Lexicographical Neighbors of Sabkhah
Literary usage of Sabkhah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea, and in the Bible Lands, in 1850 by Edouard de Warren (1854)
"... of the sabkhah—Imminent dangers surmounted— General satisfaction—Compensation
for losses—The Salt Mountain o* Sodom—Ruins of Sodom—Ruins of ..."
2. The Penetration of Arabia: A Record of the Development of Western Knowledge by David George Hogarth (1904)
"... but Miles's informants told him the latter discharged itself ultimately into
the " sabkhah," and so to the Gulf. In that case the Hanifa system and-the ..."
3. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah by Richard Francis Burton, Isabel Burton, Stanley Lane-Poole (1906)
"In many places were signs of water : lines of basalt here and there seamed the
surface, and wide sheets of the tufaceous gypsum called by the Arabs sabkhah ..."
4. Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea and in the Bible Lands in 1850 and by Louis Félicien J. Caignart de Saulcy, Edouard de Warren (1853)
"... sabkhah of the southern point of the Dead Sea. Across this plain, the road
winds by which it is usual to conduct the pilgrims passing from the Jordan to ..."
5. Unexplored Syria: Visits to the Libanus, the Tulúl El Safá, the Anti-Libanus by Richard Francis Burton, Charles F. Tyrwhitt Drake (1872)
"Here we can distinctly see the White Mountain and the dark mound that form the
Bab, or gate of Palmyra; the sabkhah, ..."
6. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society ...: General index to the by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1879)
"From the well we struck north-east over the sabkhah, or salt maritime plain,
white with efflorescence ; grey where dry, and chocolate-coloured where damp. ..."
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