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  • You had spent the night traversing a mighty sand dune towards the Bedouin's daughter; the grains turned to stardust beneath your toes, set you tumbling through the blown glass tick-tock of time.

    Ransacking Your Dreams Jane Flett 2011

  • Beirut was quietly reclaiming its status as the playground of the Middle East--"the Bedouin's brothel," its detractors called it.

    Beirut Can Bloom Again Lysandra Ohrstrom 2006

  • One must always accept the offer of coffee in a Bedouin's home.

    Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber: Questions 2003

  • On the back of the Bedouin's riding camel was a carved-wood and tooled-leather footstool of a saddle.

    The Backside of War P. J. O'Rourke 2003

  • On the back of the Bedouin's riding camel was a carved-wood and tooled-leather footstool of a saddle.

    The Backside of War P. J. O'Rourke 2003

  • I put my foot in the centre of the Bedouin's back and held him down as I jerked the spearhead out of his flesh, and then I went after the last Shrike.

    River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

  • Yusef very soon perceived that the Bedouin's case was not hopeless, -- that God's blessing on the hakeem's skill might in a few days effect a wonderful change.

    The Children's Portion Various

  • The sultan keeps a special dhow for the trade, and the Bedouin's life is given up to the production of butter.

    Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

  • At the same time no one thought anything of the Bedouin's bare heads.

    Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

  • A lucky thing to save the head of one of the War Office from a Bedouin's yataghan.

    Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg

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