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"Romania" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... now nearly recovered from the wound which he had received, we found that our destination was Borneo; but previous to the ship getting under weigh, the boats were ordered to be manned and armed, to proceed on an excursion to Romania Point, distant about thirty miles from Sincapore. It was expected that we might there fall in with some of the piratical vessels which so completely infest the Indian Archipelago; and if so, we trusted to give them a lesson which might for a time put a check ...
— Borneo and the Indian Archipelago - with drawings of costume and scenery • Frank S. Marryat
... dust and swallowing clay—minds never at rest, save when prostrate before some fellow in a surplice; and these Popish emissaries found always some weak enough to bow down before them, astounded by their dreadful denunciations of eternal woe and damnation to any who should refuse to believe their Romania; but they played a poor game—the law protected the servants of Scripture, and the priest with his beads seldom ventured to approach any but the remnant of those of the eikonolatry—representatives of worm-eaten ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow |
Words linked to "Romania" : Danube River, Romanian, Bucuresti, Transylvanian Alps, Bucharesti, Europe, European nation, Brasov, Danube, Constantina, Rumanian, Bucharest, European country, Carpathians, Carpathian Mountains, Danau |
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