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  • Known as the House of War, the fortress rose like a mud golem from the desert, surrounded by struggling plots of wind-whipped corn and sparse cucumber.

    Doug Stanton: Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan 2009

  • Known as the House of War, the fortress rose like a mud golem from the desert, surrounded by struggling plots of wind-whipped corn and sparse cucumber.

    Horse Soldiers Tripp 2009

  • The Sudan was a frontier land, the border between Dar al-Islam, the Land of Islam, and Dar al-Harb, the House of War.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • Or it could just be that not too many Jews are running around declaring war on America and perpetuating a political ideology which divides the world into a House of Judaism and House of War.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Ben Gamla School: 2007

  • The Sudan was a frontier land, the border between Dar al-Islam, the Land of Islam, and Dar al-Harb, the House of War.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • The Sudan was a frontier land, the border between Dar al-Islam, the Land of Islam, and Dar al-Harb, the House of War.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • The cavern feeling postulates a surveyable history consisting in a beginning and an end to the world, which is also the beginning and end of mankind, and between these terms, “spellbound to the limits of the Cavern and the ordained period,” there ensues the battle between darkness and light, good and evil, the House of Islam and the House of War.

    Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

  • In this proverb is seen the essential Spenglerian view of the Magian culture—the sensibility of confined space and time, within which unfolds the battle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness, the House of Islam and the House of War.

    Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

  • The cavern feeling postulates a surveyable history consisting in a beginning and an end to the world, which is also the beginning and end of mankind, and between these terms, “spellbound to the limits of the Cavern and the ordained period,” there ensues the battle between darkness and light, good and evil, the House of Islam and the House of War.

    Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

  • In this proverb is seen the essential Spenglerian view of the Magian culture—the sensibility of confined space and time, within which unfolds the battle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness, the House of Islam and the House of War.

    Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

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