Clicking on the place-name of Tyre deploys Google Earth. From Wordnik.com. [At the apex] Reference
Ashdod, incidentally, is a Philistine place-name, not a pun. From Wordnik.com. [Zion's Vital Signs] Reference
| Page 33: Chateau not standardised as it is part of a place-name |. From Wordnik.com. [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference
My favourite Dutch place-name is Zevenbergen, wich is Transsylvania. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: EUROPEAN CITY NAMES.] Reference
Helga's name that lingers in a place-name lower down that strath near. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
Archives Hub Collections of the Month for August 2005: What's in a place-name?. From Wordnik.com. [August 2005] Reference
What it does have, and so does Sundance Square for that matter, is a place-name. From Wordnik.com. [Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » Southlake Developer: Downtown Dallas Has No Soul] Reference
When a place-name cannot be located with reasonable certainty, no attempt is made to locate it. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Nuns] Reference
But without the place-name, he couldn't be sure that they were the same men as the names on Claire's list. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Each place-name is followed by its location in degrees and minutes of latitude and longitude, respectively. From Wordnik.com. [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference
I think that “African-American” and “Asian” should be capitalized simply because of the place-name. From Wordnik.com. [A Few Notes on The Language of Race and Stereotyping] Reference
The first, full reference to a manuscript should give the place-name, the name of the library, and the shelfmark. From Wordnik.com. [De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Journal of Medieval Military History Style Guide] Reference
The road itself was obstructed by building work, so I could only really get a photo of the place-name on the sign. From Wordnik.com. [Chelsea Buns of London] Reference
In many instances, the existence of a place-name which has now assumed an English form is no proof of English race. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)] Reference
I have reported on politically inspired place-name changing in India; now it's the turn of South Africa and Ireland. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: TSHWANE AND BAILE NA NGALL.] Reference
There is nothing that it enjoys more than to have a Minister struggling with the pronunciation of some outlandish place-name. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31] Reference
The derivation of the last place-name was somewhat doubtful, but the general interpretation seemed to be that its original form was. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
The Greek Textus Receptus gives here no place-name. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
A place-name alongside the Volga was known as Siberia. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Their knowledge of the place-name may be at least as old. From Wordnik.com. [The Romanization of Roman Britain] Reference
In English, of course, we use the word simply as a place-name. From Wordnik.com. [Relación de la conquista del Perú. English] Reference
The place-name Liberton also appears as Libberton in the text. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
Greenidge for Greenwich, Prestage for Prestwich; cf. the place-name. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
Scando-Anglian Car, CAER or CARE, which became a place-name as CAR-EY. From Wordnik.com. [Life of William Carey] Reference
Grant, became Tourville Bay; Montaigne Cape took the place-name of Cape. From Wordnik.com. [The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant] Reference
The name is the oldest surviving European place-name in the U.S. Georgia. From Wordnik.com. [mental_floss Blog] Reference
Sometimes the place-name, illustrated in the last line quoted, is definite. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
Bronx: a place-name of a culturally rich and vital Latin and hip-hop sub-culture. From Wordnik.com. [Usmagazine.com celebrity_news] Reference
(From the pipal tree, or from Piparia, a common place-name derived from the tree.). From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference
Each of these four words exists by itself as a specific place-name and also as a surname. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
You have now respectfully earned the right to be a recipient of the world's longest place-name. From Wordnik.com. [SofiaEcho RSS feed] Reference
Carehim (I Par., xii, 6) is not, as would seem at first sight, a place-name, but a gentile name. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Being, however, a place-name, it is now recognized to be the town Yehudah, belonging to the king. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
"Delphos" never was a place-name; there was no oracle on the isle of "Delphos"; there were no Oracles in 1255-78. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown] Reference
The first known use of the place-name as a word for a blissful state enjoyed by mere mortals is found in Shakespeare's. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
This see was founded by St. Fachtna, and the place-name was variously known as Roscairbre and Rosailithir (Ross of the pilgrims). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
At other times a place-name is used with allusive interest, the suggested incident being meant, like certain stories alluded to in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai] Reference
In this way a place-name conveyed to them a definite idea, for they had seen half-a-dozen somewhat garishly coloured presentments of it. From Wordnik.com. [Here, There and Everywhere] Reference
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