Sentence examples for fabled city from inspiring English sources

The fabled city of Angkor Wat was a Hindu monument with Buddhism folded in.

His songs "Union Town" and "The Fabled City," during which he stomped his left foot, also conjured military engagement.

These self-styled "defenders of the faith" demolished the tombs of local Sufi saints in the fabled city of Timbuktu.

But Beirut's once fabled city center, now partly rebuilt in grand style, remains more populated with ghosts than people.

When the first European explorers stumbled across the once fabled city, they were stunned at its decrepitude.

Three players hail from San Pedro de Macorís, the fabled city of shortstops in the Dominican Republic.

A water catchment basin and sheltered coves at its foot made it an important camping place on the trail to the fabled cities of Cíbola.

Still farther north, the steppe of Central Asia extended from the borders of Russia to China, through whose frightful deserts and salt lakes the old Silk Road had run, creating fabled cities like Bokhara and Khiva.

But centuries ago, caravans of thousands of camels burdened with salt crossed the Sahara to arrive in fabled cities like Timbuktu, in neighboring Mali, or in Agadez, about 350 miles southwest of here.

Could this if-this-is-Tuesday-it-must-be-Copenhagen trip (the kind I always poked fun at in my more mobile youth and before knee replacement surgery two years ago) satisfy my normal curiosity about people and places, provide anything more than a fleeting glimpse of fabled cities? Would traveling with a group of my age peers be like spending two weeks in a retirement home?

Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's 1540 1542 expedition began as a search for the fabled Cities of Gold, but after learning from natives in New Mexico of a large river to the west, he sent García López de Cárdenas to lead a small contingent to find it.