NOUN
- a promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar; one of the Pillars of Hercules
How To Use Abyla In A Sentence
- Between Kolákh and Taraba, off the straight road, lies Abyla, once the residence of the great chief Travels in Arabia
- Ceuta, which bears the modern English name of Apes 'Hill, was then designated Abyla; and Calpe and Abyla, at least according to an ancient and widely current interpretation, formed the renowned pillars of Hercules (Herculis columnæ), which for centuries were the limits of enterprise to the seafaring peoples of the Mediterranean world. Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
- Like Bowen & McNamee (or Bowen, Holmes & Co., their later firm), they led in political, as well as in mercantile enterprise, and these two houses, like Calpe and Abyla, were for years set over against each other as the trade representatives of the Northern and Southern sentiment. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
- The European point is called the Rock of Gibraltar; the African, Abyla, or Apes 'Hill, from the number of apes that have made their home on it. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 39, August 5, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
- Abyla to the eminence in Africa on the opposite side of the strait, and both of these eminences formed the renowned Pillars of Hercules. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
- By my good will I’ll not stir a foot to go thither as long as I live, any more than Calpe will come over to Abyla [Here Motteux adds the following note: ‘Calpe is a mountain in Spain that faces another, called Abyla, in Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- That on the Mauritanian side was called Abyla, from Ab-El, parens Sol: the other in Iberia had the name of [797] Calpe. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
- (Gibraltar) and Abyla (Ceuta) -- by rending asunder the one mountain these two rocks are said to have formed, although now they are eighteen miles apart. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)
- Well, in those days of grotesque and horrible panic, when one was almost afraid to speak above a whisper, I was walking to the martyry of St. Babylas with my friend Theodore, now Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
- It and the peak Abyla, on the opposite (African) coast, were styled by the Greeks, in their poetical language, "the pillars of Hercules;" whilst the strait between is said to have been executed by the same man of muscle, to wile away the tedium of an idle hour. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83