Lexicographical Neighbors of Hadjees
Literary usage of Hadjees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Missionary Journals and Letters: Written During Eleven Years' Residence and by Jacob Tomlin (1844)
"Good reception on board Javanese praus, filled with hadjees, bound for
Mecca.—Refreshing labours amongst a crowd of poor sick people. ..."
2. Anastasius: Or, Memoirs of a Greek; Written at the Close of the Eighteenth by Thomas Hope (1819)
"From Cyprus he embarked for Jaffa, from Jaffa crossed over to Suez, and at Suez
took shipping with a flotilla of hadjees bound for Djedda. ..."
3. The Chinese Repository by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, S. W. Williams (1834)
"'That would render the attempts of the hadjees entirely futile. While they remain
in their ignorance, they will most surely continue to be the followers of ..."
4. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"See the route of the hadjees, in Shaw's Travels, p. 477. ' The aromatics, especially
the thus, or frankincense, of Arabia, ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1901)
"See the route of the hadjees, in Shaw's Travels, p. 477. [Cp. Burton's work,
cited below, n. 21. ..."
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