The great elevated plateau of Thibet is 15,000 feet above sea level. From Wordnik.com. [The Assault on Everest] Reference
Gen. Bruce celebrated his 58th birthday in Thibet with a very fine bottle of rum 150 years old. From Wordnik.com. [The Assault on Everest] Reference
The cold winds in Thibet during the better part of the year make that clothing seem hardly adequate. From Wordnik.com. [The Assault on Everest] Reference
Thibet is a land of monasteries. From Wordnik.com. [The Assault on Everest] Reference
Cabul and Little Thibet (B.C. 500) were abundant in gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Story of the young King of Thibet, in the Thousand and One. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Himalayas at 11,000 feet elevation, East Thibet, and Japan. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference
In Thibet he is supposed to be incarnate in the Grand Lama. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference
Pyrenees, and the bear of the stupendous mountains of Thibet. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 552, June 16, 1832] Reference
Thibet, Avalokitesvara had only male attributes, but in China and. From Wordnik.com. [A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline] Reference
Himalayas and Thibet, and this is Mr. Paul Armstrong, the author of. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
The eastern Tartars think that there is nothing west beyond Thibet. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
In a similar way economic issues are determining the attitude of Thibet. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917] Reference
Eastern Thibet and Western China, both of them grown from the same seed. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Thibet, Tartary, &c. are said to be a pure fabrication, concocted by some. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
The Yarou-Dzangbo-Tchou will wait for you still in the mountains of Thibet. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of the Castaways] Reference
Thibet, the Buddhist land, now robbed of its mystery by the British expedition of 1904. From Wordnik.com. [New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments] Reference
The dairo of the Japanese, or the grand lama of Thibet, might make just the same remark. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
In Thibet the rule is reversed, and the females are provided with two or more husbands. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
He had traveled up the Yangtze River, had crossed Tse-Chouan, had reached the borders of Thibet. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Madame Blavatsky claimed to be receiving letters carried straight from Thibet by some air-borne Ariel. From Wordnik.com. [New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments] Reference
In China and Japan large quantities are grown, as well as in Persia, Thibet, and other portions of Asia. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
I stood on the heights of Thibet; and the sun I had lately beheld in the east was now sinking in the west. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2] Reference
Madame Blavatsky took advantage of our curiosity regarding such with air-borne letters from Mahatmas in Thibet. From Wordnik.com. [New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments] Reference
Buddhist subjects in Thibet and Mongolia, and not to offend the many whose superstitious fancies incline to Taoism. From Wordnik.com. [A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms] Reference
Originally, and still in Thibet, Avalokitesvara had only male attributes, but in China and Japan (Kwannon), this deity. From Wordnik.com. [A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms] Reference
Colonel had been invited on condition that he relate a few more of his strange experiences in China, Thibet and Northern India. From Wordnik.com. [The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck] Reference
The 1904 expedition into Thibet was unanimously approved by the Anglo-Indian, and as unanimously disapproved by the native press. From Wordnik.com. [New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments] Reference
It is most extensively cultivated in the Himalaya and Thibet, replacing in many districts the wheat, and producing an admirable flour. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
For a long time Thibet enjoyed the same advantages under the Grand Lama; but that is a gross error striving to imitate a sublime truth. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Aunt Euphemia ignored the fact that nowadays the railroad and telegraph are in Thibet and that turbines ply the headwaters of the Amazon. From Wordnik.com. [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference
All these grow in the cold parts of the world, as on the Altai mountains, in Siberia, Thibet, North of China, and on the Himalayan range. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
The Tartars of great and little Thibet are people with stiff necks and little information, who require a heavy yoke and gross inventions. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
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