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journey a kind of vertical
I wish to be able on our return to the upper regions to make a map of our journey, a kind of vertical section of the globe, which will be, as it were, the profile of the expedition."
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Jerusalem and knight of various
Joseph Henry Louis Charles, Baron de Palm, Grand Cross Commander of the Sovereign Order of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, and knight of various orders, was born at Augsburg, May 10, 1809.
— from Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy by Henry Ridgely Evans

Jerusalem a kind of vision
On the hilltops back of Vevey the big hotels are lighted, and sometimes, following the dimmer streets, we looked up to what is apparently a city in the sky, suggesting one's old idea of the New Jerusalem, a kind of vision of heaven, as it were—heaven at night, I mean.
— from The Car That Went Abroad: Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine

join a knot of visitors
But she lingered where the other maiden had left them, making no motion to join a knot of visitors on the far side of the room.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 by Henry James


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