Caravans

He certainly can't be Labour as they travel in caravans rather than drop them from great hights. ❋ Newmania (2008)

I spent much of my youth in caravans (don't ask) but don't recognise this specimen. ❋ Peter Ashley (2008)

We drove in caravans of 3 or 4 cars mainly because we percieved the trip as dangerous. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Only the worshippers of Buddha now behold the gleam of the Oriental Sun on the golden roofs of the lamasery; the great caravans from the city of the Dalai Lama pass through the border town with no one to tell the pilgrims of the "Heavenly Ruler." ❋ Unknown (1901)

Then I proclaimed a fast there -- The dangers to travelling caravans from the Bedouin Arabs that prowl through the desert were in ancient times as great as they still are; and it seems that travellers usually sought the protection of a military escort. ❋ Unknown (1871)

The setting is a colony of campers, the kind they call caravans in Europe, which families in August drive to campgrounds for a month, with the same families usually going to the same ones every year. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Today's version is the "recreational vehicle," or RV; often called caravans in other parts of the world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Arabs of the Hedjaz call the caravans Rukub; speaking of the ❋ Unknown (2003)

Two hundred and twenty years ago the caravans were a going concern. ❋ Niven, Larry (1997)

The names of other influential persons who were associated in the conducting of the caravans are also mentioned, being extracted probably from the Persian archives, in which the register was preserved: conspicuous in the number are Jeshua, the high priest, and Nehemiah. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Mim, came suddenly, by an unexpected and picturesque opening in the trees, upon one of those itinerant vehicles termed caravans, he ascended the few steps which led to the entrance, opened the door, and was instantly in the arms of a pretty and young woman. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

King Cole turned abruptly from the common, entered the wood which skirted it, and, only attended by his guest and his minister Mim, came suddenly, by an unexpected and picturesque opening in the trees, upon one of those itinerant vehicles termed caravans, he ascended the few steps which led to the entrance, opened the door, and was instantly in the arms of a pretty and young woman. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

Merchants are daily leaving in small caravans, not large caravans, which is a proof of the security of the routes, and the word of the Touarghee Sheikh is "one" word; "The routes are all in peace," they say. ❋ James Richardson (1828)

[In general, the Arabs of the Hedjaz call the caravans Rukub; speaking of the Baghdad caravan, they say Rukub es 'Sham, or Rukub el Erak.] ❋ John Lewis Burckhardt (1800)

One of the caravans was a twenty-wagon affair of young fellows, Eastern clerks and labourers, calling themselves the Pittsburgh Pirates; another was a train of some thirty mules and half a dozen emigrant families, also bound for the diggings; the third-and you may not believe this, but it's gospel true-consisted of two ancient travelling carriages and a dozen middle-aged and elderly valetudinarians from Cincinnati who were making a trip across the Plains for their health. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)