Arabia
[ə'reibiə]
Examples
- Something interfered, and we did not visit the Red Sea and walk upon the sands of Arabia. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Possibly they pronounced their consonants very hard and had rather indeterminate vowels, as is said to be still the case with tribes of South Arabia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Let us consider that wonderful type of the resurrection, which is seen in the Eastern countries, that is to say, in Arabia. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This meteorite was regarded as a god, and all the little tribal gods of Arabia were under his protection. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This was a party of Arabs, who came by sea to Canton in a trading vessel from Yanbu, the port of Medina in Arabia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Desert Arabia was in a theological backwater. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The sheiks of the tribes, under a king of the poets, sat in judgment and awarded prizes; the prize songs were sung through all Arabia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Something of the kind might perhaps have been possible in the far smaller world of Hellas, or in Arabia before Islam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And if Asia and Africa were separated then at Suez, they may, on the other hand, have been joined by way of Arabia and Abyssinia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Who prates of the tame achievements of Aladdin and the Magii of Arabia? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is the most fanatical Mohammedan purgatory out of Arabia. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Still later Muhammad, another prophet, appears in Arabia and founds Islam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Persia, Palestine, Arabia and the north of Africa are best adapted for the culture of the date-tree, and its fruit is in these countries an important article of food. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At some unknown date the Chaldeans drifted in from Eastern Arabia and settled in the old southern Sumerian lands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Or they may have had a common origin in the region of the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and southern Arabia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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