Bedouin
['beduin]
Definition
(n.) One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts.
(a.) Pertaining to the Bedouins; nomad.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Nomadic Arab.
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Definition
n. the name given to those Arabs who live in tents and lead a nomadic life.
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Examples
- I forbear to tell what he was going to do to that Bedouin that owned it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If he had got a Bedouin, what would he have done with him --shot him? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a single permanent habitation. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We discover a man of great imaginative power but tortuous in the Arab fashion, and with most of the virtues and defects of the Bedouin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The permanent inhabitants of Mecca were a tribe of Bedouin who had seized this temple and constituted themselves its guardians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They are presented as patriarchal Bedouin chiefs, living the life of nomadic shepherds in the country between Babylonia and Egypt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The opening of his reign was very Bedouin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Why shall we not say a good word for the princely Bedouin? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In the case of Babylonia these were nomadic Semites, the Bedouin, like the Bedouin of to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With her forest of foliage and her abundance of water, Damascus must be a wonder of wonders to the Bedouin from the deserts. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This trench struck the Bedouin miscellany as one of the most unsportsmanlike things that had ever been known in the history of the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mecca was a town of a different character, built about a spring of water with a bitter taste, and inhabited by recently settled Bedouin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- From the outset the Bedouin aristocrats of Mecca dominated the new empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Grimes' hairbreadth escapes from Bedouins, but I think I could read them now without a tremor. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The lawless Bedouins in the Valley of the Jordan and the deserts down by the Dead Sea were up in arms, and were going to destroy all comers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We never saw a human being on the whole route, much less lawless hordes of Bedouins. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If any Bedouins had approached us, then, from that point of the compass, they would have paid dearly for their rashness. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But I believe the Bedouins to be a fraud, now. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- No Bedouins attacked our terrible rear. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- My first impulse was to dash forward and destroy the Bedouins. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They were tall, muscular, and very dark-skinned Bedouins, with inky black beards. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was because of the moral weight his awful panoply would have with the Bedouins. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Grimes' Bedouins and sleep comfortably afterward. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Another was going to scalp such Bedouins as fell to his share, and take his bald-headed sons of the desert home with him alive for trophies. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Riding toward Genessaret, they saw two Bedouins, and we looked to our pistols and loosened them quietly in our shawls, etc. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Bedouins lurk here, every where! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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