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Syrian

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Syrian
1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Syria, its people, or their dialect of Arabic
2. Eastern Church of or relating to Christians who belong to churches with Syriac liturgies
3. a native or inhabitant of Syria
4. Eastern Church a Syrian Christian


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He was a pleasant, earnest speaker, and he interwove his discourse with stories of life in a foreign land,--of the manners, the customs, the speech, the point of view; even giving glimpses of the daily round, the common task, of his own household, the work of his devoted helpmate and their little group of children, all born under Syrian skies.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
With these came they, who from the bordring flood Of old EUPHRATES to the Brook that parts EGYPT from SYRIAN ground, had general Names Of BAALIM and ASHTAROTH, those male, These Feminine.
Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context
And let no man doubt this Arkite story; for in the ancient Joppa, now Jaffa, on the Syrian coast, in one of the Pagan temples, there stood for many ages the vast skeleton of a whale, which the city's legends and all the inhabitants asserted to be the identical bones of the monster that Perseus slew.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
 
 
 
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