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  • Close by it is excellent spring water; and there are likewise copious wells of tolerable water in the vicinity of the small bay which serves as a harbour to the castle, and is therefore called Mersa el Wodjeh.

    Travels in Arabia 2003

  • Now the privately funded work at Wadi Gawasis - and at the nearby port ruins, known as Mersa - is winning wider attention.

    Boston.com Most Popular 2010

  • Whilst waiting to go forward to Mersa Matru we were halted for 2 or 3 days.

    John Keay 2010

  • Mersa can lead to potentially life-threatening infections in the bones, joints, bloodstreams, heart and lungs.

    CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2009 2009

  • Mersa can lead to potentially life-threatening infections in the bones, joints, bloodstreams, heart and lungs.

    CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2009 2009

  • Paraetonium Thought to be modern Mersa Matruh, in western Egypt.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Paraetonium Thought to be modern Mersa Matruh, in western Egypt.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • COHEN: The tissue around Evan's heart was filled with bacteria and not just any bacteria, the dreaded superbug called MRSA or Mersa, a staff infection so sophisticated it knows how to outwit most antibiotics.

    CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2006 2006

  • Yet right up to the end of 1917 they were a source of trouble, and in 1915 the situation became so serious that a strong punitive force had to be sent to Mersa

    With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett

  • Here men work with a will, as a walk from the Convent to the Old Mole, the Mersa or water-port of a

    To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

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