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  • It is almost identical with the name Kerak, by which the site of an important city in a high and very strong position at the southeast of the Dead Sea is known at this day.

    Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

  • Awakening from cryogenic sleep, Mr. Walker finds that most of the remaining crew have disappeared and a violent alien race known as the Kerak has taken the ship captive.

    New PC game is playing with life's mysteries 2008

  • Awakening from cryogenic sleep, Mr. Walker finds that most of the remaining crew have disappeared and a violent alien race known as the Kerak has taken the ship captive.

    'Cho' and Tell 2008

  • For the Crusader kingdom was still led by vicious killers, men like Reginald of Kerak, the Osama Bin Laden of his day.

    Kamran Pasha: The Mosque by Ground Zero: A Lesson from the Crusades 2010

  • Dhiab of Tafileh — that jerky, incomplete hobbledehoy — gossiped the news instantly through to Kerak.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • We first heard of him when his cavalry feelers fell on our pickets in Wadi Hesa, the gorge of great width and depth and difficulty which cut off Kerak from Tafileh, Moab from Edom.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • The final judgement was to make a personal examination of the approaches to Kerak, and the ground over which we would later advance to Jordan.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • Through the breathless noon in the valleys of Kerak the prisoned air had brooded stagnantly without relief, while the heat sucked the perfume from the flowers.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • I thought of the depths between here and Kerak, the ravine of

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • Through it ran the road to Kerak, dipping into the Hesa valley.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

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