The Levantine coast.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Ali Baba and the Envious Sisters, suggesting that the Frenchman had heard these paramythia in Levantine coffee-houses and had inserted them into his unequalled corpus fabularum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

When Lord Levant quitted the country and this neighborhood, in which the tradesmen still deplore him, No. 56, known as Levantine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Street] Reference

(the 'Levantine' and the 'Petrel') have been accepted instead of wooden vessels, on Mr. Cunard's Halifax and Bermuda line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post] Reference

The food of the Levantine sailors, according to the Hon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 265, July 21, 1827] Reference

Portugal, the Spanish provinces, and the Levantine traders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

They were not so badly off, according to Levantine notions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.] Reference

The Levantine trader suffered most severely in this respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference

RAZ: It's not usually so active along these Levantine hills.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2005] Reference

We hear Algerian accents, Egyptian accents, Levantine accents.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2001] Reference

This is the way my hostess smokes -- an elegant Levantine lady.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference

French dealings with Levantine figures of dubious repute are nothing new.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treating A Terrorist] Reference

If you have been in the Western Highlands of Scotland, and along the Levantine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morocco] Reference

Joblessness in the Levantine economies is estimated at 20 percent to 30 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [SADDAM THE BUILDER] Reference

The most probable answer is what the Levantine culture knows as a "security message.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hussain Abdul-Hussain: Lebanese-Israeli Clashes: What Really Happened] Reference

There is this difference between Levantine coffee and that made in our Western World.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.] Reference

We will acknowledge the Empress of India as our suzerain, and secure for her the Levantine coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference

Very soon after my arrival I went to the house of the Levantine to whom my credentials were addressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eothen] Reference

All faces — Greek, Levantine, Turkish, English — would have looked much the same in that darkness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacob's Room] Reference

"If you are so terribly alarmed at the sight of a common Levantine coaster, you had better go below again.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference

It's pan-Levantine-Egyptian-Sumerian-Mediterranean because the same ingredients grow on all sides of that sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient Egyptian and Biblical-style fruitcake recipe with flaxseed meal, pine nuts, pomegranate] Reference

He had never dreamed that the hero of Sinai would be hidden in the body of a roly-poly Levantine carpet salesman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alamut Ambush]

Among them are the Levantine equivalent of Reagan Democrats: working-class Israelis who suffered from the reforms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prospect Of An Odd Couple] Reference

Egyptian and Levantine merchants who tried to interest Metcalfe in shady business went away with a flea in the ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Stories]

Many of them come from the same towns and cities, like Jerusalem, and share a certain back-slapping Levantine levity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horseplay And High Stakes] Reference

He seemed to be a member of the family, although of very different ethnic inheritance, being Levantine in appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [O Jerusalem]

Levantine ships, in which were cooped up, under the most exacting conditions imaginable, more than two hundred sailors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference

Besides, wherever they might go, they would be marked, she a Levantine who called herself a Roman, he some­thing else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two in Time]

It is delineated in Turkey by the high mountains of southern Anatolia and in Syria and Lebanon by the Levantine mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests] Reference

The party consisted of our consul and his two nieces, very excellent specimens of Levantine-born people of English stock; an.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.] Reference

Levantine visitors to Egypt, and led them to believe that reference was being made to their own yellow-berried drug, the mandrake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

He had not meant to do anything of the sort, but the mere windy buffet of his big hand toppled the little Levantine on to the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference

Levantine hoe, where an ox would fail to turn round, yet where food-plants could be coaxed to grow, and an olive-tree would luxuriate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Civilization] Reference

When negotiations sink to Levantine variations of "so's your mother," adversaries look around to see who is available to separate them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Have We Got A Deal For You] Reference

Levantine silk with two breadths only in the skirt, a crossed silk handkerchief with a small white one folded neatly across her breast.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference

If they compromise their dignity, they succeed in whiling away their leisure time far more successfully than the pride-stuffed Levantine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.] Reference