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That's what Marco Polo did when he traveled to China.† (source)
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We stood on our hands and stuck our legs out of the water, did underwater twists, and played Marco Polo and chicken with the other kids.† (source)
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It's our version of Marco Polo.† (source)
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She learned that Marco Polo Restaurant, near Chicken Street, had been turned into an interrogation center.† (source)
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Our only material goods from the outside world of late were comic books, which my sisters cherished like Marco Polo's spices from China, and powdered eggs and milk, to which we felt indifferent.† (source)
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It would all be forgotten: the Trojan War, Columbus, Marco Polo, Shakespeare, all the amazing kings and gods of the past...† (source)
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'Roscoe,' I said, hoping he'd reply again, Marco Polo —style.† (source)
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"More than six hundred years ago," Miss Grutoff said, "when Marco Polo first admired it."† (source)
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When Marco Polo came at last to Cathay, seven hundred years ago, did he not feel—and did his heart not falter as he realized—that this great and splendid capital of an empire had had its being all the years of his life and far longer, and that he had been ignorant of it?† (source)
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But beyond this, Fargo to me is brother to the fabulous places of the earth, kin to those magically remote spots mentioned by Herodotus and Marco Polo and Mandeville.† (source)
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Schaller had trekked up this same gorge two decades earlier, gathering data on the ibex, Marco Polo sheep, and scouting sites he hoped the Pakistani government might preserve as the Karakoram National Park.† (source)
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Cold Sassy is the kind of town where schoolteachers spend two months every fall drilling on Greek and Roman gods, the kings and queens of England, the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, Marco Polo, Magellan, Columbus, the first Thanksgiving, Oglethorpe settling Georgia, and how happy the slaves were before the War.† (source)
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Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-coloured pearls in the mouths of the dead.† (source)
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Into these pavilions he admitted the elect, and there, says Marco Polo, gave them to eat a certain herb, which transported them to Paradise, in the midst of ever-blooming shrubs, ever-ripe fruit, and ever-lovely virgins.† (source)
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Marco Polo had watched the inhabitants of Zipangu place a rose-colored pearl in the mouth of the dead.† (source)
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One does so by setting forth into the vast unknown—just like Marco Polo when he traveled to China, or Columbus when he traveled to America.† (source)
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