Philistia
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Louis was then working as a salesman for his father's jewelry firm, but like Jean, he dreamed of escaping from Philistia to Bohemia.
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The world will miss her as a poet, critic, biographer, social lioness, defender of art, warrior against Philistia.
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So I argued that somewhere in the ugliness of darkest Philistia a gem must be hidden; and I've searched for years—up and down throughout the haunts of men from Gath to Ascalon.
From The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
And yet, even in Philistia, it is not every one that will yearn after successes like these.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
In Philistia, far from the promised land, the exile may yet contemplate without desire all these desirable things, envying neither them nor their possessors.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
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