At the caravanserai is a traveller who says he hails from the Pishin. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
An inn of the Oriental pattern, often called caravanserai in books of travel. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official] Reference
The gardens to the north-east contain a caravanserai, which is fairly well kept and comfortable. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The caravanserai is a big, commodious affair, a quadrangular structure of brick surrounding fully an acre of ground, and with a small open space outside. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
A caravanserai is a picture of the world; men come in and go out of it, and no account is taken of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
"A caravanserai is a large and substantial square building. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
(Jer 42: 1-22). habitation to Chimham -- his "caravanserai" close by Beth-lehem. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Here we were to stay the night at a kind of caravanserai, set apart for emigrants. From Wordnik.com. [Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays] Reference
I am inspired this week to praise the "caravanserai" because it is where we all met in the age before steamships and aircraft. From Wordnik.com. [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Odysseys "is plural because each refugee's journey was an odyssey;" caravanserai "because that's where you stop and rest. From Wordnik.com. [Echoes of Homer] Reference
Giafer and followed the men into the caravanserai. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Caliph] Reference
The Sultan entered a caravanserai, where he found several merchants. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Deeply pondering over my future destinies, at length I reached my caravanserai. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
I have known them make great discoveries during my service in this caravanserai. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
They came, like the rest, to the caravanserai, but found it already filled with travelers. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls] Reference
Eustis's house and his plantation serve as general caravanserai to our whole establishment. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
But, in fact, they met no one on their short journey from the caravanserai to the waterside. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Caliph] Reference
On a summer night in the year named eight men were assembled on the veranda of the caravanserai. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Destiny] Reference
Concerning the three prisoners taken by the Turcomans, and of the booty made in the caravanserai. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
Jussuf followed him in deep thought, and, soon arriving at the town, they entered the caravanserai. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Upon this we parted, and I returned to my room in the caravanserai to ruminate over what had happened. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
I was awakened by my fellow-travellers, and accompanied them to the caravanserai of the Turning Dervishes. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
I, in conjunction with old Osman, hired a room in the caravanserai, in which we deposited our merchandise. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
At last he came to the little town in whose neighbourhood the ruins were situated, and stopped at a caravanserai. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
I have opened and shut the gates of this caravanserai for fifty years, and find that all pleasure is departed from me. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
The open sky is all very well, but it might come on to rain, and then the roofless caravanserai would not be very comfortable. From Wordnik.com. [A Mating in the Wilds] Reference
There is a gentler brotherhood to be found among men who have put up in that great caravanserai than can be looked for elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
So, unmolested and unnoticed, they reached the caravanserai in which the two men had lodged for several days before the festival. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
He walked leisurely on to his room in the caravanserai, and told her that she might follow him whenever it suited her convenience. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
We are three days from the caravanserai, riding side by side along a road now lined with twisting pines, and Haiming is only two days away. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
In such places the hacienda offers its hospitality to all travellers, and there was room in our caravanserai for yet more visitors if they had come. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
Whilst we were conversing, a caravan appeared on the road from Ispahan, and making straight for the caravanserai, took up its abode there for the night. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
Alighting at a small caravanserai in the town, I saw my mule well provided, and then, with my present to the mûshtehed under my arm, I proceeded to his house. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
Being aware that the gate of the caravanserai would be locked, I made the party halt there, and, taking up a stone, knocked, and called out to the doorkeeper by name. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
My fathers shop was before me; the happy days I had passed in that very caravanserai were in my recollection, and I was in the act of deliberating within myself what. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
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