How To Use Dahomey In A Sentence
- Today Benin includes not only the ancient Fon kingdom of Dahomey but also areas inhabited by many other groups.
- This generation ought surely to be the last to laugh at such a story, at least as long as the Amazonian guards of the King of Dahomey continue to outvie the men in that relentless ferocity, with which they have subdued every neighboring tribe, save the Christians of Abbeokuta. Westward Ho!
- Worsening relations between expansionist France and the warlike Fon of the West African kingdom of Dahomey came to a head in 1890.
- The millions of lives lost - to disease, revolt, and suicide - in the months at sea between Dahomey and the plantations of the New World need picturing and sorrow songs more than a lugubrious poeticizing of hyena gods.
- The dry lowland area on the eastern edge of the ecoregion is termed the Dahomey Gap and is a major biogeographical barrier. Eastern Guinean forests
- Since I hadn't had one, I had to choose at random, and said it had been when I'd first watched blacks being packed aboard on the Dahomey coast, bucks to starboard, wenches to port with the shapeliest females nearest the hatches, for convenience, but I didn't mention that. THE NUMBERS
- A slave girl from Dahomey now Benin, she is sent along on a mission to ransom the daughter of the last Islamic King of Granada from the Spanish conquerors. The Enterprise of Death
- The word Dahomey, or more properly Da-omi, means Da's belly. By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War
- The Fon (founders of the Dahomey kingdom) are the largest group.
- It was also possible in some societies, such as the Fon kingdom of Dahomey or the Igbo, for a woman to acquire the rights of a husband over another woman.