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Lisbon
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  • Two women and a man, the women from Marrakesh and Lisbon, the man from West Berlin.†   (source)
  • Spies will be looking for us in Lisbon.†   (source)
  • His wife, a devoted Catholic like himself, went to church every day and kept their home, a bright two-story cottage on a sunny side street up from the Lisbon docks, in perfect order.†   (source)
  • Then she took a look at Brest and at Lisbon, and by that time she was running out ofstores and her crew were in pretty bad shape, so she went back to Rio.†   (source)
  • "You want that I what?" he had whispered politely to Mr. Lisbon.†   (source)
  • "Our supply of fresh meat is almost out," Mr. Lisbon remarked.†   (source)
  • "Not all the passengers like fish," Mr. Lisbon pointed out.†   (source)
  • She got Mr. Lisbon up, and he had all the passenger areas checked.†   (source)
  • "Not everyone likes it!" shouted Mr. Lisbon.†   (source)
  • Mr. Lisbon had insisted that duck was, in fact, on the menu.†   (source)
  • Unmonied young doctors sent out from Lisbon to complete their residencies here.†   (source)
  • Word goes out in Amsterdam and Berlin, Geneva and Lisbon, London and right here in Paris.†   (source)
  • He'll tell them we're in Lisbon because Miss Boon implied that's where we are," replied Cooper.†   (source)
  • I even checked the transfers from London, Lisbon, Stockholm and Amsterdam-nothing.†   (source)
  • Lisbon's not that far," said Mr. McDaniels.†   (source)
  • Here, the fortunate ones, through money, or influence, or luck, might obtain exit visas and scurry to Lisbon, and from Lisbon to the New World.†   (source)
  • In Lisbon?†   (source)
  • But not everybody could get to Lisbon directly, and so, a tortuous, roundabout refugee trail sprang up.†   (source)
  • For with the plane to Lisbon in the air and Major Strasser dead on the ground, when Captain Renault frowned at the bottle of Vichy water, dropped it in a wastebasket, and kicked it across the floor, Osip Glebnikov, the former Red Army colonel and high official of the Party, who was sitting on the edge of his seat, poured, frowned, dropped, and kicked.†   (source)
  • Plenty of times I'd seen people flare their nostrils when they were angry; Mr. Lisbon did it all the time when he and Chef Vlad were arguing.†   (source)
  • I saw Mr. Rideau and Mr. Torbay, and there was Mr. Lisbon, our chief steward, Mr. Vlad, our chef, and not far from him, Captain Walken.†   (source)
  • He had some kind of Transylvanian accent, and Mr. Lisbon, the chief steward, had a completely different accent, just as thick.†   (source)
  • After a hurried breakfast in the crew's mess, the chief steward, Mr. Lisbon, told me to get some sleep.†   (source)
  • Vlad stalked off, shooting a serrated look at Mr. Lisbon and muttering about breadfruit and jackfish and crabs and how unappreciated he was.†   (source)
  • 3 KATE I was in the kitchen, preparing the breakfast trolley for the Topkapi stateroom, when Mr. Lisbon, the chief steward, came to tell me the captain wished to speak with me.†   (source)
  • When Mr. Lisbon opened the door to the Topkapi stateroom and let me in, Miss Simpkins was in fact collapsed in an armchair, gulping air and fanning herself.†   (source)
  • She was yelling at Mr. Lisbon.†   (source)
  • Problem, Mr. Lisbon, is this.†   (source)
  • Mr. Lisbon began to explain.†   (source)
  • Baz's playing got more and more passionate, and there was ragtime and honky-tonk, and then Mr. Lisbon whispered in his ear, and Baz began playing Bach funeral music, sitting stiff and waxy and doing his best to look like a cadaver.†   (source)
  • Mr. Lisbon here, sir.†   (source)
  • I asked Mr. Lisbon.†   (source)
  • He and his three brothers and two sisters had grown up in a ramshackle 'poor white trash' house on the outer Sabbatus Road in the town of Lisbon.†   (source)
  • When Cain moved to Europe, he did not know that his activities were uncovered in Berlin, Lisbon, Amsterdam … as far away as Oman.†   (source)
  • I fly to Zurich and Lisbon to exchange ideas and make proposals and it is the kind of desperate crisis, the intractability of waste, that doesn't really seem to be taking place except in the conference reports and the newspapers.†   (source)
  • …the haytruck and gone into a great big cowflop in Back Field (but no mention of the times he had beaten them until they couldn't sit down in payment for some real or imagined transgression); the time they had snuck into the old Met Theater in Lisbon Falls to see Elvis in Love Me Tender (but not the time Momma had had her credit cut off at the Red & White and had backed out of the grocery in tears, leaving a full basket of provisions behind and everybody watching); how Red Timmins from…†   (source)
  • Vienna, Paris, Lisbon and Istanbul.†   (source)
  • If you recall, prior to the Normandy invasion British Intelligence floated a corpse into the coast of Portugal, knowing that whatever documents were concealed on it would find their way to the German Embassy in Lisbon.†   (source)
  • Also 'Lisbon' and the piers along the 'Bay' and 'Tagus River' have been altered to conform to the changes that have taken place.†   (source)
  • A section which interested him particularly was devoted to Tibetiana, if it might be so called; he noticed several rarities, among them the Novo Descubrimento de grao catayo ou dos Regos de Tibet, by Antonio de Andrada (Lisbon, 1626); Athanasius Kircher's China (Antwerp, 1667); Thevenot's Voyage à la Chine des Pères Grueber et d'Orville; and Beligatti's Relazione Inedita di un Viaggio al Tibet.†   (source)
  • Do you know about the Lisbon earthquake?†   (source)
  • I'm talking about the one that ravaged Lisbon in the year 1755.†   (source)
  • There was vodka, rum and Lisbon wine, all of the poorest quality but in sufficient quantity.†   (source)
  • Had they left their comrade and pushed on forthwith, there was nothing at that time between them and London but batteries of twelve-pounder guns, and they would certainly have reached the capital in advance of the tidings of their approach; as sudden, dreadful, and destructive their advent would have been as the earthquake that destroyed Lisbon a century ago.†   (source)
  • …formlessness—to which the Middle Ages and epochs that imitated it were addicted—with classicism, with the Greco-Roman heritage of form, beauty, reason, and serenity born of natural piety, for classicism alone was destined to further the human enterprise, Hans Castorp interrupted him and asked how all that fitted in with Plotinus, who, as was well known, was ashamed of his own body, and with Voltaire, who in the name of reason had rebelled against the scandalous earthquake in Lisbon?†   (source)
  • I have crossed the Atlantic four times, and have been once to the East Indies, and back again, and only once; besides being in different places about home: Cork, and Lisbon, and Gibraltar.†   (source)
  • Her story was as full of desperation and despair as her limited acquaintance with those uncomfortable emotions enabled her to make it, and having located it in Lisbon, she wound up with an earthquake, as a striking and appropriate denouement.†   (source)
  • The Admiral, after taking two or three refreshing turns about the room with his hands behind him, being called to order by his wife, now came up to Captain Wentworth, and without any observation of what he might be interrupting, thinking only of his own thoughts, began with— "If you had been a week later at Lisbon, last spring, Frederick, you would have been asked to give a passage to Lady Mary Grierson and her daughters."†   (source)
  • …Zee or the Scheld, Others as comers and goers at Gibraltar or the Dardanelles, Others sternly push their way through the northern winter-packs, Others descend or ascend the Obi or the Lena, Others the Niger or the Congo, others the Indus, the Burampooter and Cambodia, Others wait steam'd up ready to start in the ports of Australia, Wait at Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Marseilles, Lisbon, Naples, Hamburg, Bremen, Bordeaux, the Hague, Copenhagen, Wait at Valparaiso, Rio Janeiro, Panama.†   (source)
  • From Tripolis, from Mexico, and England, From Lisbon, Barbary, and India?†   (source)
  • They coasted France; they passed in sight of Lisbon, and Candide trembled.†   (source)
  • If there is a volcano at Lisbon it cannot be elsewhere.†   (source)
  • As soon as they recovered themselves a little they walked toward Lisbon.†   (source)
  • We arrived at Lisbon, Nov. 5, 1715.†   (source)
  • At the end of two months, being obliged to go to Lisbon about some mercantile affairs, he took the two philosophers with him in his ship.†   (source)
  • To be brief, I bought a settlement next door to an honest and kind neighbour, born at Lisbon, of English parents, whose plantation joining to mine, we improved it very amicably together.†   (source)
  • …story, and there you are at once with another famous annotation, setting forth—The river Tagus was so called after a King of Spain: it has its source in such and such a place and falls into the ocean, kissing the walls of the famous city of Lisbon, and it is a common belief that it has golden sands, etc. If you should have anything to do with robbers, I will give you the story of Cacus, for I have it by heart; if with loose women, there is the Bishop of Mondonedo, who will give you…†   (source)
  • I next went to Lisbon, taking my man Friday with me, and there arriving in April, I met the Portuguese Captain who had taken me on board on the African coast; but, being ancient, he had left off the sea, and resigned all his business to his son, who followed the Brazil trade.†   (source)
  • I left Lisbon the 24th day of November, in an English merchantman, but who was the master I never inquired.†   (source)
  • At this place, my truly honest and pious clergyman left me; for a ship being ready to set sail for Lisbon, he asked me leave to go thither, but I assure you it was with the greatest reluctance I parted from a person, whose virtue and piety merited the greatest esteem.†   (source)
  • But he added, "that since I professed so inviolable an attachment to truth, I must give him my word and honour to bear him company in this voyage, without attempting any thing against my life; or else he would continue me a prisoner till we arrived at Lisbon."†   (source)
  • You may be sure I could not but agree with this kind and ingenuous proposal; and immediately I sent him an order to offer it to them, which he accordingly did; so that about eight months after, the ship being in that time returned, he gave me a satisfactory account, that they not only willingly accepted the offer, but that they had also remitted 33,000 pieces of eight to a correspondence of their own at Lisbon, in order to pay for the purchase.†   (source)
  • They spoke to me with great humanity, and said, "they were sure the captain would carry me gratis to Lisbon, whence I might return to my own country; that two of the seamen would go back to the ship, inform the captain of what they had seen, and receive his orders; in the mean time, unless I would give my solemn oath not to fly, they would secure me by force.†   (source)
  • While he reasoned, the sky darkened, the winds blew from the four quarters, and the ship was assailed by a most terrible tempest within sight of the port of Lisbon.†   (source)
  • Upon this account I resolved to sell my plantation; and, for that intent, I wrote to my old friend at Lisbon, who returned to me an answer to my great satisfaction; which was, that he could sell it to good account; however, if I thought it convenient to give him liberty to offer it in my name to the two merchants, the survivors of my trustees residing at the Brazils, who consequently knew its intrinsic value, having lived just upon the spot, and who I was sensible were very rich, and…†   (source)
  • He was just going to jump after him, but was prevented by the philosopher Pangloss, who demonstrated to him that the Bay of Lisbon had been made on purpose for the Anabaptist to be drowned.†   (source)
  • …particularly in this last, which was the most remarkable: that, in this voyage, he had the misfortune to be five times shipped and unshipped: his first design was to have gone to Martinico; for which, taking ship at St. Malos, he was forced into Lisbon by bad weather, the vessel running aground in the mouth of the Tagus; that from thence he went on board a Portuguese ship, bound to the Madeiras, whose master being but an indifferent mariner, and out of his reckoning, they were drove to…†   (source)
  • Hereupon, in return, I signed the instrument of sale, according to form, which they had sent from Lisbon, and returned it again to my old friend, he having sent me, for me estate, bills of three hundred and twenty-eight thousand pieces of eight, reserving the payment of one hundred moidores per annum, which I had allowed him during life, likewise: fifty to his son during life also, according to my faithful promise, which the plantation was to make good as a rent charge.†   (source)
  • The city of Lima, in America, experienced the same convulsions last year; the same cause, the same effects; there is certainly a train of sulphur under ground from Lima to Lisbon.†   (source)
  • How is it possible, said I, that the beloved Candide and the wise Pangloss should both be at Lisbon, the one to receive a hundred lashes, and the other to be hanged by the Grand Inquisitor, of whom I am the well-beloved?†   (source)
  • By the Captain's advice, I was persuaded to go by land to Calais, and there take passage for England: when, as it happened, I got a young English gentleman, a merchant's son at Lisbon, to accompany me, together with two English, and two Portuguese gentleman: so that with a Portuguese servant, an English sailor, and my man Friday, there were nine of us in number.†   (source)
  • After the earthquake had destroyed three-fourths of Lisbon, the sages of that country could think of no means more effectual to prevent utter ruin than to give the people a beautiful _auto-da-fe_[6]; for it had been decided by the University of Coimbra, that the burning of a few people alive by a slow fire, and with great ceremony, is an infallible secret to hinder the earth from quaking.†   (source)
  • I was for leaving my effects in her hands, intending to set out for Lisbon, and so the Brazils; but as in the Desolate Island I had some doubt about the Romish religion, so I knew there was little encouragement to settle there, unless I would apostatize from the orthodox faith, or live in continual fear of the Inquisition.†   (source)
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