Words I'm surprised Word do know: caravanserais, steles ❋ Matociquala (2009)
The third part, beyond the southern gateway to the Jilaukhana, was to be the Taj Ganj—a mammoth square complex that housed bazaars and four caravanserais, the incomes from which would fund the care and upkeep of the tomb and the forecourt. ❋ Indu Sundaresan (2010)
The bazaar streets will be here, along with the four caravanserais. ❋ Indu Sundaresan (2010)
They sailed up the river with a fair wind for ten days till they drew in sight of Baghdad, at which they all rejoiced, and the ship landed them in the city, where without stay or delay Hasan hired a storehouse in one of the caravanserais and transported his goods thither. ❋ Unknown (2006)
When morning dawned he mounted and rode onward till he reached the Holy City, 377 Jerusalem, and thence he made Aleppo, where he dismounted at one of the caravanserais and abode three days to rest himself and the mule and to smell the air. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Whisky is exiled from some of our caravanserais, and they have banished Sir John Barleycorn. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The caravanserais are big, plain, square buildings that look like forts, with an elaborate arched entrance full of carvings and inscriptions. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2006)
In the caravanserais of Bokhara and Samarkand he is known, and there are shikaris in the Pamirs who still speak of him round their fires. ❋ Unknown (2005)
In a footnote to the list of borrowings he says "The distance between two caravanserais—a day's travel, in other words—is known by the Turkish loanword menzil"; for one thing, the preferred spelling is manzil, for another it means not 'the distance between two caravanserais' but 'a halting-place; the distance between two halting-places, a stage,' and for a third it's not from Turkish but Arabic—all this according to the OED itself! ❋ Unknown (2004)
Wyville Thomson, which offers a refuge from the nasal twang of my fellow-voyagers, who have all gone to the caravanserais on the ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
The same custom prevails in Upper Egypt, but on a larger scale; and there are small caravanserais often found near the wells, which supply travellers with water. ❋ Unknown (2004)
“As I cannot endure to be kept waiting among all the false splendour of these great caravanserais, and the Hungarian band would make me ill, you must tell the ‘lighft-boy’ to make them shut up, and to let you know at once.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
The peripheral area became a huge campground where human and Firvulag entrepreneurs presided over tented caravanserais and dining establishments catering to the tourists. ❋ May, Julian, 1931- (1981)
When morning dawned he mounted and rode onward till he reached the Holy City, Jerusalem, and thence he made Aleppo, where he dismounted at one of the caravanserais and abode three days to rest himself and the mule and to smell the air. ❋ Naipaul, V.S. (1981)
Other creatures used the same route, some harmless like the leafabians, making their endless leafy caravanserais from the depths of the jungle to its heights, some far from harmless, green in tooth and claw. ❋ Aldiss, Brian (1962)
