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  • They do hear the coming of the imperialist war planes, they smell the decomposition of the fragments of their bombed fathers and mothers, these 'camel-drivers' feel the burning of the white phosphorous bombs, the pain of the eating away of their meager flesh, of their innocent existence.

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  • Babylon, of the satraps, and the magi, resorted, out of pure devotion, to sleep for money in the aisles of the temple of Babylon with all the camel-drivers and muleteers of Asia.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Celibidache mocked "camel-drivers," who seem to be roughly equivalent to Wagner's loathed four-square conductors.

    Celibidache's Wagner Patrick J. Smith 2006

  • Celibidache mocked "camel-drivers," who seem to be roughly equivalent to Wagner's loathed four-square conductors.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Patrick J. Smith 2006

  • The times for conjugal duty prescribed in the Torah are: for men of independence, every day; for labourers, twice a week; for ass-drivers, once a week; for camel-drivers, once in thirty days; for sailors, once in six months.

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  • The other ladies, who had just learnt the use of their feet, followed her, their guards galloped after, and the camel-drivers brought up the rear as fast as their charge would permit.

    The History of the Caliph Vathek 2004

  • The camel-drivers of the supply column, driven forward only by

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • This was the naval force which came from Asia, amounting in all to fifty-one myriads and also seven thousand six hundred and ten in addition. 1166 Then of the footmen there had been found to be a hundred and seventy myriads,1167 and of the horsemen eight myriads: 1168 and I will add also to these the Arabian camel-drivers and the Libyan drivers of chariots, assuming them to amount to twenty thousand men.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • A number of camel-drivers from Syria and Egypt led their unloaded camels through the streets, offering to let them out to the hadjys going to Arafat.

    Travels in Arabia 2003

  • As before, the Arabs were now merely camel-drivers, walking behind laden pack-animals.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

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