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  • Edinburgh -- there is an old and a new town, and it is only the latter which is called Pesth, the name of the old is Buda, which stands on the side of an enormous mountain overlooking the new town, the Danube running between.

    George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891

  • Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is everywhere where the future is being lighted up, at Boston in 1779, at the Isle de Leon in 1820, at Pesth in 1848, at Palermo in 1860, it whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American abolitionists grouped about the boat at

    Les Miserables 2008

  • As I learned from the researches of my friend Arminius of Buda-Pesth, he was in life a most wonderful man.

    Dracula 2003

  • Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets.

    Dracula 2003

  • The Imperial Histrionic Conservatory of Pesth elected him to membership and gave him the Large Gold Medal.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • The Imperial Histrionic Conservatory of Pesth elected him to membership and gave him the Large Gold Medal.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • The Imperial Histrionic Conservatory of Pesth elected him to membership and gave him the Large Gold Medal.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • There is a story of a gentleman in Pesth who went to a dealer in maps and inquired for a _globus_ of Hungary, showing that he imagined it to be the whole round earth.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various

  • The peasants of the Banat stared as they saw long lines of travellers leaving the steamers which had come from Pesth and

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various

  • Nowhere are types so abundant and various as on the routes of travel between Bucharest and Rustchuk, or Pesth and

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various

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