Example Sentences

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Here are observed some vineyards, and a few patches of doura.

From Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Russell, Michael

But the doura rises higher than the heads of the naked children who stand among it to watch you canter past.

From The Spell of Egypt by Hichens, Robert Smythe

He saw the brakes of sugar-cane waving, the tall doura swaying in the breeze, where only the sands had been.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Thus while the world regarded Egypt as a vast granary, her soldiers were obliged to purchase 4,000 tons of doura and 1,000 tons of barley from India and Russia on which to begin the campaign.

From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Churchill, Winston

The mountains drew farther apart, revealing in their place numerous villages, and fields of white Indian corn, doura, and sugar-cane.

From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules