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Manila   /mənˈɪlə/   Listen
adjective
Manilla, Manila  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to Manila or Manilla, the capital of the Philippine Islands; made in, or exported from, that city.
2.
Manila paper or the color of manila papaer.
Manila cheroot or Manila cigar, a cheroot or cigar made of tobacco grown in the Philippine Islands.





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"Manila" Quotes from Famous Books



... the battle of Manila, In the un-Pacific sea, Stood a gunner with his mad up Just as far as it could be— Stood a gunner brave and ready For the ...
— Cobwebs from a Library Corner • John Kendrick Bangs
... seven-inch steel hawser with a Manila tail, which they had taken to the foretopsail-sheet bitts before the jib-boom had gone. Panting from their exertions, they watched it lift from the water as the steamer ahead paid out with a taut strain; then, though the crippled spars were in ...
— "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea • Morgan Robertson
... Pitt's retirement raised his fame higher than ever. War with Spain proved to be, as he had predicted, inevitable. News came from the West Indies that Martinique had been taken by an expedition which he had sent forth. Havana fell; and it was known that he had planned an attack on Havana. Manila capitulated; and it was believed that he had meditated a blow against Manila. The American fleet, which he had proposed to intercept, had unloaded an immense cargo of bullion in the haven of Cadiz, before Bute could be convinced that the Court of Madrid ...
— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... Sir Robert Bredon, Dr. C. D. Tenney, Dr. Timothy Richard; in Japan, by ex-Premier Okuma, Viscount Kaneko, Baron Shibusawa, Dr. Juichi Soyeda; in Hong Kong, by Governor-General Sir Frederick Lugard; in Manila by Governor-General Forbes, Vice-Governor Gilbert; in India, the members of the Viceroy's Cabinet, Hon. Krishnaswami Iyer, Dr. J. P. Jones, etc, etc. To all of these and to scores of others, my grateful acknowledgments are tendered. They helped me get information, but of course ...
— Where Half The World Is Waking Up • Clarence Poe
... James F. Smith with a Bontoc Igorot Escort Governor-general Forbes in the Wild Man's Country The Philippine Supreme Court An Unsanitary Well A Flowing Artesian Well An Unimproved Street in the Filipino Quarter of Manila An Improved Street in the Filipino Quarter of Manila Disinfecting by the Acre An Old-style Provincial Jail Retreat at Bilibid Prison, Manila Bilibid Prison Hospital Modern Contagious Disease Ward, San Lazaro Hospital Filipina Trained Nurses Staff ...
— The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) • Dean C. Worcester


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