| 单词 | durra |
| 例句 | Government spokesman Benjamin said at the time that more than half of the missing funds were from the country's so-called "durra" scandal, in which a large government purchase of sorghum was allegedly never distributed. After a long fight for freedom, South Sudan cracks down on dissent 2013-03-14T11:22:58Z South Sudan's Information Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin said over half of the estimated $4 billion was from the country's so-called "durra" scandal, in which a large government purchase of sorghum was allegedly never distributed. South Sudan officials have stolen $4 billion: president 2012-06-04T13:09:08Z By the philippics of Jeremiah, thou deservest a wife with a figure like a durra loaf, and dowered with nine sisters for thy support! Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z The common fellah’s home is a mere mud hut, roofed with durra straw. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z Wheat and barley are sown in winter, and in spring, summer and autumn several kinds of durra, especially ksob and gafoli. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Inhabitants.—The inhabitants of the plains and foothills are for the most part semi-nomad shepherds, living on durra and milk. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z These are still cultivated, and maize and durra have been added. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z In southern Europe the meal of various species of millet is used, and in India and China durra and other cereal grains are baked for food. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" The crops mostly cultivated are sorghum, tobacco, sesame and durra. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" And he loaded himself with wheat and grains of durra, and went out with it. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments The chief grain crops are durra and barley, and date palms are extensively cultivated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Save under stress of famine cattle are never killed for food, the people subsisting largely on durra. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" In ancient Egyptian tombs cakes of durra have been found, of concave shape, suggesting the use of such baking-slabs; here the cake was evidently prepared from coarsely-cracked grain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" Stas with astonishment observed that in some of the khors, in rocky fissures protected from rain, were supplies of durra and dates. In Desert and Wilderness He said to her, ‘Two measures of durra and three measures of wheat, making together five measures, which rest on my arms.’ Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments Towns took the place of villages, with huts of the shape of bells, thatched with durra straw. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century He goes on to show how the mode of grinding durra corn used in Africa keeps women in slavery. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals When durra fields are in the neighbourhood of the baboons' haunts, watchmen must be posted, or the animals work great havoc among the grain. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People The fire was dying out and soon could be heard only the grinding of the durra in the camels' teeth. In Desert and Wilderness They get little else, when they are with the Arabs; a handful of durra, occasionally, when they are at work; but at other times they only get what they can pick up. With Kitchener in the Soudan A Story of Atbara and Omdurman We stayed here till the twenty-sixth to obtain durra from this territory, whose chief brought, as a present to the Pasha, some fine horses and many camels, and received, in return, some valuable presents. A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy He looked at the old mute to see that he was carefully putting away the remnants of a meal of durra bread and curds. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem There lay villages and fishing-stations in the shade of palms and mimosas, and round the villages grew maize and durra, manioc, yams, and sweet potatoes. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People The durra and the supplies for the people, with the greatest stint, would suffice for two days more. In Desert and Wilderness By a hut that stood in the middle of a field of rice and durra there was a trough. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 It contains about six thousand inhabitants, and has three market places, where the people of the country exchange dollars and durra for what they have need of. A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy Wheat and barley were the chief crops, and another plant, perhaps identical with the durra, i.e. millet, of modern Egypt, was also cultivated. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 As the men were quiet in their huts, Susi replied, "I can hear from the cries that the people are scaring away a buffalo from their durra fields." From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People When they both returned a good fire was burning in the camp; water was bubbling in the utensils in which boiled durra grain, two guinea-fowls, and smoked strips of venison. In Desert and Wilderness With the Bedouins of the Eastern plain they exchange durra for cattle. Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred Our piasters they disliked, being ignorant of their value, but sometimes received them for fowls, vegetables, butter, and meat, and for durra, but for wheat they demanded dollars. A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy They live chiefly on milk and durra, the latter eaten either raw or roasted. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The exports consist in hides, wax, wool, leeches, dates, almonds, oranges, and other fruit, bark, flax, durra, chick-peas, bird-seed, oxen and sheep, henna, and other dyes, woollen sashes, haicks, Moorish slippers, poultry, eggs, flour, &c. Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. Dates, figs, manioc, and durra were totally lacking. In Desert and Wilderness The Bedouins poured out durra for the camels, after which, having mounted two unengaged camels, they rode in the direction of the Nile. In Desert and Wilderness On the first day of the moon Jamisalachar, the Selictar arrived from below, where he had been to collect durra for the army. A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy In the lower regions a wide variety of crops are grown —among them maize, durra, wheat, barley, rye, teff, pease, cotton and sugar-cane—-and many kinds of fruit trees are cultivated. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The country, in the vicinity, contains many villages, and was covered with plantations of durra beans and fields of cotton. A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy So he brought them with pride to his little sister, to whom he gave everything which he could secure; he sustained himself for a week almost exclusively upon durra taken from the camels. In Desert and Wilderness During our stay here I engaged a man to swim over to the island opposite, to purchase some durra flour and dates. A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy The country is fertile and well cultivated, and abounds in durra, cotton, barley, fine horses, camels, dromedaries, kine, sheep, goats and fowls, as does all the country of Berber. A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy Little bread is eaten, the Abyssinian preferring a thin cake of durra meal or teE, kneaded with water and exposed to the sun till the dough begins to rise, when it is baked. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 On reaching the bank, it is a walk of half an hour through immense fields of durra, to come to the road that leads to the residence of the chief. A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy In the pack-saddles, which the donkey bore, they also found about three pots of durra, a few fistfuls of salt, and a bunch of dried manioc roots. In Desert and Wilderness It is overflowed generally at the inundation, and its produce is very abundant, consisting in durra, wheat, barley, beans, cotton, a small grain called "duchan," tobacco, and some garden vegetables similar to those of Egypt. A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy Before I left Sennaar, I have been more than once obliged to take a part of my horse's rations of durra to support nature. A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy What country we saw was, at this season, perfectly naked of grass, consisting generally of immense fields which, in the season past, had been planted with durra. A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy |
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