similarly-named

Updated: May 3, 2025

Ten o'clock in the morning in the Puerta del Sol, that great plaza in Madrid the fine square which, like the similarly-named gates at Toledo and Segovia, commands a view of the rising sun, as does the ancient Temple of Abu Simbel on the Nile. The two soldiers on sentry at the door, suspicious of all foreigners in the days of Bolshevism and revolution, had eyed him narrowly.

William Le Queux - Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo