guards together with the Suffet. A few interposed, saying that they ought to hear him and know at l...
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reserving her for some alliance that might serve his political ends; so that Salammbo lived alone i...
Mappalian quarter and tried to climb up the face of the cliff. He covered his knees with blood, bro...
tribune erected with knapsacks, and declared that he should not depart before he had paid them all ...
iron instrument caught fast, and they began to climb up the wall, the one after the other. But whe...
branches of which were of glass and the grape-bunches of emerald, the rays from the precious stones...
assemblage of small beams, with amethysts and topazes amid their gilding in the knots of the wood. ...
entered, followed by about twenty men. They wore white woollen cloaks, long daggers, copper necklac...
fray. In their extremity of terror all became brave. The rich ranged themselves in line along the ...
now be seen advancing with the air of an empress, in the midst of a group of women and eunuchs carr...
The tetrarch hesitated to obey, fearing that the Jews would discover his secret. His reluctance to ...
her, certainly, but she might give him courage; and besides, in spite of his dislike, not all the b...
Marcellus and Jacob were seated side by side. Marcellus described the happiness he had felt under t...
moments all would be over! But for once Mannaeus did not perform a commission satisfactorily. He l...
Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert CHAPTER I THE FEAST It was at Megara, a suburb of Carthage, in the ...