Abyla to the eminence in Africa on the opposite side of the strait, and both of these eminences formed the renowned Pillars of Hercules.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

The European point is called the Rock of Gibraltar; the African, Abyla, or Apes 'Hill, from the number of apes that have made their home on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 39, August 5, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference

(Gibraltar) and Abyla (Ceuta) -- by rending asunder the one mountain these two rocks are said to have formed, although now they are eighteen miles apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference

It and the peak Abyla, on the opposite (African) coast, were styled by the Greeks, in their poetical language, "the pillars of Hercules;" whilst the strait between is said to have been executed by the same man of muscle, to wile away the tedium of an idle hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

Like Bowen & McNamee (or Bowen, Holmes & Co., their later firm), they led in political, as well as in mercantile enterprise, and these two houses, like Calpe and Abyla, were for years set over against each other as the trade representatives of the Northern and Southern sentiment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Ceuta, which bears the modern English name of Apes 'Hill, was then designated Abyla; and Calpe and Abyla, at least according to an ancient and widely current interpretation, formed the renowned pillars of Hercules (Herculis columnæ), which for centuries were the limits of enterprise to the seafaring peoples of the Mediterranean world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889] Reference

To the Greeks it was one of the Pillars of Hercules, — Abyla.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII] Reference

Abyla, he was astonished by the report of this mighty concourse of.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5] Reference

Gibraltar, southwest corner of Spain in Europe, and Abyla, facing it in Africa across the strait.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends of Charlemagne] Reference

The great rock itself is the ancient Mount Calpe, which with Abyla (Ceuta) constituted the famous Pillars of Hercules.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

It had been falsely reported to him that she had perished in the massacre at Abyla and he had already mourned her fate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

As he approached the fair of Abyla, he was astonished by the report of this mighty concourse of Jews and Christians, Greeks, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

Both sides of the straits, Calpe and Abyla, must be in her hands before Christendom could expand safely along the Atlantic coasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work.] Reference

Mediterranean Sea, Neptune's domain, and there set up two pillars -- namely, Mounts Calpe and Abyla -- on each side of the Straits of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference

Arabians; but in the account which is given of this enterprize, we are informed of a large fair, which was annually held at Abyla, between.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson] Reference

You, the friend of your Prophet -- I ask you what did you, who so tenderly spare the tree by the wayside, do to the innocent folk of Abyla, whom you fell upon like wolves in a sheepfold?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

Hercules, fays the fable, to crown his labours, feparated the two mountains, Calpe and Abyla, the one now in Spain, the other in Africa, in order to open a canal for the benefit of commerce.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lusiad; or, The discovery of India. An epic poem] Reference

They were informed that the produce and manufactures of the country were annually collected in the fair of Abyla, about thirty miles from the city; that the cell of a devout hermit was visited at the same time by.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5] Reference

There stood the opposite fragments of the riven mountain-chain, Calpe and Abyla, gazing at each other, in eternal separation, across the gulf, emblems of those two antagonistic races which the terrible hand of Destiny has so ominously disjoined.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Europe, where he raised the two mountains of Calpe and Abyla, as monuments of his progress, or, according to another account, rent one mountain into two and left half on each side, forming the straits of Gibraltar, the two mountains being called the Pillars of Hercules.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of Fable] Reference

As he approached the fair of Abyla, he was astonished by the report of this mighty concourse of Jews and Christians, Greeks, and Armenians, of natives of Syria and of strangers of Egypt, to the number of ten thousand, besides a guard of five thousand horse that attended the person of the bride.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5] Reference

And now that he was in their midst again he scarcely heard his father express his regrets that so painful a scene should have occurred under his roof, while the Arab said that he could quite understand why the daughter of Thomas should have been betrayed to anger: the massacre of Abyla was quite inexcusable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

The high-spirited girl had not shed so many tears, as in the course of this interview, since the fatal affair at Abyla where she had lost her father and brother; it was with a tear-stained face and aching head that she had made her way back, under the scorching mid-day sun, to Rufinus 'house, where she sought her old nurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

Abyla, in Mauritania, both said to have been severed by Hercules. ').    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference

Abyla, Mount, or Columna, a mountain in Morocco, near Ceuta, now called Jebel Musa or Ape's Hill, forming the Northwestern extremity of the African coast opposite Gibraltar (See Pillars of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends of Charlemagne] Reference

"I know who you are, noble daughter of Thomas, and I have heard that your brother was the bridegroom who had come to Abyla to solemnize his marriage with the daughter of the prefect of Tripolis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

50 28 N. Gibraltar, a town of Spain, in An - dalufia, near a mountain of the fame name, formerly called Calpe, which, with Abyla, on the oppofite fhore of Africa, were called the Pillars of Hercules.    From Wordnik.com.  [The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary [microform] : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country, the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles from remarkable places; and the various events by which they have been distinguished : including an account of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages, in Great Britain and Ireland] Reference

By my good will I'll not stir a foot to go thither as long as I live, any more than Calpe will come over to Abyla (Here Motteux adds the following note: 'Calpe is a mountain in Spain that faces another, called.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference

Abyla and Calpe, 297.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference

Abyla and Calpe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference

Have you ever heard of Abyla?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference