Suez

Examples

• The canal extends nearly due south to Suez on the Red Sea, a distance of about 100 miles, through barren wastes of sand and an occasional lake. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I was pretty nearly, rejoined Justinian grimly; especially up Suez way. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The great canals, especially the Suez, developed a new system of canal engineering. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Of course, at that time, there was no canal, and no Suez; but I managed somehow to get across the isthmus to Alexandria. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The Mediterranean and Red Sea were probably still joined at Suez. 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.
• The boat was now somewhere south of the Suez Canal on her way to Australia. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Long before the dawn of history, however, Asia and Africa had joined at Suez, and these two language systems were in contact in that region. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• New York is forty-one miles nearer Manila by Panama than by Suez, and 3,932 miles nearer Sydney by Panama. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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