caravansery

And thus, in the midst of emblems of mortality, and the recollections of old solemnity, were set some hundreds of people, who knew as little of each other as if they had met in a caravansery, and who, perhaps, expected to part as soon.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various

The pilgrim arrives at the caravansery: not the long, low stone house, unfurnished and bare, which former experience had led him to expect; but a splendid palace.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

The ladies is to took their caravansery attending among a few days.

Humour of the North 1909

Turned the 'ouse into a regular caravansery, always having her relations and girls from business in, and their chaps.

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 1906

Between the far-off and the later phases at New Brighton stretched a series of summers that had seen us all regularly installed for a couple of months at an establishment passing in the view of that simpler age for a vast caravansery -- the Hamilton House, on the south Long Island shore, so called from its nearness to the Fort of that name, which had Fort

A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879

To his poetic yet practical mind it was the universal temple of industry and art, the valhalla of the heroes of commerce, the fane of the gods of science -- the caravansery of the world.

Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood Grace Greenwood 1863

Men, horses, camels, drays, and goods, were scattered here and there amongst the tents, in the sheds, and on the greensward, in picturesque confusion; -- everything premised a departure -- the caravansery was to be deserted.

Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia William John Wills 1847

There, as in a caravansery, the traveller took his rest, stately and desolate.

What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

There, as in a caravansery, the traveller took his rest, stately and desolate.

What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Sore and bruised, he mounted Murva, and rode to a caravansery.

The Oriental Story Book A Collection of Tales Wilhelm Hauff 1814