountain-sides" | [30] |
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| "Guarded by a few hoary old monks" | [30] |
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| "There lies a tiny wee church" | [30] |
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| "Tall and upright, with the pale, ascetic face of a saint" | [30] |
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| "Creatures so old and decrepit that they seem to have gathered mosslike stones lying for ever in the same place" | [30] |
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| "When found in such numbers they are mostly hewn out of wood" | [31] |
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| "These strange old crosses ... they stand by the wayside" | [31] |
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| "Mostly they stand beside wells" | [34] |
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| "Quaint of shape, they attract the eye from far" | [38] |
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| "Sometimes they are of quaintly carved stone" | [38] |
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| "Strange old crosses that on all roads I have come upon" | [38] |
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| "Their forms and sizes are varied" | [38] |
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| "None of the greater buildings attract me so strongly as those littlevillage churches" | [39] |
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| "The altar is shut off from the rest of the building by a carved andpainted screen" | [39] |
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| "The roofs are always of shingle" | [42] |
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| "Varied indeed are the shapes of these peasant churches" | [46] |
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| "Their principal feature being the stout columns that support the porchin front" | [46] |
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| "But with some the belfry stands by itself" | [47] |
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| "The columns have beautiful carved capitals of rarest design ... whitewashedlike the rest of the church" | [47] |
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| "Quaint indeed are the buildings that some simple-hearted artist haspainted" | [47] |
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| "These lonely mountain-dwellers" | [50] |
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| "These shaggy garments give them a wild appearance" | [54] |
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| "Their only refuges are dug-outs" | [54] |
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| "Even tiny boys wear these extraordinary coats" | [54] |
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| "Here, in company with their dogs, they spend the long summermonths" | [54] |
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| "On juicy pastures near clear-flowing stream" | [55] |
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| "Silent watchers leaning on their staffs" | [55] |
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| "Wherever I have met them, be it on the mountains or in the plains,... these silent shepherds have seemed to me the very personificationof solitude" | [55] |
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| "On the burning plains of the Dobrudja where for miles around notree is to be seen" | [58] |
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| "Stifled by the overwhelming temperature, they had massed themselvestogether" | [58] |
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| "Mothers and children, and old grannies" | [62] |
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| "Small bronze statues with curly, tousled heads" | [62] |
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| "Occasionally a torn shirt barely covers them" | [62] |
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| "Most beautiful of all are the young girls" | [63] |
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| "Inconceivably picturesque" | [63] |
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| "These are the respected members of the tribes" | [63] |
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| "I have often met old couples wanderingtogether" | [63] |
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| "A bare field where the soldiers exercised" | [66] |