(1) It was a happy discovery for both men, and later a proper biography, A Voyage Round John Mortimer (2007), by Valerie Grove did her subject justice, capturing some of the pleasures of the Mortimer caravanserai: the long Sunday lunches at Turville in winter, the bluebell picnics in Chiltern woods every spring; the summer idylls in that part of Italy he dubbed Chiantishire.
(2) The town used to house one of Syria's finest museums, a collection of Byzantine mosaics in an Ottoman caravanserai.
(3) Could the Eurovision caravanserai's next stop be Baku?
(4) They are everywhere, especially in the old city, where one finds the old forts, caravanserai, mosques and palaces of the Nawabs standing witness to a time that is fast giving way to modernity.
Roadside
Definition:
(n.) Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) HIV-1 infection was 1.5 times more common in women than in men; 2.5% of the adult population in rural villages, 7.3% in roadside settlements and 11.8% in town were infected.
(2) In January last year, Rupert Hamer, defence correspondent of the Sunday Mirror, became the first British journalist to be killed in Afghanistan when the armoured vehicle in which he was travelling was hit by a roadside bomb.
(3) At kilometre 254 is a giant roadside advertisement for a bank.
(4) The exhibition will include the earliest roadside pillar box erected on the mainland – in 1853, a year after the first went up in Jersey in the Channel Isles – and unique and priceless sheets of Penny Black stamps.
(5) Meanwhile, the doctor responsible for NHS England's A&E care has claimed that up to 30% of patients who arrive at an emergency department could be treated elsewhere, such as at their doctor's surgery or local pharmacy, or at the roadside by ambulance personnel, or via the 111 advice line.
(6) Such a shift in focus would have the benefit of exposing far fewer British servicemen and women to the deadly threats of Taliban snipers and roadside bombs, but would also have momentous implications for UK foreign and defence policy.
(7) Cars were abandoned on the roadside as shoppers attempted to reach the store in time to secure the best offers.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hazara woman Fatima, whose husband was killed by Taliban insurgents in a roadside attack this year.
(9) The no-nonsense Dr Marietjie ("MJ") Slabbert, who also works for London's Air Ambulance and is seen at the Tottenham roadside making a decision about the positioning of her accident victim's shattered feet that will increase his later chances of walking again, shares Davies's desire to inform: "Television has a very broad audience, more so than any medical journal."
(10) AG, by email Cheap roadside recovery policies that offer the most basic assistance in the event of a breakdown are a waste of time – and this letter shows why.
(11) The victims were eventually dumped on a roadside layby on the outskirts of Delhi, and the woman died two weeks later in a Singapore hospital.
(12) Roadway design improvements such as removal of fixed objects from roadsides, widening roadside recovery zones, installing dividers between opposing lanes of traffic, and replacing fixed utility poles with breakaway designs, have been effective in reducing crashes and injuries.
(13) The United Nations called for the Taliban to withdraw "all orders and statements calling for the killing of civilians", stop roadside bomb and suicide attacks, and cease acts of intimidation and the use of civilians as human shields.
(14) Juan Sheet from the Plenty kitchen roll advertisements Because the damsel in distress is the consumer, we can now be rescued from absolutely anything: roadside breakdown heroes rescue women (important that it is a woman) on dimly lit backstreets, sure, but beer can also come to the rescue of thirst, washing powder to the rescue of parents, gravy granules to the rescue of Sunday lunch.
(15) He lost his right leg to a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2007.
(16) A census in 1982 (repeated in 1984) revealed that 1152 (1406) people lived in 260 (299) households of the nucleated roadside settlements of the sectors Kikwawila and Kapolo.
(17) • The Gypsy Holocaust is so often forgotten ( Editorial , 27 January) and the numbers of murdered Romany groups frequently underestimated, not least because so many were killed in small numbers at the roadside or in the woods, often providing a dress rehearsal for the murder of Jews.
(18) Its remains were recently put on display in the Museum of Docklands, although its jawbones stood as a roadside arch in Dagenham, still remembered in the name of Whalebone Lane.
(19) When I first arrived on Saturday, two men in military fatigues at the roadside, armed with Kalashnikovs, were blocking access to the crash site itself.
(20) The resuscitative facilities of the casualty department can, to a considerable extent, be made available at the roadside by doctors who carry in the boots of their cars simple, well-organized equipment.