Oruba

Captain Blood ordered her crew to take to the boats, and land themselves at Oruba or wherever else they pleased.

Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912

For on the following evening, off the coast of Oruba, at the mouth of the Gulf of Venezuela, Captain

Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912

On the course that the commodore had marked out for his little squadron they would, according to their chart, fall in with no land until they made Oruba Island, after which Cavendish intended to steer a course between the island of Oruba and what is now known as the Paraguena

Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess Harry Collingwood 1886

Nothing of any interest happened here, and in three days from the time when they first sighted Oruba Point they were as close in to La Guayra as they dared venture without further investigation.

Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess Harry Collingwood 1886

That tall headland that you see yonder, and toward which we are now steering, is called Cape Oruba, and is the north-north-west extremity of the island of Oruba.

Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess Harry Collingwood 1886

A few hundred protesters assembled outside the gate of Mubarak's Oruba Palace.

latimes.com - News 2011

A few hundred protesters assembled outside the gate of Mubarak's Oruba Palace.

latimes.com - News 2011

Outside Mubarak's Oruba Palace in northern Cairo, women on balconies ululated with the joyous tongue-trilling used to mark weddings and births.

chron.com Chronicle 2011

Hundreds more massed outside Mubarak's main administrative palace, Oruba, miles away from Tahrir in the Cairo district of Heliopolis, the first time protesters have marched on it, according to witnesses and TV reports.

chicagotribune.com - News 2011

In an audiotape broadcast by Syria-based Al Oruba TV, he asked Muslim clerics to incite Libyans for "jihad" against his enemies.

Phillies Zone 2011