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  • It was the aural equivalent of an island archipelago seen from the air , a chain of low humps broken by broad swaths of blue.†   (source)
  • I am pleased with myself; I have three hours more until I reach the thick of the Missouri Ozarks and my destination, a small archipelago of cabins in the woods that accepts cash for weekly rentals and has cable TV, a must.†   (source)
  • He asked him if he could find a specific spot sixteen nautical miles to the northwest of the largest island in the Sotavento Archipelago, and Euclides told him yes.†   (source)
  • Beneath these talismans, white linen shone around the burnished reflections of the Atreides silver, which had been placed in precise arrangements along the great table—little archipelagos of service waiting beside crystal glasses, each setting squared off before a heavy wooden chair.†   (source)
  • From time to time he had had a few poems and sketches of the archipelago published in a national journal.†   (source)
  • Consider: The greentime, the noontime of the archipelago.†   (source)
  • He had rashly hired a Scampi for a few days of romantic sailing in the Stockholm archipelago.†   (source)
  • The Seses are a low-lying forested archipelago in the northwestern part of Lake Victoria, an easy boat ride from Entebbe.†   (source)
  • She's exactly my height and smells of liquid detergent and has tiny beautiful moles on her neck, an archipelago leading down into her clothes.†   (source)
  • Sakena runs an archipelago of fixed and mobile health clinics, which offer Afghans family planning services and free condoms.†   (source)
  • "The Archipelago," John said, his voice muted with a mix of disbelief and wonder.†   (source)
  • He described its teeming bazaars and spice markets, the crystalline spires of maridian sealords, and the strange townships found throughout its archipelagos.†   (source)
  • The mansions South of Broad Street form a magnificent archipelago of exclusion.†   (source)
  • Here, we are strewn about in the lengthy expanse of an archipelago, too far to call one another, too far to see.†   (source)
  • A film of tears misted her eyes as the tender small globes of fruit (slightly moist and deliciously textured in their chewy sweetness that mingled with archipelagos of minute seeds) slid richly down her throat, one by one; wild with delight, unashamed at her piggishness and the sugary saliva drooling over fingers and chin, she devoured them all.†   (source)
  • He has one other asset—some property in Sandhamn out in the archipelago.†   (source)
  • The islands are returning to form the Equatorial Archipelago.†   (source)
  • They could see a large bonfire out in the archipelago.†   (source)
  • A few weeks before he was killed in the Battle of the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • It is a large Archipelago, after all, and someone has to keep track of it.†   (source)
  • All the races of the Archipelago will fight you.†   (source)
  • He raised his eyes to the shimmering sky of the Archipelago's dawn and drew a deep, final breath.†   (source)
  • Ever since, the leadership of the Archipelago has been in question.†   (source)
  • He plans to attempt to summon the dragons back to the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • He still possesses a talisman that may yet turn the events in the Archipelago in his favor.†   (source)
  • Yes, we found the heir and reestablished the continuity of rule in the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • Only a trained Caretaker can properly navigate a ship through the Archipelago of Dreams.†   (source)
  • When Archibald offended them, the dragons left the Archipelago forever.†   (source)
  • On the formal crossing to the Archipelago, there was a different timbre in the atmosphere.†   (source)
  • We restored order in the Archipelago, and Jack freed the Shadow-Born.†   (source)
  • You…you could stay here, in the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • It left the Archipelago with your mother, Pyrrha.†   (source)
  • "I'm starting to see why he removed himself from the affairs of the Archipelago," said Charles.†   (source)
  • Archibald ruled over the Archipelago during a very tumultuous time in your world.†   (source)
  • And thus began his conquest of the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • If I must take the Archipelago with sharpened steel and smoke and blood and death, so be it.†   (source)
  • And he gave up a lifetime in the Archipelago for playacting in Kensington Gardens.†   (source)
  • Arthur created the Silver Throne to rule in both worlds—our world and the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • To those of us in the Archipelago, it is a holy book.†   (source)
  • The Archipelago cannot continue to be supportive of a race that is unable to even police its own.†   (source)
  • And that should he ever need them, he has many, many friends in the Archipelago to call upon.†   (source)
  • At last—at long last, the dragons had returned to the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • All the lands that had been shadowed were along the southern edge of the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • Those of the Troll race tend to keep to themselves in the eastern isles of the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • You are descended from the blood of Arthur himself—making you the true king of the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • "This may be the Archipelago's undoing."†   (source)
  • That was a forbidden magic—and its use brought with it a mandatory expulsion from the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • We're going to the Archipelago of Dreams."†   (source)
  • "Ages ago," Samaranth began, "the Archipelago of Dreams was guarded by thousands of dragons.†   (source)
  • "Of course, now the capital city is on fire, and the entire Archipelago may be at war," said Jack.†   (source)
  • The conflict in the Archipelago is not over either, for that matter.†   (source)
  • There are many rings in the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • That he wanted to return to the Archipelago, and soon.†   (source)
  • There are no other dragons left in the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • It is the greatest mystery of the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • But in the Archipelago, he is known as the Winter King.†   (source)
  • "You don't have the right to command who rules in the Archipelago," said Mordred.†   (source)
  • Why take care of a book that everyone in the Archipelago will now have access to?†   (source)
  • Every captain has maps of their own lands in the Archipelago, as well as of adjacent islands.†   (source)
  • And that was when they began to leave the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • Part Two The Archipelago of Dreams "…it seems I have a battle to fight."†   (source)
  • This was when the Winter King began his rise in the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • The adventure to the Archipelago had begun almost immediately.†   (source)
  • This was also how he learned that four nautical leagues to the north of the Sotavento Archipelago, a Spanish galleon had been lying under water since the eighteenth century with its cargo of more than five hundred billion pesos in pure gold and precious stones.†   (source)
  • An island of the archipelago in the South Atlantic between North and South America, enclosing the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: divided into the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahama Islands.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist had not thought much of the proposal, but he came around when promised a few days of relaxation in the archipelago with good food and pleasant company.†   (source)
  • They left the bay between the two fortresses of Boca Chica, and after four hours of sailing they entered the interior still waters of the archipelago in whose coral depths they could pick up sleeping lobsters with their hands.†   (source)
  • The Terra Firma fleet was composed of no less than twelve supply ships of varying sizes, and it set sail from this port traveling in a convoy with a French squadron that was heavily armed but still incapable of protecting the expedition from the accurate cannon shot of the English squadron under Commander Charles Wager, who waited for it in the Sotavento Archipelago, at the entrance to the bay.†   (source)
  • Perhaps someday you and he will sail in the Archipelago and listen to the songs of the Sea Folk as you and I have done these past few weeks.†   (source)
  • , It was during our First Reunion, that time on the Archipelago, when Siri took me to talk with the dolphins.†   (source)
  • We left the harbor in a yellow catamaran and sailed south-southeast, bound for the Archipelago and her family isle.†   (source)
  • My older sister Lira went to fight with the rebels in those hopeless days after the Battle of the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • Twelve belonged to her fleet of swift catamarans that plied their trade between the wandering Archipelago and the home islands.†   (source)
  • Their honeymoon was on Maui-Covenant, his first farcast trip abroad, and for three weeks they rented a mobile isle and sailed alone on it through the wonders of the Equatorial Archipelago.†   (source)
  • I remember one three-day affair she threw in the Manhattan Archipelago, guests ferried in by dropship from Orbit City and from the European arcologies.†   (source)
  • The Consul's Tale: Remembering Siri I climb the steep hill to Siri's tomb on the day the islands return to the shallow seas of the Equatorial Archipelago.†   (source)
  • That time on the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • For some reason-shyness, the years of separation-she wore two strips of swimsuit for the first few days of our Archipelago stay and the soft white of her breasts and lower belly had not darkened to match the rest of her tan before I had to leave again.†   (source)
  • He had survived pellagra in Persia, scurvy inthe Malayan archipelago , leprosy in Alexandria, beriberi in Japan, bubonic plague in Madagascar, an earthquake in Sicily, and a disastrous shipwreck in the Strait of Magellan.†   (source)
  • I am told this form of massage is Asian, Japanese or Chinese in origin, and spilled down the archipelago over the thousands of years of commerce that has come and gone in this remote area of the world.†   (source)
  • "Does that mean we're going to remain at war until Artus has things in hand in the Archipelago?" said John.†   (source)
  • "It's an island that actually straddles the border between the waters of the world you know and those of the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • "No," said Samaranth, "but it is in my interests to keep abreast of what occurs in the Archipelago—and those who seek to influence its affairs.†   (source)
  • We guarded the boundary between the Archipelago and the world beyond, using flame and fear to turn back travelers that ventured too close.†   (source)
  • "So this Paralon," Charles said as they began to disembark, "is the largest military power in the Archipelago?"†   (source)
  • However, despite the return of the dragons and the victory over the Winter King, the struggle for control of the Archipelago was not yet over.†   (source)
  • For the first time in a number of generations, there was unrest in the Archipelago, and Archibald was bearing the brunt of it.†   (source)
  • When he and his armies take them, they disappear from the cycle of life in the Archipelago—and then they disappear from the Geographica as well.†   (source)
  • "Let's just get this done, and then after I've assumed control of the entire Archipelago, I'll make sure you get the reward you've earned."†   (source)
  • The ability to control the dragons would be the ability to control the border between the worlds, if not the entirety of the Archipelago itself.†   (source)
  • "Why did he abandon you, if he was training you and even brought you into the Archipelago?" said Jack.†   (source)
  • The original dragon of the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • You have managed to establish a new rule in the Archipelago, and that can only reflect well in your own world.†   (source)
  • "Look," he said, "since Paralon is the 'capital' of the Archipelago, its map has been extensively annotated in English.†   (source)
  • It took less than a day to reach the first of the Shadowed Lands, and according to Bert, it was the greatest loss of the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • And so when I remade it, I fashioned it after the protectors of the Archipelago, the bearers of divinity in this world—the dragons.†   (source)
  • A goblin, and a Child of the True Archipelago, who wishes only to drive out the usurpers that have ruled for far too long.†   (source)
  • The actual boundary of the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • But then again," he added, "I don't think I could talk about what's gone on in the Archipelago with anyone but you three.†   (source)
  • "You don't need the Geographica, because there is only one island in the Archipelago where he might summon the dragons," the Cartographer said.†   (source)
  • "Th' Parliament must be kings and queens of the greater islands of the Archipelago, and none wuz left alive."†   (source)
  • Everyone in the Archipelago hates him.†   (source)
  • There were a thousand different races in the Archipelago, Bert explained—more if you included the animals.†   (source)
  • In the absence of a legitimate heir to the Silver Throne, the Parliament, under my guidance, has ruled Paralon and with it, the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • It was a living manifestation of divinity, and it was what allowed passage through to the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • "It was also the source of much of the music and literature of the entire Archipelago," he said, "with libraries second only to those at Paralon.†   (source)
  • He can free the entire Archipelago.†   (source)
  • "Remember," he continued, "this is one of the oldest places in the Archipelago, and the Cartographer is the one who created the Geographica.†   (source)
  • An archipelago within the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • The next ship to arrive was the Green Dragon—which seemed to be under the stewardship of the mythological creatures of the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately," he added, "they are all for islands on the outer edges of the Archipelago, and will be of no use to us in finding the Cartographer."†   (source)
  • "She was cast from the Archipelago," the ancient man continued, "and the kettle was given into the safekeeping of another.†   (source)
  • But the question still remains: Why does the Winter King want the Geographica so badly that he would destroy the Archipelago to get his hands on it?†   (source)
  • "He said y' would be needin' some help, an' he sent out his sons to all the corners of the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • Worse, there apparently hasn't been a real Parliament in some time—and the revealed deception ended the possibility of unity in the Archipelago."†   (source)
  • On the tallest of these stood a massive stone fortress, gray and forbidding: The Castle of Paralon, wherein sat the Silver Throne of the High King of the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • The Summer Country is a land greater than any in the Archipelago of Dreams, because it has within it everything to be found in the Archipelago, and more.†   (source)
  • Arthur had the ability to command the dragons—the protectors of the Archipelago and guardians of the Frontier—and also had created a great empire in your world.†   (source)
  • "He has experience with it as well, although considering that it involved his wife, and her expulsion from the Archipelago, I can imagine that he won't be too happy to see it again."†   (source)
  • After a round of excited hugs and greetings, Tummeler explained to the companions what else was transpiring in the Archipelago, and for the first time, they felt a glimmering of hope.†   (source)
  • I had been in exile myself for many years in his world," he said, flicking his hook at John, "and had only recently returned after discovering the secret of passage to the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • Then, more than a thousand years later, when it seemed that the world was on the edge of destroying itself yet again, a great king came to the Archipelago—Arthur Pendragon.†   (source)
  • "The High King's ring—called by some the Ring of Power—was the symbol of his office," said Bert, "and was said to be the source of his power in the Archipelago."†   (source)
  • "You and your friends," he said to John, "needed to solve the riddles of the Imaginarium Geographica and the mysteries of the Archipelago, and you did.†   (source)
  • The first onslaught by the denizens of the Archipelago was meant merely to test the resistance of the allies at best, and to cut down as many of the opposing forces as they could at worst.†   (source)
  • As long as he had the ability to create more Shadow-Born, it would only be a matter of time before he eventually got around to conquering all the lands in the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • Legend says that these islands were the proudest of the world once, when the lands of Man and those of the Archipelago were not divided as they are now.†   (source)
  • "It isn't like pulling a lever—as the conflict in one world is mirrored in the other, so is the peace and harmony we helped to set in motion in the Archipelago going to be reflected in this world.†   (source)
  • What is occurring today is a Great Council—all the kings of all the races of the Archipelago are coming together with the Parliament to determine who should assume the throne.†   (source)
  • Where in the Archipelago are we?†   (source)
  • He couldn't quite bring himself to admit all that had gone wrong in the Archipelago: the inability to function as a translator, followed by the actual loss of the Geographica itself.†   (source)
  • Even a few of the lesser races from the edges of the Archipelago could have added to the bulk of the opposing army without rattling a veteran such as Aven.†   (source)
  • Collectively, the place where these lands exist is called the Archipelago of Dreams—and it was for this book, this guide to the Archipelago, that the professor was killed.†   (source)
  • "Well," said Magwich, "I told you it said in the Geographica that you could use the Ring of Power only at the place in the Archipelago farthest to the west, which, technically, is here on the bluff.†   (source)
  • "That's what I find ironic—the entire Archipelago believed your grandfather to be an evil man, when he was actually one of the greatest kings ever to rule here.†   (source)
  • "He was taken up by one of my kin, who asked the same question, and after conferring with the king"—he finished, winking at Artus—"we realized that the Archipelago already had a means in place for dealing with his kind.†   (source)
  • "I understand your ambition, and your desire for greatness, but you've handled things so poorly these last twenty years since your return, that I think it's time for you to step offstage, so to speak, and let others direct the course of affairs in the Archipelago."†   (source)
  • "Why he wishes to possess the Geographica, I cannot say," mused Samaranth, "but there are already too many plans afoot in the lands, and were it to fall into his hands, it would not bode well for the Archipelago."†   (source)
  • While there were wilder lands, occupied by creatures that were the precursors of the other races scattered throughout the islands, the true beginning of the Archipelago was here, on the island of Byblos.†   (source)
  • "If my grandfather—King Archibald—started creating the Shadow-Born by opening the box, and the Winter King created more of them and began taking over the Archipelago by keeping it open, then why don't we just do what Aven suggested, and find it, and close it?"†   (source)
  • Chapter Seventeen Hope and Despair The journey from the Cartographer's island to the Island at the Edge of the World was the most peaceful and least eventful passage they had experienced since the original voyage from London into the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • He killed Archibald and took Pandora's Box—and in the years that followed, when one after another of the lands of the Archipelago fell under Shadow, I realized that Pandora's Box was still open, and that he was using it to create an army of Shadow-Born.†   (source)
  • Much of the geography of the world had been changed—but the Archipelago had remained largely unaffected by the flood, and we came to realize that it was not truly a part of the world from which we had come.†   (source)
  • Having a book of maps won't do anyone any good if the Archipelago is consumed by war—but if we can find a way to prevent that happening, wouldn't that be more important than whether or not I've been able to safeguard the book?"†   (source)
  • Whichever power controls equatorial Africa, or the countries of the Middle East, or Southern India, or the Indonesian Archipelago, disposes also of the bodies of scores or hundreds of millions of ill-paid and hard-working coolies.†   (source)
  • Now the innumerable archipelago had been threaded, and he stood, firm-planted, upon the unknown but waiting continent.†   (source)
  • He had lately made a voyage to the Indian Archipelago.†   (source)
  • They travelled in the Archipelago together and separately, collecting insects and birds, for four years or more.†   (source)
  • "As soon as I've got through my hospital appointments I shall get a ship; I want to go to the East, the Malay Archipelago, Siam, China, and all that sort of thing, and then I shall take odd jobs.†   (source)
  • At dark passed into Archipelago.†   (source)
  • I descended the poop and paced the waist, my mind picturing to myself the coming passage through the Malay Archipelago, down the Indian Ocean, and up the Atlantic.†   (source)
  • Indeed the story of a fabulously large emerald is as old as the arrival of the first white men in the Archipelago; and the belief in it is so persistent that less than forty years ago there had been an official Dutch inquiry into the truth of it.†   (source)
  • There were very few places in the Archipelago he had not seen in the original dusk of their being, before light (and even electric light) had been carried into them for the sake of better morality and—and—well—the greater profit, too.†   (source)
  • X A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion The next morning, at the time when the height of the sun appeared very insignificant from any part of the heath as compared with the altitude of Rainbarrow, and when all the little hills in the lower levels were like an archipelago in a fog-formed Aegean, the reddleman came from the brambled nook which he had adopted as his quarters and ascended the slopes of Mistover Knap.†   (source)
  • "What the devil can they smell so extraordinary in this soup?" said Porthos, at the sight of a pale liquid, abundant but entirely free from meat, on the surface of which a few crusts swam about as rare as the islands of an archipelago.†   (source)
  • She has explored seas and archipelagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed.†   (source)
  • , this sea of houses was seen to be pierced at intervals by several groups of ruined towers, from the ancient wall, like the summits of hills in an inundation,—like archipelagos of the old Paris submerged beneath the new.†   (source)
  • We were in the midst of the Mediterranean Sea, on an island of the Aeolian archipelago, in the ancient Strongyle, where Aeolus kept the winds and the storms chained up, to be let loose at his will.†   (source)
  • "Bah!" said he, "I have travelled through Sicily and Calabria—I have sailed two months in the Archipelago, and yet I never saw even the shadow of a bandit or a pirate."†   (source)
  • After many years spent in foreign travel, I sailed in the year 18-- , from the port of Batavia, in the rich and populous island of Java, on a voyage to the Archipelago of the Sunda islands.†   (source)
  • With inexhaustible zest, the popular press took potshots at feature articles from the Geographic Institute of Brazil, the Royal Academy of Science in Berlin, the British Association, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., at discussions in The Indian Archipelago, in Cosmos published by Father Moigno, in Petermann's Mittheilungen,* and at scientific chronicles in the great French and foreign newspapers.†   (source)
  • And so Starbuck found Ahab with a general chart of the oriental archipelagoes spread before him; and another separate one representing the long eastern coasts of the Japanese islands—Niphon, Matsmai, and Sikoke.†   (source)
  • The count purchased an island in the Tuscan archipelago, and, as he told you to-day, has founded a commandery.†   (source)
  • We got under way with a mere breath of wind, and for many days stood along the eastern coast of Java, without any other incident to beguile the monotony of our course than the occasional meeting with some of the small grabs of the Archipelago to which we were bound.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, the mariners were used to these latitudes, and knew every rock in the Tuscan Archipelago; for in the midst of this obscurity Franz was not without uneasiness—Corsica had long since disappeared, and Monte Cristo itself was invisible; but the sailors seemed, like the lynx, to see in the dark, and the pilot who steered did not evince the slightest hesitation.†   (source)
  • In a continuous line from that peninsula stretch the long islands of Sumatra, Java, Bally, and Timor; which, with many others, form a vast mole, or rampart, lengthwise connecting Asia with Australia, and dividing the long unbroken Indian ocean from the thickly studded oriental archipelagoes.†   (source)
  • Rare birds, retaining their most brilliant plumage, enormous fish, spread upon massive silver dishes, together with every wine produced in the Archipelago, Asia Minor, or the Cape, sparkling in bottles, whose grotesque shape seemed to give an additional flavor to the draught,—all these, like one of the displays with which Apicius of old gratified his guests, passed in review before the eyes of the astonished Parisians, who understood that it was possible to expend a thousand louis upon…†   (source)
  • The same waves wash the moles of the new-built Californian towns, but yesterday planted by the recentest race of men, and lave the faded but still gorgeous skirts of Asiatic lands, older than Abraham; while all between float milky-ways of coral isles, and low-lying, endless, unknown Archipelagoes, and impenetrable Japans.†   (source)
  • They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are frowned upon by batteries, and by the goat-like craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they yield their beaches to wild…†   (source)
  • …laid in those same dark canoes, and that the fancy of being so laid had much pleased him; for it was not unlike the custom of his own race, who, after embalming a dead warrior, stretched him out in his canoe, and so left him to be floated away to the starry archipelagoes; for not only do they believe that the stars are isles, but that far beyond all visible horizons, their own mild, uncontinented seas, interflow with the blue heavens; and so form the white breakers of the milky way.†   (source)
  • All you on the numberless islands of the archipelagoes of the sea!†   (source)
  • Elijah, skiff, light crumpled throwaway, sailed eastward by flanks of ships and trawlers, amid an archipelago of corks, beyond new Wapping street past Benson's ferry, and by the threemasted schooner Rosevean from Bridgwater with bricks.†   (source)
  • …its infallibility as paradigm and paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet, snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries,…†   (source)
  • Young Libertad! with the venerable Asia, the all-mother, Be considerate with her now and ever hot Libertad, for you are all, Bend your proud neck to the long-off mother now sending messages over the archipelagoes to you, Bend your proud neck low for once, young Libertad.†   (source)
  • His daring foot is on land and sea everywhere, he colonizes the Pacific, the archipelagoes, With the steamship, the electric telegraph, the newspaper, the wholesale engines of war, With these and the world-spreading factories he interlinks all geography, all lands; What whispers are these O lands, running ahead of you, passing under the seas?†   (source)
  • …than any before, as in a vision it comes to me, I chant America the mistress, I chant a greater supremacy, I chant projected a thousand blooming cities yet in time on those groups of sea-islands, My sail-ships and steam-ships threading the archipelagoes, My stars and stripes fluttering in the wind, Commerce opening, the sleep of ages having done its work, races reborn, refresh'd, Lives, works resumed—the object I know not—but the old, the Asiatic renew'd as it must be, Commencing from…†   (source)
  • Of The Schools Of Philosophy Amongst The Athenians After the Athenians by the overthrow of the Persian Armies, had gotten the Dominion of the Sea; and thereby, of all the Islands, and Maritime Cities of the Archipelago, as well of Asia as Europe; and were grown wealthy; they that had no employment, neither at home, nor abroad, had little else to employ themselves in, but either (as St. Luke says, Acts 17.†   (source)
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