How To Use Barbary In A Sentence
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He was a scrawny Barbary Macaque with matted, clumpy hair.
BETTER LESSONS • by Aaron Polson
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Osr. The king, sir, hath wager'd with him six Barbary horses: against the which he has impawn 'd, as I take it, six French rapiers and poniardi, with
The plays of William Shakespeare. In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
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In fact, in a span of less than a decade, Barbary Coast corsairs plundered nearly 500 merchant vessels, commandeering the ships and selling the crews and passengers into slavery.
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Our data set was comprised of eight species: a Platyrrhini, the white-fronted capuchin monkey, two cercopithecoids: the Barbary macaque and the hamadryas baboon, four hominoids and an outgroup sequence.
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A lone cheetah, a lone tiger and an African lion and a couple of lionesses are no more exciting than small herds of kangaroo, deer, giraffe or Barbary sheep.
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The black-caped lion of Cabin Boy to Barbary stands over the body of Delacroix, his kit and illustrated notebooks scattered in the rampage.
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A few other primates, such as the Barbary Ape, have the word ape in their common names usually to indicate lack of a tail, but they are not regarded as true apes.
Ardi is a million years older than Lucy - The Panda's Thumb
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She despised her upper-class, convention-bound Venetian upbringing, and could escape only in the fantastic stories that her beloved Barbary told her of exotic places and other gods, unruled by men and custom.
So It Wasn't Jealousy After All?
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But to evidence unequivocal that the United States of America was never intended to provide even the first hint of adhesion to any religious orientation: In the latter years of the 1790s and early days and years of the 1800s, the North Africa states along what was known as the Barbary Coast — Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco — were rapaciously raking American shipping.
The US was NEVER intended to be Christian. Herein is the Documented Truth.
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Breeding bird species include Palaearctic marsh birds such as coot Fulica atra and moorhen Gallinula chloropus, as well as a relict sub-species of Barbary partridge Alectoris barbara duprezii.
Tassili N'Ajjer National Park, Algeria
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I became interested in exotic animals - things such as orangutans and Barbary sheep, or aoudads.
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The main course included confit of barbary duck leg and roasted loin of beef.
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It may be that the Chinese 'highbinder' has a discrete origin: thus Asbury _Barbary Coast_ 1933 185: 'The _boo how doy_, popularly known as hatchetmen or highbinders, received regular salaries, with extra pay for exceptional bravery in battle.'
1897: Strange Tales of Highbinders and Child Actors
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The Mediterranean monk-seal, the Barbary macaque and the Iberian lynx, which is Critically Endangered, are among the region's imperiled species.
Allen Hershkowitz: Cork: A Model of Sustainable Business
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Galen had worked mainly on Barbary apes, considered closest to the human race.
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The trouble is that Barbary apes are not domestic animals.
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Some pirates were not loyal to any country and lived on the Barbary Coast which was along the North African coast.
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Some bird species utilize the region for breeding, for example, coot (Fulica atra), moorhen (Gallinula choropus) and a relic subspecies of the Barbary partridge (Alectoris barbara duprezii) utilize these patches of suitable habitat.
West Saharan montane xeric woodlands
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Doctor Shaw, who visited Egypt and the Barbary coast in the years 1727-8-9, in the margin of his map of Egypt, gives us the figure of what he calls a Persian wheel, which is a string of round cups or buckets hanging on a pully, over which they revolved, bringing up water from a well and delivering it into a trough above.
Letters
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During that period he claimed to have been captured by Barbary pirates near Marseilles and sold into slavery in Tunis.
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During 18th and 19th centuries this area was known as the Barbary Coast and was feared for its regular piracy of European shipping.
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Probably denotes the Alcelaphus bubalis (the bubale or wild cow) of Barbary and North Africa.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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we'll tolerate no Barbary Coast in this city!
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The film will inspire a walking tour to what used to be called the Barbary Coast or over to Dupont Street
San Francisco Sentinel
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As an ounce it weighs differently in every country and in Barbary (Mauritania) which we call Morocco, it is
Arabian nights. English
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Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmine and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland at the conclusion of a treaty with one of the petty Barbary powers.
Washington Irving
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“Jilbáb,” a long coarse veil or gown which in Barbary becomes a “Jallábiyah,” in a striped and hooded cloak of woollen stuff.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Not even the six major fires that raged through the city between 1848 and 1851—many of them set by an organized gang of transplanted Australian criminals known as the Sydney Ducks—could slow the explosive urban development, which stretched from the dockside red-light district known as the Barbary Coast to the nouveau riche mansions on 338-foot-high Nob Hill, located above Chinatown and the financial district.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
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And Bézuquet, labelling liquorice and _sirupus gummi_, resembles an old sea-rover of the Barbary coast.
Tartarin On The Alps
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Barbary apes live in Morocco and north Algeria.
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The Barbary Coast was a veritable bit of Satan's realm.
The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire
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I believe that the non-arrival of the Fezzan caravan is to be ascribed to the encreased demands of black slaves on the coast of Barbary, to replace the white slaves so gloriously delivered by the English fleet, for I have understood that the intercourse between Tripoly and Fezzan has been very brisk for the last twelvemonth.
Travels in Nubia
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There are UK warships at harbour here, and off duty squaddies roaring around the streets on mopeds, but what we really came to see is apes, Barbary Apes.
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Breeding bird species include Palaearctic marsh birds such as coot Fulica atra and moorhen Gallinula chloropus, as well as a relict sub-species of Barbary partridge Alectoris barbara duprezii.
Tassili N'Ajjer National Park, Algeria
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PubliusFL: Greenwald seems to be wrong about enforcing blockades in international waters, but if “piracy is by definition undertaken by non-state actors,” what are we to make of the infamous Barbary pirates, and the tribute payments made to and wars fought with the Barbary States?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Greenwald and Gaza
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My mistress, the Barbary horses be all there saving ten, and the caroche is a-building in the air: as to the jewels, seeing they be
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
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Take two pound of _Barbary Sugar_, Clarifie it with a pint of water, and the whites of two _Eggs_, then boyle it in a posnet to the height of _Manus Christi_, then put it into an earthen Pipkin and therewith the things that you will Candy, as _Cinamon, Ginger, Nutmegs,
A Book of Fruits and Flowers
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Mauláya!” the term is still used throughout Moslem lands; but in Barbary where it is pronounced “Mooláee” Europeans have converted it to “Muley” as if it had some connection with the mule.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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From the earliest period known to history, Morocco has been inhabited by the Berbers (whence the name Barbary).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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I would also encourage others to do so on the 'Barbary ape principle' (see Devil's Kitchen passim).
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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In the First Folio (of 1623), when the editors want to refer to Africa they use the word "Barbary" (Iago calls Othello a "Barbary horse").
So It Wasn't Jealousy After All?
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_, Tunis, Algiers, Fez and Morocco, or what we now call the Barbary States) had been occupied by Grecians nearly seven hundred years before Christ.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
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Next week, I advance to the semifinals, where I will take on the winner of the all-in grudge match between the orangutan and the Barbary macaque.
Monkeyshines
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Also known as Barbary sheep because they are native to the mountainous region of the Barbary Coast in North Africa, aoudads can clear a six-and-a-half-foot barrier from a standing start.
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Not even the six major fires that raged through the city between 1848 and 1851—many of them set by an organized gang of transplanted Australian criminals known as the Sydney Ducks—could slow the explosive urban development, which stretched from the dockside red-light district known as the Barbary Coast to the nouveau riche mansions on 338-foot-high Nob Hill, located above Chinatown and the financial district.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
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Iago and his despicable sidekick Roderigo refer to Othello as 'the thick-lips', 'an old black ram' who is 'tupping' a 'white ewe' (that is to say, Brabantio's white daughter Desdemona), and a 'Barbary horse' whose animalistic coupling with Desdemona will beget a generation of creatures half human and half horse.
Shakespeare
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There are UK warships at harbour here, and off duty squaddies roaring around the streets on mopeds, but what we really came to see is apes, Barbary Apes.
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Lindley records the conjecture that the article referred to by Herodotus was the _nabk_, the berry of the lote-bush (_Zizyphus lotus_), which the Arabs of Barbary still eat.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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By 1910, San Francisco’s red-light district, known as the Barbary Coast, contained more than 300 concert saloons within a six-block radius, and the South Side of Chicago had more than 285.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Exotics such as cotton palms and African mahoganies which are favoured by the turtle and Barbary doves, should be avoided.
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I tried to track this down on the Internet and all references included Rep. An aoudad, which is a type of barbary sheep native to Africa, was a recent visitor at Kreative Learning Preschool.
The Delphos Herald
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All these ships being of notable and approued seruice comming neere to the mouth of the Straights hard by the coast of Barbary, descried twelue tall Gallies brauely furnished and strongly prouided with men and munition, ready to seaze vpon these English ships: which being perceiued by the Captaines and Masters thereof, wee made speedy preparation for the defence of our selues, still waiting all the night long for the approching of the enemie.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The Barbary States filled outrageous shopping lists, such as cannon to protect their harbors from the very people they were extorting.
William Dietrich: Pirate Parallels
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Here on Barbary Lane, the vernal equinox was heralded by an ancient scarlet azalea that blazed like a bonfire next to the garbage cans.
FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
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The research vessel, a century-old 60-foot gaff-rigged ketch, looks more like it belongs to Barbary pirates than to contemporary scientists.
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By the time Thomas Jefferson took office as America's 3rd President, the United States had paid out 2 million to the Barbary States.
Poll: More Favor Congressional Defunding Of War Than Oppose It
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Less than a 100 years later, the young American nation fought North African pirate strongholds along the so-called Barbary Coast - battles that are recalled in the "shores of Tripoli" stanza in the Marines 'Hymn.
SeMissourian.com Headlines
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We have gallantly crossed swords with Barbary pirates along the shores of Tripoli.
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MY Presence being no way serviceable to you in Barbary, and the Repose of my future Life calling me with the utmost Expectation to Fez, I humbly entreat your Permission to return thither.
Idalia, or, The Unfortunate Mistress: A Novel
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It once was the stronghold of North African corsairs, better known as Barbary pirates, who roamed the Mediterranean several hundred years ago.
Activists Fight to Save Crumbling Algiers Casbah
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The claim is based on the word "Barbary," the name the woman is given in some modern texts of or references to "Othello.
So It Wasn't Jealousy After All?
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It was a wooden figurehead carved in the shape of an embowed, cheerfully grinning dolphin—worn, wormholed, its paint flaking with age; the original figurehead of the schooner Enterprise, that Stephen Decatur sailed against the Barbary pirates at Tripoli, four hundred years before.
THE WOUNDED SKY
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Magin estimated that there were in the reserve approximately 12,000 dorcas gazelle Gazella dorcas (V), 170 dama gazelle Gazella dama (E), and 3,500 Barbary sheep, (aoudad) Ammotragus lervia, some 70% of the Barbary sheep population of Niger.
Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
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It may here be mentioned in confirmation of what has previously been said, that the _Gamo_, a magnificent xebeque frigate of thirty-two guns, was not allowed to be bought into the navy, but was sold for a small sum to one of the piratical Barbary
The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. Vol. I
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The chikor is extremely like the ordinary European redleg or Barbary partridge, not only in colouring, but in habit, loving the same dry, scrub-covered country, and preferring, like him, to run rather than fly when pursued.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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Greenwald seems to be wrong about enforcing blockades in international waters, but if “piracy is by definition undertaken by non-state actors,” what are we to make of the infamous Barbary pirates, and the tribute payments made to and wars fought with the Barbary States?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Greenwald and Gaza
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The ban on planting Barbary has been lifted in many communities where wheat production is not a livelihood.
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Also known as Barbary sheep, aoudads are horned sheep that exist primarily in the mountains of Africa.
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These extortionists of the high seas represented the Islamic nations of Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers—collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast—and presented a dangerous and unprovoked threat to the new American republic.
The Last Patriot
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Nor must there be omitted another strange attestation of the antiquity of the whale, in his own osseous postdiluvian reality, as set down by the venerable John Leo, the old Barbary traveller.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
