A TOWERING mass of wall flanked by grey bastions, a stretch of beach on whose amber sands lay a dozen or more gaily painted caiques, and a veiled shape pink from head covering to skirt edge, shuffling waterwards in canary-coloured slippers, - such were the signs, pregnant in meaning, that announced to the passengers of the Orient express they had come to their long journey's end.
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In the Palaces of the Sultan
by Anna Bowman Dodd
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In The Palaces Of The Sultan
July 25, 2007, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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In The Palaces Of The Sultan
January 17, 2007, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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In the Palaces of the Sultan
October 8, 2004, Gorgias Press LLC
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"A TOWERING mass of wall flanked by grey bastions, a stretch of beach on whose amber sands lay a dozen or more gaily painted caiques, and a veiled shape pink from head covering to skirt edge, shuffling waterwards in canary-coloured slippers, - such were the signs, pregnant in meaning, that announced to the passengers of the Orient express they had come to their long journey's end."
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