Biskra
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Into the Saharan oasis town of Biskra rolled a cautious column of halftracks loaded with olive-uniformed Algerian troops.
From Time Magazine Archive
They moved to Biskra after the Americans invaded North Africa.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our other excursion was to the neighboring oasis of Sidi Okba, the ecclesiastical, as Biskra is the commercial, capital of the Ziban.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various
Once I was dangerously hurt, a spearthrust that I got near Biskra, and the letter came to me where I lay in my tent.
From Shorty McCabe on the Job by Sewell Ford
Maïeddine had taken a ticket for Biskra, and a sleeping berth in the train which would leave at nine o'clock.
From The Golden Silence by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
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