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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
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Now the privately funded work at Wadi Gawasis - and at the nearby port ruins, known as Mersa - is winning wider attention.
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Whilst waiting to go forward to Mersa Matru we were halted for 2 or 3 days.
John Keay 2010
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Mersa can lead to potentially life-threatening infections in the bones, joints, bloodstreams, heart and lungs.
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Mersa can lead to potentially life-threatening infections in the bones, joints, bloodstreams, heart and lungs.
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Paraetonium Thought to be modern Mersa Matruh, in western Egypt.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Paraetonium Thought to be modern Mersa Matruh, in western Egypt.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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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.
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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
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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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