Dhows

Dhows and feluccas, hill stations, outposts, flags fluttering down in the dusk, their golden aegis went out with the sun, the last gleam on a great crag, with tiger-eyed turbaned Sikhs, pennons of the Raj to a sobbing bugle.

The Lost Empire 2010

Dhows and feluccas, hill stations, outposts, flags fluttering down in the dusk, their golden aegis went out with the sun, the last gleam on a great crag, with tiger-eyed turbaned Sikhs, pennons of the Raj to a sobbing bugle.

The Lost Empire 2010

Dhows and wherries scattered as we shot through the outer walls and into open sea, oars and sail combining to bring the ship about as Gunnar himself stood at the steering sweep, making adjustments with the touch of his hand, the balance was so beautiful.

The Skrayling Tree Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2003

Dhows, which have been crossing the Indian Ocean for some 3,000 years, probably first carried it away from Africa and took it to India more than 2,000 years ago.

7. Sorghum 1996

Dhows bringing cargo from the African coast or from Aden were permitted, provided they did not carry contraband of war; this permitted native cereals, such as millet, but barred wheat and particularly barred barley, which the local Arab does not eat for choice, but which the Turks wanted very badly for their cavalry.

Pan-Islam

Dhows case (France vs. Great Britain): agreement to submit on October 13, 1904; award on August 8, 1905.

Louis Renault - Nobel Lecture 1907

Dhows at present come in with ease by the easterly wind which blows in the evening, and leave next morning, the land wind taking them out.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

Dhows were frequently seen and chased, but those which were overhauled proved to be legal traders.

Ned Garth Made Prisoner in Africa. A Tale of the Slave Trade William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Dhows at present come in with ease by the easterly wind which blows in the evening, and leave next morning, the land wind taking them out.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 David Livingstone 1843

Dhows that once plied the Red Sea lay on their sides in the sandy streets-the planking all but stripped away, giving them the look of beached whales, rotted to empty ribs.

VQR 2010