doura
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Thus while the world regarded Egypt as a vast granary, her soldiers were obliged to purchase 4,000 tons of doura and 1,000 tons of barley from India and Russia on which to begin the campaign.
From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill
The mountains drew farther apart, revealing in their place numerous villages, and fields of white Indian corn, doura, and sugar-cane.
From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
He put out one lean, dark hand, and pulled at the heavily podded head of a doura plant.
From Bella Donna A Novel by Robert Smythe Hichens
He stopped at the edge of a field of doura.
From Bella Donna A Novel by Robert Smythe Hichens
Here and there, indeed, are scanty plantations of cotton, with a few patches of doura, barley, and wheat.
From Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Michael Russell
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