Lexicographical Neighbors of Halfa
Literary usage of Halfa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Egyptian Soudan, Its Loss and Its Recovery by Henry Stamford Lewis Alford, William Dennistoun Sword (1898)
"CHAPTER IV WADY halfa Its situation—Raids—Description of the place—Wingate and
Slatin— ... WADY halfa, situated five miles north of the Second Cataract, ..."
2. Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum: The Testimony of an Independent Eye by Alexander Macdonald, Charles George Gordon (1887)
"Connections of Wady-halfa—Railway and Soudan question—Gordon's plans for opening
... 4— Erroneous interpretation of by headquarter staff at halfa—Wolseley's ..."
3. Churches in Lower Nubia by Geoffrey S. Mileham, David Randall-MacIver (1910)
"Position of rh eE?rlier CHAPTER IX THE CHURCH NEAR WADY halfa THE temples at the
ancient Egyptian town of Behen, which stands on the west bank of the river ..."
4. With Kitchener to Khartum by George Warrington Steevens (1898)
"I halfa TELLS ITS STORT. To walk round Wady halfa is to read the whole romance
of the Sudan. This is the look-out whence Egypt has strained her vision ..."
5. My Winter on the Nile by Charles Dudley Warner (1880)
"WADY halfa. OURS is the crew to witch the world with noble seamanship. It is like
a first-class orchestra, in which all the performers are artists. ..."
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