How To Use Abyssinia In A Sentence
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Moreover, he presented to him three hundred male white slaves and the like number of concubines, in loveliness like moons, and three hundred Abyssinian577 slave-girls, beside five hundred mules laden with treasure and sheep and oxen and buffaloes and bulls and other cattle beyond count; and he commanded all his Wazirs and Emirs and Grandees and Notables and
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Abyssinia, where the "negus" or king, known by the name of Prester
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World
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Her virtues notwithstanding, the Abyssinian is usually of a spiteful, revengeful disposition, and when she flies into a temper goes beyond the limits not only of moderation but of decency.
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess
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There was no way of foreseeing, as they brought me away from that place of slaughter where the Gallas died, that those seven days of horror and hope, of living on the razor’s edge, were to see the final act of the astonishing melodrama, part-tragedy, part-farce, known as the Abyssinian War.
Flashman on the March
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Whether or not the claim of Menelek II be true, that he himself is lineally descended from the son of Solomon and Sheba's Queen, certain it is that in race type Abyssinians are plainly come of sons of Israel, crossed and modified with Coptic, Hamite, and Ethiopian blood.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier
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The Rev. Calvin Butts, the highprofile minister of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, has mounted a crusade against the more feral strains of the music; last summer he held a rally at which he ran a steamroller over offending tapes and CDs.
Criminal Records
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“Sir Robert wishes your presence to be known to as few people as poss ible, especially the enem — that is, our Abyssinian friends.
Flashman on the March
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There are three universally recognized species of wolves in the world: the gray wolf (Canis lupus), the red wolf (Canis rufus) and the Ethiopian (or Abyssinian) wolf, (Canis simensis).
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Koreish, compelled the Abyssinians to a disgraceful retreat: their discomfiture has been adorned with a miraculous flight of birds, who showered down stones on the heads of the infidels; and the deliverance was long commemorated by the aera of the elephant.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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February, and then often sow 'teff,' but more frequently a kind of vetch or pea, called Shimbra; these are cut down before the first rains, which are in April; yet with all the advantages of a triple harvest, which requires neither manure nor any expensive processes, the farmer in Abyssinia is always very poor.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
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There is only one species of rhinoceros in Abyssinia; this is the two-horned black rhinoceros, known in South Africa as the keitloa.
In the Heart of Africa
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20 This great oath suggests the litholatry of the Arabs, derived from the Abyssinian and Galla
First footsteps in East Africa
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An unexpected member of a litter in 1964, the Ocicat was the result of the crossing of a ruddy coated Abyssinian with a seal point Siamese.
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Plumage characters suggest that the Abyssinian catbird is a babbler whose nearest relative may be the bush blackcap, Lioptilus nigricapillus, found in the thickets and forests of eastern South Africa.
Mystery bird: Ethiopian catbird, Parophasma galinieri
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He had to resign over his apparent condonation of Mussolini's conquests in the Abyssinian War.
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They were average specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed, broad-shouldered, thin-flanked, fine-limbed, and with haunches of a prodigious size.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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The great quantity of honey that is gathered, and a prodigious number of cows that is kept here, have often made me call Abyssinia a land of honey and butter.
A Voyage to Abyssinia
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Around the year 850 in southern Abyssinia, a young goatherd named Khaldi noticed that his goats were particularly frisky and frolicsome when he brought them home in the evening.
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Otherwise the war will go on until Abyssinia is undoubtedly conquered.
Ethiopia and Its Problems
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The Abyssinian longclaw is considered near-endemic to this ecoregion, as are the moorland chat (Cercomela sordida), Abyssinian waxbill (Estrilda ochrogaster), moorland francolin (Francolinus psilolaemus), Rueppell's chat (Myrmecocichla melaena), ankober serin (Serinus ankoberensis), and spot-breasted lapwing (Vanellus melanocephalus).
Ethiopian montane moorlands
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Abyssinian coast, and anchored at night three leagues short of it, under an island which we named _Crab island_, owing to the great abundance of crabs we found there.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
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By the time the Ballot result was declared in June, Mussolini's Abyssinian ambitions dominated the international agenda.
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The Abyssinian crisis of 1935 sounded the first alarm bells.
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In striking opposition to this reality, ARDUF had set out to battle the Isaias Afwerki regime in Asmara, which is purposeless as long as the colonial relic Abyssinia exists.
American Chronicle
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The Nile is formed by the junction of many streams in Abyssinia, the Atbara, the Astapus or Blue river (between which two rivers Meroe, the "Ethiopia" here meant, lies), and the Astaboras or
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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And if your eyes saw her earth, and the adornment thereof with bloom, and the purfling of it with all manner blossoms, and the islands of the Nile and how much is therein of wide spread and goodly prospect, and if you bent your sight upon the Abyssinian
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Abyssinian catbird, Parophasma galinieri (protonym, Parisoma Galinieri), also known as the Ethiopian catbird or as the juniper babbler, photographed at the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia (Africa).
Mystery bird: Ethiopian catbird, Parophasma galinieri
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Ethiopian cisticola, Cisticola lugubris (formerly, Cisticola galactotes lugubris; protonym, Sylvia (Cisticola) lugubris), also known as the Abyssinian black-backed cisticola, photographed at the Gerfasa Reservoir, Ethiopia (Africa).
Mystery bird: Ethiopian cisticola, Cisticola lugubris
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Around the year 850 in southern Abyssinia, a young goatherd named Khaldi noticed that his goats were particularly frisky and frolicsome when he brought them home in the evening.
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The exuberant worship, the family atmosphere and the prophetic preaching at a church such as Abyssinian would have appealed to a young man who lived so in his head.
Finding His Faith
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As a general practitioner and pet owner, I treated my scratching Abyssinian guinea pigs' nits with subcutaneous ivermectin.
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He said, "Now, we will. prove that Abyssinia is the aggressor.
Ethiopia and Its Problems
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July 7, 2008 at 2:01 pm ohia … ai has a nice pikshur of a erlenmeyer flask. ai might swap it in sum time. but ai like the wolf himz bean an Abyssinian wolf, a painting by teh great artiste Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
I cannot brain today - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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They have been noticed north of the Zambesi, at the head of Lake Nyassa, in the Nguru mountains near Zanzibar, on the Lulua, on the Sankuru and in the horse-shoe bend of the Kongo, in the Kuango valley, in French Kongo, on the Aruwimi, on the Blue Nile, and in Abyssinia.
Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition De
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I had brought a rifle with me to Abyssinia. determined to achieve my dream of hunting big game.
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He has already fought a war in Abyssinia, in order to gain control of that end of the Red Sea and, therefore, the Mediterranean.
SpainIts Internal Issues and Repercussions As Affecting the British Empire
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An intelligent modern traveller derives "Somali" from the Abyssinian "Soumahe" or heathens, and asserts that it corresponds with the Arabic word Kafir or unbeliever, the name by which Edrisi, the Arabian geographer, knew and described the inhabitants of the Affah (Afar) coast, to the east of the Straits of Bab el Mandeb.
First Footsteps in East Africa
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It rejects the name Abyssinia which is constantly given it by Arab writers.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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The abandonment of the inconsiderate scheme, initiated in obedience to a religious agitation and far too daring for a statesman of Lord Salisbury's nervelessness, having drawn Italy into such difficulties as the result of her obedience to his call, the least that Crispi could expect was that he would be supported by all the moral if not by the military power of England, whose influence in Abyssinia was very great.
The Autobiography of a Journalist
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The term was a pure invention of Abyssinian Bruce who was well aware of the unfact he was propagating, but his inordinate vanity and self-esteem, contrasting so curiously with many noble qualities, especially courage and self-reliance, tempted him to this and many other a traveller's tale.
Arabian nights. English
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Expeditions were sent to Abyssinia to ascertain the cause of the inundation of the Nile.
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It is of inferior grade, and reaches the market as "Abyssinian" coffee.
All About Coffee
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He collected antique furniture, teardrop lamps, urns, even a pair of life-size bronze Abyssinians, complete with turbans and slippers.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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May 13, 2010 at 12:02 pm oooh – wut ador……. kyoot Abyssinian kittens – pinkeye or not!
*pinkeye* iz contayjus! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Season of the Inundation: Sweet, black silt mingled with holy myrrh, melilot, hyssop, spikenard, balsam, cedar, and a hint of melting snow from the Abyssinian hills.
Thor's Day
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Plumage characters suggest that the Abyssinian catbird is a babbler whose nearest relative may be the bush blackcap, Lioptilus nigricapillus, found in the thickets and forests of eastern South Africa.
Mystery bird: Ethiopian catbird, Parophasma galinieri
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The dogs on the upper level are of hyenoid type, those on the lower are Abyssinian greyhounds.
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
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Christianity, that of Abyssinia is the only one which still adheres to the Mosaic rites.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The war which began four years ago in Abyssinia and Spain has developed into a world affray, but still the world does not quite know who is fighting whom or why.
War With the Blinds Down
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He knew Abyssinia inside out, spoke Amharic, which is the principal lingo of the country, and had been drill instructor in the service of Emperor Theodore, who had particularly admired his party trick of cleaving a sheep in two (lengthwise, God help us) with a single sword-stroke.
Flashman on the March
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Season of the Inundation: Sweet, black silt mingled with holy myrrh, melilot, hyssop, spikenard, balsam, cedar, and a hint of melting snow from the Abyssinian hills.
Thor's Day
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I had brought a rifle with me to Abyssinia. determined to achieve my dream of hunting big game.
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Chonyi: miraa Embu: miraa English: khat, Abyssinia tea,
Chapter 7
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Abyssinia, again, the liturgy is in a language called Geez, which is no longer in use as a living tongue and is not understood.
Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678
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Some persons have made quite important collections, one of the most noted being that of Menelik II, the Abyssinian king, who possessed upwards of two thousand locks, varying from light to dark, and from fine to coarse, each lock being labelled with the date and particulars of its acquisition.
Chats on Household Curios
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The best way to carry out this enormous project is to focus on personal, family and neighborhood levels; several GOLA units may assign to themselves the task of examining whether remote villages and hamlets have been taken in charge by locally established GOLA units; if not, GOLA units established by Oromos in big cities must take care of the remote villages´ populations and of their experience of the Abyssinian tyranny.
American Chronicle
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Abyssinia; none, in preparing the coffee known as Abyssinian, which is the product of wild trees; and only in a few instances in cleaning the
All About Coffee
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Leaders like the late Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor, the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, emphasized religious and secular education as keys to economic progress for blacks.
Black Churches and the Prosperity Gospel
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The following May he succeeded Badoglio as governor-general and viceroy in Abyssinia.
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There is the Greek Liturgy of St. Mark, the oldest form of the three, used for some centuries after the Monophysite schism by the orthodox Melchites; there are then three liturgies, still used by the Copts, translated into Coptic from the Greek and derived from the Greek St. Mark, and, further, a number of Abyssinian (Ethiopic) uses, of which the foundation is the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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But the Miocene and Eocene periods were certainly warm, and these alpine plants could hardly have migrated over tropical forest lands, while it is very improbable that if they had been isolated at so remote a period, exposed to such distinct climatal and organic environments as in Madagascar and Abyssinia, they would have in both places retained their specific characters unchanged.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
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[20] This great oath suggests the litholatry of the Arabs, derived from the Abyssinian and Galla Sabaeans; it is regarded by the Eesa and Gudabirsi
First Footsteps in East Africa
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The Abyssinians fought with outstanding courage but inflicted pathetically few casualties.
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The book of Enoch is quoted by Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, &c. Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller, brought home three copies of it in Ethiopic, from Alexandria, of which Archbishop Lawrence, in 1821, gave an English translation.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Abyssinia is a savage country and shouldn't belong to the League of Nations anyhow.
Ethiopia and Its Problems
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Season of the Inundation: Sweet, black silt mingled with holy myrrh, melilot, hyssop, spikenard, balsam, cedar, and a hint of melting snow from the Abyssinian hills.
Thor's Day
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Habech (from which the name Abyssinia is derived), which means "a crowd" or "heap of sweepings".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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A previously unknown letter has surfaced, detailing the "shriekingly funny" Dreadnought hoax of 7 February 1910, when members of the Bloomsbury group of writers and artists donned beards and costumes to disguise themselves as Abyssinian princes and gained access to the pride of the British naval fleet.
How a bearded Virginia Woolf and her band of 'jolly savages' hoaxed the navy
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The organ of the Latin monks, the cymbals of the Abyssinian priest, the voice of the Greek caloyer, the prayer of the solitary Armenian, the plaintive accents of the
Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time
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Kipkorir´s anti-Arabism has however an explanation; his bosses, namely the militaristic establishment of the Kikuyu group at Nairobi, have stricken a deal with Hitler´s children in Africa, the racist Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinians.
American Chronicle
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Abyssinian" Bruce had no doubt that "large trees or plants of coral spread everywhere over the bottom," made the sea "red," and accounted for the name.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6
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Another species like it is called the Abyssinian hornbill.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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Forest birds include green ibis Mesembrinibis cayennensis (local Mount Kenya race), Ayre's hawk eagle Hieraaetus dubius, Abyssinian long-eared owl Asio abyssinicus, scaly francolin Francolinus squamatus, Ruppell's robin-chat Cossypha semirufa, and numerous sunbirds (Nectariniidae).
Mount Kenya National Park and National Forest, Kenya
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Adult male Ethiopian black-headed siskin, Serinus nigriceps, also known as the Ethiopian siskin or (African/Abyssinian) black-headed siskin, or the black-headed serin, photographed at Bale Mountains, Ethiopia (Africa).
Mystery bird: Abyssinian siskin, Serinus nigriceps
