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Palestine

noun

A former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948.

An ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Synonyms: Canaan, Holy Land, Promised Land.

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"Palestine" Quotes from Famous Books

... between me and the king of Jerusalem, slaughtering my merchants, and stealing my goods. I will suffer this shame no more, and very shortly I unfurl my standards, which shall not be folded up again until they float upon the mosque of Omar and from every tower top in Palestine. Your people are doomed. I, Yusuf Salah-ed-din," and he rose as he said the words, his very beard bristling with wrath, "declare the Holy War, and will sweep them to the sea. Choose now, you brethren. Do you fight for me or against me? Or will you give ...

— The Brethren • H. Rider Haggard

... patience enough to render it in modest harmony. As for places of traditional interest, I do not know an entirely faithful drawing of any historical site, except one or two studies made by enthusiastic young painters in Palestine and Egypt: for which, thanks to them always: but we want ...

— Lectures on Art - Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 • John Ruskin

... A small maritime town of Palestine—the ancient port of Jerusalem. There is also a small village called Jaffa in Galilee, some two miles southwest of Nazareth, which may have been the place the poet ...

— Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems • Matthew Arnold

... of Palestine," replied one boy promptly. After straightening out the history the ...

— The New Education - A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) • Scott Nearing

... the Hebrew laws recognized slavery. It would be a perfect contradiction if the law authorized the purchase and holding of slaves, and yet forbid the enforcing the right of possession. There could be no such thing as slavery, in such a land as Palestine, if the slave could recover his liberty by simply moving from one tribe to another over an imaginary line, or even from the house of his master to that of his next neighbor. Besides, how inconsistent is it in the abolitionists in one breath to maintain that the ...

— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various

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