Biskra
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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They moved to Biskra after the Americans invaded North Africa.
From Time Magazine Archive
Into the Saharan oasis town of Biskra rolled a cautious column of halftracks loaded with olive-uniformed Algerian troops.
From Time Magazine Archive
"But I've often offered to take you to Biskra."
From The Golden Silence by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
A tiny earthen house, with a flat terrace ending in the jagged bank of the Oued Biskra, was crouched here in the shade.
From Smaïn; and Safti's Summer Day 1905 by Hichens, Robert Smythe
The wild music of the tom-tom, a primitive Arab drum, seemed to us never to cease at Biskra.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various
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