doura
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Here and there the miniature forests of doura stood up almost still in the sunshine.
From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe
Here are observed some vineyards, and a few patches of doura.
From Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Russell, Michael
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 Churchill, Winston
The smell of the putrefying corpses which lay around the walls and in the doura crop, together with the unhealthy climate and the filth of the town, was a fertile source of disease.
From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Churchill, Winston
But the doura rises higher than the heads of the naked children who stand among it to watch you canter past.
From The Spell of Egypt by Hichens, Robert Smythe
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