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  • Likewise, two of the places in the Arab world that have given girls the most education were Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, yet the former has been a vortex of conflict and the latter a breeding ground for violent fundamentalists.†   (source)
  • Over the last 20+ years dating back to the bombing of the Marine Corps Barracks in Lebanon, various factions of radical Islamic Terrorists have been committing heinous acts of terrorism against the free world.†   (source)
  • One night the count went out to smoke one of his Oriental cigarettes, specially imported from Lebanon— wherever that was, as Trueba always said—and to inhale the scent of the flowers, which rose in great mouthfuls from the garden, filling every room in the house.†   (source)
  • 'We've got cedars from Lebanon due at the sawmill in Oslo to be turned into shingles for the builder in Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • Teagarten was forever sounding off about sending NATO forces into Lebanon and leveling every suspected Palestinian enclave.†   (source)
  • AUGUST 23, 1962 — WASHINGTON, D.C./BEIRUT, LEBANON MIDDAY†   (source)
  • His work wasn't as grueling as it had been in his early years in Lebanon, Laos, Central America, but his pattern hadn't changed.†   (source)
  • We are ordinary people: My friend Jemma, from Armenia; Paul, from Canada; Kosal, a landmine survivor from Cambodia; Haboubba, from Lebanon; Christian, from Norway; Diana, from Colombia; Margaret, another landmine survivor, from Uganda; and thousands more.†   (source)
  • It was in this office, upstairs in Lebanon Seminary, that she learned the extent of the network of stops on the Underground Railroad.†   (source)
  • The Hadawi family lived in Ein al-Hilweh, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • Then in 'fifty-eight, after the Iraq king was assassinated, we grabbed the initiative and landed Marines in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • Much of the revelation was to come through the stamp collection Pierce had left, his substitute often for her— thousands of little colored windows into deep vistas of space and time: savannahs teeming with elands and gazelles, galleons sailing west into the void, Hitler heads, sunsets, cedars of Lebanon, allegorical faces that never were, he could spend hours peering into each one, ignoring her.†   (source)
  • In late 1960 a former collaborator of ours approached an Englishman in the Lebanon known to be in contact with their Intelligence Service.†   (source)
  • Mohammed's first major victory came in that same year, 1959, in a race in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • But what is his connection with Lebanon?†   (source)
  • And another thing: Sophie had apparently dreamed that Hilde's father came home from Lebanon.†   (source)
  • He had won races in Syria, Lebanon, and Italy.†   (source)
  • It could hardly have blown all the way from Lebanon!†   (source)
  • Also from Syria, Nasser had left the country in 1995, traveling first to Lebanon.†   (source)
  • You must have gathered by now that he is a UN observer in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • There he was, Mohammed with the vice president of Lebanon.†   (source)
  • And what was more, in a week Dad would be home from Lebanon.†   (source)
  • It contained a short note: Dear Dad, Welcome home from Lebanon.†   (source)
  • That was yesterday … the day after the death of the major in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • Do you know if they grow bananas in Lebanon?†   (source)
  • If this joker really was in Lebanon, how had he gotten hold of Sophie's address?†   (source)
  • If there is one thing I'm going to remember from these months in Lebanon, it's all this waiting.†   (source)
  • He is over there in Lebanon writing a book on philosophy for his daughter's fifteenth birthday.†   (source)
  • And Dad gets back from Lebanon in a week.†   (source)
  • Hilde's father is a UN Observer in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • In the mailbox she found two cards from Lebanon.†   (source)
  • Answer me now: Do you know a man in Lebanon?†   (source)
  • Did you remember that it's the day Hilde's father gets back from Lebanon?†   (source)
  • Luckily she found no early morning postcard from Lebanon.†   (source)
  • This is the day Hilde's father gets back from Lebanon.†   (source)
  • The boy answered for himself: "My name is Aladdin and I've come all the way from Lebanon.†   (source)
  • Have you met the son of someone in Lebanon?†   (source)
  • He had dropped so many cryptic hints in his cards from Lebanon.†   (source)
  • In Alberto's hall she finds another card from Lebanon.†   (source)
  • She knew her father had already left the camp in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • He is here in spirit and soul, but he's also safely tucked away in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • Do you remember the night before you left for Lebanon?†   (source)
  • "Lebanon … Lebanon … Lebanon … They are all postmarked in Lebanon," Joanna discovered.†   (source)
  • At leastthere would be an end to all those birthday cards from Lebanon.†   (source)
  • Even if it was not afloat, it had to be shipshape when Dad got back from Lebanon.†   (source)
  • "I doubt if a postcard from Lebanon can get to Norway in one day," said Joanna.†   (source)
  • The weather in Lillesand is perfect, but the temperature is a few degrees lower than in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • But they are all out of white doves in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • Had he finally begun on the significant novel and completed it in Lebanon?†   (source)
  • I was detained by hostile troops in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • Surely he was not being ordered back to Lebanon?†   (source)
  • The days are hot in Lebanon, my friends.†   (source)
  • Reported Seen in London Since then Carlos has been reported seen in London and in Beirut, Lebanon.†   (source)
  • A series of flags appeared, representing Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the UAE.†   (source)
  • Drew pulled into the parking lot of the Mount Lebanon School.†   (source)
  • For a man who'd cut his professional teeth in war-torn Lebanon, it didn't sound like a picnic.†   (source)
  • The assassin himself has vanished-perhaps in Lebanon, the French police believe.†   (source)
  • Not in pretty Paris, London and Madrid, but in Laos, Lebanon, Cambodia.†   (source)
  • As a teenager Mahmoud began crewing on shipping routes between Lebanon and Syria, on large sail-powered cargo boats, bringing timber to Damascus and other cities along the coast.†   (source)
  • With surprise, she read about Sophie Amundsen receiving a postcard from Lebanon: "Hilde Moller Knag, c/o Sophie Amundsen, 3 Clover Close…"†   (source)
  • She had finally climbed a tree and been rescued by Morten Goose, who had arrived like a guardian angel from Lebanon.†   (source)
  • Actually, I'm a tame goose, but on this special occasion I have flown up from Lebanon with the wild geese.†   (source)
  • Hilde recognized them as being from her father's typewriter, the one he had taken with him to Lebanon.†   (source)
  • When her mother got home, Sophie had put the card from Lebanon with everything else from Alberto and Hilde.†   (source)
  • It was a postcard from Lebanon: Dear Hilde, When you read this we shall already have spoken together by phone about the tragic death down here.†   (source)
  • In the evening, the TV news had a feature on how the Norwegian UN battalion had celebrated the day in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • It had to be someplace… The chapter on Socrates began with Sophie reading "something about the Norwegian UN battalion in Lebanon" in the newspaper.†   (source)
  • How could he, if he was in Lebanon?†   (source)
  • There were no more postcards from Lebanon either, although she and Joanna still talked about the cards they found in the major's cabin.†   (source)
  • You don't actually think the cards come fluttering out of the mirror the minute they are stamped in Lebanon?†   (source)
  • The daughter of the man in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • I just wanted to say that Bjerkely and the south country back home seem like fairyland to me here in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • Anyway, there was no doubt at all that the girl in her dream was Hilde Moller Knag and that the man was her father, home from Lebanon.†   (source)
  • And now Sophie had invited people to a philosophical garden party on the very day her father was due back from Lebanon.†   (source)
  • Sophie recalled what Hilde's father had written about war-torn Lebanon, and she realized how lucky she was to have been born in a peaceful country.†   (source)
  • Maybe it would be over by her birthday—or at least by Midsummer Eve, when Hilde's father would be home from Lebanon … "I want to have a birthday party," she said suddenly.†   (source)
  • It was Sophie who finally broke the silence: "But if there really is an author who is writing a story about Hilde's father in Lebanon, just like he is writing a story about us …."†   (source)
  • She was so mad that she opened the closet door and hurled the delicate crucifix up onto the top shelf with the silk scarf, the white stocking, and the postcards from Lebanon.†   (source)
  • What I am saying to you now will be read by Hilde after her father in Lebanon once imagined that I was telling you he was in Lebanon … imagining me telling you that he was in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • I am in Lebanon at the moment.†   (source)
  • More or less like in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • But it felt like more than an ordinary dream, with its vivid colors and shapes … She had dreamt that her father came home from Lebanon, and the whole dream was an extension of Sophie's dream when she found the gold crucifix on the dock.†   (source)
  • I came straight from Lebanon.†   (source)
  • After a thorough philosophical study—which has led from the first Greek philosophers to the present day—we have discovered that we are living our lives in the mind of a major who is at this moment serving as a UN observer in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • In Philadelphia, almost every evening after work, Harriet climbed the long flight of stairs which led to a loft in the building which housed Lebanon Seminary.†   (source)
  • A UN survey in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Morocco found that more than 98 percent of people in each country believed that "girls have the same right to education as boys.†   (source)
  • A teenager wearing a "Champion Spark Plugs" cap is told that the United States stands behind the "liberty and integrity" of Lebanon.†   (source)
  • A few stayed behind but most fled to Lebanon, where they waited for the Arab armies to recapture Palestine from the Jews.†   (source)
  • Here, Lebanon.†   (source)
  • From Lebanon.†   (source)
  • We're in talks with the superintendent's office in Lebanon, to see if we can use one of their empty schools.†   (source)
  • Lebanon?†   (source)
  • The vice president—whose Secret Service code name is Volunteer—now stands up in the front seat of a convertible in Beirut, Lebanon.†   (source)
  • "And from the Saudi perspective," continued Natalie, "a Sunni caliphate is far preferable to a Shiite Crescent that stretches from Iran to Lebanon."†   (source)
  • Our own view is that these are exceptions: Kerala was held back by its anti-market economic policies, Lebanon by competing religious sects and bullying neighbors, and Saudi Arabia by a deeply conservative culture and government.†   (source)
  • One week after the school shooting at Sterling High, the Mount Lebanon School-a primary grade school that had become an administrative building when the population of students in Lebanon dipped-was outfitted to be the temporary home for high school kids to finish out their school year.†   (source)
  • Young Saladin lived for a time in Baalbek, in present-day Lebanon, and in Damascus, where he drank wine, pursued women, and played polo by candlelight.†   (source)
  • Lebanon was just supposed to be a refueling stop for his 707, but when Johnson learns that he is the highest-ranking American official ever to visit the Land of Cedars, he can't help himself.†   (source)
  • In reality, he was considering all the possible reasons why an aircraft operated by the government of Lebanon might fail to reach its destination safely.†   (source)
  • Mikhail knew that the woman was a Palestinian and that her father, a fighter from the old days, had fled Lebanon with Arafat in 1982, long before she was born.†   (source)
  • There was nothing Sami Haddad didn't know about Lebanon and its dangerous politics, and nothing he couldn't lay his hands on in a hurry—weapons, boats, cars, drugs, girls.†   (source)
  • Beneath the jacket, wedged inside the waistband of the trousers, was a 9mm Belgian-made pistol he had collected from a contact at the airport—there being no shortage of weapons, large or small, in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • It was not necessary that he leave for the Orlando airport until two A.M. It was near dawn in the Eastern Mediterranean when Saratoga, working up speed in narrowing waters between Cyprus and Lebanon, catapulted four F-11-F Tigers, the fastest fighters in its complement.†   (source)
  • And by then the ground had been prepared—the man in the Lebanon, the miraculous scoop to which Fiedler referred, both seeming to confirm the presence of a highly placed spy within the Abteilung…… "It was wonderfully well done.†   (source)
  • The trees of the Lord are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted; Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.†   (source)
  • I took the paper from him and read as follows: "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a salary of £4 a week for purely nominal services.†   (source)
  • , Lebanon, Centre, Franklin, Fayette, Montgomery, Luzerne, Dauphin, Butler, Alleghany, Columbia, Northampton, Northumberland, and Philadelphia, for the year 1830.†   (source)
  • It grieved Josie, and great awkward John walked nine miles every day to see his little brother through the bars of Lebanon jail.†   (source)
  • She was to me more than the Shulamite to the singing king, fairer, more spotless; a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, also, views were had of Taurus and Lebanon, between which, a separating line of silver, the Orontes placidly pursued its way.†   (source)
  • Of the herdsmen watching flocks on the plains and hill-sides, far as old Lebanon, numbers reported to him as their employer; in the cities by the sea, and in those inland, he founded houses of traffic; his ships brought him silver from Spain, whose mines were then the richest known; while his caravans came twice a year from the East, laden with silks and spices.†   (source)
  • The trees did not crowd each other; and they were of every kind native to the East, blended well with strangers adopted from far quarters; here grouped in exclusive companionship palm-trees plumed like queens; there sycamores, overtopping laurels of darker foliage; and evergreen oaks rising verdantly, with cedars vast enough to be kings on Lebanon; and mulberries; and terebinths so beautiful it is not hyperbole to speak of them as blown from the orchards of Paradise.†   (source)
  • For as far as two leagues the cedars shivered when Enkidu felled the watcher of the forest, he at whose voice Hermon and Lebanon used to tremble.†   (source)
  • 3:9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.†   (source)
  • 29:5 The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.†   (source)
  • 92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • 29:6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.†   (source)
  • Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded: the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat, Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led, His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah.†   (source)
  • 5:15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.†   (source)
  • 4:11 Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.†   (source)
  • 7:4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.†   (source)
  • 72:16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.†   (source)
  • 4:8 Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.†   (source)
  • 104:16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; 104:17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.†   (source)
  • 4:13 Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, 4:14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: 4:15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.†   (source)
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