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Lapped by the trade routes of three seas...the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Sahara...here washes the goods, the economics and influences from three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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Lapped by the trade routes of three seas...the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Sahara...here washes the goods, the economics and influences from three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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Lapped by the trade routes of three seas...the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Sahara...here washes the goods, the economics and influences from three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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Lapped by the trade routes of three seas...the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Sahara...here washes the goods, the economics and influences from three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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Lapped twice when he had alternator trouble and had to change a battery in the 89th lap of what would become only a 109-lap race (it was supposed to go 200), Earnhardt was not going to go lightly into the impending night.
USATODAY.com - Earnhardt Jr.'s move with Waltrip was a senior moment 2003
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"Lapped in luxury, as you evidently believe me, I still assure you I should gladly exchange my present condition for a good wholesome kitchen fire."
April's Lady A Novel Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
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Lapped up the chapter-house, licked off the spire,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various
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Lapped about with the armor-plate of civilization, the modern citizen muses relishingly, like a child beguiling himself with ogre tales, upon the terrors which lie just beyond his ken.
The Poison Bugaboo 1910
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Lapped in the heat and silence for the moment she wanted nothing.
The Garden of Allah Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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Lapped in an ecstasy of content, hope scarcely stirred a wing.
Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Maud Diver 1906
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