Word: arabian
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...spoor marker of the days when nomadic Hebrews, detaching themselves from their fellow Bedouin tribes of the Arabian Desert, settled themselves down to a pastoral, and, later, an agricultural life in Canaan. Pious Jews, bound even though they be by modern commerce, memorialize it for seven days, wherever possible, by living in thatched huts, as did their ancestors on pilgrimages to Jerusalem. Deprived of an outdoor areaway, ghetto-crowded Jews have been known to rip holes in their roofs, holes which they covered with corn stalks or twists of grass. On the last day of the feast, Simkhat Torah...
...bloodshed and brigandage for pious ends. He never went in for miracles, but calculated a paradise that Arabs would gladly die for, abundant in food, wine, ease and "full-bosomed" houris. Ignorant in most things (he once forbade the artificial fecundation of date palms, precipitating a famine), he violated Arabian chivalry by employing his brains in war; adopted entrenchment and always watched fights alertly from a safely distant hill. Militarily secure, he accomplished great pilgrimages back to the holy well, Zemzem, at Mecca. Before his death from pleurisy in 632, all Arabia was Allah's footstool, with good prospect...
French-censored cables from Syria direct continued the many-months-old fiction that "Syria is nearly pacified." Syrian rebel despatches via Cairo kept up the equally long standing imposture that the French are seriously hard pressed by the rebellious Druses and Arabian tribes. The status quo continues to lie betwixt these untruths. The French are policing and mopping up Syria but at a cost in gold and blood which France can ill afford...
...flown low over the desert when "Crack!" a Bedouin sniper had shot his mechanic stone dead. At Basra, Sergeant Ward of the Royal Air Force had volunteered-the listeners' eyes shifted to a beet-red, grinning stalwart beside Pilot Cobham-and together they had whirred high over the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, drifting slightly out of their course and bringing up in the Dutch East Indies There, on the island called Komodo, they had seen a portent-two enormous captive dragons, ten feet long, with claws and jaws rapacious enough to slaughter horses, veritable St. Georgian monsters,* "emitting...
...first European woman to cross the Arabian Desert...