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Jordan   /dʒˈɔrdən/   Listen
Jordan

noun
1.
A river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea; John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan.  Synonym: Jordan River.
2.
An Arab kingdom in southwestern Asia on the Red Sea.  Synonym: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.



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... grass is not to be stolen from a poor man, on pain of Death. So wills the Christian knight of Roman armies; throned now high with God. So wills the first Christian king of far victorious Franks;—here baptized to God in Jordan of his goodly land, as he goes over ...
— Our Fathers Have Told Us - Part I. The Bible of Amiens • John Ruskin
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... for several years. It is one of the most logical and practical plans for universal peace ever proposed. It was prepared when the civilized world was at peace immediately following the peace treaty between Russia and Japan. David Starr Jordan declares that "military efficiency" is the principal cause of the present European war. A serious and honest study of how to preserve peace and how to avoid war cannot help but bring good results. This is the purpose of Senator Norris's lecture. For a further ...
— America First - Patriotic Readings • Various
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... formed the western front. The sculpture in the upper line, and in a portion of the second, most probably refers to some of the legends of Norman story: the remainder seems intended to represent the miraculous passage of Jordan and the capture of Jericho, by the Israelites, under the command of Joshua. The detached moulding on the same plate, is copied from the archivolt of one of these arches: the style of its ornament is altogether peculiar. To ...
— Architectural Antiquities of Normandy • John Sell Cotman
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... and now, at the end of his life, when his course is nearly run, the never-to-be- forgotten voice sounds still in his memory, and he sees again, in sunny clearness, all the scene that had transpired on that day by the fords of the Jordan. The first words and the last words of those whom we have learned to love are ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren
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... a-hidin' in de swamp? Den don' th'ow no oak leaves on dis niggah, for dey don' grow dyar. Gawd A'moughty, lis'en to de river roarin'! I's hidin' by de river—I's hidin' by de river! I's hidin' by de river Jordan!" ...
— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston
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