Smyrna

Examples

• So Smyrna really still possesses her crown of life, in a business point of view. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In Smyrna we picked up camel's hair shawls and other dressy things from Persia; but in Palestine--ah, in Palestine--our splendid career ended. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Though, after all, he added, it didn't matter; for when you'd seen Athens and Smyrna and Constantinople, what else was there? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Those prophecies are distinctly leveled at the churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, etc. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Smyrna is a very old city. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• However, had not we the seductive program still, with its Paris, its Constantinople, Smyrna, Jerusalem, Jericho, and our friends the Bermudians? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Smyrna hath not been faithful unto death, and behold her crown of life is vanished from her head. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Then we held our course southward, and began to read up celebrated Smyrna. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• At Smyrna, more telegraphing was done, to the same end. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Smyrna has been utterly destroyed six times. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The saddles were the high, stuffy, frog-shaped things we had known in Ephesus and Smyrna. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• No crown of life is promised to the town of Smyrna and its commerce, but to the handful of Christians who formed its church. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• If there ever was a restaurant there, it must have been in Smyrna's palmy days, when the hills were covered with palaces. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Coming through the Dardanelles, we saw camel trains on shore with the glasses, but we were never close to one till we got to Smyrna. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It was a thing unprecedented in Smyrna at that time of the year, and scared some of the most skeptical. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Riding through the town, we could see marks of the six Smyrnas that have existed here and been burned up by fire or knocked down by earthquakes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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