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Babylon
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    It was like a page torn from a book, a historical novel, perhaps, dealing with the captivity in Babylon or the Spanish Inquisition.†  (source)
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    Babel's a city in Babylon, right?†  (source)
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    The Southern kingdom fared no better, being conquered by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. Its temple was destroyed and most of its people were carried off to slavery in Babylon.†  (source)
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    Chapter 18 — BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON†  (source)
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    And I knew enough even then to know that it wasn't Greek, or Old Egyptian, or Babylonian, or Hittite, or Chinese.†  (source)
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    Besieged, plundered, captured and recaptured, Jerusalem had been ruled by Jebusites, Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and, of course, the Jews.†  (source)
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    He waved his hand; and it was as though, with an invisible feather wisk, he had brushed away a little dust, and the dust was Harappa, was Ur of the Chaldees; some spider-webs, and they were Thebes and Babylon and Cnossos and Mycenae.†  (source)
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    This inexplicable incident, this reversal of my previous experience, seemed, like the Babylonian finger on the wall, to be spelling out the letters of my judgment; and I began to reflect more seriously than ever before on the issues and possibilities of my double existence.†  (source)
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    It was no wonder the Babylonians had once ruled the world.†  (source)
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    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!†  (source)
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    -he looks more Asiatic, monkey, Jewish, Babylonian, Peruvian, fanatic, devil.†  (source)
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    No doubt the Babylonians were already out scouting around for their favorite rocks.†  (source)
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    'That has the rivers of Babylon in it, sir,' the chaplain replied.†  (source)
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