GHARIAL or gavial, substantive – herpetology. Genus of saurians, close to crocodiles, characterised by long, straight and narrow jaws which get a bit wider at the end. The common …Read more »

GENNESERET (Sea of), also called Lake Kinneret, Sea of Galilee or Lake Tiberius; Lake in northern Palestine, 85 km (53 miles) North of the Dead …Read more »

JASMINE substantive (Ar. iasmin). Botany – genus in the family Jasmineae which includes some forty species of climbing shrubs that produce fragrant flowers: Spanish jasmine.
— Flowers of this plant: double jasmine …Read more »

Aramis bit his lips. “Nothing! nothing! Your pardon, I meant to say…”
“What?”
“That if we were inclined – if we took a fancy to make an excursion by
sea, we could not.”
“Very good! and why should that vex you? A fine pleasure, ma foi! For my part, I don’t regret it at all. What I regret is certainly not the more or less amusement we can find at Belle-Isle; what I regret, Aramis, is Pierrefonds; is Bracieux; is le Valon; is my beautiful France! Here weare not in France, my dear friend; we are – I know not where. Oh! I tell you …Read more »

HEBR0N (originally Kirjath-Arba, Arabic El Khulil) city of Palestine, 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) South of Jerusalem; approximately 5 000 inhabitants. It is located partly on the slopes of two hills and partly in the valley of Mamre. At the Southern end of …Read more »