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Meanings of Babel in inglês

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torre de babel

(Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another.

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Usage of Babel in inglês
1
The fault is not yours; it is that of the social Babel.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
2
Soccer:Liverpool forward Ryan Babel has agreed a move to German side Hoffenheim.
The Irish Times
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But a great deal of effort has been devoted to explaining Babel.
Snow Crash
4
He published the Russians, Bunin and Babel, and later the great émigrés.
All That Is
5
It is doomed to confusion, because it reverses the judgment of Babel.
International Language, Past, Present & Future / With Specimens ...
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There could have been nothing like it since the Tower of Babel.
The Happy Foreigner
7
At last the Babel lulled, and Edward was once more appealed to.
Hard Cash
8
Neither by day nor by night did the Babel of commerce cease.
Plotting in Pirate Seas
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There was need for such a tool, for the galaxy was Babel.
Way Station
10
One might imagine one's self to be in the skeleton of Babel.
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
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Then the Babel of many-tongued shoutings broke out, and ceased not thenceforth.
Life on the Mississippi
12
I've got an enormous collection of Isaac Babel stories on my lap.
Cleaving
13
Whether a mother-tongue or a pre-Babel language existed is a different issue.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
14
It was a Babel here, a Bedlam there, and a Pandemonium everywhere.
White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War
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Maggie, and the pulpit, and the Tower o' Babel are a' different.
A Daughter of Fife
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Where could this Tower of Babel, this crazy cacophony of tongues be?
The Irish Times
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