"Grad" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... (oblasti, singular-oblast); Burgas, Grad Sofiya, Khaskovo, Lovech, Montana, Plovdiv, Ruse, ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... Emerging from his prep; "I know you are a Princeton grad, But the coaches have no pep. But though the Princeton profs provide Fine courses to inhale; I cannot be identified With Princeton or ...
— Something Else Again • Franklin P. Adams
... 28 provinces (oblasti, singular - oblast); Blagoevgrad, Burgas, Dobrich, Gabrovo, Khaskovo, Kurdzhali, Kyustendil, Lovech, Montana, Pazardzhik, Pernik, Pleven, Plovdiv, Razgrad, Ruse, Shumen, Silistra, Sliven, Smolyan, Sofiya, Sofiya-Grad, Stara Zagora, Turgovishte, Varna, Veliko Turnovo, Vidin, ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... terrae, as Agricola; or the nearness of the next continent, as Cabeus will; or some other cause, as Scaliger, Cortesius, Conimbricenses, Peregrinus contend; why at the Azores it looks directly north, otherwise not? In the Mediterranean or Levant (as some observe) it varies 7. grad. by and by 12. and then 22. In the Baltic Seas, near Rasceburg in Finland, the needle runs round, if any ships come that way, though [2999]Martin Ridley write otherwise, that the needle near the Pole will hardly be forced from his direction. 'Tis fit to be inquired whether certain rules may be ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... Madyan) Medjan sive Midjan, Antiqui nominis oppidum in Maris Rubri littore, sub 29 degrees grad. latitudine; ad ortum brumalem deflectens a montis Sina extremitate: ubi fere site Ptolemai Modiana, haud dubie eadem cum Midjan. A Geographorum Orientalium quibusdam ad Agyptum refertur; a plerisq; omnibus ad Higiazam: quod merito et recte factum. Nullus enim est, ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton |
