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Patmos

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Patmos
island of exile for St. John. [N.T.: Revelation 1:9]
See : Banishment
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From Smyrna towards the Holy Land the course will lay through the Grecian Archipelago, close by the Isle of Patmos, along the coast of Asia, ancient Pamphylia, and the Isle of Cyprus.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
How captivating is their devotion to their favorite books, whether Aeschylus, Dante, Shakspeare, or Scott, as feeling that they have a stake in that book; who touches that, touches them;--and especially the total solitude of the critic, the Patmos of thought from which he writes, in unconsciousness of any eyes that shall ever read this writing.
Essays, Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
In this retirement--a Patmos amid the howling ocean of popery that surrounds us--a letter from England has reached me at last.
The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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