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By the riuer Euphrates two dayes iourney from Babylon at a place called Ait, in a fielde neere vnto it, is a strange thing to see: a mouth that doth continually throwe fourth against the ayre boyling pitch with a filthy smoke: which pitch doth runne abroad into a great fielde which is alwayes full thereof.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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On a certain day Declan came to a place called Ait-Breasail and the dwellers therein would not allow him to enter their village; moreover they hid all their boats so that he could not go into his own island, for they hated him very much.
Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore Anonymous
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Proceeding two hours further, making together nine hours 'journey, the army pitched their tents, and we encamped on another table-land, on the northern declivity of Atlas, at the entrance of an immense plantation of olives, about a mile west of a village, called Ait
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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On a certain day Declan came to a place called Ait-Breasail and the dwellers therein would not allow him to enter their village; moreover they hid all their boats so that he could not go into his own island, for they hated him very much.
Lives of SS Declan and Mochuda Anonymous 1914
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On a certain day Declan came to a place called Ait-Breasail and the dwellers therein would not allow him to enter their village; moreover they hid all their boats so that he could not go into his own island, for they hated him very much.
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Egypt, among other names, was called Ait, and Ai Ait, by the Greeks expressed Αετια:
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) Jacob Bryant 1759
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By the riuer Euphrates two dayes iourney from Babylon at a place called Ait, in a fielde neere vnto it, is a strange thing to see: a mouth that doth continually throwe fourth against the ayre boyling pitch with a filthy smoke: which pitch doth runne abroad into a great fielde which is alwayes full thereof.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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We got to the first city called Ait Bonhadou at around 11am.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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Europe, having no consul at Marocco, nor merchants in the country, are known only by name: accordingly, in allusion to the warlike spirit of the English, he would call the Ait Amor, "the English of
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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One man, Ait Idr, had his face forced into a toilet that was repeatedly flushed.
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