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West Bank
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  • Zeitoun headed to the West Bank to get a look at the tangerine bathroom.†   (source)
  • A client on the West Bank wanted a bathroom repainted.†   (source)
  • The west bank of the Red Fork is higher than the east, my lady, and well wooded.†   (source)
  • In this context, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank seems to her to be absolutely immoral.†   (source)
  • And still another wave fled their villages in the West Bank after the Zionist conquest of 1967.†   (source)
  • The double column wound its way through the gate of the eastern twin like a great steel snake, slithering across the courtyard, into the keep and over the bridge, to issue forth once more from the second castle on the west bank.†   (source)
  • When they returned from Hunt, they stayed for two days on Adnan's floor in Baton Rouge, then moved into the studio apartment of their rental unit on Tita Street, on New Orleans' West Bank.†   (source)
  • Zeitoun bought a new van and drives through the city, through Uptown, the Garden District, the French Quarter, Lakeview, the West Bank, Broadmoor, Metairie, Gentilly, the Lower Ninth, Mirabeau Gardens—and every time he sees a home under construction, no matter who's doing it, he smiles.†   (source)
  • They would travel thePost Road west across Massachusetts as far as Springfield on the Connecticut River, there cross by ferry and swing south along the west bank, down the valley into Connecticut.†   (source)
  • From the far end of the Long Bridge, it was only a short walk through the teeming waterfront districts of the west bank, down torchlit streets crowded with sailors, slaves, and drunken merrymakers.†   (source)
  • Most of the column was out of the foothills now, oozing down along the west bank of the Milkwater like honey on a cold winter's morning, following the course of the river into the heart of the haunted forest.†   (source)
  • Once over the Passaic, they pushed on another twenty miles down the west bank of the river to the little port town of Newark.†   (source)
  • In the end the Mountain and a handful of his best had gained the west bank, but Edmure had thrown his reserve at them, and they had shattered and reeled away bloody and beaten.†   (source)
  • More torches were moving on the dark stone bridge that joined the Twins, a column of them streaming from the west bank to the east.†   (source)
  • Moral or not, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank is a fact of life, as is the threat of terrorism.†   (source)
  • It might have been the Arab motorist who ran down three Jewish teenagers near a West Bank settlement south of Jerusalem.†   (source)
  • "It being impossible to oppose them with our present force with the least possible prospect of success," he informed Congress, "we shall retreat to the west bank of the Delaware."†   (source)
  • "Look at the settlements," said Fareed, pointing toward the orderly yellow streetlamps spilling down the ancient hills into the West Bank.†   (source)
  • She therefore joined an organization called Machsom Watch, whose volunteer women drive to military checkpoints in the West Bank daily.†   (source)
  • To the American officers and troops deployed along the west bank of the Delaware, and all whose hopes were riding on them, the loss of Lee seemed the worst possible news at the worst possible moment.†   (source)
  • The woman rebuffed all questions and attempts at conversation, leaving Natalie to stare out her window at the minarets rising above the West Bank towns just beyond the Separation Barrier.†   (source)
  • A few miles before Jericho was the turnoff for the Allenby Bridge, the historic crossing between the West Bank and the British-created Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.†   (source)
  • Then he crawled into the backseat of his SUV for a high-speed drive across the West Bank to Amman's Queen Alia Airport, where one of His Majesty's Gulfstreams was fueled and ready for takeoff.†   (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)
  • And instead of heading west toward Tel Aviv and King Saul Boulevard, it skirted the gray Ottoman walls of the Old City and spilled down the slopes of the Judean Hills, into the unforgiving flatlands of the West Bank.†   (source)
  • The old hotel in Ma'ale Hahamisha was less than a mile from the 1967 border, and from its terrace restaurant it was possible to see the orderly yellow lights of Jewish settlements spilling down the hillside into the West Bank.†   (source)
  • And so while the others partook of the buffet, courtesy of an Officeapproved caterer in Tel Aviv, he spoke of his childhood in the valley—of the Arab raids from the hills of the West Bank, of the Israeli reprisals, of the Six-Day War, which took his father, of the Yom Kippur War, which took his belief that Israel was invulnerable.†   (source)
  • At length Jett traveled two days southward and then crossed the stream to its west bank.†   (source)
  • Ten miles up and down the river, on the west bank, had been covered by some one of Hudnall's outfit.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 41 'To the very last moment, till the full day came upon them with a spring, the fires on the west bank blazed bright and clear; and then Brown saw in a knot of coloured figures motionless between the advanced houses a man in European clothes, in a helmet, all white.†   (source)
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