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Hrothgar then spake thus answering him: 'These words that thou hast spoken the all-knowing Lord hath set within thy heart. Never heard I of years so young a man discourse more wise. Thou art in valour strong and in thy mind prudent, knowledge is in thy uttered words.'

The King of Glory, as men now heard, had appointed one to guard the hall against Grendel; now a special office he held in the service of the Danes, having taken on himself a watch against monstrous things. Verily the Geatish knight trusted confidently in his valiant strength, God's grace to him.

Grievous to my heart is it to recount to any among men what humiliations in Heorot, what dreadful deeds of malice Grendel hath wrought for me in the hatred of his heart. Diminished is the company of my hall, the ranks of my warriors; Fate hath swept them into the dire clutch of Grendel. God (alone) may easily hinder from his deeds that savage foe!

There seemed no obvious way in which to present a text that was in one sense complete, but at the same time evidently 'unfinished'. Merely to print what appears to have been his latest choice in the translation of a word, a phrase, or a passage and to leave it at that seemed misleading and mistaken.

I walked across and parleyed with the guard, who distrusted my single appearance on foot. They had orders to keep out all natives lest they massacre the patients-a misapprehension of the Arab fashion of making war. At last my English speech got me past the little lodge whose garden was filled with two hundred wretched prisoners in exhaustion and despair.

Feisal] had been long in touch with elements in Turkey, Jemal Pasha opening the correspondence. By instinct, when sober, Jemal was Islamic, and to him the revolt of Mecca was a judgement. He was ready to do almost anything to compose such a breach in the faith. His letters were, for this reason, illuminating... Our particular targets were the anti-German section of the General Staff, under Mustapha Kemal [Ataturk]...

[Feisal] had been long in touch with elements in Turkey, Jemal Pasha opening the correspondence. By instinct, when sober, Jemal was Islamic, and to him the revolt of Mecca was a judgement. He was ready to do almost anything to compose such a breach in the faith. His letters were, for this reason, illuminating... Our particular targets were the anti-German section of the General Staff, under Mustapha Kemal...

Winter traps the Arabs in the highlands of Moab, delaying the advance on Jericho.

Arab forces advance toward Jericho to reinforce the Anglo-Egyptian flank.

11 December 1917: Jerusalem falls to Anglo-Egyptian forces.

Captured, beaten, and raped by Ottoman Soldiers? Not the best day ever.

Chapter 50!

Reading Lawrence's descriptions of the water they had access to makes me even more upset about Americans who feel that tap water isn't good enough for them. Send them to Arabia to drink out of flood pools and brackish springs!

Sherif Nasir led us: his lucent goodness, which provoked answering devotion even from the depraved, made him the only leader (and a benediction) for forlorn hopes. When we broke our wishes to him he had sighed a little, for he was body-weary after months of vanguard-service, and mind-weary too, with the passing of youth's careless years.

Afterwards, old Dakhil Allah told me he had guided the Turks down to rush Yenbo in the dark that they might stamp out Feisal's army once for all; but their hearts had failed them at the silence and the blaze of lighted ships from end to end of the harbour, with the eerie beams of the searchlights revealing the bleakness of the glacis they would have to cross. So they turned back: and that night...lost their war.

Feisal, in speaking, had a rich musical voice, and used it carefully upon his men. To them he talked in tribal dialect, but with a curious, hesitant manner, as though faltering painfully among phrases, looking inward for the just word. His thought, perhaps, moved only by a little in front of his speech, for the phrases at last chosen were usually the simplest, which gave an effect emotional and sincere.

Rabegh, shaken by the first appearance of Turkish aeroplanes on November the seventh, had been reassured by the arrival of a flight of four British aeroplanes...

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