How To Use Dromedary In A Sentence
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Of particular significance to ancient Arabia was the domestication of the dromedary (one-humped camel) in the southern part of the peninsula between 3000 and 2500 B.C.E.
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One, found in northern Africa and central Asia, consists of the dromedary (one-humped camel) and bactrian camels (two-humped camel).
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The road lay up rocky hill and down stony vale; a tripping and stumbling dromedary had been substituted for the usual monture: the consequence was that we had either a totter or a tumble once per mile during the whole of that long night.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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Some think that today's one-humped dromedary also derived from this two-humped camel ancestor.
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The word dromedary is formed from the Greek _celer_, and only belongs to
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
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One group eventually crossed the Bering Land Bridge to Asia where, following an evolutionary path that's only sketchily understood, it became the two-humped Bactrian camel and the one-humped dromedary.
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A little later, full into view swung a duplication of his own dromedary, tall and white, and bearing a houdah, the travelling litter of Hindostan.
Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
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Though the camel is a heavy beast of burden, the dromedary, which is either of the same or of a kindred species, is used by the natives of Asia and Africa on all occasions which require celerity.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The dromedary is a swifter animal than the baggage-camel, and is used chiefly for riding purposes; it is merely a finer breed than the other.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Alligators eat you, bees sting, crabs pinch, riding a dromedary makes you dizzy.
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In the hotter climates of southwest Asia and Africa, a ‘mutant’ with only one hump, the Dromedary, became the dominant species.
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Both species have a long gestation period: the dromedary 12-13 months and the Bactrian 13-14 months.
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Turkistan or Bactriana; the dromedary is confined to Arabia and
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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He arrived in camp, none the worse for a well-developed “cropper;” his dromedary had put its foot in a hole, and had fallen with a suddenness generally unknown to the cameline race.
The Land of Midian
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Camels, both the one-humped Arabian or dromedary and the two-humped Bactrian variety, have been used to support campaigns in desert areas from biblical times onwards.
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Built to support logs in the fireplace and poised atop delicately foliated bases, each displays a golden dromedary with neck arched languidly backwards.
At the Frick, Dreams of Ottoman Treasures
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Venetian dromond was to other merchant-ships as the dromedary to other camels.
Masters of the Guild
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a well-developed "cropper;" his dromedary had put its foot in a hole, and had fallen with a suddenness generally unknown to the cameline race.
The Land of Midian — Volume 2
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The one-humped Arabian camel is also known as the dromedary.
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‘It was not known that the dromedary was present in the Middle East more than 10,000 years ago,’ he said.
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The finds suggest that the massive dromedary - or single-humped camel - was hunted by prehistoric people, the researchers add.
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I was thinking about you yesterday, and wondering whether you were drifting down the Nile in a dahabeeah, or crossing the desert on a dromedary.
The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel
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Other entremets at these festivities were more fantastic: a court dwarf rode in on the back of a lion and was given to the bride, Margaret of York, to whom it sang a song and presented a daisy in French, marguerite; they were followed by a dromedary ridden by Indians who released live birds to fly around the hall.
Savoring The Past
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The trot of the dromedary is a pace terribly disagreeable to the rider, until he becomes a little accustomed to it; but after the first half-hour
Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
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The word dromedary is formed from the Greek _celer_, and only belongs to
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
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The difference between a camel and a dromedary is the difference between a hack and a thorough-bred horse.
Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
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-- E.] [Footnote 77: In modern language the term dromedary is very improperly applied to the Bactrian, or two-hunched camel, a slow beast of burden.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
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The trot of the dromedary is a pace terribly disagreeable to the rider, until he becomes a little accustomed to it; but after the first half-hour I so far schooled myself to this new exercise, that
Eothen
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And he said there was another camel with two humps, and he was created for riding, and was called a dromedary, and when ye rode him, ye sat at your ease between the two humps, which made a soft saddle, just like an arm-chair ye straddled on, only without arms.
For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
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Perplexed Tribune auditors decided the dromedary was a capital expense and wired O'Reilly: "WHERE IS CAMEL?
Sparing no expense: Reimbursements to remember
