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Definition of Sakiyehs
1. sakiyeh [n] - See also: sakiyeh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sakiyehs
Literary usage of Sakiyehs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Nile with a Camera by Anthony Wilkin (1897)
"TEMPLE OF 'AMADA—DERR—sakiyehs—KASR IBRIM—TOSKI—WADI HALFA—THE SECOND CATARACT
AND ABU SIR—ABU SIMBEL. ROUNDING a great bend of the river, we entered a new ..."
2. Heart and Thought Memories of Eastern Travel by T. Holmes (1887)
"... the number of sakiyehs increased along the banks, and it seemed impossible to
get out of hearing of the ..."
3. Human Geography: An Attempt at a Positive Classification, Principles and by Jean Brunhes, Isaiah Bowman, Richard Elwood Dodge, Irville Charles Le Compte (1920)
"The continuous creaking of the pulleys of the hassi (wells) reminds one also of
the creaking of the Egyptian sakiyehs; and those wells of ..."
4. Human Geography: An Attempt at a Positive Classification, Principles and by Jean Brunhes, Isaiah Bowman, Richard Elwood Dodge, Irville Charles Le Compte (1920)
"The continuous •caking of the pulleys of the hassi (wells) reminds one also if
the creaking of the Egyptian sakiyehs; and those wells of ..."
5. Uganda and the Egyptian Soudan by Charles Thomas Wilson, Robert William Felkin (1882)
"The reason that the sakiyehs are not more numerous is because of the heavy tax
upon them. Instead of the people being encouraged to cultivate as much land ..."
6. Egypt After the War: Being the Narrative of a Tour of Inspection (undertaken by Henry Windsor Villiers Stuart, Villiers Stuart (1883)
"Some build sakiyehs with money borrowed from the Greeks, but at 10 per cent.
per month it ruins them. " By the aid of district loan-banks they could also ..."
7. On the Nile with a Camera by Anthony Wilkin (1897)
"TEMPLE OF 'AMADA—DERR—sakiyehs—KASR IBRIM—TOSKI—WADI HALFA—THE SECOND CATARACT
AND ABU SIR—ABU SIMBEL. ROUNDING a great bend of the river, we entered a new ..."
8. Heart and Thought Memories of Eastern Travel by T. Holmes (1887)
"... the number of sakiyehs increased along the banks, and it seemed impossible to
get out of hearing of the ..."
9. Human Geography: An Attempt at a Positive Classification, Principles and by Jean Brunhes, Isaiah Bowman, Richard Elwood Dodge, Irville Charles Le Compte (1920)
"The continuous creaking of the pulleys of the hassi (wells) reminds one also of
the creaking of the Egyptian sakiyehs; and those wells of ..."
10. Human Geography: An Attempt at a Positive Classification, Principles and by Jean Brunhes, Isaiah Bowman, Richard Elwood Dodge, Irville Charles Le Compte (1920)
"The continuous •caking of the pulleys of the hassi (wells) reminds one also if
the creaking of the Egyptian sakiyehs; and those wells of ..."
11. Uganda and the Egyptian Soudan by Charles Thomas Wilson, Robert William Felkin (1882)
"The reason that the sakiyehs are not more numerous is because of the heavy tax
upon them. Instead of the people being encouraged to cultivate as much land ..."
12. Egypt After the War: Being the Narrative of a Tour of Inspection (undertaken by Henry Windsor Villiers Stuart, Villiers Stuart (1883)
"Some build sakiyehs with money borrowed from the Greeks, but at 10 per cent.
per month it ruins them. " By the aid of district loan-banks they could also ..."
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