How To Use Bedouin In A Sentence
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Alongside Wadi Naam, a dusty Bedouin camp of 4,000 people, a toxic waste plant puffs away.
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Kordofan, whither it is imported from Darfour; and salt, from the salt mines of Boyedha; but this salt is dear, and the poor use as a substitute for it a brine, which they procure by dissolving in hot water lumps of a reddish coloured saline earth, of a bitterish, disagreeable taste, which they purchase from the Bedouins of the eastern desert; it seems to contain ochre and allum.
Travels in Nubia
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Al-Araqib village peace activists called the demolitions an "act of war, such as is undertaken against an enemy," saying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Bedouins a threat, "giv (ing) legitimacy to the (ir) expulsion .... to Judaize it.
SteveLendmanBlog
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He held forth on how Bedouin poetry shaped a moderate Islam in Libya, and he was just starting to explain the relevance to Libyan politics of the mathematical theory of complexity - it had to do with something called "flocking phenomena" - when his cellphone rang.
The Guardian World News
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From the aeroplane's window is a night-time scene of sheer blackness, broken only by orange spots of the Bedouin fires.
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The Bedouin chieftain Zahir al-'Umar, who eventually carved out the equivalent of a fiefdom in northern Palestine, had gone to Damascus briefly as a youth and received some instruction there.
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It gives the history of all the travels in that region, and the chief works concerning it from the earliest time; the routes to Mount Sinai; the voyages of Hiram and Solomon through the Red Sea to India; an interesting discussion of the name Ophir; the different groups of mountains in this region; the Bedouin tribes of the peninsula, and of
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.
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Alexander summoned local Bedouin tribes to rebuild and repopulate Gaza as a fortress, this time under Macedonian control.
Alexander the Great
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Fire-eaters and acrobats vied with the “Whirling Dervish” dances of Sufi ecstatics and the horseback shooting competitions of the thousands of curious Bedouin who had camped outside the city.
Three Empires on the Nile
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The evil eye in Bedouin folk belief is tied to the fear of envy and jealousy in the eye of the beholder.
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A few Bedouins, a little backsheesh, some blank cartridges, and, behold — a raid!
The Nile, Then and Now
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It has further, within the last few years, stolen into the deserts of the Hauran, through the old vigilant guard formed around that region by the Bedouin Arabs, and there -- (as if in startling contradiction to the dead and buried cities of Syria, etc.) -- it has -- as was equally predicted -- discovered the numerous cyclopic cities of
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
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They will stop on the highest sand dune to view the sunset, and continue the journey to the Bedouin campsite in the heart of the desert.
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A 110 - year - old Israeli Bedouin shepherd was admitted to a Beersheba hospital while experiencing a heart attack.
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I would recommend the pre-Islamic bedouin qasida ode.
What books would you like to see translated into Arabic?
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Page 274 vaulted into saddle, with the combined critical eyer of the trader and amateur in selection and the Bedouin's inherent love for the friend that bore him through trials and dangers whilst ever on the alert and lookout for these last.
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,
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But the Senussi have taken Kharga and Siwa and the Bedouin are in arms.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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But even a casual student of Arab history can quote too many examples of Bedouin fickleness for one to credit the legends with their face value.
The Lesson of Iraq
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The lightweight goat hair tents of the nomadic Bedouin, for instance, can be pitched under a tree for shade, or to catch prevailing breezes.
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Eesa and Girhi, who are all infantry: a village seldom contains more than six or eight, and the lowest value would be ten cows or twenty Tobes. 27 Careful of his beast when at rest, the Somali Bedouin in the saddle is rough and cruel: whatever beauty the animal may possess in youth, completely disappears before the fifth year, and few are without spavin, or sprained back-sinews.
First footsteps in East Africa
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One of the Bedouins explains: Swalem is a full-blooded Sinai camel, with smaller feet to cope with an uneven rocky terrain and a shaggy coat to cope with the cold found at altitude.
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the nomadic habits of the Bedouins
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When climbing on the jebels we will usually be following routes which have been used for generations by Bedouin hunters and shepherds.
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Authorities also plan to attract visitors to summer festivals across the kingdom featuring Bedouin folklore such as an all-male sword dance called Arda, said Abdullah Ibraheem Motaen, regional director of the Supreme Commission for Tourism in Asir's capital Abha.
Khaleej Times : UAE News
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“I have a right to the goldfish,” said the stranger, speaking more like King Solomon than an unsandalled Bedouin in a ragged blue cloak.
The Complete Father Brown
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They are nomadic like the Bedouin, with whom they share similarities, but Turkic in descent.
DESTROY THE KENTUCKY
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Bedouin guides wrapped in blankets rest atop Mt . Sinai in Egypt on Aug. 3, 2007.
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The closure of the monastery was disastrous for the Bedouin and especially the young camel drivers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scattered across the world, Strider Kinfolk are typically travelers themselves — Bedouin nomads, circus troupes, Gypsies, truckers or just plain drifters.
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She lunched in the tents of both the Druze and their sworn enemies, the Beni Sakhr, and met with the sheiks of various Bedouin tribes.
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The Bedouin milked a mother camel and offered me the bowl.
The Backside of War
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Bedouin farmers keep herds of goats and sheep whose milk is used to produce cheese and yogurt.
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Small desert rodents and the Bedouin goat can survive short periods of dehydration which result in a 20-30 percent weight loss.
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Cecil had imported a tribe of Bedouins to the site to play the spectacular scenes.
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With the Bedouins of the Eastern plain they exchange durra for cattle.
Travels in Arabia
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Bedouins, who exercise the office of excavators, and sleep hard by in holes like jackals, advance to sell us scarabaei, blue-glass trinkets that are half fossilised, and feet or hands of the dead.
Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
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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.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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We are sitting in the shelter of a temporary marquee - or mock Bedouin tent - with the sandy expanse of the desert around us.
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In older books I found tales of desert caravans, raids by Bedouin clans, near starvation, and hard-won spiritual enlightenment.
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Jack caught up Abdullah's sword, and, by a desperate charge, cut through the opposing Turks, now "demoralised" by the loss of their leader, and regained his Bedouin and English friends.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series
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In the Eastern Desert, at three or four days 'journey from Medina, lives a whole Bedouin tribe, called Beni Aly, who are all of this Persian creed; and it is matter of astonishment to find the two most holy spots of the orthodox Muselman religion surrounded, one by the sectaries of Zeyd, and the other by those of Aly, without an attempt having been made to dislodge them.
Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred
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The squall of a baby using its lungs for the first time rang out over the Bedouin encampment.
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The roof is a multileveled outdoor patio with dipping pool, shower with a whimsical stained-glass cupola, dining area (a lovely place for breakfast or dinner by candlelight), a fireplace, chaise longues and a brightly-colored couch corner with a Bedouin tent.
Being a Paying Guest of the King
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We were met in a friendly way by the man in charge of the telegraph posts of the district; and several Bedouins, attracted either by curiosity or the hope of a "backshish" in some shape or other, came and seated themselves around us in picturesque groups.
The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria
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Among his verbal felicities this year, delivered in the purest Geordie: ‘Taylor is more intense than a Bedouin tribe’, and ‘playing Taylor is like trying to eat candyfloss in a wind-tunnel’.
Bullseye Britain
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I concluded from the abject manner of these people that they could not possibly be thoroughbred Bedouins, and I saw, too, that they must be in the very last stage of misery, for poor indeed is the man in these climes who cannot command a pipeful of tobacco.
Eothen
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Then a row of about twenty-five as hangdog-looking Bedouins as were ever strung up in the Valley of Jehoshaphat began a kind of mewling cry, such as a rat would make in a trap.
A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel
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The closure of the monastery was disastrous for the Bedouin and especially the young camel drivers.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a finale, the "Left" have chosen another and even more demonical cult to defend against "racist bigotry" which was contrived by a war-mongering, desert bedouin, mandated by God, the Koran and the most respected scholars of Islamic Jurisprudence, to be in a constant state of war with the infidel, until converted or annihilated.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Z told us that this was the man whose grandfather was the Palestinian cobbler to whom the Dead Sea Scrolls were offered as scrap leather by the Bedouin shepherd who found them — a story too good to subject to the discourtesies of investigative journalism.
Zion's Vital Signs
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Finding a comfortable spot for a nap in a passenger terminal is like trying to find a Bedouin shoehorn salesman.
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None of them would accompany me through the ruins, on account of their fear of the Bedouins, who are in the habit of visiting this Wady, they therefore concealed themselves beneath the trees that overshade the river.
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
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It made me think of a Bedouin taking out his prayer carpet and unrolling it in the vastness of the desert.
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The nomadic life as led by a Bedouin in the desert may have some romantic appeal, but I can't see what is attractive about it here.
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(One besieger is felled by a tome titled "Projet de Fraternisation avec les Bedouins").
Napoleon on Madison
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Another problem, he said, was that nomadic Bedouin tribesmen who may have information of value are difficult to find.
Speicher, Michael S.
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While most of the Bedouin tribesman of the Wadi Rum area have now given up a nomadic lifestyle, camels are still valuable currency in a country not enriched by oil.
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Bedouin might know the course to follow but I would wander in vain, searching for the resurfaced track.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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Small desert rodents and the Bedouin goat can survive short periods of dehydration which result in a 20-30 percent weight loss.
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If we go on reading about the puerile wife-swapping, the pubescent sex games, the Marvel Comics Fantastic Four superheroes, and the gratuitous martyrdom, we will gradually come to see our own suburbia as a desert vastation and our own children as Bedouins subsisting on the shifting sand, as refugees from civil war and famine.
In the Desert, Prime Time
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What yellowbelly Hack and Mr. El Cid fail to mention relative to the numbers they cite is that it includes Bedouins who were not permanent residents of what is now Israel but were nomads who just happened to be present when the census figures were taken.
Matthew Yglesias » Gaza and Just War
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The town of Misarata, with the support of the powerful Bedouin tribal allies of the Wafallah confederacy, challenged Tripoli's hegemony.
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According to Mérat, the Bedouins use it as a rubefacient, and it is applied in sciatica, forming a substitute for cantharides.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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This paper examines Bedouin attitudes and practices relating to the evil eye as a cause of misfortune.
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There were a few camels and traditional black Bedouin tents here and there with large flocks of sheep and goats nearby.
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A ghazi — raid — one group of Bedouin carried off against another, that meant trampling two fields and killing a milch cow.
O Jerusalem
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Of our camel-men, some were Bedouin and some were negroes, and we found them on the whole honest and obliging, though with the usual keen eye for a possible bakshish, which is not uncommon elsewhere.
Southern Arabia
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The 15-minute film shows Mr Jami interviewing the prophet Muhammed, played by an actor wearing a Bedouin headdress, his face covered by a paper mask.
Yet another Dutch politician presents a film about Islam
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Dinner is at an ancient outdoor Bedouin encampment.
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At its heart lie the contention that ‘Bedouin society never changes’ and the bipolar division of history into pre-modern and modern communities.
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It made me think of a Bedouin taking out his prayer carpet and unrolling it in the vastness of the desert.
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The Bedouin traditionally hang amulets on the body of adults to prevent the evil eye, devils, impure spirits and other illnesses from attacking the bearer of the amulet.
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The demolitions are the result of a dispute between the Bedouin and the Israeli government over rights to specific lands in the Negev, approximately 8,500 acres where 30,000 Bedouin live.
J. Weekly
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From the aeroplane's window is a night-time scene of sheer blackness, broken only by orange spots of the Bedouin fires.
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He wears a long, white cotton thobe, bleached and pressed to a dazzling crispness, and a red-checked ghutra headdress held in place by the black agal headband, the wool cord once used by the Bedouins to hobble their camels.
Richard Bangs: Bahrain: Once Was Paradise
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It ranges from rustic villages, Bedouin encampments, skyscraping cities, tumbledown temples and other ancient ruins.
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It was also the ancient Bedouin lifestyle and the stories he heard from his grandmother, Jidda, who passed away in 2005 at the age of 96.
David Suissa: Shepherd on a Mission
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Does he expect the Bedouins led by Rudolph Valentino to come sweeping like the simoom out of the desert?
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Five Bedouin musicians knelt on a Persian carpet, playing rebabs, traditional stringed instruments, and crooning traditional Omani songs in the gathering darkness.
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The tomb/temple got its popular name from the Bedouin belief that pirates hid ancient treasures in the tholos giant stone urn which stands in the center of the second level.
Treasury at Petra (Al Khazneh)
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We reclined, Bedouin-style, on rugs and cushions to doze away the fiercest heat of the day, while young Arab men puffed on hookahs - the traditional hubble-bubble pipes for smoking sweetened tobaccos.
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In these southern areas, Bedouins are represented by mukhtars as well as village councils.
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During the reign of Abu Bakr, the first Caliph after Muhammed, most of the Bedouin tribes reverted to their old ways of intertribal warfare, and Abu Bakr had to wage war against them in order to return them to the flock.
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The contest, as portrayed in the film, is a centuries-old annual event restricted to the best Bedouin horsemen and the finest Arabian steeds.
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In 1947, young Bedouin shepherds, searching for a stray goat in the Judean Desert, entered a long-untouched cave and found jars filled with ancient scrolls .
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The three populations I most resemble from a genetic perspective (besides other Ashkenazic Jews, and, I assume, likely Sephardic Jews as well) are Druze, Bedouin, and Palestinian.
The Volokh Conspiracy » 2010 » May
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Perched on its edge is the tented oasis, a convergence of date palms and tamarinds, hot springs and Bedouin hospitality.
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But the Bedouins are not rich enough to afford the prices they ask for.
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At all the more public pumps there is much cooling of bare feet, together with much bubbling and gurgling of drinking with hand to spout on the part of these Bedouins; the Cloisterham police meanwhile looking askant from their beats with suspicion, and manifest impatience that the intruders should depart from within the civic bounds, and once more fry themselves on the simmering high – roads.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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I recently stayed with some Bedouin tribes in Jordan, where the women did the bread-making while the men slaughtered and butchered the goat for us.
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This is a case much dwelt on by the old travellers, and which throws a gloom over the spirits of all Bedouins, and of every cafila or caravan.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers
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Bedouin Sheikhs, was not hereditary; though it remained in the same tribe as long as the power of that tribe preponderated.
Travels in Arabia
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Bedouin might know the course to follow but I would wander in vain, searching for the resurfaced track.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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Redbourne, a son of St. Albans and Royal Maid, for whom as a yearling he gave 1,325 guineas, never won a race, and Bedouin, by Darriwell — Black Gypsy, for whom a good price was also paid, was very unsuccessful on metropolitan courses, though he won a few races in Gippsland.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Bedouin existence depended on their herds and flocks.
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But if you introduce such a mixture into the stomach, and thence into the brain of an already fiery Bedouin; and then introduce the Bedouin to trouble; and if, in addition to the trouble, you provide impertinent, alien, and what he calls infidel restraint, it is fair to presume that the mixture might explode.
Jimgrim and Allah's Peace
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We ne'er shall look upon her like again, unless we can prevail upon some Bedouin Chief to present us with a brood mare, and then the racing world shall see what a breed we shall introduce into this country.
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Cecil had imported a tribe of Bedouins to the site to play the spectacular scenes.
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Indians (Bedouins) with very long spears in their hands, cavorting around on old crowbait horses, and spearing imaginary enemies; whooping, and fluttering their rags in the wind, and carrying on in every respect like
The Innocents Abroad
