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  • And once again Joel Cairo, the Fat Man, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, having surreptitiously joined forces, drugged Spade's whiskey and headed for the wharf, their elusive quest finally within reach.†   (source)
  • Together, he and Hermione started to read: Now approaching his eighteenth birthday, Dumbledore left Hogwarts in a blaze of glory — Head Boy, Prefect, Winner of the Barnabus Finkley Prize for Exceptional Spell-Casting, British Youth Representative to the Wizengamot, Gold Medal-Winner for Ground-Breaking Contribution to the International Alchemical Con-ference in Cairo.†   (source)
  • The next day, they were having a World War II spy marathon (Cairo, The Hidden Enemy, Code Name: Emerald) that I really wanted to stay home and see.†   (source)
  • And then, in May 1933 he took off in his tiny airplane and set a course for Everest by way of Cairo, Tehran, and India.†   (source)
  • Especially after Cairo.†   (source)
  • It went to Cairo.†   (source)
  • The Street in Cairo exhibit alone employed nearly two hundred Egyptians and contained twenty-five distinct buildings, including a fifteen-hundred-seat theater that introduced America to a new and scandalous form of entertainment.†   (source)
  • It matters when they reach Cairo and the Ohio empties into the big river; it matters when they reach the Deep South, because Jim is running away in the worst possible direction.†   (source)
  • "Let's have Camera 8 in Cairo."†   (source)
  • Or the three months in Cairo in the basement of a ramshackle tenement run by a hashish-addicted landlord.†   (source)
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  • This obelisk, larger even than Cairo's or Alexandria's, rose 555 feet into the sky, more than thirty stories, proclaiming thanks and honor to the demigod forefather for whom this capital city took its newer name.†   (source)
  • Like the time gunmen stormed our hotel in Cairo.†   (source)
  • She had been raised by a German family in Cairo, Illinois, and had come to St. Louis at the turn of the century to study nursing.†   (source)
  • — when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!†   (source)
  • In Cairo, the day after a private meeting with the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, I was scheduled to address a large meeting in a local hall.†   (source)
  • If the Ebola Sudan virus had managed to spread out of central Africa, it might have entered Khartoum in a few weeks, penetrated Cairo a few weeks after that, and from there it would have hopped to Athens, New York, Paris, London, Singapore—it would have gone everywhere on the planet.†   (source)
  • Eventually, the Dikoris made it to Cairo, where they connected with friends.†   (source)
  • Another week went by and I wondered if maybe Jacob Marcus was out of the country, possibly Cairo, or maybe Tokyo.†   (source)
  • You were in Cairo with him.†   (source)
  • Jet flights from Rome, London, Frankfurt, Nairobi, Cairo, and Bombay to Addis made it easy for tourists to visit.†   (source)
  • He could still hear Svensson's low, grinding voice that late night seven years earlier as they overlooked Cairo.†   (source)
  • … 'Cairo' and 'Tel Aviv'-fires everywhere, bombs everywhere!†   (source)
  • 15 june 1908-cairo, egypt I cannot imagine any place hotter in all the world than Cairo in June.†   (source)
  • As a cook in the middle of the desert, just outside Cairo, I'd work ten to twelve hours in furnace-like heat during the day, then in bone-chilling temperatures at night, without any breaks.†   (source)
  • An interpreter and a combat assault dog, named Cairo, rounded out the team.†   (source)
  • Omar was telling Max about his baby brother back in Cairo when the boat pitched wildly.†   (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)
  • From Entebbe, Deo flew to Cairo, then to Moscow.†   (source)
  • There was even an Arabic book, featuring a similar mix of American and Middle Eastern authors, which sold thirty thousand copies in Cairo in just three days.†   (source)
  • "But we won't be in Cairo.†   (source)
  • Or our cities get what Mexico City, Shanghai and Cairo got.†   (source)
  • A report from Beirut, via Cairo, says that Syrian tanks of the most modern Russian design have crossed the Jordanian frontier.†   (source)
  • She believed it just as she believed that the confluence of the waters was still happening at Cairo.†   (source)
  • I walked her back toward the Washington Monument and lectured her on the Egyptian obelisk and phallic symbols and classical mythology and ancient Rome and the difference between the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire and the nobility of men like Cincinnatus, emphasizing that he was the man for whom Cincinnati was named, while Troy, New York, was named after a mythical city in Homer, and Cairo, Illinois, after a real city in Egypt.†   (source)
  • Then the British and Americans intervened and made that demonstration flight over Cairo.†   (source)
  • The Street in Cairo glowed with soft yellows, pinks, and purples.†   (source)
  • What was left disappeared under Cairo's suburbs.†   (source)
  • "We've had our people in Cairo attaching cameras for the last week.†   (source)
  • At any rate, after the Blackwells were expelled from Cairo—expelled isn't the best term, perhaps.†   (source)
  • On-screen, the camera's view of the Cairo street panned left.†   (source)
  • I was tempted to kick it till I remembered what Zia had done in the Cairo Airport broom closet.†   (source)
  • The Sphinx is, like, twenty miles from the Cairo Airport.†   (source)
  • That's, like, hundreds of miles south of Cairo.†   (source)
  • The shabti must've stolen it from the Cairo Museum.†   (source)
  • I was glad to be free of the Sun Ra, even if it meant the streets of Cairo.†   (source)
  • In Cairo there was at last room at the hotel for Yossarian and Orr.†   (source)
  • Cairo, while a reprieve from the constant threat of violence, was no paradise.†   (source)
  • It was too crowded and noisy to talk much as we drove to Cairo.†   (source)
  • The Jew who looked after Saladin whenever he was in Cairo.†   (source)
  • Not just because we had hit it off rather well in Cairo—[0h, stop pouting, Carter.†   (source)
  • In other words, I knew we must be in Cairo.†   (source)
  • Somehow Bes made a deal with them to drive us to Cairo.†   (source)
  • He would of gone on till nightfall if Shirley-T. hadn't lost the Milky Way she ate in Cairo.†   (source)
  • Prominent couple in Houston—lots of drinking and chartered airplanes, African safaris—Welty's father loved Africa, even after he had to lease Cairo, he could never stay away.†   (source)
  • The carriages skirted the Street in Cairo—not yet open, another disappointment—and passed the Turkish Village and the Java Lunch Room.†   (source)
  • It was that eeny bit of Cairo from his boyhood, I always said he would have been perfectly happy padding around in slippers and showing carpets in the souk.†   (source)
  • Here Mrs. Taylor ventured into the Street in Cairo, open at last, and witnessed her first belly dance.†   (source)
  • Anyone wishing to bring his own Kodak to the fair had to buy a permit for two dollars, an amount beyond the reach of most visitors; the Midway's Street in Cairo imposed an additional one-dollar fee.†   (source)
  • And these copies —" leaning forward with hands folded on the table —"these artists' copies he grew up with were lost when the house in Cairo burned, and to tell you the truth they were lost to him earlier, when he was crippled and they sent him back to America, but—well, he was a person like us, he got attached to objects, they had personalities and souls to him, and though he lost almost everything else from that life, he never lost those paintings because the originals were still out…†   (source)
  • On March 9 a steamer named Guildhall set sail for New York from Alexandria, Egypt, carrying 175 bona-fide residents of Cairo recruited by an entrepreneur named George Pangalos to inhabit his Street in Cairo in the Midway Plaisance.†   (source)
  • …potatoes, a la Irish Village.
    International hash, a la Midway Plaisance
    COLD DISHES.
    Roast Missionary, a la Dahomey, west coast of Africa.
    Jerked buffalo, a la Indian Village.
    Stuffed ostrich, a la Ostrich Farm.
    Boiled camel humps, a la Cairo street.
    Monkey stew, a la Hagenbeck.
    ENTREES.
    Fricassee of reindeer, a la Lapland.
    Fried snowballs, a la Ice Railway.
    Crystallized frappe, from Libby glass exhibit.
    PASTRY.
    Wind doughnuts, a la Captive Balloon.
    Sandwiches (assorted),…†   (source)
  • Slowly Cairo grew into a modern city.†   (source)
  • "This is the Cairo airport," I said.†   (source)
  • I tried to sound calm about it, but I was thinking of all the odd things that had happened to my dad and me over the years, like those gunmen in the Cairo hotel who'd ended up hanging by their feet from a chandelier.†   (source)
  • The lights of New York blurred and faded, and I found myself in a familiar underground chamber: the Hall of Ages, in the House of Life's main headquarters under Cairo.†   (source)
  • MYTH OR MONSTER For over a decade, the name "Carlos" has been whispered in the back streets of such diverse cities as Paris, Teheran, Beirut, London, Cairo, and Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • After they were inserted, two assaulters and Cairo, the combat assault dog, did a sweep of the perimeter.†   (source)
  • The American Embassy readily provided visas, and by day's end, Hema and Shiva were on their way to Frankfurt via Cairo.†   (source)
  • While in Cairo I held a press conference at which I said the ANC was "prepared to consider a cessation of hostilities."†   (source)
  • At best the orbital bombardment of Shanghai, Cairo and Mexico City had dropped global temperatures by .†   (source)
  • It was said he had fulfilled a contract on the assassination of Anwar Sadat without firing a weapon, by merely replacing the Egyptian president's security detail with inexperienced recruits-money dispersed in Cairo returned a hundredfold by the anti-Israel brotherhoods in the Middle East.†   (source)
  • Planes arrived for Milo from airfields in Italy, North Africa and England, and from Air Transport Command stations in Liberia, Ascension Island, Cairo, and Karachi.†   (source)
  • So …. the Horvath nuked Cairo.†   (source)
  • He went to the teeming and overburdened United Nations refugee office in Cairo and applied for resettlement.†   (source)
  • A flight from Cairo had arrived at the same time as the flight from Athens; there were hijabs aplenty.†   (source)
  • He retches, gripped by a pain in the stomach, and I am reminded of our encounter in the Cairo market, all those years before.†   (source)
  • …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 commanding officers in his syndicate would implore him to speed right back to Cairo for more bunches of green red bananas to sell in Turkey for the caraway seeds in demand in Bengasi.†   (source)
  • He was lame and sickly, watched over constantly by a team of twenty-one doctors, including the philosopher and Talmudic scholar Maimonides, who was appointed his court physician in Cairo.†   (source)
  • An incident in July 2000 in Cairo, where the Dikoris were living in a cramped apartment with four different families, underscored the accumulating ill will.†   (source)
  • The heat of Kenya and Cairo is being more than made up for in the most bitter cold Seattle has suffered in memory.†   (source)
  • Dobbs was almost as bad as Orr, who seemed happy as an undersized, grinning lark with his deranged and galvanic giggle and shivering warped buck teeth and who was sent along for a rest leave with Milo and Yossarian on the trip to Cairo for eggs when Milo bought cotton instead and took off at dawn for Istanbul with his plane packed to the gun turrets with exotic spiders and unripened red bananas.†   (source)
  • People in New York, London, Cairo, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Moscow, and other large cities don't expect each other to be the same, and yet these cities function with an extraordinary degree of civility, because it's in the interests—economic, social, and psychological—of the various groups to get along.†   (source)
  • Just before sunset, Carter and I were back on the roof as Zia opened a portal to Cairo for herself and Amos.†   (source)
  • Everywhere they touched he was acclaimed with honor, and it was one triumphal ovation after another for him in city after city until they finally doubled back through the Middle East and reached Cairo, where Milo cornered the market on cotton that no one else in the world wanted and brought himself promptly to the brink of ruin.†   (source)
  • His clothes had reverted to the normal mortal ones we'd bought him in Cairo, but somehow he still looked quite imposing, quite confident.†   (source)
  • The smog over Cairo made everything to the east a big fuzzy smudge, but to the west we had a good view of the sun going down on the horizon, turning the desert crimson.†   (source)
  • I'm going skip over our travel preparations, how Sadie summoned Walt and explained the situation, how Bes and I said our farewells at dawn and rented a car from one of Bes's "reliable friends," and how that car broke down halfway to Cairo.†   (source)
  • When they were climbing the long approach to a bridge after leaving Cairo, rising slowly higher until they rode above the tops of bare trees, she looked down and saw the pale light widening and the river bottoms opening out, and then the water appearing, reflecting the low, early sun.†   (source)
  • They flew from Cairo.†   (source)
  • There's Egypt in your dreamy eyes, A bit of Cairo in your style….†   (source)
  • At one of the two tables that occupied all the remaining space beyond the half-circle round the bar, a naval officer, with a girl on each side of him, was describing to a fat, red-faced man a typhus epidemic at Cairo.†   (source)
  • For him, it was not the name of a university—it was rich magic, wealth, elegance, joy, proud loneliness, rich books and golden browsing; it was an enchanted name like Cairo and Damascus.†   (source)
  • But,, on the other hand, it would be no less wrong to imitate the monks at Cairo who, when plague was raging in the town, distributed the Host with pincers at the Mass, so as to avoid contact with wet, warm mouths in which infection might be latent.†   (source)
  • They were exchanging jocular reminiscences of the donkeys in Cairo.†   (source)
  • I says: "Maybe we went by Cairo in the fog that night."†   (source)
  • Dat's de good ole Cairo at las', I jis knows it!"†   (source)
  • We talked about Cairo, and wondered whether we would know it when we got to it.†   (source)
  • I ranged up and says: "Mister, is that town Cairo?"†   (source)
  • Jim was awful disappointed, but I said never mind, Cairo would be the next place, I reckoned.†   (source)
  • She took the little local packet at Cairo, and now she was on the homestretch.†   (source)
  • We had leave to make a party and go up to Cairo and the Pyramids.†   (source)
  • I, who have a seraglio at Cairo, one at Smyrna, and one at Constantinople, preside at a wedding?†   (source)
  • So it was all up with Cairo.†   (source)
  • Here was the India of my books in the curious bazaar with its Shivas and elephant-gods; there was the land of the Pyramids concentrated in a model Cairo with its mosques and its long processions of camels; yonder were the lagoons of Venice, where we sailed every evening when the city and the fountains were illuminated.†   (source)
  • On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly encrusted with nacre, a present from Lady Radley, his guardian's wife, a pretty professional invalid, who had spent the preceding winter in Cairo, was lying a note from Lord Henry, and beside it was a book bound in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn and the edges soiled.†   (source)
  • His father told, in turn, the plan his corporation was considering, of putting in an electric railway plant in Cairo.†   (source)
  • No high ground about Cairo, Jim said.†   (source)
  • WE judged that three nights more would fetch us to Cairo, at the bottom of Illinois, where the Ohio River comes in, and that was what we was after.†   (source)
  • "Cairo? no. You must be a blame' fool."†   (source)
  • Every time he danced around and says, "Dah's Cairo!" it went through me like a shot, and I thought if it WAS Cairo I reckoned I would die of miserableness.†   (source)
  • I said, paddle ashore the first time a light showed, and tell them pap was behind, coming along with a trading-scow, and was a green hand at the business, and wanted to know how far it was to Cairo.†   (source)
  • , and Cairo, Ill.†   (source)
  • We shall lose a fine opportunity if I put off going to Cairo, and I am very much afraid I must go, Handel, when you most need me.†   (source)
  • Now I can promise you, that a Frenchman might show himself in public, either in Tunis, Constantinople, Bagdad, or Cairo, without being treated in that way.†   (source)
  • I do not allude to the impulse it received as she gazed at the Pyramids in the course of an excursion from Cairo, or as she stood among the broken columns of the Acropolis and fixed her eyes upon the point designated to her as the Strait of Salamis; deep and memorable as these emotions had remained.†   (source)
  • Those belonging to the little Cairo line and the little Memphis line always stopped; the big Orleans liners stopped for hails only, or to land passengers or freight; and this was the case also with the great flotilla of "transients."†   (source)
  • Besides, whether at home or not, whether in Paris or Cairo, the abbe always left something to give away, which the valet distributed through this wicket in his master's name.†   (source)
  • As for me," he added, with one of those singular smiles which did not escape the young man, "when I have completed my affairs in Paris, I shall go and die in the East; and should you wish to see me again, you must seek me at Cairo, Bagdad, or Ispahan."†   (source)
  • But go a little way from France—go either to Aleppo or Cairo, or only to Naples or Rome, and you will see people passing by you in the streets—people erect, smiling, and fresh-colored, of whom Asmodeus, if you were holding on by the skirt of his mantle, would say, 'That man was poisoned three weeks ago; he will be a dead man in a month.'†   (source)
  • You plague-swarms in Madras, Nankin, Kaubul, Cairo!†   (source)
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