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Example sentences for "caravansary"

Lexicographically close words:
carat; carats; caravan; caravans; caravansaries; caravanserai; caravanserais; caravel; caravels; caraway
  1. When we were here four years ago, we lived in tents near the Caravansary for about three months.

  2. Emerson is a citizen of the universe who has taken up his residence for a few days and nights in this travelling caravansary between the two inns that hang out the signs of Venus and Mars.

  3. Are allowed to build a church (and to have four priests to officiate in it) within their caravansary at Pekin, 208.

  4. In consequence of this arrangement, successive caravans went from Russia to Pekin, where a caravansary was allotted for their reception; and all their expences during their continuance in that metropolis defrayed by the Emperor of China.

  5. They alighted at the first caravansary they found; and inquiring of the host what news at court, It is, said he, in very great confusion.

  6. When they returned to the caravansary they found the sheik with several of the native shop-keepers engaged with him in conversation.

  7. Upon showing the pass to the officials at the ferry leading across to the city a soldier had been told off to accompany them, and he conducted them to an empty caravansary in the city.

  8. Yet few guests remained, and the larger caravansary was scheduled to close in another day or two, the residue population to be transferred to "The Breakers.

  9. At the Caravansary they had scented tragedy, and Kate faced them with the paragraph.

  10. Kate shrank from those fruitless arguments at the Caravansary with the excellent men who gravely and kindly rejected suffrage for women upon the ground that they were protecting them by doing so.

  11. Mrs. Barsaloux had introduced to the Caravansary a Mrs. Leger whom she had once met on the steamer on her way to Brindisi, and she had invited her to join her during a stay in Chicago.

  12. At the Caravansary there had been sharp disapproval of the whole thing.

  13. The night before its occurrence, the conversation at the Caravansary turned to the candidates for the honors.

  14. For the moment, Mowbray felt so disturbed that he was minded to retire to the caravansary to consider his next step, when Sainton, who understood the latter part of the conversation well enough, strode forward.

  15. So now, as on every other night when they chanced to be belated, Mowbray and Sainton kept a sharp eye on their train, and stood at the gate of the caravansary until each mule and bullock had filed within its portals.

  16. In the caravansary they were surrounded by strangers who might be in anyone's pay.

  17. Besides, it would be dangerous to do this, for the wind was rising, and their hope was to reach a caravansary before nightfall.

  18. Stillson, I hold the Spotswood Hotel, and from this caravansary of the late capital as thoroughly identified with Rebellion as the inn at Bethlehem with the gospel, we date our joint paragraphs upon the condition of the city.

  19. Two hotels have been built during the war, both of the caravansary class, but the city, for four years, has been miserably incompetent to entertain its guests, or to command their respect.

  20. An ordinary caravansary in Afghanistan is a loopholed enclosure with one gate, and is very like the forts or villages I have described.

  21. In the morning we found the guard of Afghan cavalry waiting for us in the travellers' caravansary near the fort.

  22. The town of Guzel-Hissar, the caravansary of which is given in the illustration, is supposed to be the ancient Tralles, stigmatized by Juvenal for sending its effeminate inhabitants to corrupt the Romans.

  23. Gud entered the caravansary of the place and bargained with the keeper thereof to make a supper with meat and wine--after which there should be dancing.

  24. The reins were jerked, the scraggy night-horse broke into a spasmodic trot turned out of the station, and pulled up in front of the caravansary which an eminent butcher has done so much to immortalise.

  25. From an artistic standpoint he strongly objected to the huge caravansary on which builder Hobbs and pious Jabez Balfour spent so much of other people's money.

  26. I fared tolerably well at Goshe, where I had the caravansary all to myself and could arrange myself comfortably and cosily, while outside a cruel, bitter cold prevailed.

  27. I was surprised, even more agreeably, by the neat little caravansary which we entered.

  28. Along the road leading to the caravansary I observed a great many black flags hoisted upon tall poles.

  29. We made arrangements with the same leader of the caravan who brought us to this place concerning the continuation of our journey, and almost the entire company met at the appointed time at a caravansary outside the town.

  30. As it was usual to close the gates of Teheran after sunset, our little caravan had fixed upon a caravansary outside the town for our place of meeting.

  31. We were in Kum at last; our caravan put up at the caravansary in the centre of the bazaar, and I learned with pleasure that we were to take a two days' rest here.

  32. It was here, in the Caravansary Emir, that I met with a rather curious adventure, which I must relate.

  33. I hastened back to the caravansary and persuaded my travelling companion to leave at once.

  34. I made use of this interval to pay a return visit to the caravansary where my future fellow-travellers were staying.

  35. We had passed scarcely an hour at the caravansary when a number of others made their appearance, bringing with them gifts of food for ourselves and our animals.

  36. First of all I entered a caravansary in order to wash myself, and to put in some kind of decent order my tattered toilet.

  37. As soon as we arrived at the caravansary every one of us hastened to seek a shelter in the shade, and we were all of us soon comfortably settled.

  38. But I didn't linger there to meditate over this abstraction, for I noticed that Latreille, sauntering along the opposite side of the street, had signaled to two other men leisurely approaching my caravansary from the near-by corner.

  39. As we rode toward the caravansary they shouted, "Faster, faster!

  40. Arriving at Basra, he dismounted at the first caravansary he found on entering the city, the landlord of which seemed a good old man.

  41. Quit your caravansary and come and live with me.

  42. My friend," said I, "I was on my way to your caravansary to inform you of what has happened to me, and to set your mind at ease.

  43. I am a merchant of Bagdad," replied the caliph, "and I have taken a lodging at the first caravansary I found on my arrival.

  44. Sixty Arab soldiers came yesterday from The Mountains to protect the people whilst they are building the caravansary of Emjessem.

  45. The caravansary did not appear to the cheprasse very safe, and he had requested a guard in the evening from the serdar (magistrate).

  46. As I was about to leave the caravansary this morning, three armed men placed themselves before my waggon, and in spite of the exclamations of my people, prevented our starting.

  47. There are several coffee-stalls and a second-rate caravansary in the bazaar.

  48. The fat former occupant of the room above the arch of the caravansary waddled to the far end of the cloister, and sat down, cross-legged, to grumble to himself and scratch his paunch at intervals.

  49. Be always either in the caravansary or else at call.

  50. Like his master, Ali Partab was a man of action, to whom the purlieus of a caravansary were well enough on rare occasions.

  51. At the caravansary his squire came running out to hold his stirrup.

  52. Here was the same thing magnified, a monstrous caravansary with but one question over its doors: "Have You Got the Price?

  53. Yellow and dusty as they were, for me day by day they revivified that still odorous old warehouse until I saw it as it had been, a huge dim caravansary for the curious products of all the earth.

  54. Clive, with several of his officers, was in a caravansary close to the Small Pagoda.

  55. The firing round the pagoda and caravansary were continuous.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caravansary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.