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important city of ancient Mesopotamia; on the Euphrates near modern-day Baghdad

"I'd marry the W—— of Babylon rather than do anything dishonourable!
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure

The hanging gardens of Babylon were one of the seven wonders of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
My order goes back before Babylon.
Neil Gaiman -- The Graveyard Book
You are young and rich—leave Paris—all is soon forgotten in this great Babylon of excitement and changing tastes.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
Galahad, Percivale and Bors had found it, and with it, and with the body of Percivale's sister, they had arrived at Sarras in Babylon.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
Chapter 18 — BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON
Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
87:4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
The Bible -- Psalms
The word used in the Codex is similar to an ancient Babylonian symbol that can mean either thing, Flamel explained.
Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
It is argument sufficient they were written after the captivity in Babylon, that the History of them is continued till that time.
Thomas Hobbes -- Leviathan
I glugged from my water canteen and, to tell the truth, I felt like a plant on the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
"Nay, we might have judged that such a child's mother must needs be a scarlet woman, and a worthy type of her of Babylon!
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
'That has the rivers of Babylon in it, sir,' the chaplain replied.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
The days grow hot, O Babylon!
Eugene O'Neill -- The Iceman Cometh
Reading across from left to right it looked as if my mother was slowly dissolving, from real life into a Babylonian bas-relief shadow.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
This "Babylonian captivity" lasted until 539 B.C. when the people were permitted to return to Jerusalem, and the great temple was restored.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
London, which—which I have read about as the modern Babylon of civilization, seems to have disappeared.
William Morris -- News from Nowhere
'There dwelt a man in Babylon, lady, lady.'
William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night
The scarlet woman and she of Babylon flaunted their vileness there; the cities of the plain were not more wicked.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
Babel's a city in Babylon, right?
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
This Issachar was the most choleric Hebrew that had ever been seen in Israel since the Captivity in Babylon.
Voltaire -- Candide

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