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  • He amused her with slightly laundered tales of the happenings in the town's juke joints—places that were as foreign to her as Istanbul or Paris.†   (source)
  • Nine separate operations have independently converged on the city of Istanbul in Turkey.†   (source)
  • Some cities have taken longer than expected to evacuate all the Nephilim—the Shadowhunters of London, Rio de Janeiro, Cairo, Istanbul, and Taipei remain.†   (source)
  • Istanbul?" my dad said.†   (source)
  • The last fax came from an address in Istanbul.†   (source)
  • One guard in that doorway had a damaged face but was still moving; I gave his neck a treatment known in professional circles Earthside as the Istanbul twist.†   (source)
  • Air France to Istanbul on borrowed passports.†   (source)
  • In the wonderful ports of Naples, Nice, and Istanbul, he distinguished himself as the only pilot in Fighting Forty-Four who never found reason to request a night's liberty ashore.†   (source)
  • You really don't want to hear about Istanbul and Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • She had flown to Frankfurt the previous evening and was now in Istanbul.†   (source)
  • The nearest she could find in the encyclopedia was an entry about the Santa Sophia Church in Constantinople (now Istanbul), named Hagia Sophia, which means Sacred Wisdom.†   (source)
  • Robbie had put down his trowel and stood to roll a cigarette, a hangover from his Communist Party time—another abandoned fad, along with his ambitions in anthropology, and the planned hike from Calais to Istanbul.†   (source)
  • Like most of the prisoners at the brutal Soganlik Prison outside of Istanbul, Inmate 37 was here because of drugs.†   (source)
  • Istanbul is its latest name.†   (source)
  • It was an unlikely spot to hold a meeting of such consequence; there were no spinning computers to light up dark screens with green letters, no electronic communications equipment that would reach consoles in London or Paris or Istanbul.†   (source)
  • The map showed the city of Istanbul; number codes indicating individual missions formed a wide perimeter around a particular section of the city.†   (source)
  • But the men back at the squadron never even saw any of the bananas, for it was a seller's market for bananas in Istanbul and a buyer's market in Beirut for the caraway seeds Milo rushed with to Bengasi after selling the bananas, and when they raced back into Pianosa breathlessly six days later at the conclusion of Orr's rest leave, it was with a load of best white eggs from Sicily that Milo said were from Egypt and sold to his mess halls for only four cents apiece so that all the…†   (source)
  • If he needed a suit, he bought it; he was certainly never behind in his rent; if he decided to fly to Istanbul tomorrow, he had only to call his travel agent.†   (source)
  • Istanbul, Athens, Rome … Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • We go way back as young hustlers to Istanbul in the late sixties and Athens after that, then Amsterdam later.†   (source)
  • Forward of the Istanbul-Calais coach there is only the dining-car.†   (source)
  • To give all the women travelling on the Istanbul-Calais coach what Americans call the 'once-over.'†   (source)
  • We talked a little about Anthony Blanche—"He had a beard in Istanbul, but I made him take it off"—and after ten minutes Sebastian said: "Well, I don't want a cocktail, anyway; I'm off to my bath," and left the room.†   (source)
  • On the table in front of Poirot was a plan of the Istanbul-Calais coach with the names of the passengers marked in red ink.†   (source)
  • "Then it seems," said Poirot slowly, "as though we must look for our murderer in the Istanbul-Calais coach."†   (source)
  • He called to the porters and they wheeled their load halfway along the carriage on which the tin plates proclaimed its destination: ISTANBUL TRIESTE CALAIS "You are full up to-night, I hear?"†   (source)
  • To begin with, I should like a plan of the Istanbul-Calais coach, with a note of the people who occupied the several compartments, and I should also like to see their passports and their tickets.†   (source)
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