Doura

Word DOURA
Character 5
Hyphenation dou ra
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The word "doura" in example sentences

The mountains drew farther apart, revealing in their place numerous villages, and fields of white Indian corn, doura, and sugar-cane. ❋ Unknown (2003)

For several months he was heavily chained and fed on a daily handful of uncooked doura, such as is given to horses and mules. ❋ Winston S. Churchill (1919)

Creeping forward through the high doura, they were able to get within 300 yards of the enclosures. ❋ Winston S. Churchill (1919)

For the first two hours the road lay through doura plantations and high grass which rose above the heads even of men mounted on camels; but as the town was approached, the doura ceased, and the troops emerged from the jungle on to an undulating moorland with occasional patches of rushes and withered grass. ❋ Winston S. Churchill (1919)

The smell of the putrefying corpses which lay around the walls and in the doura crop, together with the unhealthy climate and the filth of the town, was a fertile source of disease. ❋ Winston S. Churchill (1919)

And the sakieh raises its wailing, wayward voice and sings to the shadoof; and the shadoof sings to the sakieh; and the lifted water falls and flows away into the green wilderness of doura that, like ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)

As I turned, far off in Cairo I saw the first lights glittering across the fields of doura, silvery white, like diamonds. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)

But this plain, where the fellaheen are stooping to the soil, and the women are carrying the water-jars, and the children are playing in the doura, and the oxen and the camels are working with ploughs that look like relics of far-off days, is the possession of the two great presiding beings whom you see from an enormous distance, the Colossi of ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)

But the doura rises higher than the heads of the naked children who stand among it to watch you canter past. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)

Close to the right of the front of Medinet-Abu there are trees covered with yellow flowers; beyond are fields of doura. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)

Then suddenly it spread its wings, and, straight as an arrow, it flew away over the sands and the waters toward the doura-fields and Cairo. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)

Jim dropped a Spanish _doura_ into the outstretched paw and watched him hobble out into the night. ❋ Edgar Wallace (1903)

J'étais obligé de donner depuis quelques jours 60 drachmes à chaque soldat par jours de biscuits, il m'en reste trois sacs, 1/2 ardeb de doura qui me suffiront pour le 29 et le 30 du mois 'rien autre. ❋ Unknown (1885)

Here and there islands of sandstone stand out above the green sea of doura or cotton; here and there a bay of fertility runs away up some lateral valley, following the course of the mud; but one inch above the inundation-mark vegetation and life stop short all at once with absolute abruptness. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

Old Horapollo himself weighed it a third time, with a keen eye though his hands trembled a little; all three experiments gave the same result: this gem was heavier by a few grains of doura than that which the merchant's son had weighed, and yet the Jew declared that there was no purer, clearer, or finer emerald in the world than this. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)

By help of the irrigation thus contrived, the great plateau of Iran will produce good crops of grain, rice, wheat, barley, Indian corn, doura, millet, and sesame. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)

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