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  • We should all leave Nove Mesto, leave Czechoslovakia, for America, for Palestine, for Canada.†   (source)
  • Every Palestinian in the Worldweb and beyond carried the cul-turai memory of a century of struggle capped by a month of nationalist triumph before the Nuclear Jihad of 2038 wiped it all away.†   (source)
  • I had been in Baghdad just one day when President Bush declared Saddam Hussein and his Ba'ath Party had fallen, and my colleagues swiftly captured, that same day, Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Front, which attacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean in 1985.†   (source)
  • The black stele or obelisk is the Code of Hammurabi, which dates from about 1750 B.C. The treelike structure is a Yahwistjc cult totem from Palestine.†   (source)
  • Ferrell was fired by IBP in 1997, not long after a series of safety problems at a slaughterhouse in Palestine, Texas.†   (source)
  • Some are bankers and bookies, Americans and Iraqis, Jews and Palestinians.†   (source)
  • At that time, it was still possible to obtain emigration permits from Palestine.†   (source)
  • She went to the best school in Amman and lived at a comfortable distance from the problems of that city, including poverty and the tensions brought on by the influx of Palestinian and later Iraqi refugees.†   (source)
  • Zainab met and married a gentle Palestinian doctoral student named Amjad.†   (source)
  • Aidid received help from al Qaeda and the Palestine Liberation Organization.†   (source)
  • Dempsey was offered a tempting job—establishing a hospital for Palestinian refugees on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives—but the Mortensons decided it was time for their children to experience America.†   (source)
  • When Zeyde came to Palestine in 1938 he said he wasn't ever going to leave, and he never did.†   (source)
  • It was run by a Palestinian man in his sixties, who often told stories and who had an emphasis, when he said "Good day," that told me he meant it.†   (source)
  • …Grand March goes on, the world's indifference notwithstanding, but it is growing nervous and hectic: yesterday against the American occupation of Vietnam, today against the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia; yesterday for Israel, today for the Palestinians; yesterday for Cuba, tomorrow against Cuba and always against America; at times against massacres and at times in support of other massacres; Europe marches on, and to keep up with events, to leave none of them out, its pace grows…†   (source)
  • Given this realpolitik, I support the military checkpoints, which have managed to halt suicide bombings despite their negative impact on Palestinian lives.†   (source)
  • Teagarten was forever sounding off about sending NATO forces into Lebanon and leveling every suspected Palestinian enclave.†   (source)
  • In terms of espionage it was a sad chapter in their history, dealing as they were mainly with confused youths flirting with Arab or pro-Palestinian elements.†   (source)
  • Thirty thousand children volunteered, thinking they were going to Palestine.†   (source)
  • But now he pours his heart out to Mary, talking about a proposed family trip to Palestine, for he is most curious about the Holy Land.†   (source)
  • "She's a Palestinian, too?†   (source)
  • In spite of devastating and repeated acts of massacre, assassination and extirpation, the huge acts of faith which have marked the new relations between Palestinians and Israelis, Africans and Afrikaners, and the way in which walls have come down in Europe and iron curtains have opened, all this inspires a hope that new possibility can still open up in Ireland as well.†   (source)
  • He participated in the fighting in the Near East—Turkey and Palestine—and at seventeen became the youngest noncommissioned officer in the German armed forces.†   (source)
  • Haganah was the political authority of the Jewish National Movement in Palestine.†   (source)
  • IBP's Palestine slaughterhouse reopened in January of 1997.†   (source)
  • And Aunt Hannah had almost convinced Papa that he and Max and Zena should go to Palestine with them.†   (source)
  • Next week I have to read Palestine at the Crossroads and the second volume of Galilei.†   (source)
  • They grew bananas and melons in Sumayriyya, the sweetest melons in all of Palestine.†   (source)
  • Pope Innocent the Third thought they were going to Palestine, too, and he was thrilled.†   (source)
  • And Palestine must become a Jewish homeland!†   (source)
  • She met a man from Munich, a writer, an intellectual, who had escaped to Palestine before the war.†   (source)
  • This was the latest of a growing list of terrorist activities against the British Army in Palestine.†   (source)
  • He was talking about what was now going on in Palestine.†   (source)
  • Zarqawi always said the road to Palestine runs through Amman.†   (source)
  • You read what is happening in Palestine.†   (source)
  • And whenever her instructors were talking about Palestine or Islam, she wore her hijab.†   (source)
  • We were able to talk at length, and we talked of little else but Palestine.†   (source)
  • I told you that I admired your passion and commitment to the issue of Palestine.†   (source)
  • Like the Arabs and Jews of Palestine, Gabriel and Navot were inextricably bound.†   (source)
  • Not only had my home life been affected by Palestine but my school life as well.†   (source)
  • The Kabbalists— Jewish mystics of Spain and Palestine-believed that super. normal insight and power could be derived from properly combining the letters of the Divine Name.†   (source)
  • We did not consider going to British-controlled Palestine as the life there would be too arduous for my parents.†   (source)
  • Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Chinese lend themselves to word play and have achieved a lasting grip on reality: 'Palestine had Qiryat Sefer, the 'City of the Letter," and Syria had Byblos, the "Town of the Book."†   (source)
  • On December 4, 1996, an OSHA inspection of the Palestine plant found a number of serious violations and imposed a fine of $35,125.†   (source)
  • In his lawsuit seeking payment for wrongful termination, Ferrell contends that he was fired for giving the order to close the Palestine plant.†   (source)
  • IBP disputes this version of events, contending that Ferrell had never fit into IBP's corporate culture, that he delegated too much authority, and that he had not, in fact, made the decision to shut down the Palestine plant.†   (source)
  • He explained, "The Palestine Liberation Organization voiced support for Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.†   (source)
  • Clinton may have failed, ultimately, to forge peace between Israel and Palestine, but he had, however belatedly, sent American forces to Bosnia in 1994 to halt the slaughter of Muslims by the Christian Serbians, a fact mujahadeen like Gul would never forget.†   (source)
  • And we would often talk of Palestine.†   (source)
  • Europe expended millions of her treasures, and the blood of two million of her people; and a handful of quarrelsome knights retained possession of Palestine for about one hundred years!†   (source)
  • If the Jews of Palestine have an ounce of that same fanaticism and use it wisely, we will soon have a Jewish state.†   (source)
  • The founding generation believed that a Jewish state in the historical land of Palestine would bring progress and stability to the Middle East.†   (source)
  • A few stayed behind but most fled to Lebanon, where they waited for the Arab armies to recapture Palestine from the Jews.†   (source)
  • A Jew had to read the Yiddish press now if he wished to know everything that was happening in Palestine.†   (source)
  • The Palestine issue was being debated now by the United Nations, and the Partition Plan would soon be voted upon.†   (source)
  • In fact, in 1881, the year before the first Zionist settlers arrived, the population of Palestine was 475,000.†   (source)
  • For Uzi Navot it was a nakba, the word the Arabs used to describe the catastrophe of their flight from the land of Palestine.†   (source)
  • We were told that the supplies would soon be on a ship heading for Palestine and would be used by the Haganah.†   (source)
  • Urgent Zionist meetings had been called to plan for the coming United Nations session that was to discuss the Palestine problem.†   (source)
  • She had been radicalized by the wars in Iraq and Syria and by the occupation of Palestine by the Jews.†   (source)
  • Their pain over this new outbreak of violence against the Jews of Palestine outweighed their hatred of Zionism.†   (source)
  • Soon Palestine will be free again.†   (source)
  • The entire Zionist enterprise, she was told, was based upon a myth—the myth that Palestine was a land without a people waiting for a people without a land.†   (source)
  • In the third week of February, the newspapers reported that British Foreign Minister Bevin had announced his intention to bring the Palestine issue to the United Nations in September.†   (source)
  • He was like the millions who had come before him, the early Zionist pioneers who had fled to Palestine to escape the persecution and pogroms of Eastern Europe, the human wrecks who came spilling out of the death camps after the war.†   (source)
  • Occasionally he spoke of the importance of Palestine as a Jewish homeland, but mostly he was concerned about American Jewry and the need for teachers and rabbis.†   (source)
  • There was nothing more important to him now than the two ideas around which his life revolved: the education of American Jewry and a Jewish state in Palestine.†   (source)
  • Founded during the Arab Revolt of 1936-39, it was one of fifty-seven so-called tower and stockade settlements hastily erected across British-ruled Palestine in a desperate bid to secure the Zionist endeavor and, ultimately, reclaim the ancient kingdom of Israel.†   (source)
  • Why not fight for Palestine?†   (source)
  • He completely ignored Dr. Grossman's suggestion that he rest more, and every time I brought up the subject he either waved it away or talked about the violence now going on in Palestine.†   (source)
  • "You've been to Palestine?"†   (source)
  • He told me that before his heart attack he had been asked to go as a delegate to the Zionist General Council that was to meet in Palestine during the coming summer.†   (source)
  • Two Englishmen, an army major and a judge, had been kidnaped recently by the Irgun, the Jewish terrorist group in Palestine, and were being held as hostages.†   (source)
  • My family is from Palestine.†   (source)
  • He had become involved in Zionist activities and was always attending meetings where he spoke about the importance of Palestine as a Jewish homeland and raised money for the Jewish National Fund.†   (source)
  • Reb Saunders swayed slowly back and forth as he told the story, and when he was done I said quietly, not mentioning my father's name, that a lot of people were now saying that it was time for Palestine to become a Jewish homeland and not only a place where pious Jews went to die.†   (source)
  • The grim faces of the teachers and students in school reflected the newspaper headlines that told of Arab riots and attacks against the Jews of Palestine, Jewish defense measures, many of which were being hampered by the British, and continued Irgun activities.†   (source)
  • While the Irgun engaged in terror—blowing up trains, attacking police stations, cutting communications lines—the Haganah continued smuggling Jews through the British naval blockade in defiance of the British Colonial Office, which had sealed Palestine off to further Jewish immigration.†   (source)
  • One morning at breakfast Reb Saunders came out of a brooding silence, sighed, and for no apparent reason began telling us, in a soft, singsong chant, the story of an old, pious Hasid who had set out on a journey to Palestine—Eretz Yisroel, Reb Saunders called it, giving the land its traditional name and accenting the "E" and the "ro"— so as to be able to spend the last years of his life in the Holy Land.†   (source)
  • In it he described the two-thousand-year-old Jewish dream of a return to Zion, the Jewish blood that had been shed through the centuries, the indifference of the world to the problem of a Jewish homeland, the desperate need to arouse the world to the realization of hew vital it was that such a homeland be established immediately on the soil of Palestine.†   (source)
  • For as Arab forces began to attack the Jewish communities of Palestine, as an Arab mob surged through Princess Mary Avenue in Jerusalem, wrecking and gutting shops and leaving the old Jewish commercial center looted and burned, and as the toll of Jewish dead increased daily, Reb Saunders' league grew strangely silent.†   (source)
  • When the Palestinian man rang them up, he was brusque and hurried.†   (source)
  • The wounded Palestinian hesitated, then said his name was Hamid.†   (source)
  • A Palestinian from East Jerusalem just stabbed two Haredim on Sultan Suleiman Street.†   (source)
  • During the second week at the farm, her Palestinian studies took a decidedly harder turn.†   (source)
  • Their killer, a young Palestinian from East Jerusalem, had been shot several times by police.†   (source)
  • The Hadawi family lived in Ein al-Hilweh, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • You look like a Jew, but I must admit all Palestinians look like Jews to me.†   (source)
  • After a light lunch she embarked on Palestinian studies, followed by Islamic and jihadist studies.†   (source)
  • Its subject was a Palestinian doctor named Leila Hadawi.†   (source)
  • How were you able to transform yourself so convincingly into a Palestinian?†   (source)
  • The Palestinian struggled against the restraints in fear.†   (source)
  • The Palestinian recoiled but said nothing.†   (source)
  • At Hadassah they assign you Palestinian patients because they think you're one of them.†   (source)
  • So, too, had the outsize photographs of Palestinian suffering.†   (source)
  • He is an enemy of the Palestinian people.†   (source)
  • She knows they use the blood of Palestinian children to make their matzo.†   (source)
  • "You're not an Arab, you're a Palestinian.†   (source)
  • Her father had lived an itinerant life typical of many stateless, educated Palestinians.†   (source)
  • I had his kidney donated to a Palestinian girl suffering kidney failure as an expression of my hope that the two peoples could live together in peace.†   (source)
  • As a member of the minority who still called themselves Palestinians, he and his family had lived in the slums of Tharsis, human testimony to the bitter legacy of the terminally dispossessed.†   (source)
  • The question is one of balance: Does the Israeli need for security outweigh the importance of the rights of individual Palestinians?†   (source)
  • They monitor the soldiers' behavior for perceived human rights abuses and advocate for Palestinians denied passage.†   (source)
  • I searched endlessly through all the cross-references and all the parallel passages in the Palestinian Talmud.†   (source)
  • I took the huge volumes of the Palestinian Talmud from my father's library—the text we studied in school was the Babylonian Talmud—and checked its parallel discussions just to see how it differed from the discussions in the Babylonian Talmud.†   (source)
  • As a French Jew, Natalie found she had much in common with the Palestinian woman she would soon become.†   (source)
  • And we can surely turn someone like you into a Palestinian doctor from Paris who wishes to strike a blow against the West.†   (source)
  • Everyone but the Palestinian doctor.†   (source)
  • They tell me you are a Palestinian.†   (source)
  • She carries a French passport, she was educated and trained in France, but she is Palestinian by ethnicity.†   (source)
  • The perpetrator was an Israeli Arab from a village located inside the heavily Palestinian corner of the country known as the Triangle.†   (source)
  • During the Second Intifada he had overseen the payment of lucrative death benefits to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.†   (source)
  • Four Israeli police officers, radios crackling, surrounded the gurney to which the Palestinian was handcuffed and strapped.†   (source)
  • They had told him that a woman named Leila, a gifted doctor who claimed to be a Palestinian, could be trusted, even loved.†   (source)
  • The French government claimed she had been born in France of Palestinian parentage and was an employee of the state-run health care system.†   (source)
  • Then, finally, came the cause of all the mayhem and bloodshed: the Palestinian from East Jerusalem who had awakened that morning and decided to kill two people because they were Israeli and Jewish.†   (source)
  • "That's because I'm a Palestinian.†   (source)
  • More photos lined the staircase and on the bedside table of a tidy little room rested a volume of verse by Mahmoud Darwish, the semi-official poet of Palestinian nationalism.†   (source)
  • Afterward, on the television in the staff lounge, she watched the leader of the Palestinian Authority telling his people that it was their national duty to kill as many Jews as possible.†   (source)
  • It was during her third year of medical school that Leila met Ziad al-Masri, a Jordanian-Palestinian who was enrolled in the university's department of electronics.†   (source)
  • She was a respected member of the community, a healer who cared for the residents of the cites and spoke to them in their native language, though with a distinct Palestinian accent.†   (source)
  • Mikhail knew that the woman was a Palestinian and that her father, a fighter from the old days, had fled Lebanon with Arafat in 1982, long before she was born.†   (source)
  • This time, their task was to undo what they had done before, to flush Natalie's system of Palestinian enmity and Islamic zeal, to turn her into an Israeli again.†   (source)
  • They spoke of their upbringings and found they had little in common; as a child of educated Palestinians, Leila Hadawi had lived far differently than the child of Algerian laborers from the banlieues.†   (source)
  • More important, she was the occasional lover of one Sabri al-Khalifa, leader of the Palestinian terror group Black September, mastermind of the Munich Olympics massacre.†   (source)
  • It was the continuation of the story that Gabriel had begun amid the ruins of Sumayriyya, the story of an accomplished young woman, a doctor, who had been born in France of Palestinian lineage.†   (source)
  • In his left he held a mobile phone, which for the past several hours had pinged with a steady stream of messages regarding a certain Dr. Leila Hadawi, a French citizen of Palestinian Arab extraction.†   (source)
  • The ambulance attendants wheeled the young Palestinian down the corridor to the emergency room and with the help of the police officers moved him from the blood-soaked gurney to a clean treatment bed.†   (source)
  • Inspired by the words and deeds of ISIS, frustrated by the broken promises of peace, many young Palestinians had quite literally taken matters into their own hands.†   (source)
  • Dina was the Office's top terrorism specialist, a human database who could recite the time, place, perpetrators, and casualty toll of every act of Palestinian or Islamic terrorism committed against Israel and the West.†   (source)
  • Gabriel was willing to accept territorial compromises in order to secure a lasting and viable peace with the Palestinians and the broader Arab world, but privately he regarded the Western Wall as nonnegotiable.†   (source)
  • It was sparsely furnished, more office than home, and upon its whitewashed walls hung several outsize black-and-white photographs of Palestinian suffering—the long dusty walk into exile, the wretched camps, the weathered faces of the old ones dreaming of paradise lost.†   (source)
  • His primary duty, he claimed, was to provide material and logistical support to Palestinian terrorist groups, especially those that rejected absolutely the existence of a Jewish state in the Middle East.†   (source)
  • Next she visited Ramallah, the seat of Palestinian authority in the West Bank, and a few days later, and on a warm Friday in mid-May, she attended Friday prayer services at the al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem.†   (source)
  • The Palestinian terrorist group Black September had just murdered eleven Israeli athletes and coaches at the Olympic games in Munich, and Shamron wanted Gabriel, a native German speaker who had spent time in Europe, to serve as his instrument of vengeance.†   (source)
  • The hospital was located in the old Arab village of Deir Yassin, where Jewish fighters from the Irgun and Lehi paramilitary organizations massacred more than a hundred Palestinians on the night of April 9, 1948.†   (source)
  • Any one of the cars might have contained a team of killers or kidnappers from Hezbollah or one of the extreme jihadist organizations that had taken root in the Palestinian refugee camps of the south—organizations that made al— Qaeda seem like dowdy old Islamic moderates.†   (source)
  • After graduating from the University of Baghdad with a degree in engineering, he had worked in Iraq, Jordan, Libya, and Kuwait before finally settling in France, where he met a Palestinian woman, originally from Nablus, who worked part-time as a translator for a UN refugee agency and a small French publishing house.†   (source)
  • If you think long enough about it, you will be brought to consider republics, and bilingualism, and immigration, and Palestine, and God knows what.†   (source)
  • They're both very well, though they couldn't say where, but Father Membling said, reading between the lines, it was Palestine, which is where Bridey's yeomanry is, so that's very nice for them all.†   (source)
  • We're making Buffalo Bill's show look like magic-lantern views of Palestine in the town hall.†   (source)
  • So say the few warriors who have returned from Palestine.†   (source)
  • Then I shall go to Italy, Greece, Egypt, and Palestine, before the hot weather comes on.†   (source)
  • If Ivanhoe ever returns from Palestine, I will be his surety that he meets you.†   (source)
  • The bones of his gallant army have whitened the sands of Palestine.†   (source)
  • He smelled again that polite stuffiness to be found only in church parlors; he recalled the case of drab Sunday School books: "Hetty, a Humble Heroine" and "Josephus, a Lad of Palestine;" he thumbed once more the high-colored text-cards which no boy wanted but no boy liked to throw away, because they were somehow sacred; he was tortured by the stumbling rote of thirty-five years ago, as in the vast Zenith church he listened to: "Now, Edgar, you read the next verse.†   (source)
  • It is true that I have the honor to be a Jew; and, when the Zionists need a leader to reassemble our race on its historic soil of Palestine, Mendoza will not be the last to volunteer [sympathetic applause—hear, hear, etc.].†   (source)
  • …of this building, looking out into Bickel Street at the front and some dreary back yards of equally dreary frame houses, which was divided at the front into a hall forty by twenty-five feet in size, in which had been placed some sixty collapsible wood chairs, a lectern, a map of Palestine or the Holy Land, and for wall decorations some twenty-five printed but unframed mottoes which read in part: WINE IS A MOCKER, STRONG DRINK IS RAGING AND WHOSOEVER IS DECEIVED THEREBY IS NOT WISE.†   (source)
  • He had many volumes of old travels, with steel engravings, and Mrs. Carey quickly found two which described Palestine.†   (source)
  • He was standing in front of them in an attitude like that of a showman showing off the animals in a menagerie, or of the kind clergyman when he points with a wand at the 'Scenes from Palestine, when there is a magic-lantern and he is explaining it.†   (source)
  • All your skill was used up ages ago in Palestine, and you must lie fallow for a thousand years to git strength for more deeds!'†   (source)
  • …was joined, the result being a general scuffle, wherein a black board was split, three panes of the school windows were broken, an inkbottle was spilled over a town-councillor's shirt front, a churchwarden was dealt such a topper with the map of Palestine that his head went right through Samaria, and many black eyes and bleeding noses were given, one of which, to everybody's horror, was the venerable incumbent's, owing to the zeal of an emancipated chimney-sweep, who took the side of…†   (source)
  • Erect in a black William and Mary chair against gray and speckly-brown volumes of sermons and Biblical commentaries and Palestine geographies upon long pine shelves, her neat black shoes firm on a rag-rug, herself as correct and low-toned as her background, Mrs. Warren listened without comment till Carol was quite through, then answered delicately: "Yes, I think you draw a very nice picture of what might easily come to pass—some day.†   (source)
  • Once upon a time Angel had been so unlucky as to say to his father, in a moment of irritation, that it might have resulted far better for mankind if Greece had been the source of the religion of modern civilization, and not Palestine; and his father's grief was of that blank description which could not realize that there might lurk a thousandth part of a truth, much less a half truth or a whole truth, in such a proposition.†   (source)
  • 'These pines, now, come from France, Spain, and Italy; the olives from Armenia and Palestine; the figs originally from the island of Chios; the preaches and apricots from Persia; plums from Damascus in Syria, and the pears of all sorts from Greece.†   (source)
  • Authors we have, in numbers, who have written out their vein, and who, moved by a commendable prudence, sail for Greece or Palestine, follow the trapper into the prairie, or ramble round Algiers, to replenish their merchantable stock.†   (source)
  • These martial strains seemed as far away as Palestine, and reminded me of a march of crusaders in the horizon, with a slight tantivy and tremulous motion of the elm tree tops which overhang the village.†   (source)
  • —TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER 107 Then, her mind still running on her romance, she resumed humming between her teeth:— "It must be so; I am a knight, And I am off to Palestine.†   (source)
  • "Kings" and "Kingdoms" were as thick in Britain as they had been in little Palestine in Joshua's time, when people had to sleep with their knees pulled up because they couldn't stretch out without a passport.†   (source)
  • High deeds achieved of knightly fame, From Palestine the champion came; The cross upon his shoulders borne, Battle and blast had dimm'd and torn.†   (source)
  • [561] "King of Outlaws, and Prince of good fellows!" said the King, "who hath not heard a name that has been borne as far as Palestine?†   (source)
  • "But it will be her especial pleasure," answered Elgitha, with great readiness, "for she is ever desirous to hear the latest news from Palestine."†   (source)
  • He hath, I believe, surmounted the persecution of his enemies in Palestine, and is on the eve of returning to England, where you, lady, must know better than I, what is his chance of happiness.†   (source)
  • He again made a signal for the slaves to approach, and spoke to them apart, in their own language; for he also had been in Palestine, where perhaps, he had learnt his lesson of cruelty.†   (source)
  • "Palestine!" repeated the Saxon; "Palestine! how many ears are turned to the tales which dissolute crusaders, or hypocritical pilgrims, bring from that fatal land!†   (source)
  • Come, Sir Templar, the laws of gallantry have a liberal interpretation in Palestine, and this is a case in which I will trust nothing to your conscience.†   (source)
  • —We heard, that, having remained in Palestine, on account of his impaired health, after the departure of the English army, he had experienced the persecution of the French faction, to whom the Templars are known to be attached.†   (source)
  • With what joy will the haughty Richard hear the news, that the knight that set him hard in Palestine, and well-nigh darkened his renown, has lost fame and honour for a Jewish girl, whom he could not even save by so costly a sacrifice!†   (source)
  • "Forgive me, lady," replied De Bois-Guilbert; "the English monarch did, indeed, bring to Palestine a host of gallant warriors, second only to those whose breasts have been the unceasing bulwark of that blessed land."†   (source)
  • "I will spare your courtesy, Sir Knight," said Rowena with dignity, and without unveiling herself; "or rather I will tax it so far as to require of you the latest news from Palestine, a theme more agreeable to our English ears than the compliments which your French breeding teaches."†   (source)
  • Nay, by St Mary, brother Brian, you must not think you are now in Palestine, predominating over heathen Turks and infidel Saracens; we islanders love not blows, save those of holy Church, who chasteneth whom she loveth.†   (source)
  • "Fair flower of Palestine," replied the outlaw, "these pearls are orient, but they yield in whiteness to your teeth; the diamonds are brilliant, but they cannot match your eyes; and ever since I have taken up this wild trade, I have made a vow to prefer beauty to wealth."†   (source)
  • —Money he will lack, for he has just returned from Palestine, and, as they say, from prison—and pretext for exacting it, should he need any, may arise out of my simple traffic with his brother John.†   (source)
  • Of her beauty you shall soon be judge; and if the purity of her complexion, and the majestic, yet soft expression of a mild blue eye, do not chase from your memory the black-tressed girls of Palestine, ay, or the houris of old Mahound's paradise, I am an infidel, and no true son of the church."†   (source)
  • It may be here remarked, that the knights of these two orders were accounted hostile to King Richard, having adopted the side of Philip of France in the long train of disputes which took place in Palestine betwixt that monarch and the lion-hearted King of England.†   (source)
  • "I have been in Palestine, Sir Clerk," said the knight, stopping short of a sudden, "and I bethink me it is a custom there that every host who entertains a guest shall assure him of the wholesomeness of his food, by partaking of it along with him.†   (source)
  • Meantime Lucas Beaumanoir walked in a small garden belonging to the Preceptory, included within the precincts of its exterior fortification, and held sad and confidential communication with a brother of his Order, who had come in his company from Palestine.†   (source)
  • We will go to Palestine, where Conrade, Marquis of Montserrat, is my friend—a friend free as myself from the doting scruples which fetter our free-born reason—rather with Saladin will we league ourselves, than endure the scorn of the bigots whom we contemn.†   (source)
  • Mendicants were of course assembled by the score, together with strolling soldiers returned from Palestine, (according to their own account at least,) pedlars were displaying their wares, travelling mechanics were enquiring after employment, and wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes.†   (source)
  • But our bards are no more," he said; "our deeds are lost in those of another race—our language—our very name—is hastening to decay, and none mourns for it save one solitary old man—Cupbearer! knave, fill the goblets—To the strong in arms, Sir Templar, be their race or language what it will, who now bear them best in Palestine among the champions of the Cross!"†   (source)
  • —Not the millions whom her crusaders send to slaughter, can do so much to defend Palestine—not the sabres of the thousands and ten thousands of Saracens can hew their way so deep into that land for which nations are striving, as the strength and policy of me and those brethren, who, in despite of yonder old bigot, will adhere to me in good and evil.†   (source)
  • "Your Grace," said Waldemar Fitzurse, "will do less than due honour to the victor, if you compel him to wait till we tell your highness that which we cannot know; at least I can form no guess—unless he be one of the good lances who accompanied King Richard to Palestine, and who are now straggling homeward from the Holy Land."†   (source)
  • The inferior officers of the Order were thus dressed, ever since their use of white garments, similar to those of the knights and esquires, had given rise to a combination of certain false brethren in the mountains of Palestine, terming themselves Templars, and bringing great dishonour on the Order.†   (source)
  • To his great surprise he found himself in a room magnificently furnished, but having cushions instead of chairs to rest upon, and in other respects partaking so much of Oriental costume, that he began to doubt whether he had not, during his sleep, been transported back again to the land of Palestine.†   (source)
  • —He told how, long since in Palestine, a deadly feud arose between the tribe of Benjamin and the rest of the Israelitish nation; and how they cut to pieces well-nigh all the chivalry of that tribe; and how they swore by our blessed Lady, that they would not permit those who remained to marry in their lineage; and how they became grieved for their vow, and sent to consult his holiness the Pope how they might be absolved from it; and how, by the advice of the Holy Father, the youth of…†   (source)
  • I call it A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or the Parable of The Plums.†   (source)
  • The names of the Jewish patriarchs and those of the holy places in Palestine do not appear among their place-names; their Christianity seems to have been exclusively of the New Testament.†   (source)
  • Did he see only a second coincidence in the second scene narrated to him, described by the narrator as A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or The Parable of the Plums?†   (source)
  • I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip.†   (source)
  • There the companions of his fall, o'erwhelmed With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire, He soon discerns; and, weltering by his side, One next himself in power, and next in crime, Long after known in Palestine, and named Beelzebub.†   (source)
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