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Hellespont, and through the narrow strait of Abydos, and so on into the Propontis, which we call Marmora now.
Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children Charles Kingsley 1847
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Hellespont, and so on into the Propontis, which we call Marmora now. "
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Two days later the Embassy yacht, the "Leyla," having on board Sir Carey and Lady Ingleton, Mrs. Clarke, Cyril Vane, Dion, and Turkish Jane, the doyenne of the Pekinese, sailed for Mudania on the sea of Marmora, which is the Port of Brusa.
In the Wilderness Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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Out in the Marmora, which is but little wider here than the Hudson at
Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Arthur Ruhl 1905
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And that night we were in sight of Marmora which is neere Natolia, and part of Asia.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Shall we call them "Lapides (or" Marmora ") Portici"; and put a little preface to them about the pavement of St. Mark's porch and its symbolism of what the education of a good man's early days must be to him?
Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston John Ruskin 1859
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Talmud "Marmora" = marble. evidently from = brilliant, the brilliant stone.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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And that night we were in sight of Marmora which is neere Natolia, and part of Asia.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584
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PETER KENYON: The Turkish Straits linking the Black Sea to the Marmora, Aegean and Mediterranean Seas are a world-class chokepoint for oil shipping.
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“Marmora” = marble. evidently from {Greek letters} = brilliant, the brilliant stone.
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