Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada (1913)
Macdonald, Ivan S, McLean, Robert Craik, Reed, Frederick, Keith, Fraser Sanderson, 1878-, Toutloff, M. B · Toronto : Consolidated Press · leaf 61
hingyou please to call them—on the first floor. TheTurks sit cross-legged in them and work, and smokelong pipes, and smell like—like Turks. That coversthe ground. Crowding the narrow streets in frontof them are beggars who beg forever, yet nevercollect anything; vagabonds driving laden… … FIFTH MILITARY GATE. among the hurrying feet, are the famed dogs ofConstantinople. It IS difficult to picture such a remarkable changefrom the splendor of this city during the reigns ofConstantine the Great, Justinian I., Mohammed II.,and Suleiman the Great. Conquered, pillaged andburnt for…
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