Usage examples:
-
He
chose
the
bold
course,
and
struck
at
Hamath,
the
northernmost
Damascene
dependency,
in
his
seventh
summer.
D. G. Hogarth in "The Ancient East".
-
Still
Silence
reigned:-
a
keen
silence
more
piercing
than
the
sharpest
Damascene
blade.
Lucy Violet Hodgkin in "A Book of Quaker Saints".
-
According
to
a
very
old
tradition,
the
name
of
Panther,
which
gave
occasion
to
the
mistake
of
the
Jews,
was,
as
we
are
informed
by
St.
Epiphanius,
the
surname
of
Joseph's
father,
or
rather,
as
is
asserted
by
St.
John
Damascene
the
proper
name
of
Mary's
grandfather.
François-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire) Commentator: John Morley Tobias Smollett H.G. Leigh in "A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version"".