Philistia
Americannoun
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
The world will miss her as a poet, critic, biographer, social lioness, defender of art, warrior against Philistia.
From Time Magazine Archive
This picture was taken in the plains of old Philistia.
From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall
It stirred up enough dust to change, though not to cleanse, the musty atmosphere of Philistia.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto
How do they draw water in old Philistia?
From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall
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