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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 BABYLONCassandra 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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