Lexicographical Neighbors of Dowars
Literary usage of Dowars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters from Barbary, France, Spain, Portugal, &c by Alexander Jardine (1788)
"THE few black and dirty tent villages (dowars), the only habitations in ...
dowars happened to be cleaner than ordinary, lately pitched on a declivity, ..."
2. Carthage and Tunis, past and present: in two parts by Amos Perry (1869)
"Several dowars form the /area or division of the tribe when it is large; for in
general the ordinary tribes are constituted by the union of ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1835)
"The wandering Arabs' encampments or dowars, and their tents, are thus described,
when speaking of one particular tribe. ..."
4. Dr. Chase's Recipes: Or, Information for Everybody: an Invaluable Collection by Alvin Wood Chase (1888)
"... cents to two doWars a-pit-ce, if bought for the occasion. Sift the sugar,
starch, and gum arabic into the beuten egg, and «tir well and long. ..."
5. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Madinah and Meccah by Richard Francis Burton (1856)
"... whilst, on the southern and western sides, the tents of the vulgar crowded
the ground, disposed in dowars, or circles, for penning cattle. ..."
6. The Holy Land and the Bible: A Book of Scripture Illustrations Gathered in by John Cunningham Geikie (1888)
"The Arabs call such camps " dowars," and they are mentioned in the Old Testament
under the name of Hazerim, or Hazeroth, though these words are also applied ..."
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