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The Arab has impressed his language upon everything south and east of Judea, so, in his tongue, the old Jebel is the parent of numberless wadies which, intersecting the Roman road--now a dim suggestion of what once it was, a dusty path for Syrian pilgrims to and from Mecca--run their furrows, deepening as they go, to pass the torrents of the rainy season into the Jordan, or their last receptacle, the Dead Sea.
- P12

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Its feet are well covered by sands tossed from the Euphrates,there to lie, for the mountain is a wall to the pasture-lands of Moab and Ammon on the west-lands which else had been of the desert a part.
- P11

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[오늘의 한문장] 벤허 Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

by Lew Wallace

to THE WIFE OF MY YOUTH who still abides with me

BOOK FIRST

CHAPTER I

The Jebel es Zubleh is a mountain fifty miles and more in length, and so narrow that its tracery on the map gives it a likeness to a caterpillar crawling from the south to the north. Standing on its red-and-white cliffs, and looking off under the path of the rising sun, one sees only the Desert of Arabia, where the east winds, so hateful to vinegrowers of Jericho, have kept their playgrounds since the beginning.
- P11

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■ 저자 소개

루 윌리스(1827년 ~ 1905년)는 인디애나에서 태어나 학창 시절부터 시와 짧은 소설들을 쓰기 시작했습니다. 남북전쟁 때는 연대장으로 복무하며 큰 전공을 세웠습니다. 종전 후 변호사로 일하며 소설 창작을 시작해 1873년 역사소설 <아름다운 신>을 출간했고 1880년 <벤허>를 발표해 큰 명성을 얻었습니다 - P3