Mosque

Examples

• Some years ago the clock in the tower of the mosque got out of order. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The great feature of the Mosque of Omar is the prodigious rock in the centre of its rotunda. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Therefore, if Blucher ever sees the inside of a mosque, he will have to cast aside his humanity and go in his natural character. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The great church of Saint Sophia which Justinian the Great had built (532) was plundered of its treasures and turned at once into a mosque. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But so did the Moslem historians, because of that mosque at Canton, and so did the Christian writers, because of the Nestorian envoys (631). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A little mosque stands upon the spot which tradition says was occupied by the widow's dwelling. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Just outside the mosque is a miniature temple, which marks the spot where David and Goliah used to sit and judge the people. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The Mosque of St. Sophia is the chief lion of Constantinople. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The mighty Mosque of Omar, and the paved court around it, occupy a fourth part of Jerusalem. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I do not think much of the Mosque of St. Sophia. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This Mosque is the holiest place the Mohammedan knows, outside of Mecca. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The inside of the great mosque is very showy with variegated marble walls and with windows and inscriptions of elaborate mosaic. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I need not speak of the wonderful beauty and the exquisite grace and symmetry that have made this Mosque so celebrated--because I did not see them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is one of the oldest mosques in the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The men filled the mosques; the women, veiled, hastened to the tombs, and carried offerings to the dead, thus to preserve the living. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Mosques are plenty, churches are plenty, graveyards are plenty, but morals and whiskey are scarce. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Ye know, also, that when mosques are builded, asses bear the stones and the cement, and cross the sacred threshold. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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