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Last Day against its monotonous rectangularity and the babel-like ambition of its Public Building, -- that wherever its influence extends, there will be found comfortable lodgings and the luxury of an undeniably excellent cuisine.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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There is this to be said about Philadelphia, -- and it will go far in pleading for it in the Last Day against its monotonous rectangularity and the babel-like ambition of its Public Building, -- that wherever its influence extends, there will be found comfortable lodgings and the luxury of an undeniably excellent cuisine.
On Horseback Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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It's a Mediterranean festival because it's a babel-like courtyard of languages from the region but also from beyond, a point of reference but also a point of arrival and a point of departure.
MaltaMedia.com 2008
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